The partnership has started the pilot study with a sample of real Erasmus participants from the University partners of this consortium and divided into two groups: the first is testing the current Erasmus scholarship scheme and the second is testing the impact and feasibility of the more inclusive scholarship calculation formula developed in the project.

This activity includes financial support from the sponsor associated “Caixa Geral de Depósitos” to ensure the necessary top-ups.

The students chosen for the pilot are doing mobility in Spain, a country that receives a high number of Erasmus students and at the same time a country that offers a sample of very different costs of living in its cities. Stay tuned!

The Erasmus for All Project's Partnership met on the 5^th and 6^th of December 2023, this time in Pécs, Hungary. The representatives of the partner institutions were welcomed at the oldest university in Hungary, University of Pécs, for this 2-day meeting. The partners counted with the online participation by DAAD (associate partner) and ESN International, highlighting the fruitful relationship with the E4A partnership, and following up on the joint work recently initiated.

The meeting focused mainly on Project Result 3, the Impact Study, which will take place during the 2^nd semester of the academic year 2023/2024 with a sample of real Erasmus participants.

This phase will be highly relevant for the advocacy of the project’s arguments and work being developed. Therefore, the preparation and many following procedures were discussed in depth to achieve the best results possible and ensure consistency between each partner implementing the impact study.

The partnership should now meet again for the final conference and final meeting in Brussels, in October 2024.

The public consultation has the aim of consulting to collect information, expertise and views from all interested parties on how well the programme has performed. It is open for feedback until the 8^th of December.

In this context, the Erasmus for All partnership prepares its own review and launchs a Call for Action to Higher Education Institutions from Programme countries, encouraging them to provide their own feedback and have a say in the evaluation of the Erasmus+ Programme.

Don’t miss this opportunity to contribute to reaching an Erasmus for All!

From the 8^th to 10^th of November, the DAAD organised a Training and Cooperation Activity entitled “Moving closer to inclusive internationalisation in Higher Education”, where representatives of National Agencies, Higher Education Institutions, Student Organisations, among other stakeholders gathered to discuss the topics of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education.

The Erasmus for All project was represented in the event through the University of Porto. This constituted a valuable opportunity for sharing with various relevant actors the latest results of the project and to further gather important feedback concerning the proposals that the project advocates.

The most recent physical conference of EAIE took place from the 26^th to 29^th September 2023 in Rotterdam, and it was the largest yet with over 6700 participants from more than 90 countries.

The Erasmus for All project was represented in the event through the University of Porto and the European University Foundation, who presented the poster approved by the organization with the title ‘Is the ship of Erasmus+ grants sailing to more inclusive waters?’. The project objectives and developments were shared with various relevant actors and gathered important feedback concerning the topic the project address.

To achieve our project goals and make student mobility more accessible and equitable (by enhancing the Erasmus+ grant system) we are reaching out to policy makers, stakeholders and experts in the field of higher education and EU programme funding.

You can read more about the interview on the official MEP Romeo Franz' website.

Thank you, MEP Romeo Franz, for your availability and for the insightful interview!

The urgent need for an Erasmus+ with more socioeconomic inclusion is also a concern to Margarida Marques, Portuguese MEP, who shared her views on the Portuguese Newspaper “Diário de Notícias”, advocating that the calculation of the Erasmus grant should be rethought. She mentions the work being carried out by our project in studying alternative calculation formulas for a more inclusive programme and we couldn’t be more proud of it!

A public consultation by the European Commission on the 2021-2027 Erasmus+ Programme is open for feedback until the 8^th of August. The objective is to evaluate whether the programme is achieving its ambitious goals.

In this context, the Erasmus for All partnership has submitted its own review and launched a Call for Action to Higher Education Institutions from Programme countries, encouraging them to provide their own feedback and have a say in the evaluation of the Erasmus+ Programme.

Don’t miss another opportunity to contribute to reaching an Erasmus for All!

