Mobility can be undertaken by staff at a Higher Education or HE/FE Institution which holds an Erasmus+ University Charter (EUC) to another HEI which holds an EUC and with which their institution has an Inter-institutional Agreement.
Erasmus+ offers a great opportunity for academic and administrative staff to teach or work elsewhere in one of the 32 other participating countries in Europe. You can get to know first-hand the workings of another European educational system, learn new ideas and discover best practices to take back to UK. So don’t let the students be the only ones to benefit! Develop your international network and enhance your language skills too. To be eligible you must work at a Higher Education Institution that holds an Erasmus+ University Charter.
Why Take Part?
Personal Benefits
- Discover best practices to bring back to UK
- Learn and share new ideas
- Be inspired by new colleagues and different outlooks
- Refresh your thinking, broaden your horizons
- Discover new ways of teaching
- Develop new skills
- Revitalise and reignite passion for your work
- Meet with your students also on Erasmus+
- Get to know first-hand the workings of another European educational system
- Develop your international network
- Improve your CV
- Return enthused and motivated
- Explore new tools and technologies in your field
- Realise peers in other countries face same challenges, discover how they overcome them
- Establish a good network of new international contacts
- Enhance your language skills
- Have an enjoyable experience abroad!
Benefits for your institution
- Staff receive financial assistance for professional development and training through Erasmus+ Funding
- Staff return motivated and engaged
- Staff can advocate the work of your own institution to partner institutions abroad
- Staff can find out about the latest developments across Europe
- It will improve the international standing of your institution
- Staff return enthused with new ideas to improve your institution’s performance
Non Teaching Staff
Staff training is an option for non-teaching staff who want to take part in the Erasmus+ programme. This is an option if you are going to another HEI which holds an EUC. Within the broad objectives of staff training, it encompasses things such as short secondments, job-shadowing and study visits.
The duration of non teaching staff mobility must be for a period of two working days. Before the mobility commences staff must complete British Council Mobility and Grant Agreement forms and a Cardiff Met overseas travel form. Prior to departure a full training programme must be agreed formally by the home and host HEI.
There must be documentary evidence of the duration of the mobility period. At the end of each training period abroad the host must confirm the duration of stay.
All travel and hotel bookings will be made by the International Office.
Teaching Staff
Mobility can be undertaken by staff at a Higher Education or HE/FE Institution which holds an Erasmus University Charter (EUC) to another HEI which holds an EUC and with which your institution has an Inter-institutional Agreement.
The recommended minimum duration for teaching assignments is two days and they may not exceed a maximum of six weeks. Teaching assignments shorter than the recommended period must include at least eight teaching hours.
Before the mobility commences staff must complete the British Council Mobility and Grant Agreement forms and a Cardiff Met overseas travel form. Prior to departure a full work plan must be agreed formally by the home and host HEI. The work plan should cover overall aims and objectives, expected results in terms of training, learning, activities to be carried out and, where possible, a detailed programme for the period abroad.
There must be documentary evidence of the duration of the mobility period. At the end of each training period abroad the host must confirm the duration of stay.
All travel and hotel bookings will be made by the International Office.
Incoming Staff
Please email erasmus@cardiffmet.ac.uk if you are interested in undertaking an Erasmus Mobility at Cardiff Met.
