The Erasmus+ Programme will provide funding to organisations working in education, training, and youth to carry out initiatives encouraging various sorts of mobility. A mobility project will be divided into the following stages:

• Planning (including defining the learning outcomes, activity formats, development of work programme, schedule of activities)

• Preparation (including practical arrangements, selection of participants, set up of agreements with partners and participants, linguistic/intercultural/learning- and task-related preparation of participants before departure);

• Implementation of the mobility activities;

• Follow-up (including the evaluation of the activities, the validation and formal recognition - where applicable - of the learning outcomes of participants during the activity, as well as the dissemination and use of the project's outcomes).

The Erasmus+ Programme strengthens the assistance provided to mobility participants in strengthening their foreign language skills before to and during their stay abroad, including an extra linguistic support grant for participants in long-term mobility in VET and school education disciplines. An Erasmus+ Online Language Support (OLS) programme allows participants in mobility activities to check their language knowledge and take online language courses to enhance their skills.

Depending on the profile of participants involved, the following types of mobility projects are supported under Key Action 1 of the Erasmus+ Programme:

In the field of Education and Training:

• Mobility projects for higher education students and staff 

• Mobility projects for VET learners and staff

• Mobility projects for school pupils and staff 

• Mobility projects for adult education learners and staff

The actions supported under this Key Action are expected to bring positive and long-lasting effects on the participants and participating organisations involved, as well as on the policy systems in which such activities are framed.

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Key Action 1: Learning Mobility of Individuals