Erasmus+ started on 1
January 2014 and replaces current funding programmes run y the European
Commission in the area of education, training, youth and sport, including The
Lifelong Learning Programme, Comenius, Leonardo, Erasmus, Grundtvig andTransversal), Youth
in Action and other international programmes including Jean Monnet and
Erasmus Mundus. The Erasmus+ programme will run from 2014-2020 and supports
activities in education, training, youth and sport across all sectors of lifelong
learning including Higher Education, Further Education, adult education,
schools and youth activities.
Aims and objectives of
Erasmus+
Erasmus+ aims to boost
skills and employability as well as modernise education, training, and youth
work across Europe. It has abudget of approximately
14.7 billion euros across Europe and will, over the next seven years, provide
opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain work
experience and volunteer abroad and will also support transnational
partnerships between education, training and youth organisations, as well as
support grassroots sport projects.
A new approach to
funding for education and training
A new structure has
been proposed for the Erasmus+ programme to reflect a need for greater
simplification and streamlining. By bringing together a range of different
programmes and initiatives the European Commission hopes to make their funding opportunities more efficient
and more accessible.
Erasmus+ will be an
integrated programme which means that it will be based around Actions. Some
activities funded under the Lifelong Learning and Youth in Action Programmes
will disappear; others will be translated into the new Erasmus+ structure.
Member States of the
European Union plus some non-EU Programme Countries can apply for Erasmus+
funding and can fully take part in all any Erasmus+ funded project or activity.
Other countries, known as Partner Countries, can participate in some Erasmus+
actions as partners but please check the eligibility criteria for each activity
before applying.
Erasmus+ is divided in
diferents key actions and programmes:
·
Sport
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