Keele International: Study Abroad

Who?

Who can participate in Erasmus Teaching Mobility?

The ERASMUS programme gives university teachers the possibility to spend teaching periods abroad. These periods can be from a few days to six weeks.

Teaching staff mobility can be undertaken:

1) to an Higher Education Institution (HEI) which holds a standard ERASMUS University Charter (EUC) and with which a valid Inter-institutional Agreement is in place

2) by staff of an enterprise invited to an HEI to undertake teaching activities. In these cases the mobility is managed by the HEI.

The selection of teachers to undertake teaching assignments must be based on a short "Teaching programme" submitted by the teacher and which has been endorsed by both sending and receiving institutions. The essential elements of this should be: objectives and added value of the mobility, content of the teaching programme, expected results. 

Priorities

The Keele European Working Party uses the following Erasmus National Agencies criteria in allocating grants:

• Grants shall be awarded exclusively to teachers participating in an exchange to an institution with an Erasmus University Charter and with which the institution has a bilateral agreement.
• Teachers must be employed by the contractor for the equivalent of at least 50% of a full-time employment contract.
• A national of a participating country or recognised by the UK as a refugee, stateless person or permanent resident
• Priority is given to teachers whose contributions will be an integral part of a diploma/degree programme of the host institution.
• Priority is given to teachers whose contributions will lead to the production of new teaching material.
• Teachers going abroad for the first time. Students must be visited at the same time (i.e. same partner as Student Mobility).
• Normally, only one grant per School per country.
• Normally, only one Teaching Grant per named individual unless HOS requests otherwise.
• If no students to visit the potential for establishing Student exchange or other links must be strong.
• Potential for spin-offs in other areas must be strong. Each School that applied to be allocated one grant if funds allow unless member of staff involved has turned down grant after initial acceptance purely on financial grounds.
• Reciprocal visits are favoured over one-way visits.

Grants

Mobility grants for staff are provided as contributions towards subsistence and travel and are paid on the basis of receipted expenditure.

You will be informed of your grant once you have been selected.

The maximum travel grant is €500.

Selection Criteria and Deadlines

Selection of Teaching Staff

The selection of staff will be undertaken by the European Working Party (see criteria above) on the basis of a "teaching plan" submitted by the applicant, which has been endorsed by both the sending and host institution or enterprise. The essential elements of the teaching plan should cover overall aims and objectives, expected results in terms of training or learning, activities to be carried out and, where possible, a detailed programme for the period abroad. This plan can be downloaded in our downloadable section of the website.

Deadline

Deadline for submission of the work plan to The Study Abroad Office: 14 December 2012. Decision by 18 January 2013.

Duration

Duration of teaching period

The duration of the teaching period shall be from 1 (5 working days) to 6 weeks, but is likely to be no more than 1 week Weekends or holidays falling in the period of the stay abroad are not considered for support, unless they are used as working or travel days. In such cases the teaching plan should demonstrate that teaching activities have been undertaken for the period reported. All payments, for both travel and subsistence, will be made on the basis of receipted expenditure and may be subject to audit.

Before & After

Before you travel

Before you travel abroad, you should read the Travel Overseas Policy and complete the Risk Assessment OS Travel form.

Teaching report

Upon return from the teaching period, the staff member shall provide a short report.. This can be downloaded in our downloadable forms section of the website.

Confirmation of teaching period

At the end of the teaching period the host institution should provide confirmation of the teaching undertaken with an indication of the duration of stay.

Period of activity

Erasmus grants for staff mobility are awarded only for mobility taking place during the period 1 June 2012 to 31 July 2013. For 2012/13 Keele will be accepting applications for visits between February 2012 and July 2013.

What's On:

International Teaching Week:

This year it will be held at the Cardenal Herrera University of Valencia, Spain from the 28^th January – 1^st February 2013 at the Faculty of Architecture.

Professors of Architecture are invited to participate with the event.

Please complete the attached application form and return it to: internationaloffice@uch.ceu.es / Ricardo.meri@ceu.es

Supplementary Allowances

Supplementary allowances for staff with disabilities

Additional grants are available for staff with disabilities wishing to participate in the Erasmus programme. These allowances are offered in cases where disability leads to mobility costs which exceed the maximum grant allocations referred to above and which cannot be recovered from other sources.

Forms

Our ERASMUS ID code is UK KEELE01

EUC No: 28059

Teaching Programme (Word Document)

Report Form

Expenses Claim Form (PDF)

Risk Assessment OS Travel (PDF)

Contact

For further information, please contact Lisa Stoker on 34114 or l.j.stoker@keele.ac.uk