ECW lot 9

Eligibility

Students from Third-Countries

The eligibility criteria for students are:

Students must have the nationality of one of the Third-countries covered by the relevant lot and have sufficient knowledge of the language of the courses;
For target group 1: students need to be registered at one of the Third-Country partner institutions. Undergraduate students must have successfully completed at least one year of studies in their home institution;
For target group 2: candidates need either to be registered in a university of the Third-Country concerned by the geographical lot or to have obtained a diploma from a higher education institution of one of these Third-Countries. They will need to justify how this study period abroad will benefit them (and their direct socio-economical environment) and include letters of support in their individual application;
For target group 3, students need to be nationals of one of the Third-Countries concerned by the geographical lot and be part of the vulnerable target groups.

Who can apply?

There are three Target Groups for individual mobility flows and five different types of individual mobility flows.

The partnership will have the liberty to decide the distribution between the different types – see indicative table above - as well as the duration of the mobility activities within the limits established in the table.

Mobility Scheme

Type of individual mobility	Target group I		Target group II	Target group III
	Student & staff from partnership		Target group II	Target group III
	EU/other European partners	Third-country partners	Other third-country nationals in targeted country(ies) except target group III	Refugees, asylum seekers, unjustified expulsion/discrimination, indigenous populations
Undergraduates	From 1 academic semester to 1 academic year (10 months max.)	From 1 academic semester to 1 academic year (10 months max.)	Not applicable	From 1 academic semester to 3 academic year (34 months max.)
Masters	From 1 academic semester to 1 academic year (10 months max.)	From 1 academic semester to 2 academic year (22 months max.)	From 1 academic semester to 2 academic year (22 months max.)	From 1 academic semester to 2 academic year (22 months max.)
Doctorates	6-34 months		6-34 months	6-34 months
Post-doctorates	6-10 months		6-10 months	6-10 months
Academic staff	1-3 months		Not applicable	Not applicable

Target groups for individual mobility

Target Group	Target beneficiaries	Types of individual mobility flows	Countries of mobile individuals
Target group 1	Students and academic staff registered in one of the universities member of the partnership.	undergraduate, master, doctorate, post-doctorate academic staff exchanges	Third-countries of the geographical lot concerned and European Countries
Target group 2	Nationals of the third-countries concerned by the geographical lot, registered in a higher education institution of these countries not included in the partnership or having obtained a university degree or equivalent by an institution of these countries. This includes the possibility of providing mobility opportunities to third country nationals working in public administration, public and private enterprises	master, doctorate post-doctorate	Only third-countries of the geographical lot concerned
Target group 3	Nationals of the third-countries concerned by the geographical lot who are in particularly vulnerable situations, for political or economic reasons or because of physical disabilities. For example: 1) having a refugee status or asylum beneficiaries (international or according to the national legislation of one of the European recipient countries) or 2) it can be proved that they have been the object of unjustified expulsion from university on racial, ethnic, religious, political, gender or sexual inclination or 3) they belong to an indigenous population targeted by a specific national policy or IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons)	undergraduate, master, doctorate post-doctorate	Only third-countries of the geographical lot concerned

Mobility of Academic staff EU and Kazakhstan

In the context of the individual mobility flows, academic staff mobility refers
exclusively to training, teaching and/or research activities performed by invited
academic staff of partner universities in host institutions which are members of
the partnership.
The objectives of "academic staff mobility" must be:

to provide academic staff with opportunities for professional and personal development, through the possibility of doing practical training, research or teaching assignments in a partner institution;
to encourage universities to broaden and enrich the range and content of courses they offer;
to allow students to benefit from the knowledge and expertise of academic staff from universities in participating in the partnership;
to consolidate links between institutions in different countries;
to promote exchange of expertise and experience on pedagogical methods;
to strengthen the capacity for international cooperation;
to prepare long-term recognition of studies between institutions through ECTS (European credit transfer system) or other compatible systems.

Academic staff undertaking a period of teaching, training or research in a partner university must

Work in or be associated to one of the participating institutions;
Have the nationality of one of the eligible countries and
Be fully integrated into the Department or Faculty of the host institution(s). This last criterion means that:

The mobility assignments must be based on partnership agreements between the members of the partnership.
The home and host universities and the individual teachers must agree on the programme of lectures to be delivered by the visiting teachers, on the research activities or type of training to be followed.
The exchange may constitute a post-per- post exchange or a one-way visitor flow to or from a third country.

In the selection process, priority will be given to mobility assignments which will
also:

ensure that the visiting teacher's contributions will be an integral part of a diploma programme of the host institution;
will lead to the production of new teaching material;
will be used to consolidate and extend links between departments and faculties and to prepare for future cooperation projects between the sending and host university;
will help strengthen the international cooperation departments in the foreign universities 20;
will lead to progresses in the application of ECTS or other systems for recognition of studies in the partner institution.

Mobility of European students

In order to be eligible, students:

Must have the nationality of one of the eligible European countries;
Must have sufficient knowledge of the language of the courses or of one of the languages currently spoken in the hosting countries;
The student must be registered at one of the partner European institutions or,
For post-doctorate mobility only, the student must have obtained their doctorate in the last two years and must have the support of one of the European partner universities to carry out a post-doctorate mobility. This can be for research, training and attending highly specialized courses;
Undergraduate students must have successfully completed at least one year of studies at higher education level.

Studying abroad may include a work training period, provided that it is preceded by a minimum period of study abroad of six months and that it is recognized as an integral part of the student’s programme and provided that this is allowed by the hosting countries regulations.