Erasmus+ is the EU Programme in the fields of education, training, youth, and sport for the period 2021-2027.
Education, training, youth, and sport are key areas that support citizens in their personal and professional development. High quality, inclusive education, and training, as well as informal and non-formal learning, ultimately equip young people and participants of all ages with the qualifications and skills needed for their meaningful participation in democratic society, intercultural understanding, and successful transition in the labour market. Building on the success of the programme in the period 2014-2020, Erasmus+ strengthens its efforts to increase the opportunities offered to more participants and to a wider range of organisations, focusing on its qualitative impact and contributing to more inclusive and cohesive, greener, and digitally fit societies.
The programme has an overall indicative financial envelope of more than €26 billion of the EU Budget for the seven years (2021-2027).
Additional information on Erasmus+ from 2021 onwards can be found on the European Commission website and in the European Commission Programme Guide or also on the DAAD website (German only).
The general objective of the Programme is to support, through lifelong learning, the educational, professional, and personal development of people in education, training, youth and sport, in Europe and beyond, thereby contributing to sustainable growth, quality jobs and social cohesion, to driving innovation, and to strengthening European identity and active citizenship. As such, the Programme shall be a key instrument for building a European Education Area, supporting the implementation of the European strategic cooperation in the field of education and training, with its underlying sectoral agendas, advancing youth policy cooperation under the Union Youth Strategy 2019-2027 and developing the European dimension in sport.
The Programme has the following specific objectives:
In order to achieve its objectives, the Erasmus+ Programme foresees the implementation of the following Actions in the 2021-2027 period:
This Key Actions supports:
This Key Action supports:
This Key action supports:
Erasmus+ enables students of the Macromedia Campus Freiburg to spend a period abroad at one of the Erasmus+ partner universities.
To participate in the Erasmus+ Programme, a valid Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE) is required. The ECHE provides the general quality framework for European and international cooperation activities that a higher education institution can carry out within the Erasmus+ Programme. It lists all the principles to be respected to which an institution commits itself.
The ECHE is awarded by the European Commission and proves that a higher education institution meets all the requirements for successful participation in the Erasmus+ Programme.
After participating in the Erasmus+ Programme from 2014 to 2020, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences successfully applied again to participate from 2021 to 2027. As confirmation, Macromedia University was awarded the “Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2021-2027”.
Macromedia University of Applied Sciences has committed itself to the following key actions and Erasmus+ activities as part of its application for the EU programme.
Erasmus Key Action 1 (KA1) – Learning mobility:
Erasmus Key Action 2 (KA2) – Cooperation among organisations and institutions:
Erasmus Key Action 3 (KA3) – Support to policy development and cooperation