Erasmus+ activities available in Switzerland

Switzerland participates in the Erasmus+ programme as a Partner Country rather than a Programme Country.

Erasmus+ offers two different types of activity:

• Mobility opportunities, which are covered in Switzerland by the Swiss-European Mobility Programme (SEMP)
• International cooperation projects implemented through the network. Switzerland is entitled to take part in some of these activities (see below for direct participation and here for indirect participation).

In addition, the Swiss national agency Movetia runs pilot projects as a partial replacement for some Erasmus+ activities.

Activities available

• Joint Master Degrees: High-level international joint Master's degrees delivered by an international consortium of higher education institutions
• Knowledge alliances: Transnational and result-driven cooperation between higher education and business, open to any discipline, with the aim to strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity by fostering innovation
• Strategic partnership in education, training and youth: Organisation of mobility activities – including virtual mobility – with the aim of implementing innovative practices leading to high quality teaching, training and learning
• Sport collaborative partnerships: Collaborative partnerships to develop, transfer and/or implement innovative practices in areas relating to sport and physical activity
• Jean Monnet Activities: Actions promoting excellence in teaching and research in the field of European Union studies, with the objective to foster the dialogue between the academia and policy-makers to enhance the governance of EU policies (full participation of Swiss scholars possible)

Conditions

• The project application must be submitted by a non-Swiss project sponsor to their national agency;
• The minimum number of partners must be reached, not counting Switzerland;
• A Swiss partner must offer skills or knowledge that no other partner can offer (elimination criterion).