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The International Relations Office (IRO) at UPJŠ has prepared for you an overview of upcoming Erasmus+ calls for applications in 2024/2025.
Take a look at the newest Catalogue of Student Mobility Options within the Erasmus+ Programme!
Short-Term Blended Student Mobilities, First and Second Study Cycles
Mobility implementation period: 31.7.2025 at the latest
| Proposed deadline for the submission of applications at the individual faculties/departments/institutes*: | Earliest possible starting date: | |
| 1st phase | 10.06.2024 | 01.08.2024 |
| 2nd phase | 07.10.2024 | 21.10.2024 |
| 3rd phase | 10.02.2025 | 24.02.2025 |
| 4th phase | 05.05.2025 | 19.05.2025 |
- The rules of the call are governed by the rules of Directive no. 1/2020, which establishes the procedure for the administration of the Erasmus+ program at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and its components.
- Processing of applications, checking of documents and the entered information and the evaluation within the faculties is the responsibility of the faculties.
- Short-term blended student mobilities are intended for doctoral (MUDr.), bachelor’s and master’s degree students.
- Short-term blended mobilities of students consists of a short-term physical mobility (study or traineeship) of students abroad (in a program country) with minimal duration of 5 days and of a mandatory virtual element, while the volume, method and time of the virtual part are freely adjustable.
- The implementation of the virtual part is to be ensured by the sending faculty/department/institute in cooperation with the receiving institution. The sending faculty/department/institute is responsible for and confirms the quality of the implemented virtual activity.
- This opportunity should be taken up in particular by those students who cannot go on a long-term physical mobility, for example, due to their study field or because they have fewer opportunities for participation.
- It is up to the faculties and university workplaces to assess the appropriateness of student mobility choices and to ensure that long-term physical mobilities remain the norm.
- The physical mobility of any short-term blended student mobility must meet the criterion of minimal duration: from 5 to 30 days (excluding travel time) and must be combined with an obligatory virtual element.
- At least three credits of the ECTS system must be awarded for a blended student mobility.
- The university will provide the participant of a short-term blended mobility with a grant up to the amount covering 5 days of physical mobility abroad.
- Participants of a short-term blended mobility have the opportunity to implement mobilities that are longer than 5 days with a so-called combined grant, i.e. with financial support from Erasmus+ resources combined with a period with zero grant, or full mobilities with zero grant.
- One travel day before the first day of activity abroad and/or one travel day following the last day of activity abroad is added to the mobility period. These days are included in the calculation of individual support according to the scheme of 5 days of activity + 2 days of travel.
- Short-term blended mobilities are not available for recent graduates.
| PROGRAMME COUNTRIES | |
| EU Member States | Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden |
| Programme countries that are not members of the EU | the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, Turkey |
Student mobilities for the purpose of study are governed by inter-institutional agreements, which contain the exact number of student mobilities for the given field, with the exact length of their stay.
The host university must be a higher education institution of a country involved in the Erasmus+ program with an ECHE (European Charter for Higher Education) charter. Faculty (departmental, institutional) Erasmus coordinators as well as the employees of the International Relations Office of the UPJŠ Rectorate will provide you with more detailed information about inter-institutional agreements for the individual study fields.
In case of student mobility for traineeships the receiving organisation can be:
- any Programme Country public or private organisation active in the labour market or in the fields of education, training, youth, research and innovation. For example, such organisation can be:
- a public or private, a small, medium or large enterprise (including social enterprises);
- a public body at local, regional or national level;
- embassies or consular offices of the sending Programme Country;
- a social partner or other representative of working life, including chambers of commerce, craft/professional associations and trade unions;
- a research institute;
- a foundation;
- a school/institute/educational centre (at any level, from pre-school to upper secondary education, and including vocational education and adult education);
- a non-profit organisation, association, NGO;
- a body providing career guidance, professional counselling and information services;
- a Programme Country HEI awarded with an ECHE.
Participants of short-term mobilities (5-30 days) are entitled to individual support for physical mobilities, including travel days, regardless of the target country: 79 EUR per day.
Mobility participants with fewer opportunities are entitled to a top-up amount of € 100 above the basic rate for a physical mobility lasting 5-14 days and of € 150 for a physical mobility lasting 15-30 days.
