Special Needs Grant in Higher Education Exchange Programmes

You can apply for an special needs grant if you are planning to take part in

• student exchange
• internship
• teacher or staff exchange
• intensive courses
• network meetings

Grants are applicable in the following programmes: Erasmus+, FIRST+, Nordplus, north2north and Asia programme. The condition for the grant is participation in one of these programmes.

Special needs grants have a rolling deadline. The grant application form is enclosed. Students or higher education staff members and the Finnish partner institution shall each fill in their own sections of the form. Higher education institution sends the application to EDUFI.

Grant is applied from EDUFI for both outgoing and incoming participants in FIRST+, Nordplus, Aasia ja HEI ICI programmes.

Grant is applied from EDUFI for outgoing participants in Erasmus+ programme, in global mobility (KA107) the grant is also applied for incoming participants. Other incoming Erasmus+ participants apply for accessibility grant from their national Erasmus Agency. As the need and nature of support varies from one person to another, EDUFI will review each case individually.

EDUFI will award the grant to the Finnish partner institution, which will forward the grant to outgoing/incoming students and staff members.

EDUFI has compiled together with the Finnish ESOK network (Higher Education Access & Disability) a checklist to be used both students and institutions. The enclosed Checklist for Exchange Students and Higher Education Institutions may also serve as a template for institutions’ own guidelines.

More information is also available from the programme coordinators at the Finnish National Agency for Education.