Description of the project

• The Erasmus+ Programme
• What is the International Credit Mobility (ICM)?
• Scholarships
• Financial Support

The Erasmus+ Programme

The Erasmus+ programme aims to boost skills and employability, as well as modernizing Education, Training, and Youth work. The seven-year programme will have a budget of €14.7 billion; a 40% increase compared to current spending levels, reflecting the EU's commitment to investing in these areas.

The expectations for the Erasmus+ is to provide opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain work experience and volunteer abroad.

Erasmus+ will support transnational partnerships among Education, Training, and Youth institutions and organisations to foster cooperation and bridge the worlds of Education and work in order to tackle the skills gaps we are facing in Europe.

It will also support national efforts to modernise Education, Training, and Youth systems. In the field of Sport, there will be support for grassroots projects and cross-border challenges such as combating match-fixing, doping, violence and racism.

Erasmus+ brings together seven existing EU programmes in the fields of Education, Training, and Youth; it will for the first time provide support for Sport. As an integrated programme, Erasmus+ offers more opportunities for cooperation across the Education, Training, Youth, and Sport sectors and is easier to access than its predecessors, with simplified funding rules.

What is the International Credit Mobility (ICM)?

For nearly 30 years, Europe has funded the Erasmus programme, which has enabled over three million European students to spend part of their studies at another Higher Education Institution (HEI) in an Erasmus programme country.

Credit mobility can be defined as a limited period of study or training abroad (in the framework of on-going studies at a home institution) for gaining credits. After the mobility phase, students return to their home institution, where the credits are recognized and they complete their studies. Since 2015, Erasmus+ funds International Credit Mobility, in addition to intra-European credit mobility (known until now as 'Erasmus mobility').

International Credit Mobility now offers opportunities to students and staff from other parts of the world. Under the ICM a HEI in a Partner Country can send its students or staff to a partner HEI in a Programme Country, and vice versa.

The international mobility of students and staff is open to participants from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) established in Partner Countries for which an inter-institutional agreement has been settled with Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA).

For this Call 2018-2020, NOVA has signed agreements with Partner HEIs from the following countries: Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada, Kosovo, Morocco, Montenegro, Palestine, Serbia and Tunisia.

Scholarships:

The available scholarships are:

Financial Support

Travel

Travel distances	Amount
Between 100 and 499 km	180€ per participant
Between 500 and 1999 km	275€ per participant
Between 2000 and 2999 km	360€ per participant
Between 3000 and 3999 km	530€ per participant
Between 4000 and 7999 km	820€ per participant
8000 km or more	1500€ per participant

Important: these unit costs represent the linear distance between the city where the university of origin and the city where the host university are located. This is automatically calculated by the website indicated by the European Commission and cannot be subject to any change. The financial support allocated to the "travel distance" is the maximum allowed by the Erasmus+ Programme and it contributes to the round-trip back between the home and host institutions. In the event that the assigned value is insufficient to pay for the desired trip, the scholarship holder must find other sources of funding.

Stay

STUDENTS mobility (Studies - SMS)	Mobility periods: 3 to 5 months Origin Host Country Monthly allowance Eligible Partner Countries Portugal (Programme Country – Group 2) 850 EUR / month Programme Country Partner Country 700 EUR / month
STAFF mobility (Academic Staff- STA)	Mobility periods: 5 working days, plus 2 days for travel. The per diem amount for Staff: - From the programme countries to the partner countries: 180 EUR - From the partner countries to the programme countries: 160 EUR
STAFF mobility (Administrative Staff - STT)

Insurance

NOVA will provide a health, accident and travel insurance to every selected student, valid for the entire duration of the mobility period.

For academic and administrative staff, NOVA will reimburse the participant with an ammount that can go up to 1,50 € per day. This reimbursement will be conditioned to presentation of copy of receipt/invoice of the insurance arranged by the Participant for the mobility.

For the ICM NOVA 2018-2020 the funded mobility have a duration of minimum 3 months up to 5 months