1. EU - educational programme for Lifelong Learning (LLP)  

 2. ERASMUS at a glance

 3. ERASMUS at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

 4. Obligations from the ERASMUS-University Charter

 5. ERASMUS -objectives  at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

  1. EU - Educational Programme for Lifelong Learning (LLP)

With the new EU - programme for Lifelong Learning - short LLP (duration 2007-2013) - a new generation of programmes for transnational cooperation in different areas of general education begins.  It covers four partial programmes:

•  education (Comenius)
• higher education (ERASMUS)
•  adult education (GRUNDTVIG)
•  vocational education (LEONARDO)

as well as:

•   Transversal Programme
•   Jean Monnet

Further information about these sub-programmes you will find:  here

Eligible are the 27 member countries of the EU as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Turkey. Moreover, the programme is open for Switzerland and the Western Balkan States.

  2. ERASMUS at a glance

ERASMUS supports the following activities:

 1. Mobility activities (individuals):

•  period of  study abroad (SMS) /  in Magdeburg
  
•  placement abroad (SMP)   
•   teaching staff mobility (STA)  
•   other staff mobility (STT)
•   intensive programmes / summer schools (IP)
•   organisation of mobility (OM)
  

These programmes are centrally administrated by DAAD and submitted and coordinated by the International Office.

2. Multilateral projects (projects with partners from at least 3 countries):

• development of curricula  
• university and economy
• modernisation of higher education
• virtual campus

      Activities, centrally administrated by the executive agency in Brussels and submitted by the International Office.

   3. Multilateral networks

   3. ERASMUS at the  Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

      Since 1991 the OvGU MD has been participating in this programm and in 2003 it received the ERASMUS University Charter for the first time. It contains all the principles that apply for the ERASMUS-activities. Eligible in the ERASMUS-programme are just those universities that possess this Charter. Currently the OvGU MD is cooperating with more than 100 Erasmus-partners in the fields of student and teaching staff rmobility and  development of curricula.

     ERASMUS Universtiy Charter of the OvGU MD: 28744-IC-1-2007-1-DE-ERASMUS-EUCX-1

  4. Obligations from the ERASMUS-University Charter: here

  5. ERASMUS-objectives at the  Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

   1. Internationalisation in teaching:

• to increase the number of  internationally developed curricula on all levels
• to imcrease teaching staff mobility and of the international capacity of teaching
• to increase of student mobility
• to intensify cooperations with Central- and  Eastern-European countries

    2. The expansion of the cooperation with non-university institutions and enterprises

• financial support of practical training abroad
• academic employees abroad as  "training period"

    3. Internationalisation in the fields of organisational- and human resource development

• financial support of temporary amployment abroad of administrative personnel as "study visits"
• activities in human resource development
• to increase the participation in multilateral projects and intensiv programmes