Support for travel costs is granted to participants with fewer opportunities. The travel grant is covered by a special range of fixed amounts according to the distance bands valid for the whole program:
| Distance band | Standard travel | Green travel |
| From 10 to 99 km: | 23 EUR/participant | |
| From 100 to 499 km | 180 EUR/participant | 210 EUR/participant |
| From 500 to 1 999 km: | 275 EUR/participant | 320 EUR /participant |
| From 2 000 to 2 999 km: | 360 EUR/participant | 410 EUR /participant |
| From 3 000 to 3 999 km: | 530 EUR/participant | 610 EUR /participant |
| From 4 000 to 7 999 km: | 820 EUR/participant | |
| 8 000 km or more: | 1 500 EUR/participant |
Contributions to mobility participants with fewer opportunities
Other participants are not entitled to support for travel costs.
Students who do not receive support for travel costs can opt for green travel (bicycle, bus, shared journey by car and train). In this case, they will receive a one-time contribution of EUR 50 as a supplementary amount to individual support. The allowance for traveling by sustainable modes of transport (green travel) is eligible only if a sustainable mode of transport was used for the majority of the journey.
For more information, please contact your faculty/department/institutional coordinator.
Contact persons at IRO:
Mgr. Jakub Paľovčík
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Short-Term PhD Mobilities
Mobility implementation period: 31.7.2025 at the latest
| Proposed deadline for the submission of applications at the individual faculties/departments/institutes*: | Earliest possible starting date: | |
| 1st phase | 10.06.2024 | 01.08.2024 |
| 2nd phase | 07.10.2024 | 21.10.2024 |
| 3rd phase | 10.02.2025 | 24.02.2025 |
| 4th phase | 05.05.2025 | 19.05.2025 |
- The rules of the call are governed by the rules of Directive no. 1/2020, which establishes the procedure for the administration of the Erasmus+ program at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and its components.
- Processing of applications, checking of documents and the entered information and the evaluation within the faculties is the responsibility of the faculties.
- For the period 01.08.2024 – 31.07.2025, the university will allocate funds for 1 mobility for each study program in the doctoral degree.
- Each short-term mobility must meet the criterion of minimal duration. Short-term mobilities have a minimum duration of 5 days and a maximum of 30 days.
- The university will provide grant to the participant of a short-term mobility up to a maximum amount covering 10 days of physical mobility abroad.
- Short-term mobility participants also have the opportunity to implement mobilities that are longer than 10 days with a so-called combined grant, i.e. with financial support from Erasmus+ resources combined with a period with zero grant, or full mobilities with zero grant.
- One travel day before the first day of activity abroad and/or one travel day following the last day of activity abroad is added to the mobility period. These days are included in the calculation of individual support according to the scheme of 5 to 10 days of activity + 2 days of travel.
- Short-term PhD mobility is not available for recent graduates.
- PhD students can use the Erasmus+ funds to implement one mobility with a duration of 5-10 days within the framework of this call.
| PROGRAMME COUNTRIES | |
| EU Member States | Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden |
| Programme countries that are not members of the EU | the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, Turkey |
Student mobilities for the purpose of study are governed by inter-institutional agreements, which contain the exact number of student mobilities for the given field, with the exact length of their stay.
The host university must be a higher education institution of a country involved in the Erasmus+ program with an ECHE (European Charter for Higher Education) charter. Faculty (departmental, institutional) Erasmus coordinators as well as the employees of the International Relations Office of the UPJŠ Rectorate will provide you with more detailed information about inter-institutional agreements for the individual study fields.
In case of student mobility for traineeships the receiving organisation can be:
- any Programme Country public or private organisation active in the labour market or in the fields of education, training, youth, research and innovation. For example, such organisation can be:
- a public or private, a small, medium or large enterprise (including social enterprises);
- a public body at local, regional or national level;
- embassies or consular offices of the sending Programme Country;
- a social partner or other representative of working life, including chambers of commerce, craft/professional associations and trade unions;
- a research institute;
- a foundation;
- a school/institute/educational centre (at any level, from pre-school to upper secondary education, and including vocational education and adult education);
- a non-profit organisation, association, NGO;
- a body providing career guidance, professional counselling and information services;
- a Programme Country HEI awarded with an ECHE.
Participants of short-term mobilities (5-30 days) are entitled to individual support for physical mobilities, including travel days, regardless of the target country: 79 EUR per day.
Mobility participants with fewer opportunities are entitled to a top-up amount of € 100 above the basic rate for a physical mobility lasting 5-14 days and of € 150 for a physical mobility lasting 15-30 days.
