Outgoing Staff Mobility
Before the Mobility
All staff members selected for participation in an Erasmus+ mobility are invited to fill out and sign the following documents:
- Staff Mobility Agreement for Teaching and Staff Mobility Agreement for Training: this is a trilateral agreement signed between the beneficiary, the home, and the receiving institution
- Grant Agreement signed between the beneficiary and VUM, which stipulates the Erasmus+ grant and the conditions for the provision of financial support within the Erasmus+ programme.
Eligible duration of the staff mobility: from 2 days to up to 2 months excluding travel time and depending on the funding provided to the institution. In case of staff mobilities to partner universities in eligible third countries not associated to the programme, the minimum staff mobility duration is 5 days. In all cases, a teaching activity shall comprise a minimum of 8 hours per week.
Erasmus+ grant for staff mobility
Financing mechanism
Amount
Rule of allocation
Unit costs
For travel distances between 10 and 99 km: 20 EUR per participant
For travel distances between 100 and 499 km: 180 EUR per participant
For travel distances between 500 and 1999 km: 275 EUR per participant
For travel distances between 2000 and 2999 km: 360 EUR per participant
For travel distances between 3000 and 3999 km: 530 EUR per participant
Based on the travel distance per participant. Travel distances must be calculated using the distance calculator supported by the European Commission. The applicant must indicate the distance of a one-way travel to calculate the amount of the EU grant that will support the round trip
Individual support is calculated by multiplying the mobility days by the applicable daily rates as stipulated in the table below:
Receiving country
Daily rates
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Sweden, United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, Norway; eligible third countries not associated to the Erasmus+ programme
180 EUR
Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Cyprus, The Netherlands, Malta, Portugal
160 EUR
Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Turkey
140 EUR
Green travel
Staff members using sustainable means of transport to travel from the sending to the hosting country and back are entitled to receive additional top-up amount to their mobility grant. Sustainable means of transport (green travel) is defined as travel that uses low-emissions means of transport for the main part of the travel, such as bus, train or car-pooling.