If you are interested in a short term mobility abroad, an Erasmus Blended Intensive Program (BIP) might be suitable for you. The condition for this is that University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer offers such a program for your field of study.

Characteristics of a BIP:

• At least 3 universities from the Erasmus area are developing short, intensive joint mobility curricula and activities (funding is requested from the DAAD)
• Short joint physical group mobility to one of the locations between 5 and 30 days combined with a virtual component before, during or after the mobility of undefined duration
• At least 3 ECTS credits required!
• One receiving university and at least 2 sending universities with at least 15 mobile participants
• Amount of funding during physical mobility abroad: €70 per day for day 1-14 and €50 per day for day 15-30 in the Erasmus project 2022-24 and €79 per day for day 1-14 and €56 per day for day 15-30 in the Erasmus project 2023-25 + for participants with fewer opportunities* a one-time fee of €100 (journey up to 14 days) or €150 (journeys longer than 15 days) plus a travel allowance

Corina Sandersfeld (corina.sandersfeld@hs-emden-leer.de) provides information on currently planned BIPs (and if these might be suitable for you).

Erasmus blended short term mobilities are especially meant for those Students who are unable to participate in long-term mobility (study or internship with minimum duration of 2 months) due to personal, family, health or study-related circumstances.

This are the characteristics:

• Combination of physical mobility in the Erasmus area (EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Turkey) between 5 and 30 days and a virtual component before, during or after the mobility of undefined duration
• At least 3 ECTS credits required!
• Individually organized stay with the support of the international coordinators in the faculties (Faculty of Business Studies: Tanja Anschütz, Faculty of Social Work and Health: Corina Sandersfeld, study programme IBS: Katja Hakkarainen) or of the International Office (Janine Hülsen)
• The home university and the receiving university have to sign an Erasmus Inter-Institutional Agreement.
• Possible funding for physical mobility: €70 per day for day 1-14 and €50 per day for day 15-30 in Erasmus project 2022-24 and €79 per day for day 1-14 and €56 per day for day 15-30 in Erasmus Project 2023-25 + for participants with fewer opportunities* a one-time top-up of €100 (journey up to 14 days) or €150 (journeys longer than 15 days) plus a travel allowance

Regarding the Erasmus funding, please contact Janine Huelsen in the International Office in good time (janine.huelsen@hs-emden-leer.de).