Mobility grants

Since 2015 Alliance 4 Universities has been taking part in Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility programme (Action KA171). Through this programme, students and staff from non-European partner universities can come on exchange for studies, research, teaching or training to A4U universities. Vice versa, students and staff from A4U universities can go on exchange to non-European countries.

The open calls for applications will be published below, and the previous calls and results are available here.

In order to apply:

  • Read carefully the call for applications to check your eligibility and conditions of the mobility scheme.
  • Check the applicants’ guide (below) for step-by-step instructions on how to complete the application.
  • Check participating universities factsheets below for their course/research offer, available services and contact details.
  • Complete the online application form in your category of mobility (Bachelor, Master, PhD or staff), attaching the requested documents. Applicants are strongly advised to submit their applications well before the deadline so that their applications can be checked and omissions addressed if any.

Call for applications for staff and student mobility with partner universities in Russia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Iran is now open

Call for applications for mobility of students

Call for applications for mobility of staff

Mobilities under this call should take place during during 2024-2025 academic year, that is from September 2024 to July 2025.

Applicants’ guides: for  Bachelor, Master, PhD students and staff

Find research groups at A4U universities that work in your field

Table of equivalence of B2 level in English to other English certificates

Fields of education codes to be used in learning and mobility agreements

Erasmus+ programme guide 2022-2027

Guides for selected mobility participants: incoming staff, outgoing staff, incoming students, outgoing students

Guide for academic staff who consider hosting an Erasmus+ PhD student

Factsheets of partner universities:

Spain: Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universitat Pompeu Fabra en Barcelona

Russia: Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)Higher School of Economics, Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), Moscow Power Engineering Institute,  North-West Institute of Management branch of RANEPA (St. Petersburg),  Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic UniversitySouthern Federal University, RANEPA (Moscow)

Iran: Amirkabir University of Technology, University of Tehran, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Isfahan University of Technology

Namibia: University of Namibia (UNAM)Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST)

Botswana: University of Botswana (UB), Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST)

Kenia: University of Nairobi, Kenyatta University

Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University, Wolaita Sodo University

Ivory Coast: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée (ENSEA)

Senegal: Groupe Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Dakar, Université Gaston Berger de Saint Louis

Gambia: American International University West Africa, University of the Gambia

Application for mobility of Bachelor students

  • Bachelor students application form
  • – Transcript of Records
  • Learning Agreement (fill in the first 3 pages only. Those who apply for mobility to Spain should have their learning agreement signed by the sending institution and the applicant. Signatures can be scanned.)
  • – Letter of support provided by the sending university, indicating the average mark for the applicant’s transcript of records, and confirming that the applicant’s level of English is at least B2.
  • – Recommendation letter in Spanish or in English, to be sent directly by the referee to coordinacion@a-4u.eu with “Recommendation letter” in the subject line, by the application deadline).
  • – Motivation letter
  • – Those applying for a top-up grant for disadvantaged participants should provide official documentation that certifies the disadvantaged background.

Application for mobility of Master students

  • Master students application form
  • – Transcript of Records for both the Bachelor degree and Master courses already taken.
  • Learning Agreement (fill in the first 3 pages only. Those who apply for mobility to Spain should have their learning agreement signed by the sending institution and the applicant. Signatures can be scanned.)
  • – Letter of support provided by the sending university, indicating the average mark for each of the applicant’s transcripts of records, and confirming that the applicant’s level of English is at least B2.
  • – Recommendation letter in Spanish or in English, to be sent directly by the referee to coordinacion@a-4u.eu with “Recommendation letter” in the subject line, by the application deadline.
  • – Motivation letter.
  • – Those applying for a top-up grant for disadvantaged participants should provide official documentation that certifies the disadvantaged background.

Application for mobility of PhD students

  • PhD application form
  • Learning Agreement for PhD students (Fill in the first 4 pages only. Only proposals signed by both sending and receiving institutions and the applicant will be accepted. Signatures can be scanned).
  • – CV
  • – Recommendation letter in English or Spanish, to be sent directly by the referee to coordinacion@a-4u.eu, with “Recommendation letter” in the subject field by the application deadline.
  • – Those applying for a top-up grant for disadvantaged participants should provide official documentation that certifies the disadvantaged background.

Application form for mobility for teaching, training or both

Contact details at A4U universities

Mobility Office at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB):

erasmus.ka107@uab.cat / +34 93 586 8256

Mobility Office at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM):

erasmus.ka107.em@uam.es / +34 91 497 2935

Mobility Office at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M):

erasmuska171@uc3m.es / +34 91 624 86 58

Mobility Office at Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF):

oma.incoming@upf.edu / +34 935 422 504 (for queries of Bachelor and Master students)

silvia.vilanova@upf.edu / +34 935 422 063 (for queries of PhD students and staff)

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