Erasmus+ is the EU’s educational programme that fosters international cooperation and mobility, and it represents the principal opportunity for AMU students and teachers to be internationally mobile.
Erasmus+ continues in the 2021–2027 programming period with certain new features. The programme will newly be open to first year students, the minimum duration of the stay abroad is reduced to two months, and short-term combined mobility and combined intensive programmes are possible. Doctoral students can newly use the opportunity for short-term stays. The increased budget will allow for the involvement of more applicants and a wider range of organisations.
During the 2021–2027 programming period, Erasmus+ will be:
Individual mobility remains one of its principal activities (individuals’ trips abroad to pre-selected host institutions, for a specific purpose and a pre-agreed term, in accordance with the rules for the duration of the stay defined by the programme); this includes student mobility for the purposes of studies/practice and employee mobility for the purposes of teaching/training.
Within the framework of international cooperation, AMU has signed more than 200 agreements with partner schools under the Erasmus+ programme and other bilateral agreements with partner schools mainly from non-European countries.
The National Agency has renewed the resource for sharing student experience from their study and hands-on stays – the database of the Erasmus students’ final reports accessible here.
More information on the programme is available on the Erasmus+ website here.
Erasmus without paper – Online Learning Agreements (OLA)
The ERASMUS+ programme is going digital, and so we would like to ask the students who are preparing for a study stay at an international university under ERASMUS+ to draft and edit their learning agreements (LA) exclusively in electronic form. Learning agreements are newly to be drafted and edited exclusively through the website www.learning-agreement.eu, and the agreements will also be signed electronically only from now on. Faculty ERASMUS+ coordinators will answer any questions you may have in this respect. Here you will find instructions for creating an electronic learning agreement (OLA).
Green Erasmus – we are encouraging ecological travel
Students who go for Erasmus stays may obtain a grant if they use an environmentally sound mode of transport. The new Erasmus+ programming period for the years 2021–2027 brings many new features and topics, including the GREEN ERASMUS+ project aiming at systematically reducing the negative environmental impact of the programme.
We offer an increase of the grant by if you choose an environmentally friendlier mode of transport (surface mass transport – trains, buses…). At the same time, the mobility participants who choose an environmentally friendlier mode of transport can use an eligible period of travel extended by 4 days. Faculty ERASMUS+ coordinators will answer any questions you may have in this respect. Contribute towards reducing the carbon footprint of your travels!
Inclusion in ERASMUS+: promotion of equal opportunities and involvement of participants with fewer opportunities
The European Union has been systematically focusing on inclusion as one of the Erasmus+ programme priorities in the 2021–2027 period. Erasmus+ seeks to promote equal opportunities and access, inclusion, diversity and fairness across all its actions. Organisations and the participants with fewer opportunities themselves are at the heart of these objectives and with these in mind, the programme puts mechanisms and resources at their disposal.
Inclusion and diversity mean involving as many organisations and individuals in international education as possible.
For the sake of the easiest possible access to student and employee mobility under Erasmus+, the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague pursues and equal and fair attitude and opportunities for both existing and future participants in mobility programmes from all environments. This means the opportunity for participation for participants with fewer opportunities such as participants with physical, mental or health impairments, students with children, students who work or play sports professionally, and students of all fields that are not sufficiently represented in mobility.
Students with limited opportunities (health or economic barriers) are kindly asked to contact the international departments of their faculties. We will provide you with more information and support in planning or implementing an Erasmus traineeship.
Erasmus programme offers students two types of activities:
Study stays at international tertiary education institutions in a programme or partner country
Combined short-term study mobility at international tertiary education institutions in a programme or partner country
Traineeship for students at international companies or organisations in a programme or partner country
Students may take a study or hands-on stay abroad in an aggregate duration of 12 months maximum per study cycle (bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral). In effect, they may take six months of a study stay and six months of a hands-on internship, or a full 12 months of hands-on internship. The limit of 12 months per study cycle applies at all times. Any months spent under a previous Lifelong Education Programme / Erasmus edition within the same study cycle add up for that period. For multiple-year (e.g., five-year) master programmes, the maximum allocation for study/hands-on stays is 24 months. The duration of the traineeship for recent graduates counts towards the maximum of 12 months per cycle in which they apply.
The Erasmus+ programme offers various forms of mobility:
Physical mobility
Combined short-term mobility
Blended Intensive Programme (BIP)
The virtual element must be set up so that course participants, whether students or staff, can work collectively and simultaneously on specific tasks that are integrated into the intensive program and flow into the overall course learning outcomes.
The Erasmus coordinator at your home university (faculty) will give you more input on the specific opportunities for study or hands-on stays, timing, and the conditions of the selection procedure.
Who can take part – requirements:
Where you can go:
You can obtain information regarding the specific options for visiting schools in the countries, with which your school has concluded inter-institutional agreements, at the International Affairs sections of the Rectorate or your Faculty.
How to apply:
Please contact the International Department of the Rector's Office (PROLINK)or the relevant international department of the faculty for information about specific opportunities to go to schools in countries with which your school has concluded inter-institutional agreements and about the specific conditions of the Erasmus+: Erasmus selection procedure.
Financing conditions:
EU defines the principal rules (criteria) for setting the scholarship amounts. The countries are divided into two groups depending on the costs of living (higher, lower), and the scholarship amounts are structured into two zones accordingly (higher, lower). The zone within which the amount of scholarship granted for the stay in a specific country will be depends on the relation between the sending country and the receiving country (depending on whether or not the mobility is between two countries with comparable costs of living).
Further to the execution of a participation agreement, a student receives the grant that is the same for all the students who leave the Czech Republic for a study or hands-on stay under Erasmus+: Erasmus. The grant is understood as a contribution towards increased costs of living abroad; this means the student is expected to participate financially too. The monthly amount of scholarship is fixed.
Erasmus+ offers two types of activities for employees:
Teaching stays
This activity enables the educational staff of tertiary educational institutions and corporate employees to teach at international universities/institutions. Employee mobility may take place with regard to any field/academic discipline.
Training
This activity encourages professional development of both teaching and other employees of universities by means of training abroad (except conferences), shadowing employees in their workplaces / attending lectures / taking specialised courses at partner university institutions or other relevant organisations abroad.
The Erasmus coordinator (PROLINK) at your faculty will give you more information about the specific options for taking a teaching or training stay as well as on the timing and conditions of the selection process.
Who can take part:
Teaching stays
Training stays
Where you can go:
You can obtain information regarding the specific options for visiting schools in the countries, with which your school has concluded inter-institutional agreements, at the International Affairs sections of the Rectorate.
