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DURATION OF MOBILITY
The eligible travel period for staff traveling for teaching or teaching and training activities is from 2-5 consecutive working days and 8 teaching hours, while for staff invited by businesses for the purpose of teaching, the minimum eligible period is 1 day.
For a combined teaching and training period, the minimum required teaching hours are 4 in combination with another 4 training hours.

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GRANT
Staff traveling for teaching or teaching and training receive a grant amount as a contribution to travel and subsistence costs.
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STAFF GRANT AGREEMENT CONTRACT
The staff of Higher Education Institutions who are selected to move for teaching or for training sign a grant agreement before moving abroad.
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TEACHING MOBILITY AGREEMENT / TEACHING AND TRAINING MOBILITY AGREEMENT
Staff must have agreed and signed the Staff Mobility for teaching mobility agreement or the Staff Mobility for teaching and training mobility agreement.
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR ERASMUS ACADEMIC EXCHANGE FOR TEACHING OR TEACHING AND TRAINING

The deadline for submitting applications for Erasmus+ Academic Exchanges (Staff Mobility for Teaching and Staff Mobility for Teaching and Training) is set for November 17, 2024, for exchanges that will be completed by July 31, 2025.

All Academic Staff of the University of Cyprus have the right to participate.

Maximum travel duration for funding is 5 working days of teaching (8 teaching hours) or teaching and training (4 teaching hours and 4 training hours) plus 1 day before and one day after the trip, total 7.

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APPLICATION SUBMISSION

The interested Academics should first obtain written approval from the host university and then complete their application in the UCY Mobility Portal, located at the following link, by logging in with the username and password of the UCY and then selecting the create a new request.

www.ucy.ac.cy/mobility

The approval (either by e-mail or letter) from the host university for the lectures to be given or the lectures to be given and the training program to be followed should be attached to the application in pdf format.

The approval should show all the details of the lectures that will be held at the host university such as dates and times of the lectures, level of study of the students that will be taught and the titles of the lectures. The 8 teaching hours in the case of exchange for teaching and the 4 hours of lectures and 4 hours of training in the case of combined mobility for teaching and training should be clearly visible.

The application is approved for submission to the system by the President of each department.

Approval to participate in mobility is given by the Committee on International Relations.

APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS

The person responsible for examining applications is the International Relations Committee. In the event that the dates of the visit are earlier than the application deadline and there is a serious reason, the application may be examined by the Vice-Chancellor for International Relations and a relevant decision taken by the members of the International Relations Committee, in accordance with the selection criteria.

Below you will find all the information about the Participation Process, Selection Criteria, Funding as well as the Agreements with the Collaborating Institutions by Department for the Academic year 2023-2024.

USEFUL FORMS

FUNDING

  • Table 1  – Daily allowance per country of destination (minimum – maximum for grant plan 2022)
  • Table 2 Travel allowance depending on the distance in km between the sending and host university (for grant scheme 2022)
  • Table 3Per diem payment per country depending on the cost of accommodation (for grant plan 2022)