All of Europe celebrates Erasmus+, and Austria is joining in
From 10 to 12 October the #Erasmusdays will take place all over Europe. In Austria more than 100 institutions from the education and youth sectors will present their Erasmus+ activities during these action days. The mobility programme will be celebrated with flash mobs, dance and music performances, exhibitions, competitions, discussion panels and information events. And with good reason: Erasmus+ is growing, and never before have so many young people studied, taught or worked in other European countries. Scholarships for students to study abroad will be increased in the autumn of 2019.
23,000 mobility grants from Austria approved in 2019
Ten million Europeans have learned, studied, taught or completed an internship in other European countries with Erasmus+ and its predecessor programmes. Since 1992, the first year that Austria participated in the EU education programme, more than a quarter of a million participants from Austria have studied, taught or worked in other European countries with Erasmus+.
In 2019 alone, more than € 47 million in EU funding flowed and continues to flow into the Austrian education system – an increase of 25.7 per cent compared to 2018. This has enabled stays abroad to be approved for around 23,000 students, pupils, teachers and lecturers, apprentices, and people working in the education sector.
Austria has received more than € 200 million in Erasmus+ funding since 2014
Since the start of the current Erasmus+ programme generation in 2014 Austria has received more than € 200 million in funding from Brussels for higher education, vocational education and training, school education and adult education. Almost 100,000 people from Austrian educational institutions took advantage of the opportunity to gain international mobility experience, and 2,700 transnational cooperation projects with international partner institutions were implemented.
Much more money and easier access as of 2021
The European Commission has invested more than € 14.7 billion in the current Erasmus+ programme period (2014–2020) with the aim of enabling four million Europeans to spend an educational stay abroad and cooperate in transnational projects. The follow-up programme starting in 2021 is to enable mobility for twelve million people with a significantly larger budget and increase the number of cooperation projects.
Austria makes full use of the European funds. The aim is to make access to the programme even easier and more inclusive in the future. As a first step the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research has increased Erasmus+ grants for students for the academic year 2019/20. Thus, Erasmus+ grants for all students in Austria will increase by € 60; these increases correspond to up to 20 per cent depending on the destination country.
#Erasmusdays 2019: Opening by the federal minister Rauskala on 9 October
The #Erasmusdays 2019 will be opened by the federal minister Dr Iris Rauskala on 9 October 2019 at the NMS Krim in Vienna where the school will present its current Erasmus+ projects. Other highlights include a first-ever reception by the Municipality of Vienna together with the OeAD in Vienna’s town hall, a celebratory event organised by the Carinthian education authority in Villach, flash mobs in Linz, Hartberg, Dornbirn and Vienna, a ‘Hike to the top’ in Leoben as well as info days, photo exhibitions, film screenings, dance performances, culinary tours and concerts in all federal provinces.
All projects of the #Erasmusdays 2019:
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