The Erasmus for All project was represented in Split, during the 6^th edition of the EUF Open Space, an event promoted by the European University Foundation (powered by the EUF Project Manager and Advisor Community), from the 7^th to 9^th June 2023. The 3-day event gives participants the opportunity to find out more about EU funding opportunities, present and discuss past and ongoing project activities and results, and exchange ideas about how to work towards institutional priorities.

The University of Porto represented the project and had the opportunity to present a poster about the Erasmus for All Project in the Poster Gallery of the event, which counts with higher education staff working on EU projects and therefore a relevant audience for the project.

The Erasmus for All partners held a further meeting (22^nd-23^rd of May) to discuss and advance on the next developments, being now halfway to the project’s conclusion.

The project is advancing as planned and the partnership is motivated to soon present the alternative proposed methodology for calculating the Erasmus+ grant. The discussions were also split into the work to be carried out in order to achieve even more relevant results and also the plans to ensure effective dissemination to key targets.

The Erasmus+ Salons are one of the flagship event series of the EUF from the pre-pandemic times, organized in cooperation with ESU and ESN.

In 2023, these recurring informal debates on key topics shaping higher education and mobility return in an updated setup, reflecting on the new needs and practices of the post-pandemic era in Europe. 

There are three events scheduled at the moment, one of them focusing precisely on the topic of inclusion, notably tackling the question of socio-economic criteria that can make Erasmus+ truly for all.

It will take place on the 3^rd of May, in Brussels, and participation is free and open to the public.

Guarantee your registration here until the 1^st of May.

More information about these events here.

EUF, ESU and ESN produced a joint review of the first years of the current programme, to which E4ALL was pleased to contribute.

The analysis and recommendations in this review are targeted to policymakers at the European and national level, Erasmus+ National Agencies and Higher Education Institutions. The partnership is proud to have contributed to this important paper, through the research carried out so far.

Until the 3^rd of May, any person or institution that is willing to provide feedback to the European Commission on learning opportunities abroad in Europe may do so.

The EC launched a public consultation on this topic, which aims to identify barriers to learning mobility; provide guidance on overcoming them; promote learning mobility and identify possible incentives; make learning mobility more socially inclusive and environmentally friendly and link it more to digital learning opportunities.

In this context, the Erasmus for All partnership will submit its own review and launch a Call for Action to Higher Education Institutions from Programme countries, encouraging them to provide their own feedback and have a say in the definition of future opportunities for learning abroad in Europe.

Don’t miss this opportunity to contribute to reaching an Erasmus for All!

The Mapping & Research Report 'In-depth Analysis On Mobility Funding In Erasmus And Beyond' was published by the Erasmus4All partnership.

This report shows the main conclusions of the activities carried out by the partnership throughout the first stage of the project’s implementation. As a first result, it provides the basis for the work to be developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts for suggesting an alternative scholarship calculation methodology.

Go to the report

On the 12^th and 13^th of December 2022, the Erasmus for All Project's Consortium met in person for the second time, in Rome. All representatives of the partner institutions were welcomed at the renowned La Sapienza University of Rome during these 2 important days of discussions. Each of them had the chance to share updates of their own work, new ideas and general follow-up of the project.

As a small number of participants was not able to travel, this meeting was also made available online so that all members could follow the developments.

The Erasmus for All Project is now starting a key and decisive phase, having completed its first stage with the publishing of the Report, now is the time to create proposals for new methodologies to calculate the grant. In this regard, the meeting was the stage for discussing all the related details.

On November 15^th the Erasmus for All partnership held the First Multiplier Event of the project, under the title: “Is the new Erasmus for all? Proposals towards a more inclusive Erasmus scholarship”.

The event gathered high interest among a wide range of organisations not only within the European Higher Education Area, but even beyond it. As a matter of fact, more than 300 registrations were received of interested people from 39 different countries, being these such diverse as Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Nigeria, Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States, and of course the European Union and other countries associated to the programme.

