Projects

Erasmus intensive programme is a short-term study programme joining students and teachers from various higher education institutions representing the participant countries. The purpose of the activity is to provide the conditions to students and teachers to work jointly in international groups, in a specifically tailored teaching and learning environment, look at the subject from a different perspective, exchange experience about the content of studies and various study methods.

• Encourage efficient and multinational teaching of specialist topics which might otherwise not be taught at all, or only in a very restricted number of higher education institutions;
• Enable students and teachers to work together in multinational groups and so benefit from special learning and teaching conditions, not available in a single institution, and to gain new perspectives on the topic being studied;
• Allow members of the teaching staff to exchange views on teaching content and new curricula approaches and to test teaching methods in an international classroom environment.

• An Intensive Programme can be a one-off activity or repeated over a limited number of years; maximum duration of funding is three consecutive years with an annual application round.
• It may not consist of research activities or conferences, but should provide something new in terms of learning opportunities, skills’ development, access to information, etc. for the participating teachers, and students and promote an element of curricular development.
• Effort should be made so that the workload of participating students would be recognised, preferably in terms of ECTS.
• IPs are expected to use ICT tools and services to support the preparation and follow-up of the IP, thereby contributing to the creation of a sustainable learning community in the subject area concerned.
• The ratio of the staff to students should guarantee active classroom participation.