What next steps can you take now that your institution is ECHE accredited?
Once again, congratulations on securing ECHE accreditation! The Erasmus Charter for Higher Education unlocks access to the funding.
Now is the time to revitalise and extend your partnerships, drive awareness and engagement with Erasmus+ amongst students of all backgrounds, boost interest amongst academics and ensure you have sufficient resource to maximise the funding opportunities.
We recommend the following next steps:
- If that’s not already the case, subscribe to the Erasmus+ newsletter to get the latest news on the programme.
- Identify clear internal ownership and resource for Erasmus+ across Global Engagement, Academic Schools and Professional Services, so that responsibility for progressing partnerships, mobilities and funding opportunities is clear.
- Review internal processes and capacity for managing Erasmus+ mobility, including nomination, applications, agreements, grant administration, academic recognition and student support particularly in view of the increased funding available.
- Map internal capacity to manage decentralised and centralised projects under KA2.
- Add the outbound UK mobility flows for students and staff by email to existing International Inter-Institutional Agreements.
- Move mobility agreements to European Commission Inter-Institutional Agreement templates.
- Reach out to your existing European partners that have ECHE as well as new HE providers to revitalise and prepare partnerships across KA131 and KA220.
- Review international partnerships and identify those to develop through KA131 and/or KA171.
- Develop material to build demand for Erasmus+ mobility amongst students of all backgrounds - look out for the British Council a mini student campaign starting this month!
- Clarify that more comprehensive financial support is available for students with fewer opportunities so that increased awareness translates into participation.
- Consider staff mobility alongside student mobility, both as a way of building institutional engagement and as a route to strengthening/renewing European partnerships.
- Include Erasmus+-related content in university newsletters and communications targeting academics and professional services including disseminating best practice, a basic overview of opportunities, and expression of interest forms.
- Publish the Erasmus Policy Statement and ECHE charter on your website.
- Watch this space for news of Erasmus+ and Higher Education webinars to support you on the journey.