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About the programThe Erasmus+ program was launched on January 1, 2014 and replaced the existing “Lifelong learning” programs (as well as their branch programs – Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Comenius and Grundtvig), the Jean Monnet Program, the ‘Youth in Action’ program and five other programs (including Erasmus Mundus and Tempus). For the first time, the educational programs of EU will also support sport-related initiatives. The program will be implemented for the period of seven years until 2020.
DescriptionErasmus+ offers financial support to institutions, organizations and schemes for education, training youth and sport in Europe. As an answer to the challenges outlined in the strategic documents of the European policy (in particular the Europe 2020 strategy), the program is expected to contribute to the skill development of its participants and increasing their chances of employment, as well as modernizing education, training and youth support systems.
ObjectivesIn its assumptions, the Erasmus+ Program is not fundamentally different from the “Lifelong Learning Program: that has just ended. The greatest emphasis in the new program was put on both formal and non-formal education aimed at developing the skills of students, teachers and academic employees and improving their competitiveness on the labor market.
In practice, the Erasmus+ program enables international mobility – educational exchange programs for the purpose of study, work, training or volunteering abroad by students, teaching staff and youth workers, as well as supports partnerships between universities, institutions of higher education, enterprises and non-profit organizations for promoting innovation and knowledge.
What the program stresses in particular is the importance of cooperation across various sectors of education and institutions of different levels and different profiles, as well as strengthening interdependence between education and work environment.
Sport-related initiatives are mainly focused on preventing violence, discrimination and doping, and financial contributions to non-profit sports events. Sport-related initiatives are mainly focused on preventing violence, discrimination and doping, and financial contributions to non-profit sports events.
Program Erasmus+ allows both undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students to apply for exchange study and internship in other countries
participating in the program for up to 12 months. participating in the program for up to 12 months Minimum stay for a study program is 3 months, whereas for an internship – 2 months. Students of long-cycle master’s degree studies or equivalent to it (for example, medical faculties) can choose programs with the total duration up to 24 months. However, previous stays with Erasmus (“Lifelong learning program”) at each level of study are also counted into the total.
Graduate internship programs
What is new about Erasmus+ is the opportunity to apply for an internship abroad is also open for graduates. This kind of program can only be requested within one year of graduation and the student must apply while still being enrolled in his or her higher education institution. Recruitment takes place during the last year of studies
Programs for academic staff:
This program is designed for academic teachers and specialists from enterprises. Academic teachers can go to universities abroad with which their home universities (faculties) have signed bilateral agreements. Both the home and the hosting university must have the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education and both must approve the academic staff member’s individual work or training program. Professionals from enterprises, institutions or organizations can – at the invitation of the university – conduct a series of lectures for students. Polish universities may invite specialists from foreign enterprises, and employees of Polish enterprises may conduct series of lectures at universities in other countries participating in the program. Lectures conducted by academic staff members or professionals from enterprises must always be an integral part of the current curriculum of the hosting institution.
Academic staff members can also go to foreign institutions, such as enterprises, organizations, educational institutions, including universities, in order to improve their skills and qualifications required in their profession, exchange experience, broaden knowledge in a given field (through participation in trainings, seminars, workshops, work shadowing, etc.).
st. Mickiewicza 29,
40-085 Katowice
Dean’s Office of the Silesian College of Medicine in Katowice
tel. 032 207 27 12
fax. 032 207 27 05
erasmus@swsm.pl