Erasmus
Student
Charter

The Erasmus+ Programme reinforces the support offered to the participants of mobility activities in improving their foreign language competences before and during their stay abroad, including reinforced linguistic support grant for participants in long term mobility in VET. An Erasmus+ Online Language Support (OLS) servicep rovides the participants in mobility activities with the opportunity to assess their knowledge of languages as well as to follow online language courses to improve their competences.

Furthermore, Erasmus+ offers space for developing mobility activities that involve partner organisations with different backgrounds and are active in different fields or socio-economic sectors(e.g. trainees hips of university students or VET learners in enterprises, NGOs, public bodies; teachers in schools following professional development courses in companies or training centres; business experts giving lectures or training in higher education institutions, etc.).

As regards pupils, students, trainees, apprentices, adult learners and young people, the mobility activities supported under this Key Action are meant to produce one or more of the following out comes:

• improved learning performance
• enhanced employ ability and improved career prospects
• increased sense of initiative and entrepreneur ship
• increased self-empowerment and self-esteem
• improvedf oreign language and digital competences
• enhanced intercultural awareness
• more active participation in society
• enhanced positive interactions with people from different backgrounds
• better awareness of the European project and the EU values
• increased motivation for taking part in future (formal/non-formal) education or training after the mobility period abroad

This Key Action supports:
• Partner ships for Cooperation, including Cooperation Partnerships and Small-scale Partnerships
• Partner ships for Innovation, including Alliances and Forward-looking projects
• Capacity Building projects in the fields of higher education, vocational education and training, youth and sport
• Not-for-profit European sport events

The Action ssupported under this Key Action are expected to contributes ignificantly to the priorities of the programme, to bring positive and long-last ingeffect son the participating organisations, on the policy systems in which such Actions are framed as well as on  the organisations and persons directly or indirectly involved in the organised activities.

This Key Action is expected to result in the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices at organisational, local, regional, national or European levels.

For the participating organisations, projects supported under this Key Action are intended to produce the following out comes:

• Innovative approaches for addressing their target groups, by providing for example:

– More attractive education and training programmes, in line with individual needs and expectations
– Use of participatory approaches and digital methodologies; new or improved processes of recognition and validation of competences
– More effective ways of teaching and learning basic skills, with specific focus on preventing underachievement among disadvantaged students, as well as boosting top performance in basic skills

• A more modern, dynamic, committed and professional environment inside the organisation:

– Ready to integrate good practices and new methods including digital capabilities into daily activities
– Open to synergies with organisations active in different fields or in other socio-economic sectors

• Increased capacity and professionalism to work at EU/international level:

– Improved management competences and internationalisation strategies
– Reinforced cooperation with partners from other countries, other fields of education, training and youth and/orother socio-economic sectors

• increased knowledge and awareness regarding sport and physical activity
• increased awareness of the role of sport in promoting social inclusion, equal opportunities and a healthy life style