The Teachers » Erasmus

ERASMUS includes a wide range of actions designed to support the European activities of institutions dedicated to the teaching of higher studies. Its goal is to promote the mobility and exchange of its students and teaching staff in the endeavour to foster awareness among European citizens.

Mobility of the Erasmus teaching staff

Erasmus also endeavours to foster the movement of its teaching staff by offering teachers grants for short placements at an associated school, going about totally normal teaching tasks at their host university. The teaching placements normally last for a week, or for a minimum of eight hours of classes, but can stretch to a full six-month term. In most cases, these are exchanges which imply a much more personal relationship than in the case of the master classes.

Teaching at foreign schools permits teachers to meet their peers at the host university, to discover other ways of teaching and learning and in fact an entirely different university system. The contacts established by the teachers at the institution during their Erasmus stay bring wealth and improvement to the information they can subsequently pass on to their students regarding the possibility of studying abroad and how to go about doing so. Moreover, their stay abroad permits teachers to strengthen already existing contacts and open new channels for cooperation and the carrying out of projects.

The teacher plays an essential part in encouraging student mobility while generating and intensifying the idea of Europe and the international life of his or her university.

For more information, please consult:

Unión Europea

MEC

You can also write to Begoña Alonso, erasmus@musikene.net

Please don’t hesitate to send Begoña Alonso(erasmus@musikene.com) your suggestions of collaboration with other European higher schools of music.