Created with the aim of improving the quality of education and increasing the mobility of students by the European Union, the Erasmus Mundus program cooperates with Europe and the rest of the world. There is also the Erasmus program, but it is available only to Europeans. "Erasmus Mundus" allows you to use the exchange of students in almost any country, regardless of geographic location.
About the program
It is implemented in three main areas:
- joint doctoral and master's programs that include scholarship support;
- partnership programs of universities of different countries;
- programs that increase the attractiveness of European education.
Every year, with the help of Erasmus Mundus, a certain number of students are taught. The cost of education, medical insurance, travel and accommodation in the host country can either be partially or fully covered by scholarships and grants.
This program involves university teachers, graduate students and students (masters and bachelors). University, political and economic cooperation between Russia and the European Union is strengthened through the Erasmus Mundus subprogramme. Within its framework, scholarships are received by Russian candidates of science and graduate students participating in six-month internships, as well as in academic and research programs conducted by European universities. For example, masters can choose up to three Erasmus Mundus educational programs for training.
Partnership
Any university from any country can join this program, since it is aimed at the development of all kinds of cooperation. You just need to fill out a special application on the official website. Erasmus Mundus is a program designed to combine European universities with universities in other, arbitrarily remote regions. Non-EU countries, including Russia, also have the right to join the program. Students, graduate students and teachers willingly take the opportunity to exchange knowledge and replenish it at the expense of the European Union and Erasmus Mundus. The program is headed by European universities, and institutes, academies, universities officially officially accredited and registered by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation can join it.
The European Commission annually allocates about fifteen million euros to finance three consortia of Russian and European universities. Thus, the European Commission covers all costs of organizing and implementing the program with its financing. Below will be a fragmented (for example) list of what is needed to participate in the Erasmus Mundus (2016), since at the core of its parameters from year to year, the parameters in the program are repeated and the terms change rarely. The proposed scholarships for certain courses in the 2017-2018 academic year will also be presented.
Amendments are usually made in the period from October to January, but, having chosen the desired course, the teacher or student who wants to join the program must begin paperwork without waiting for changes, because this is not an easy process. "Erasmus Mundus" is a student exchange program, it is very popular, so you need to treat the collection of documents with special attention.
Project example
The Aurora project - Towards Modern and Innovative Higher Education (Aurora - The Path to Innovative Modern Higher Education ") - was created to support the academic mobility of employees, graduate students, students of universities participating in this project. The consortium contains twenty-two universities in Europe and Russia and eight associated organizations, where the coordinator is the University of Turku (Finland).
Among the European partners of Erasmus Mundus - 2016 there are universities in Turku and Bologna, a university in the Czech Republic (named after Masaryk), the Catholic Church of Ljvena in Belgium, the universities of Groningen and the Humboldt in Germany, the universities of Latvia and Warsaw, the universities of Deusto in Spain and Tartu in Estonia. .. The project involves graduate students, teachers, doctoral students of one of the partner universities; European and Russian citizens studying or graduating from European or Russian universities that are not partners of the project.
The Erasmus Mundus scholarship is awarded to Russian citizens who are in a difficult situation (in refugee status or applying for political asylum in accordance with international and European law, to persons unfairly expelled from universities for ethnic, racial, political, religious or gender reasons, which must be proved ) and representatives of small indigenous peoples.
Competition and grant sizes
The goals of graduate students are non-degree internships, degree studies (research), practical training takes as much as three months after six months of study. The competition "Erasmus Mundus" 2016-2017 was announced in the fall of 2015. For doctoral students, the purpose of the exchange is a research internship, and for teachers and administrative workers, research, teaching, development of courses and educational works. Such goals contribute to the establishment of closer ties between faculties, departments, partner universities, help implement the ECTS system, develop managerial staff, and recognize the result of studies at a university abroad.
Grants should cover the following costs:
- transport: travel to the host university and back once;
- medical insurance;
- visa cost (this does not include a residence permit).
Erasmus Mundus scholarships for graduate students - 1,500 euros per month, for doctoral students - 1,800, for teachers and administrative workers - 2,500. In addition, the project reimburses the cost of training for a host EU university, which is more than ten months.
First thing
Candidates must fulfill all the requirements that the project imposes on them:
- Carefully familiarize yourself with the Study and Research Opportunities that exist in European partner universities.
- Study the data sites of partner universities in order to choose the right programs for training and take into account the features of the educational process, opportunities for advanced training, research, and so on.
- Choose from one to three partner universities.
- Proceed to the preparation of a package of application documents, taking into account the category of participation in the competition.
- Fill out, without using Windows Explorer, an electronic application before December 11, 14:00 Finnish time.
- Scan application documents and send them electronically by December 18, 14:00 Finnish time. Originals remain with the participant of the competition, and if a grant is received, they must be provided to the host institution. All documents must be compiled in English.
- Expect results by April.
Documents and selection criteria
For absolutely all participants of the competition, regardless of category, you will need:
- copy of identity document (passport);
- Europass resume and motivation letter.
This is only the most important thing, but not all. The rest of the set of documents already depends only on the selected category.
