The new programme encloses, in a single framework of reference, the activities previously part of different programmes and includes also disciplines present in the new field pertaining to European Union: sport. In particular, the European Union financially supports international education, training and voluntary opportunities. The main target of Erasmus+ will be university students, apprentices, teachers, trainees and young workers. Through inter-institutional agreements, each University states its wish to cooperate with some other Universities which participate in the Erasmus+ programme, highlighting which type of cooperation will be done. 

 Mobility programmes for students enrolled in Bachelor or Master Degrees are promoted to allow them to attend courses abroad for one semester with the guarantee of having them validated by students’ home university. The possibility of participating in this programme is intended to take place mainly during the third year of Bachelor Degree (BS), or during the second year of Master Degree (MS). 

 If students pass abroad the exams previously planned with the departmental coordinator, they will see validated the maximum number of credits provided for the full year or semester in which the students do the mobility.

 Partner universities usually require specific linguistic levels in order to accept exchange students. Moreover, with the new Ersmus+ programme the EU – trying to strengthen the transversal skills useful to find an employment – asked all partner universities to put the linguistic requirements needed, while preparing the inter-institutional agreement, with the attempt of increasing them to B1. Therefore, Politecnico di Torino in the Bando di Concorso (public call for selections) will indicate all the information regarding the linguistic skills, included whether it is compulsory or not to have a specific linguistic certificate and at what time of the application procedure it must be shown.   

 NOTE: We advise students to put the optional courses in their study plan for the year in which they do the mobility, in order to make the equivalence with the foreign courses easier. Students have to take into consideration that the Learning Agreement, previously discussed with their Erasmus+ departmental coordinators, should be done in the awareness that when they return they have to attend the compulsory courses at Politecnico di Torino which wasn’t found in the host university.