With more than 200 in-site and virtual participants, the event gathered relevant stakeholders in the area of Higher Education Policies, internationalisation and student mobility to discuss the issues associated to the participation of Higher Education Students in the Erasmus+ programme mobility opportunities, namely those that are directly associated to the economic factors.

Similarly, members of the Erasmus for All partnership presented some of the main results and conclusions that derived from the set of activities developed during the first phase of the project and also allowed for a sneak peek into the work ahead, particularly the development of the alternative grant calculation methodologies.

Check the video about this event!

Watch the complete recording of this First Multiplier Event.

The teams of the E4A project partners met in October during two roundtables. These two sessions allowed both the consortium members and the group of experts from all partner universities to understand the state of play with regards to grant methodology. It was also an opportunity to discuss the variables to take into account in the next stages of the project.

The results of these sessions will serve as a basis for defining the future grant calculation scenarios.

Our E4A project partners were present in Brussels for the SIEM Conference last October, a conference that focused on the social dimension of Erasmus+. It allowed our partners to present the E4A project to colleagues in the field of international student mobility. It was also a further opportunity to discuss how to make international mobility opportunities more inclusive.

On 30 June 2022, more than 600 participants convened at the Palais des Congrès in Versailles on the occasion of the “Campus des universités”, a large gathering bringing together representatives of the 41 European universities alliances and the last higher education event organized under the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Erasmus4ALL was represented by Mariana Silva, from the University of Porto and the lead institution in the project, Eva Marcen, from the European University Foundation, as well as Mathilde Morgat and Carle Bonafous-Murat, both from France Universités, the French rectors’ conference.

Our four delegates were met by Minister Sylvie Retailleau and Minister Clement Beaune at the Erasmus4ALL stand and were able to present the project in detail. It was agreed that they and their teams would be kept informed throughout the project, and that they would receive the Policy Paper: “Recommendations towards a more social and economically inclusive Erasmus scholarship” upon its completion.

The project also gained much traction from the representatives of the 41 alliances. This could be expected as improving student mobility is an objective that the 280 or so member institutions all share. The next step will be to liaise with them through the two umbrella organisations, ForEU 1 and ForEU 2.

After launching the project on a virtual basis, the first in-person meeting finally took place on the 13^th and 14^th of June 2022, at the Rectorate of the University of Porto (Portugal). The coordinating institution of the Erasmus for All Project opened the doors of its most emblematic and historical building at the very heart of the city centre of the UNESCO World Heritage site to to host this meeting with representatives of all partner institutions.

The 2-day meeting was exclusively for the consortium members with the aim of updating the latest developments and activities, revision and adaptation of the timeline and general follow-up of the project.

The University of Porto and its partners are pleased to announce the launch of a three-year project, Eramus4All, funded by the European Commission under KA 2 of the Erasmus + programme. The kick- off meeting was convened virtually by the lead organisation on 15 Feb. 2022.

The aim of the project partners is to issue evidence-based recommendations towards a more social and economically inclusive Erasmus mobility grant, resulting in a new method of calculation.

In a context in which the budget of Erasmus + is bound to rise substantially until the end of the current Multiannual Financial Framework (in 2027), it is indeed expected that the new grant will allow more students to take part, especially those with low-income backgrounds or belonging to currently underrepresented categories.

As a first step towards the achievement of these ambitious goals, each academic partner institution is to organize an Erasmus4All student social Lab before the end of this academic year, gathering prospective mobility participants and former Erasmus grantees, and aiming at having students engage actively in the project’s activities, voice their challenges and pressure policy-makers and stakeholders to changes in mobility patterns.

As higher education institutions in Europe are faced with increasing demands for green and sustainable student mobility, funding schemes suited to new targets and better adapted to the realities of mobility participants will be more than ever needed.

The future of Erasmus is for all!

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