Support for travel costs is granted to participants with fewer opportunities. The travel grant is covered by a special range of fixed amounts according to the distance bands valid for the whole program:
| Distance band | Standard travel | Green travel |
| From 10 to 99 km: | 23 EUR/participant | |
| From 100 to 499 km | 180 EUR/participant | 210 EUR/participant |
| From 500 to 1 999 km: | 275 EUR/participant | 320 EUR /participant |
| From 2 000 to 2 999 km: | 360 EUR/participant | 410 EUR /participant |
| From 3 000 to 3 999 km: | 530 EUR/participant | 610 EUR /participant |
| From 4 000 to 7 999 km: | 820 EUR/participant | |
| 8 000 km or more: | 1 500 EUR/participant |
Contributions to mobility participants with fewer opportunities
Other participants are not entitled to support for travel costs.
Students who do not receive support for travel costs can opt for green travel (bicycle, bus, shared journey by car and train). In this case, they will receive a one-time contribution of EUR 50 as a supplementary amount to individual support. The allowance for traveling by sustainable modes of transport (green travel) is eligible only if a sustainable mode of transport was used for the majority of the journey.
For more information, please contact your faculty/department/institutional coordinator.
Contact persons at IRO:
Mgr. Jakub Paľovčík
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Blended Intensive Programmes
Mobility implementation period: 31.7.2025 at the latest
| Proposed deadline for the submission of applications at the individual faculties/departments/institutes*: | Earliest possible starting date: | |
| 1st phase | 10.06.2024 | 01.08.2024 |
| 2nd phase | 07.10.2024 | 21.10.2024 |
| 3rd phase | 10.02.2025 | 24.02.2025 |
| 4th phase | 05.05.2025 | 19.05.2025 |
- The rules of the call are governed by the rules of Directive no. 1/2020, which establishes the procedure for the administration of the Erasmus+ program at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and its components.
- Processing of applications, checking of documents and the entered information and the evaluation within the faculties is the responsibility of the faculties.
- Short-term student mobilities within Blended Intensive Programmes (BIPs) can only be implemented as study mobilities, traineeships are not allowed.
- BIP mobilities are available for all study levels.
- BIP mobilities of students consists of a short-term physical mobility of students abroad (in a program country) with minimal duration of 5 days and of a mandatory virtual element, while the volume, method and time of the virtual part are defined by the BIP organizers. Based on the particular BIP, the virtual element can take place before, after, or during the physical mobility (or their combination).
- The coordinators should nominate students primarily for those BIPs in which their workplace is a co-organizer of the program and the program itself is implemented abroad, in the country of the BIP coordinator.
- The university will provide a BIP mobility participant with a grant for each day of physical mobility abroad.
- One travel day before the first day of activity abroad and/or one travel day following the last day of activity abroad is added to the mobility period. These days are included in the calculation of individual support according to the scheme of days of activity + 2 days of travel.
- At least three credits of the ECTS system must be awarded for a blended student mobility.
- BIP mobilities are not available for recent graduates.
| PROGRAMME COUNTRIES | |
| EU Member States | Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden |
| Programme countries that are not members of the EU | the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, Turkey |
Student mobilities within the framework of BIP are governed by inter-institutional agreements.
The host university must be a higher education institution of a country involved in the Erasmus+ program with an ECHE (European Charter for Higher Education) charter. Faculty (departmental, institutional) Erasmus coordinators as well as the employees of the International Relations Office of the UPJŠ Rectorate will provide you with more detailed information about inter-institutional agreements for the individual study fields.
Participants of short-term mobilities (5-30 days) are entitled to individual support for physical mobilities, including travel days, regardless of the target country: 79 EUR per day.
Mobility participants with fewer opportunities are entitled to a top-up amount of € 100 above the basic rate for a physical mobility lasting 5-14 days and of € 150 for a physical mobility lasting 15-30 days.
Support for travel costs is granted to participants with fewer opportunities. The travel grant is covered by a special range of fixed amounts according to the distance bands valid for the whole program:
| Distance band | Standard travel | Green travel |
| From 10 to 99 km: | 23 EUR/participant | |
| From 100 to 499 km | 180 EUR/participant | 210 EUR/participant |
| From 500 to 1 999 km: | 275 EUR/participant | 320 EUR /participant |
| From 2 000 to 2 999 km: | 360 EUR/participant | 410 EUR /participant |
| From 3 000 to 3 999 km: | 530 EUR/participant | 610 EUR /participant |
| From 4 000 to 7 999 km: | 820 EUR/participant | |
| 8 000 km or more: | 1 500 EUR/participant |
Contributions to mobility participants with fewer opportunities
Other participants are not entitled to support for travel costs.
