Erasmus (European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students) is the European Commission's educational programme for Higher Education students, teachers and institutions, introduced to increase student and staff movement within the European Community, including the European Economic Area countries and candidate countries of Turkey and Croatia.
UEA continues to have access to a limited amount of Erasmus+ funding to support eligible activities for student and staff mobility in Europe to May 2023 travelling to study or work with our Erasmus exchange partner universities in Europe.
As of September 2021, the UK's outwards mobility funding scheme, Turing, began to support global mobility. Turing is not a reciprocal exchange programme like Erasmus, but UK universities can send students out to exchange partner universities, within and beyond Europe. UEA already manages reciprocal exchange with host destinations outside the EU and will continue to offer study abroad opportunities within Europe, despite the UK's exit from the EU and thus the Erasmus programme.
UEA students can visit UEA's Turing Scheme page for more information.
Erasmus Opportunities
The mobility opportunities under Erasmus+ for students includes the following activities:
This can either be through a study period or a traineeship. A study period would be at an Erasmus partner institution lasting between 3-12 months and is fully recognised as part of your degree. A traineeship (work placement) would be in a programme country abroad lasting between 2-12 months and is also a fully recognised part of your degree.
This would be a graduate traineeship, often called a work placement or graduate internship, lasting between 2-12 months. Contact UEA Careers Central during your final year to find out more about undertaking the traineeship after you graduate.
More Information on Erasmus+
Erasmus has evolved since its early days in 1987, and now forms part of the new European Commission Erasmus+ programme (2014-2020), which is the successor to the Lifelong Learning Programme that ran between 2007-2014.
Please see our Erasmus + Charter with annotated guidelines, the UEA Erasmus policy statement and general information on the Erasmus+ programme for more information.
