Research and teaching (STA)

Mobility for teaching purposes/teacher mobility

Staff from foreign companies and organisations can also be invited to German higher education institutions for teaching purposes.

Detailed information on the application procedure can be obtained from Stefanie Dallmeier during a personal interview. Please make an appointment. Applications can be submitted on an ongoing basis.

Funding opportunities

Staff mobility must take place in a program country or partner country which is neither the country of the sending higher education institution (except incoming mobility) nor the country of the main residence of the person concerned.

For teaching purposes, university personnel from a German higher education institution with ECHE may be sent to a receiving university with ECHE (outgoing mobility). Staff from another institution based in another programme country (incoming mobility), working in the labor market or in the fields of education, training or youth, may be invited to a German higher education institution with ECHE for teaching purposes.

Erasmus+ funding is available for 2 to 60 consecutive days. Funding for arrival and departure days will be regulated in the grant agreement. Mobility for teaching purposes requires a teaching load of 8 teaching hours per week.

Professors and lecturers with a contractual relationship to the higher education institution
Lecturers without remuneration
Lecturer with contracts for work
Emeritus professors and retired lecturers
Lecturers and researchers
Company personnel (Incoming)

The accommodation costs, including accommodation allowance, depend on the number of days spent at the receiving institution plus, if necessary, an additional day for arrival and departure. The unit cost per day depends on the destination country and the length of stay; from the 15th day onwards the rate is reduced.

Country groups according to funding rates in project 2020:

Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom: €180 or €126 from the 15th day onwards
Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain: €160 or €112 from the 15th day onwards
Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey: €140 or €98 from the 15th day onwards

The travel expenses are calculated based on distance as the crow flies determined with the European Commission Distance Calculator and are reimbursed as follows:

10 – 99 km: €20

100 – 499 km: €180

500 – 1,999 km: €275

2,000 – 2,999 km: €360

3,000 – 3,999 km: €530

4,000 – 7,999 km: €820

8,000 km and more: €1,500

The total amount is calculated from the travel costs plus the unit costs multiplied by the number of days spent abroad. Ideally, the money is paid in advance and only confirmed with the business travel statement.

Please remember to settle your business expenses within 45 days of your return from abroad; otherwise your entitlement to funding will lapse.

Stay based on a coordinated programme
Professional exchange and new perspectives
Strengthening your own skills
Expansion and intensification of networks