Students who do not receive support for travel costs can opt for green travel. In this case, they will receive a one-time contribution of EUR 50 as a supplementary amount to individual support.
For more information, please contact your faculty/department/institutional coordinator.
Contact person at IRO: Mgr. Veronika Petruňová
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Call for applications for staff mobilities – teaching within the Erasmus+ program for the a.y. 2024/2025
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice sees staff mobilities as effective tools for developing professional and personal competences and for building relations with international partners. In this regard, they mainly contribute to the further development of employees, to the improvement of the educational process at the university and to the internationalization of the university environment. It is important for the university to effectively comply with the ethical and moral principles in the implementation of mobilities within the Erasmus+ program. It is also important that the implemented staff mobilities can be and are recognized at the individual workplaces as part of career growth and development of human resources in accordance with the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers based on the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R).
The ERASMUS+ program enables university teachers to participate in short-term teaching mobilities at the partner universities in the EU countries.
Mobility implementation period: 10.10.2024 – 15.10.2025
| Application submission deadline: | Earliest possible start date: | |
| 1st phase | 27.09.2024 by 12:00 | 10.10.2024 |
| 2nd phase | 05.02.2025 by 12:00 | 19.02.2025 |
| 3rd phase | 07.05.2025 by 12:00 | 21.05.2025 |
- mobility of teachers for the purpose of teaching – the aim is to teach at the receiving institution, while the teaching load must be a minimum of 8 hours per week
- combined mobility for university teachers – this is a combination of mobility activities of teaching and training, within which the minimum number of teaching hours is reduced to 4 hours. The teaching and training activities are carried out at the same institution and on the basis of existing inter-institutional agreements. Staff members, who are interested in a combined mobility, should prepare a mobility program for teaching, in which they should also include their planned activities for the training part.
- The main criterion is the quality of the submitted teaching program with regard to the benefit of the planned mobility for the department/faculty/university. The person interested in mobility is obliged to adequately justify the mobility in the section ´PROPOSED MOBILITY PROGRAMME´.
- Preference is given to employees who participate in a teaching mobility in a foreign language.
- Preference is given to mobilities to countries where the language of teaching and communication is English, or another world language.
- The applicants must be the employees of UPJŠ.
- The mobility must be implemented by 15.10.2025
- Duration of mobility: from 2 to 60 days, including travel for all types of activities, while the university provides a financial contribution for max. 5 days of activity and 2 days of travel. Mobilities longer than 5 days can be implemented with the so-called combined grant, i.e. with financial support from EU sources – Erasmus+ combined with a zero-grant period.
- Within the framework of the call for the 2024/2025 academic year, academic staff can apply for 1 training mobility and 1 teaching mobility.
- The employees are required to use their work email addresses and not the private ones in their application. The International Relations Office will send all key information to the official work addresses only.
- After the mobility, the employee is obliged to submit a mobility report to the International Relations Office, in which the achieved results and benefits of the mobility will be summarized.
Teacher mobilities are governed by inter-institutional agreements, which contain the agreed number of teacher mobilities for a given field, with the exact length of their stay and the number of hours taught. The receiving institution must be a higher education institution of a country participating in the Erasmus+ program with an ECHE (European Charter for Higher Education) charter. The faculty (departmental, institutional) Erasmus coordinators as well as staff of the International Relations Office will provide you with more detailed information about the inter-institutional agreements for the individual departments: current list of inter-institutional agreements and partner universities.
Contact the partner university where you plan to implement your teacher mobility, and with which UPJŠ has signed an inter-institutional agreement for the given academic year in the RELEVANT FIELD. Agree with the responsible person from the partner university on the implementation of the mobility and its details. Subsequently, after reaching an agreement with the partner university, please fill in the latest version of the Mobility Agreement Staff Mobility For Teaching document. For the purposes of submitting your application, it is not necessary to ensure the signature and stamp of the receiving institution, however, it is necessary to document e-mail communication with the receiving institution, or an official letter in which the consent of the responsible person of the receiving institution will be expressed that your teacher mobility can take place on the given date. For the purposes of submitting an application, it is necessary to secure the signature of the responsible person at your workplace and the signature of the vice dean responsible for international relations/the Erasmus programme.
Within the framework of the Erasmus+ programme, the amount of travel costs and individual support (boards+accommodation) will be calculated by the person responsible for the implementation of the mobilities of university staff at the International Relations Office of the UPJŠ Rectorate (IRO).
