Staff mobility is a perfect way to learn and share new ideas, to strengthen your foreign language skills and to help create international relationships and networks (when you are administrative staff) – and to teach in an international context (when you are teaching staff).

This experience will not only help develop your own personal and professional skills but will also strengthen the internationalisation of your team and your institute/department.

The knowledge obtained from your experience can be shared with colleagues and students and can also be a trigger to motivating students to study or work abroad.

Benefits for you can be to exchange your expertise and your experience, to find answers to questions and get solutions to problems, to get feedback on your own ideas and to get access to important resources.

Benefits for your team/for your institute/for your university can be to introduce them to useful international contacts and to create new collaborations for the team, to understand the needs and concerns of international students and staff better, to increase the quality of services and teaching offered to students and to give your team an improved understanding of the benefits of the internationalisation.

Please try to find a team at TU Darmstadt, you would like to work with, on your own.

See our departments/offices here (see Contact list: Erasmus+ Personalmobilität – Dezernat VIII – Internationales – TU Darmstadt ) and get in contact with them.

However, the Erasmus coordinator from your home university is also happy to help you if you need any assistance.

You will need to deal with the following documents:

Grant Agreement:

The grant agreement is concluded before the start of the stay abroad, between the sending university and university staff. It forms the contractual and financial basis for the stay abroad and must therefore be submitted to the university in its original form. The grant agreement contains, among other things, the duration of the funding period, the reporting obligations of the recipients as well as the intended financial Erasmus+ funding and the method of payment. It has to be signed by you and the contact person at your university.

Mobility Agreement:

Before your mobility, the sending and receiving institutions conclude a mobility agreement with you, which, in addition to the objectives of the mobility measure, also stipulates key data such as the assignment of content and the duration. It has to be signed by you and the contact person at your university and the Unite! partner university´s contact.

Confirmation of Stay/ Letter of Confirmation:

With this document the partner university confirms your stay. It includes the following information: day of arrival/ activity days/ day of departure/ hours taught at the partner university (in case of a teaching mobility). You will also need an official invitation from the Unite! partner university (an Email might be sufficient).

The Erasmus+ programme supports individual staff mobilities with a mobility grant. The grant is allocated as a daily allowance (“Individual Support”), and a travel rate (“Travel Support”), depending on the distance travelled and means of transportation used (green travel or not).

The calculation of the daily allowance is done by the classification of all countries into three groups.

The distance travelled must be calculated via the European Commission distance calculator.

In order to receive the grant, you must follow the Erasmus+ administrative formalities and criteria. The grant is allocated according to budget availability and following each of our universities’ internal regulations and criteria.

For more information on funding in your university please contact your Erasmus office.

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Contact for E+ staff mobility requests (at “Kontakt”)