What are the criteria by which a contest is held? Academic performance should be in order. The training program for the participant should be relevant to the project topic. To participate, you need a justified reason with an appropriate plan of study, research or teaching and a high-level foreign language. Again, disabilities, the poor and ethnic minorities gain an advantage in the competition.
In Minsk
On November 1, 2016, an information day was held in Minsk regarding the program of the European Commission called Erasmus Plus. The event was organized on the initiative of the Ministry of Education, its information and analytical center and the Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank. An information day was held in this educational institution at 18 Sovetskaya Street, the purpose of this event is more than clear - the need to inform students, graduate students, doctoral students and teachers interested in studying abroad, because it was there that they learned about the specifics of the third competition of project proposals for the program Erasmus Mundus in Belarus.
Employees of all structural divisions of universities who are interested in the implementation of international programs and projects, as well as those responsible for international cooperation, participated in this meeting. Many interested people were invited, all of them filled out the corresponding preliminary applications. It should be noted that such events are not uncommon in Belarus, international experts with great authority, who provide technical assistance and share their unique experience, are invited here. To participate in the competition, applications were selected and sent to the Executive Agency of the European Commission, which owns the Erasmus Mundus program. There are well-known participants in these projects in Belarus. For example, a model and TV presenter Leyla Ismailova.
In Kazakhstan
The Erasmus Plus program opens up new opportunities for teachers, students and employees of Kazakhstani universities, implemented within the framework of Key Action 1 (key action 1), which clearly increases mobility, which has always been an important component in the higher education system and allowed universities to develop. Moreover, this activity has a positive effect on the universities of the countries of the program and the universities of the partner countries, being an incentive to improve the quality of education, improve the work of student and international university services.
There is also the opportunity to compare educational programs, update them. All this does for the world students "Erasmus Mundus". Kazakhstan has joined the educational programs of the European level, it develops all the best internationalization strategies every year, which serves as a catalyst in the reform of the country's higher education. Educational mobility is important and useful both for students and teachers, and for the administrative staff of universities, it has the most positive effect on the quality of education and forms recognition tools. Twenty-eight EU countries, Iceland, Turkey, Liechtenstein, Macedonia participate in partnership with Kazakhstan universities under the Erasmus Mundus program.
Russia
The consortium under the auspices of the University of Barcelona (Spain) included the following Russian partner universities:
- Siberian Federal University ;
- Russian State Hydrometeorological University ;
- Moscow State University named after Lomonosov;
- South Ural State University;
- NSU named after Lobachevsky;
- Yaroslavl State University Demidov;
- Pskov State Pedagogical University;
- St. Petersburg State University.
The consortium, headed by the University of Turku (Finland), included the following partners from among Russian universities (the list is not complete):
- Emanuel Kant State University in Russia;
- Higher School of Economics;
- Kazan Federal University ;
- Irkutsk State University;
- Russian State University for the Humanities;
- Petrozavodsk State University;
- Udmurt State University;
- St. Petersburg State University;
- Novgorod State University named after Yaroslav the Wise.
- Ural State University.
Applications
Students and teachers need to contact the international department of any of these universities, and all the requirements, selection criteria that apply to applicants are determined by the university where the application is submitted. As well as the timing of its submission. Third-year students who have already received incomplete higher education can expect to receive a grant or scholarship from the Erasmus Mundus program. Duration of study abroad varies depending on the category of exchange - it is not less than three, but not more than ten months.
Students receive a scholarship of a thousand euros per month. Bachelors or students studying at a university for more than three years, preparing a thesis or defense of a master's degree, study from three months to twenty-two. The scholarship is also 1000 euros. Graduate students preparing for the Ph.D. study from six to thirty-four months. Doctoral students with a PhD degree, who are in doctoral studies, study from six to ten months, and the faculty and teaching staff have a trip of no more than three months.
Afterword
Few EU programs, if any, have such a large scale at the pan-European level. Erasmus Mundus has absorbed ninety percent of European universities. The program opened in 1987, and since then more than two million students have taken part in it. Over thirty countries are in the program and even more intend to join. Exchange and cooperation within the framework of the Erasmus Mundus are aimed at spreading the European quality of higher education, all this contributes to understanding between cultures, dialogue between people of different nationalities, races, faiths and so on. This program develops both human resources and the international potential of cooperation between universities in different countries by enhancing the exchange of knowledge.
In the future, the European Union plans to increase support for gifted students, graduate students, doctoral students and university professors from countries that are not members of the EU, by providing grants so that they participate in joint programs directly in Europe. The scope of work will be further increased, the volume of financial injections to help students will increase.
This is a great chance for energetic and talented young people who have been at university for at least 4 years to continue their education abroad at the best universities in Europe. More than a hundred master's courses are already funded, and a lot of interesting things are also offered for the faculty. The most interesting thing is that you can not be limited to studying at only one European university, but study at two or three European universities in different countries, then get a full European diploma, and the amount of the scholarship can cover all student needs. Moreover, a coordinator of this program works at every European university and always helps every foreign student in all matters: administrative and personal, even in finding housing, for example, if there is such a need.