The completed application forms must be delivered to the following persons:
- employees of the Faculty of Medicine – RNDr. Nela Farkašová, PhD., Department of International Relations and Faculty Presentation, Faculty of Medicine
- employees of the Faculty of Law – Mgr. Eva Tkáčová, Department of Foreign Relations and Further Education, Faculty of Law
- employees of the Faculty of Public Administration – Ing. Jana Chmelová, Department for Development and International Relations, Faculty of Public Administration
- employees of the Faculty of Science – Ing. Zuzana Petruláková, Office for External Relations, Faculty of Science, Šrobárova 2, door no. 317
- employees of the Faculty of Arts – Bc. Natália Bačová/Ing. Michaela Baltesová, Department of Science, Research, Qualification, Doctoral Studies, and International Relations, Faculty of Arts
- employees of the Rectorate and university workplaces – Mgr. Valentína Švedová, International Relations Office, Šrobárova 2, ground floor, door no. 6
The selection of employees will take place at the UPJŠ Rectorate. The results of the selection procedures will be published continuously in AIS2 in the section Notices for employees.
Contribution for living expenses (accommodation+meals) per day in EUR for the 2024/2025 acad. year:
| Receiving country | Daily grants in EUR |
|---|---|
| Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden | 190 eur |
| Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain | 170 eur |
| Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey | 148 eur |
Contribution to travel costs in EUR:
| Distance bands | Standard travel grant | Green travel |
|---|---|---|
| between 0 and 99 km | 28 EUR per participant | 56 EUR per participant |
| between 100 and 499 km | 211 EUR per participant | 285 EUR per participant |
| between 500 and 1999 km | 309 EUR per participant | 417 EUR per participant |
| between 2000 and 2999 km | 395 EUR per participant | 535 EUR per participant |
| between 3000 and 3999 km | 580 EUR per participant | 785 EUR per participant |
| between 4000 and 7999 km: | 1188 EUR per participant | 1188 EUR per participant |
| 8000 km or more | 1735 EUR per participant | 1735 EUR per participant |
Contribution for green travel:
- The mobility participants have the opportunity to ask the university for a contribution for green travel, if the participant uses: train, bus, bicycle, carpooling or a combination of them for their trip to and from the mobility.
- The condition for awarding the contribution is that the participant realizes most of his trip in a green way.
- To grant a contribution, it is necessary to proceed in the following way:
- The mobility participant will hand in to the mobility coordinator at the International Relations Office a Declaration of Honour before or after the mobility, in which s/he specifies the means of transport used for the journey to the place of mobility and home.
- After the mobility, the mobility participant is obliged to attach a travel ticket as proof of the green method of travel and a confirmation of payment to the declaration. The date of departure and arrival must closely follow the mobility period.
- The use of carpooling is only possible if the applicant travels for his/her mobility in one car at the same time to the same place together with at least one other mobility participant who is also an employee of the university.
- On the basis of the submitted documents, the university will assign the participant a contribution for green travel, which will be added to the total amount of the mobility grant.
- Contribution for a mobility participant with special needs:
- Mobility participants with disabilities have the opportunity to apply for an additional grant, a so-called special grant to cover additional costs incurred in connection with his/her mobility.
- These costs are specifically intended to cover the extra financial support required for participants with physical, mental or medical disabilities to enable their participation in a mobility.
- Financing mechanism: real costs documented by accounting documents/bills.
- Procedure: the participant submits the application for a special grant and the Consent to the processing of a special category of personal data together with the application for mobility. The International Relations Office will check the submitted documents, evaluate the validity of the requested amount, and if everything is in order, it will sign them and, based on the entered data, ensures the allocation of the special grant.
Approved by the Erasmus+ Coordination Commission on September 9, 2024.
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Call for applications for staff mobilities – training within the Erasmus+ program for the a.y. 2024/2025
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice sees staff mobilities as effective tools for developing professional and personal competences and for building relations with international partners. In this regard, they mainly contribute to the further development of employees, to the improvement of the educational process at the university and to the internationalization of the university environment. It is important for the university to effectively comply with the ethical and moral principles in the implementation of mobilities within the Erasmus+ program. It is also important that the implemented staff mobilities can be and are recognized at the individual workplaces as part of career growth and development of human resources in accordance with the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers based on the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R).
The mobility supports the professional development of teaching and non-teaching staff of higher education institutions.
