ICM.UC ALBANIA, KOSOVO | GEORGIA | ALGERIA, PALESTINE is a three-year project (2022-2025) coordinated by the University of Coimbra (UC), Portugal, gathering several higher education institutions from 5 countries (Albania, Kosovo | Georgia | Algeria, Palestine) belonging to 3 different regions. There are 95 grants available for students and staff from UC and project partner institutions.
Project Partner Institutions
Scholarships
EU individual support
| Students from Albania, Kosovo | Georgia | Algeria, Palestine | 850 EUR/month* |
| Students from Portugal | 700 EUR/month |
| Staff from Albania, Kosovo | Georgia | Algeria, Palestine | 160 EUR/day |
| Staff from Portugal | 180 EUR/day |
* Possibility of a top-up for students with fewer opportunities from: Georgia, Algeria, Palestine – subject to availability
EU travel support (all grantees)
From/to Albania and Kosovo: 360 EUR (+extra 50 EUR for green travel)
From/to Georgia: 820 EUR
From/to Algeria: 275 EUR
From/to Palestine: 530 EUR
Insurance (all grantees)
The insurance coverage must include travel, medical assistance, accident, civic liability and repatriation for the duration of the stay. It must be purchased by the grantee and it is eligible for reimbursement up to 250 EUR, upon presentation of original receipt and copy of the insurance certificate.
Mobility dates
Mobility can take place as from August 2022 until July 2025 (academic years: 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25), provided that an ICM inter-institutional agreement has been signed between the coordinator institution and the project partner institutions and students and staff have been selected.
Application and selection
Interested students and staff must be studying or working at a project partner institution. Students and staff’s nationality must be different from the one of the host country they choose for mobility.
The application to the scholarship is done at students and staff home institution. This institution is responsible for organizing a public call and selecting the students and staff that will participate in the mobility.
The selection of the participants (as well as the scholarship allocation procedure) must be fair, transparent, coherent and documented and shall be made available to all parties involved in the selection process.
The institutions shall take the necessary measures to prevent any conflict of interest with regard to persons who may be invited to take part in the selection bodies or process of participants’ selection.
Students
The selection criteria shall be made public. The first criterion for selecting students will be academic merit, but with equivalent academic level, preference should be assigned to students from less advantaged socio-economic backgrounds (including refugees, asylum seekers and migrants). Lower priority will be given to those who have already participated in mobility actions in the same study cycle under the Erasmus+ Programme, as grant holders.
Staff
The selection criteria shall be made public.
The selection of the academic staff shall be done by their home institution taking into consideration the proposed mobility programme agreed between the applicant and the host institution.
Communication of results and allocation of grants
At the end of each student and staff selection process, results are made available to the applicants and the home institutions send the ranked list of selected participants to the project coordinator institution (University of Coimbra), via email to icm@uc.pt, with copy to the host institutions.
The project coordinator institution will be responsible for the allocation of the scholarships taking into consideration the ranked lists of participants.
Mobility organization
The project coordinator institution will contact the selected participants to inform them about the steps to receive the scholarship and perform the mobility, including the submission of Erasmus forms for teaching and training (academic staff), application, enrolment and registration in studies/ traineeships (students).
Each host university is free to ask the completion and submission of its own, additional forms of registration/ enrolment of students and academics under the ICM project.
Each host university must guarantee the quality of the mobility period and provide information and the necessary support to the students and staff participating in the mobility, namely practical and logistic information about accommodation options, transports, living costs, visas and other legal procedures, facilities, study and research resources, and local support services.
Online Linguistic Support (OLS)
Students will have the chance to develop their language skills through the OLS tool. In that context, students will have to take a linguist test on the work language of their exchange before their arrival to the host institution and then they can take online language courses on any language their interested in. Further information will be given to the student during the application process.
