Description of the project

• What is the International Credit Mobility (ICM)?
• Scholarships
• Financial Support

What is the International Credit Mobility (ICM)?

For 37 years, Europe has funded the Erasmus programme, which has enabled millions of European students to spend part of their studies at another Higher Education Institution (HEI) in an Erasmus programme country.

Since 2015, Erasmus+ have founded the International Credit Mobility projects.

The KA171 Project, most known as International Credit mobility (ICM), 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. Under the ICM a Higher Education Institution (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 a HEI in Partner Countries for which an inter-institutional agreement has been settled with Nova University Lisbon (NOVA).

For this edition 2024-2027 NOVA has signed agreements with Partner HEIs from the following countries: Angola, Armenia, Cape Verde, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, India, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Macao, Morocco, Mozambique, Palestine, São Tomé & Príncipe, South Africa, South Korea, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Vietnam.

Scholarships

Under the 1^st call for applications, the available scholarships are the following:

Please, bear in mind that if selected, you must conclude this mobility by the 28^th of February 2026.

Financial Support

Travel

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

Visa

NOVA will reimburse all scholarship holders for visa issuance costs, if necessary and required, up to a maximum of 50€.

Vulnerable Participants

The Erasmus+ programme aims at promoting equity and inclusion by facilitating access to participants with fewer opportunities. Therefore, the programme foresees a top – up grand of 250 EUR per month for students with fewer opportunities according to the Erasmus+ guide. Potential barriers for participation could be the following (in no specific order):

• Disabilities
• Health problems
• Barriers linked to education and training systems
• Cultural differences
• Social barriers
• Economic barriers
• Barriers linked to discrimination
• Geographical barriers

Insurance

NOVA will issue a health, accident and travel insurance to the selected student, academic and administrative staff, valid for the entire duration of the mobility period.