Mobility implementation period: 10.10.2024 – 15.10.2025
| Application submission deadline: | Earliest possible start date: | |
| 1st phase | 27.09.2024 by 12:00 | 10.10.2024 |
| 2nd phase | 05.02.2025 by 12:00 | 19.02.2025 |
| 3rd phase | 07.05.2025 by 12:00 | 21.05.2025 |
- training activity to develop pedagogical and/or curriculum design skills – available only to academic staff
- training to develop professional competences – available for academic and administrative staff
- job shadowing – available for academic and administrative staff
- workshop – available for academic and administrative staff (except for conferences)
- language courses – available for academic and administrative staff
- training within a Blended Intensive Program (BIP)
- The quality of the submitted training program with regard to the benefit of the planned mobility for the department/university workplace/faculty/university. The person interested in a mobility is obliged to adequately justify his/her mobility in the section ´PROPOSED MOBILITY PROGRAMME´.
- The staff members who have not yet participated in a mobility are preferred. In the selection of employees, the university also takes into account the number of completed mobilities in the last two academic years.
- Preference is given to employees who actively participate in the internationalization activities at UPJŠ, and who participate in a Staff Week and job-shadowing mobility.
- Mobility to countries in which the language of communication is English or another world language is preferred.
- Preference is given to mobilities that are aimed at developing pedagogical and/or curriculum design skills, or at the innovation of study programs.
- the mobilities must be completed by 15.10.2025
- Length of the mobility:
- academic staff: from 2 to 60 days including travel for all types of activities, while the university provides a financial contribution of max. 5 days of activity and 2 days of travel. Mobilities longer than 5 days can be implemented with the so-called combined grant, i.e. with financial support from EU sources – Erasmus+ combined with a zero-grant period,
- administrative staff: from 2 to 7 days including travel for all types of activities, while the university provides a financial contribution of max. 5 days of activity and 2 days of travel.
- Within the framework of the call for the 2024/2025 academic year, academic staff can apply for 1 training mobility and 1 teaching mobility.
- Within the framework of the call for the 2023/2024 academic year, administrative employees who are actively involved in tasks related to internationalization at the university can apply for a maximum of 2 mobilities. The active involvement of UPJŠ employees in the tasks related to internationalization at the university should be presented in detail in their applications.
- Within the framework of the call for the 2023/2024 academic year, administrative employees who are not actively involved in tasks related to internationalization at the university can apply for a maximum of 1 mobility.
- In the case of two successive mobilities, the allocation of a travel grant for both mobilities will be assessed individually, taking into account the criterion of effective use of grants.
- In the event that several employees are interested in visiting the same receiving institution in the same period, the employees are obliged to provide information on the added value of mobility for each applicant in terms of their professional growth.
- In the case of starting a mobility on Friday or at the weekend, or in the case of mobilities that include the weekend, the employee is obliged to justify the choice of date.
- Preference will be given to mobilities that are focused on activities such as training, workshops, and internships. The applications for language courses will be evaluated and approved subsequently and only if the budget of the given selection phase allows their implementation.
- Employees are required to enter their work email addresses and not private email addresses in their applications. The International Relations Office will send all key information only to the official work addresses.
- After the mobility, the employee is obliged to submit a mobility report to the International Relations Office, in which the achieved results and benefits of the mobility will be summarized.
Contact the partner university where you plan to implement your mobility. Agree with the responsible person from the partner university on the implementation of the mobility and its details. Subsequently, after reaching an agreement with the partner university, please fill in the latest version of the Mobility Agreement Staff Mobility For Training. For the purposes of submitting the application, it is not necessary to secure the signature and stamp of the receiving institution, however, it is necessary to document e-mail communication with the receiving institution (or an official letter), in which the consent of the responsible person of the receiving institution will be expressed that your mobility can take place. For the purposes of submitting an application, it is necessary to secure the signature of the responsible person at the your workplace and the signature of the vice dean responsible for international relations/the Erasmus programme (does not apply to employees of the UPJŠ Rectorate)..
Within the framework of the Erasmus+ programme, the amount of travel costs and individual support (boards+accommodation) will be calculated by the person responsible for the implementation of the mobilities of university staff at the International Relations Office of the UPJŠ Rectorate (IRO).
The completed application forms must be delivered to the following persons:
- employees of the Faculty of Medicine – RNDr. Nela Farkašová, PhD., Department of International Relations and Faculty Presentation, Faculty of Medicine
- employees of the Faculty of Law – Mgr. Eva Tkáčová, Department of Foreign Relations and Further Education, Faculty of Law
- employees of the Faculty of Public Administration – Ing. Jana Chmelová, Department for Development and International Relations, Faculty of Public Administration
- employees of the Faculty of Science – Ing. Zuzana Petruláková, Office for External Relations, Faculty of Science, Šrobárova 2, door no. 317
- employees of the Faculty of Arts –Bc. Natália Bačová/Ing. Michaela Baltesová, Department of Science, Research, Qualification, Doctoral Studies, and International Relations, Faculty of Arts
- employees of the Rectorate and university workplaces – Mgr. Valentína Švedová, International Relations Office, Šrobárova 2, 2nd floor – Small meeting room.
