Mobility for teaching purposes/teacher mobility (STA)
Erasmus+ funds guest lectureships at European partner universities that have a valid Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE). Through their stay, guest lecturers should strengthen the European dimension of the host university, complement its teaching offer and impart their specialist knowledge to students who do not wish to or cannot study abroad.
Where possible, the development of joint study programs between the partner universities as well as the exchange of teaching content and methods should play a role.
Staff from foreign companies and organizations can also be invited to German universities for teaching purposes.
Staff mobility must take place in a program country that is not the country of the sending university (except for incoming mobility, see below) and not the main country of residence of the person concerned.
University staff from a German higher education institution with an ECHE may be sent to a receiving higher education institution with an ECHE for teaching purposes(outgoing mobility) and staff from another institution based in another program country(incoming mobility) who are active in the labor market or in the fields of general and vocational education or youth may be sent to a German higher education institution with an ECHE for teaching purposes.
Teaching stays within Europe last between two days and two months (excluding travel time); the teaching workload is at least eight hours per stay or per week or part thereof.
The following group of people can be funded
Professors and lecturers with a contractual relationship with the university
Lecturers without a salary
Lecturers with work contracts
Emeritus professors and retired lecturers
Research assistants
Company staff
Funding rates Staff mobility
The financial support of Erasmus+ mobility measures for teaching purposes or for further education and training is based on the different costs of living in the target countries ("program countries"). Uniform daily rates apply for funding by German universities.
In the project year 2020/21, the following fixed daily rates apply for Germany for four country groups up to the 14th day of the stay; from the 15th to the 60th day of the stay, the funding amounts to 70% of the named daily rates:
| Group 1 | Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden | 180 €/day |
| Group 2 | Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain | 160 €/day |
| Group 3 | Bulgaria, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Northern Macedonia, Czech Republic , Turkey, Hungary | 140 €/day |
In addition to these daily rates, there are travel costs depending on the actual distances between the origin and destination of the mobility, which are determined uniformly throughout Europe using a calculation tool.
The following amounts are reimbursed per stay and depending on the distance:
| 100 km - 499 km | 180 euros |
| 500 km - 1,999 km | 275 euros |
| 2.000 km - 2.999 km | 360 Euro |
| 3.000 km - 3.999 km | 530 Euro |
| 4.000 km - 7.999 km | 820 Euro |
| 8.000 km and more | 1.100 Euro |
The University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen usually supports stays between 2 days and 1 week.