Ukraine received a grant from the EU Erasmus+ Program for the exchange of students and university employees – there are almost 2.8 thousand places for this

200 Ukrainian organizations together with more than 270 European partners have received 2,766 grants for exchanges of students and university staff. Under the EU Erasmus+ Program, all participants will be able to go to study, practice, advanced training or internships at a European or Ukrainian university.

Of the total number of places that received funding, 1,142 grants are for students, and 1,624 for higher education. In general, the exchange will occur in this proportion:

♦ 839 grants for education of Ukrainian students, 303 – for European students;

♦ 931 grants for internships or teaching of Ukrainian higher education workers, 693 – for European ones.

As a result of exchanges between students, all points received will be recalculated by Ukrainian University and will be added to the diploma. Teachers will be credited with such experience as advanced training.

The winners from Ukraine were higher education institutions, scientific institutions, public, private and state organizations from different regions of the country. Among them, the largest number of mobility projects were won by such establishments:

• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv;
• Ivan Franko National University of Lviv;
• Lviv Polytechnic National University;
• Ukrainian Catholic University;
• Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University;
• National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”;
• National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
• The list of winners also includes displaced universities. Germany, UK, Poland, Italy and France became the most popular partner countries for exchanges with Ukraine.

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International Credit Mobility Projects provide opportunities for exchanges of higher education students and staff with Erasmus+ Partners. The purpose of the exchange is to study, practice, teach or intern.

In the period 2015-2018, the Erasmus+ National Agencies was submitted to the 33 EaP countries in 1901 a cooperation project between universities of Ukraine and Europe. Of these, 13051 were mobility funded.