The selection of employees will take place at the UPJŠ Rectorate. The results of the selection procedures will be published continuously in AIS2 in the section Notices for employees.
Contribution for living expenses (accommodation+meals) per day in EUR for the 2024/2025 acad. year:
| Receiving country | Daily grants in EUR |
|---|---|
| Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden | 190 eur |
| Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain | 170 eur |
| Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey | 148 eur |
Contribution to travel costs in EUR:
| Distance bands | Standard travel grant | Green travel |
|---|---|---|
| between 0 and 99 km | 28 EUR per participant | 56 EUR per participant |
| between 100 and 499 km | 211 EUR per participant | 285 EUR per participant |
| between 500 and 1999 km | 309 EUR per participant | 417 EUR per participant |
| between 2000 and 2999 km | 395 EUR per participant | 535 EUR per participant |
| between 3000 and 3999 km | 580 EUR per participant | 785 EUR per participant |
| between 4000 and 7999 km: | 1188 EUR per participant | 1188 EUR per participant |
| 8000 km or more | 1735 EUR per participant | 1735 EUR per participant |
Contribution for green travel:
- The mobility participants have the opportunity to ask the university for a contribution for green travel, if the participant uses: train, bus, bicycle, carpooling or a combination of them for their trip to and from the mobility.
- The condition for awarding the contribution is that the participant realizes most of his trip in a green way.
- To grant a contribution, it is necessary to proceed in the following way:
- The mobility participant will hand in to the mobility coordinator at the International Relations Office a Declaration of Honour before or after the mobility, in which s/he specifies the means of transport used for the journey to the place of mobility and home.
- After the mobility, the mobility participant is obliged to attach a travel ticket as proof of the green method of travel and a confirmation of payment to the declaration. The date of departure and arrival must closely follow the mobility period.
- The use of carpooling is only possible if the applicant travels for his/her mobility in one car at the same time to the same place together with at least one other mobility participant who is also an employee of the university.
- On the basis of the submitted documents, the university will assign the participant a contribution for green travel, which will be added to the total amount of the mobility grant.
- Contribution for a mobility participant with special needs:
- Mobility participants with disabilities have the opportunity to apply for an additional grant, a so-called special grant to cover additional costs incurred in connection with his/her mobility.
- These costs are specifically intended to cover the extra financial support required for participants with physical, mental or medical disabilities to enable their participation in a mobility.
- Financing mechanism: real costs documented by accounting documents/bills.
- Procedure: the participant submits the application for a special grant and the Consent to the processing of a special category of personal data together with the application for mobility. The International Relations Office will check the submitted documents, evaluate the validity of the requested amount, and if everything is in order, it will sign them and, based on the entered data, ensures the allocation of the special grant.
Approved by the Erasmus+ Coordination Commission on September 9, 2024.
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Call for applications for long-term student study mobilities (2nd call for the a. y. 2024/2025)
Mobility implementation period: summer semester of the a.y. 2024/2025
In case of long-term study mobilities it is necessary to apply at the individual faculties / departments / institutes by 07.10.2024. This term can be modified by the faculty / department / institute.
The dates and conditions of the call will be specified by the faculties / institutes/ departments. For more information, please contact your faculty / department / institutional coordinator.
- long-term study mobility with min. duration of 2 months (for all levels of study)
- long-term study mobility combined with traineeship with min. of 2-month duration of the study part (for all levels of study)
- The rules of the call are governed by the rules of Directive no. 1/2020, which establishes the procedure for the administration of the Erasmus+ program at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and its components.
- Processing of applications, checking of documents and the entered information and the evaluation within the faculties is the responsibility of the faculties.
- The mobilities within the framework of this call can be implemented only in the following Programme countries.
