Final Conference in Brussels
On 9th October 2024, the Erasmus for All partnership held its Final Conference in Brussels, hoste …
Read more...Erasmus is the most successful mobility programme in the world. By the beginning of 2020, it was estimated that around 10 million students had already participated in this exchange programme since it was launched in 1987. However, according to statistics this represents only 1.7% of the European Union’s population, which means that the programme is still far from reaching its full potential.
Most of EU surveys and reports carried out in the framework of European projects revealed that the reasons behind low participation are related to lower economic capacity of the majority of students and their families to support their stay abroad which results in unequitable access to quality higher education studies and to future employment opportunities. Indeed, a significant number of students does not have the necessary financial support to complement the grant awarded by the Erasmus Programme and to allow for the full coverage of basic expenses in the country of destination.
Keeping in mind the findings in EU Surveys that the majority of Higher Education students are excluded from the Erasmus programme for financial reasons, the Erasmus for All Project wants to tackle the low levels of Higher Education student participation in Erasmus mobility exchange by proposing a more economically viable scholarship scheme that will allow any Higher Education students to spend part of their studies abroad in any of the 33 programme countries.
Contributing to reducing the existing asymmetry in the EU, promoting fairness, inclusion and equity of mobility grants between individuals and among the EU economic diversity are the ultimate goals that this project wishes to pursue.
Its concrete objectives are to:
The implementation of Erasmus for All will encompass the organisation of a series of activities, events and publications with policy relevance to reach the decision makers in Brussels and produce real transformation in the programme’s design, particularly concerning the funding of individual mobility at Higher Education level.
Firstly, the team will conduct a mapping of other scholarship funding models to benchmark for the more advantageous examples of grant schemes. This activity will be complemented by a desk research to extract best practises of other studies in the same field and include the results of the feedback gathered during the E4A Student Social Labs – a series of local events in the partner HEIs to engage Erasmus students in voicing their needs during mobility for a reality-based and co-designed solution. These activities will culminate in the organisation of the first multiplier event: Is the new Erasmus for all? » proposals towards a more inclusive Erasmus scholarship where it will be presented the Mapping and Research Report and opening the floor for the discussions around what will be the proposal of a new scholarship calculation methodology.
This second round of activities will be led by a transdisciplinary scientific working group in charge of considering multiple variables to design a more inclusive grant scheme and publish a document that gathers the methodologies used in developing this proposal.
Thirdly, the organisation of a small-scale impact study will set a pilot-experiment with a sample of real Erasmus participants with similar financial conditions (economically disadvantaged), randomly selected and divided in two groups: the first will test the current Erasmus scholarship scheme and the second will test the impact and feasibility of the more inclusive scholarship calculation formula(s) developed previously. This activity will include financial support from sponsors associated to the project to assure the necessary top-ups in a more inclusive scholarship proposal. Lastly, the E4A partners will prepare a Policy Paper with recommendations based on the conclusions of all the previous activities.
The partner institutions will address policy makers in a final high-level conference in Brussels: The future of Erasmus is for all! » Making participation more inclusive through a better grant mechanism to call on the need to prioritise economic inclusion as a way to increase participation in the Erasmus programme through a more equitable scholarship.
Official Start
Kick-off Meeting
E4A Student Social Labs – 1st round
Participation in Campus of European Alliances
Article: Is Erasmus+ for all? A literature review on the calculation of Erasmus grants by Sapienza University of Rome
E4A Student Social Labs – 2nd round
Public Conference: “Is the new Erasmus for all? Proposals towards a more inclusive Erasmus scholarship”
In-depth analysis on mobility funding in Erasmus and beyond by Erasmus for All partnership
Article: Erasmus+ isn’t for all. How can this change? by EUF
Interviews with relevant stakeholders on the proposed new methodology
Pilot Study to test the E4A new methodology proposal to calculate the grant
Removing the main obstacles to European student mobility
Piloting a more inclusive Erasmus+ grant: Impact Study
Final Conference: “The future of Erasmus is for all!”
Making participation more inclusive through a better grant mechanism
Erasmus for All Policy Recommendations
The final event of the Erasmus for All project took place in Brussels, on the 9th October 2024, in hybrid mode. To learn more about the event, please visit:
Erasmus for All Final Conference in Brussels.
The University of Porto was the stage of the first multiplier event of the Erasmus for All Project, which took place on the 15th of November 2022 in Porto and online.
To read more about the event, please visit:
Erasmus for All partnership organises its first Multiplier Event
Between May and June 2022, the Student Social Labs were promoted by the partner universities of Erasmus for All, and also by the European Students Union. These were local events that aimed to engage students in voicing their needs during mobility, allowing them to be actively involved in the project Erasmus for All and in solving a problem that directly affects them.
The conclusions of these events will be gathered and synthetized in the Manifesto E4A, a document that shall include conclusions and recommendations to be considered by the following project activities.
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