Teaching mobility (STA) within the Erasmus+ area
Erasmus+ Key Action KA131 - Erasmus+ Programme Generation 2021-2027
Giving a block seminar at Istanbul University? Hold a team teaching event with a colleague from Madrid? Invite a representative of a French NGO to teach at Paderborn University?
Erasmus+ makes all this possible and sponsors short-term stays for guest lecturers. As a guest lecturer, your stay will help to strengthen the European dimension of the host university, complement its teaching programme and exchange experiences in the field of teaching and research with colleagues from Erasmus+ programme countries (STA1). You also have the possibility to invite corporate staff from Erasmus+ programme countries to teach in Paderborn (STA2).
General conditions
- Eligible persons and conditions of participation:
UPB lecturers and academic staff who have a contractual employment relationship with UPB. A teaching assignment or fee contract is not sufficient. - A valid Erasmus+ cooperation agreement for STA with a partner university
- Duration of the apprenticeship: 2 to 60 days (without travelling to and from the destination), thereof max. 6 funded days
- Scope of the apprenticeship: at least 8 hours of teaching in one week (7 days) or a shorter period. For each additional day of stay beyond one week (7 days): at least 1.6 h per day
Financial support
- The allocation principle is "first come, first served"
- Erasmus+ funding is limited. In general, the application deadline is at least 6 weeks before the start of the mobility programme. However, for better planning of Erasmus+ funding, we ask that you apply early.
- Full funding (per diems) for up to 6 days of stay (teaching days at the host organisation) and
- 0-2 travel days for arrival/departure by flight, boat, car
- 0-6 travel days for arrival/departure by sustainable means of transport (green travel): Train, bus, car-sharing and other sustainable means of transport. Example: If the host organisation is so far away that you have to travel 2 days by bus, you can apply for 4 additional travel days for the outward and return journey.
- University staff with disabilities or chronic illnesses as well as university staff who take their child(ren) abroad with them can submit a real cost application for the actual costs incurred.
Project 2023/24: valid for trips between July 1st 2024 - May 31st 2025
Financial support and country groups
The daily supportis based on the cost of living in the respective destination country.
Valid daily rates for the Erasmus+ Call 2023:
| Group | Funding rates | Countries |
| 1 | 180 Euro per day | Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, additionally: United Kingdom |
| 2 | 160 Euro per day | Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus |
| 3 | 140 euros per day | Bulgaria, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Turkey and Hungary |
The amount of the travel support depends on the distance between the place of departure and destination of the mobility. This distance is standardised throughout Europe using this calculation tool.
Green travelling:
If "sustainable" means of transport are used for at least 50% of the journey, an increased travel support is paid for the corresponding distance. The following are considered "sustainable" means of transport (as of 11/2021) Train, bus, car-sharing, cycling, walking. Travelling alone by car is not covered.
The following are reimbursed:
| Distance | How much? | How much for green travelling? |
| 10 km - 99 km | 23 EUR | - |
| 100 km - 499 km | 180 EUR | 210 EUR |
| 500 km - 1,999 km | 275 EUR | 320 EUR |
| 2,000 km - 2,999 km | 360 EUR | 410 EUR |
To promote green travel, there is an Interrail Pass especially for Erasmus+ participants. You can find more information here.
Contact us
Eva Walczak
International Office
Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn
Office hours
Wednesday, 1-2 pm via Zoom
(You will be taken out of the virtual waiting room one by one).
Erasmus+ at the UPB
- Erasmus+ Code: D PADERBO01
- ECHE number (2021-2027): 101012410, Charter 2021-2027
- Erasmus+ Policy Statement 2021-2027
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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