- Student mobilities for the purpose of study are governed by inter-institutional agreements, which contain the exact number of student mobilities for the given field, with the exact length of their stay. The host university must be a higher education institution of a country involved in the Erasmus+ program with an ECHE (European Charter for Higher Education) charter. Faculty (departmental, institutional) Erasmus coordinators as well as the employees of the International Relations Office of the UPJŠ Rectorate will provide you with more detailed information about inter-institutional agreements for the individual study fields.
| PROGRAMME COUNTRIES | |
| EU Member States | Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden |
| Programme countries that are not members of the EU | the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, Turkey |
Basic rates of individual support for students for a long-term mobility and top-ups:
| Target country | Grant per month |
|---|---|
| Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden | 674€ |
| Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain | 606€ |
| Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey | 550€ |
The mobility participants with fewer opportunities are entitled to a top-up amount of € 250 / month above the basic grant.
Support for travel costs:
| Travel distance | Standard travel – amount* | Green travel** – amount* |
|---|---|---|
| 10 – 99 km | 28€ | 56€ |
| 100 – 499 km | 211€ | 285 € |
| 500 – 1 999 km | 309€ | 417 € |
| 2 000 – 2 999 km | 395€ | 535 € |
| 3 000 – 3 999 km | 580€ | 785 € |
| 4 000 – 7 999 km | 1 188 € | 1 188 € |
| 8 000 km and more | 1 735 € | 1 735 € |
**The allowance for traveling by sustainable modes of transport (green travel) is eligible only if a sustainable mode of transport (bicycle, bus, carpooling, train) was used for the majority of the journey. Carpooling is allowed only if the two or more university staff/students partake in the journey.
For more information, please contact your faculty/department/institutional coordinator.
Contact person at IRO:
Bc. Ing. Daniela Filipová
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Call for applications for long-term student traineeship mobilities (2nd call for the a. y. 2024/2025)
Mobility implementation period: summer semester of the a.y. 2024/2025
| The proposed deadlines for the submission of applications at the individual faculties / departments / institutes*: | Term of the earliest possible departure: | |
| 1st phase | 07.10.2024 | 21.10.2024 |
| 2nd phase | 10.02.2025 | 24.02.2025 |
*The dates and conditions of the call will be specified by the faculties/institutes/departments. For more information, please contact your faculty/department/institutional coordinator.
- long-term professional traineeship with min. duration of 2 months (for all levels of study)
- long-term traineeship for enhancing digital skills with min. duration of 2 months (for all levels of study)
- long-term traineeship for recent graduates with min. duration of 2 months, while the traineeship can be professional or aimed at digital skills (for the recent graduates of BA, MA, PhD studies)
- The rules of the call are governed by the rules of Directive no. 1/2020, which establishes the procedure for the administration of the Erasmus+ programme at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and its components (available in Slovak).
- The processing of applications, checking of documents and entered information and evaluation within the faculties is the responsibility of the individual faculties.
- The mobilities of this call may be implemented in the following countries.
- In case of student mobility for traineeships the receiving organisation can be:
- any Programme Country public or private organisation active in the labour market or in the fields of education, training, youth, research and innovation. For example, such organisation can be:
- a public or private, a small, medium or large enterprise (including social enterprises);
- a public body at local, regional or national level;
- embassies or consular offices of the sending Programme Country;
- a social partner or other representative of working life, including chambers of commerce, craft/professional associations and trade unions;
- a research institute;
- a foundation;
- a school/institute/educational centre (at any level, from pre-school to upper secondary education, and including vocational education and adult education);
- a non-profit organisation, association, NGO;
- a body providing career guidance, professional counselling and information services;
- any Programme Country public or private organisation active in the labour market or in the fields of education, training, youth, research and innovation. For example, such organisation can be:
- The university will provide the participant of a long-term traineeship for a recent graduate with a grant of a maximum amount covering 2 months of physical mobility abroad.
| PROGRAMME COUNTRIES | |
| EU Member States | Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden |
| Programme countries that are not members of the EU | the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, Turkey |
Grant rates:
| Target country | Grant/month |
|---|---|
| Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Luxemburg, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Netherlands, Malta, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Spain, Italy | 824 € |
| Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Slovenia, Poland, Romania, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey | 756 € |
- The mobility participants with fewer opportunities are entitled to a top-up amount of € 250 / month above the basic grant.
- Students can opt for green travel. In this case, they will receive a single contribution of EUR 50 as a top-up to the individual support and, if necessary, a maximum of 4 days of additional individual support to cover travel days for a return trip.
- Green mode of transport: bicycle, bus, shared journey by car and train.
- The allowance for traveling by sustainable modes of transport (green travel) is eligible only if a sustainable mode of transport was used for the majority of the journey.
- Types of support for disadvantaged students
For more information, please contact your faculty/department/institutional coordinator.
Contact person at IRO:
Mgr. Miroslava Paľovčík Navrátilová
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