Education, Science and Technology

Erasmus+ aims to support the European modernisation and internationalisation agenda in higher education, in particular the quality of student and staff mobility.

Erasmus+ Mobility Charter aims to improve European internationalisation strategies in the field of Vocational Education and Training (VET) and to make them more sustainable, thus enhancing the quality of transnational VET mobility. Calls for awarding the VET Mobility Charter are published annually on National Agencies' websites.

Third country nationals can apply from exemption of fees of state learning institutions if they are so entitled according to Law. Categories of applicants may include asylum seekers, refugees, refused asylum seekers until deported, persons in possession of single permits or a blue card, as well as family members and dependents of those entitled. Fees may also be waived on humanitarian grounds for persons not otherwise entitled.

This action is all about providing opportunities for individuals to improve their skills, enhance their employability and gain cultural awareness.

Under Key Action 1 organisations can apply for funding to run mobility projects to enable organisations to offer structured study, work experience, job shadowing, training and teaching opportunities to staff and learners.

Beneficiaries are able to spend a period of time in another participating country gaining valuable experience of life, study and work with the aim of increasing the opportunities available to them in the future.

Key Action 1 covers the five fields of higher education, vocational education and training, schools, adult education and youth. It is important to note that target groups and activities for Key Action 1 vary by field.

Key Action 1 is the largest action in Erasmus+ with 63% of programme budget supporting its focus on increasing mobility and skills.

This action is all about providing opportunities for individuals to improve their skills, enhance their employability and gain cultural awareness.

Under Key Action 1 organisations can apply for funding to run mobility projects to enable organisations to offer structured study, work experience, job shadowing, training and teaching opportunities to staff and learners.

Beneficiaries are able to spend a period of time in another participating country gaining valuable experience of life, study and work with the aim of increasing the opportunities available to them in the future.

Key Action 1 covers the five fields of higher education, vocational education and training, schools, adult education and youth. It is important to note that target groups and activities for Key Action 1 vary by field.

Key Action 1 is the largest action in Erasmus+ with 63% of programme budget supporting its focus on increasing mobility and skills.

The National Commission for Further and Higher Education is responsible for licensing further and higher education institutes, and accrediting educational programmes to the Malta Qualifications Framework as outlined in Subsidiary Legislation 327.433.

An agreement between the coordinating organisation and each partner organisation taking part in an Erasmus+ project by which the partner organisation authorises the coordinating organisation to act on its behalf in matters related to the project implementation.

Students' Maintenance Grants include the following:

• the initial grant
• the one-time grant
• stipends
• the single parents’ grant
• Summer Special Stipend
• Top-Up Stipend
• Supplementary Allowances

Students' Maintenance Grants are provided by the Government of Malta for students attending at an approved Post-Secondary, Vocational and Tertiary Education Institution. The Students' Maintenance Grants’ scheme operates under a set of regulations and the respective Subsidiary Legislation 605.06 determining eligibility.

Students submitting their online application after the end of December of the respective academic year will be considered eligible for the Maintenance Grants as from the date of submission of application.

New students, students changing course and/or institution, repeaters, and students in additional or extension year are to apply for the Students' Maintenance Grants online application at the beginning of the academic year by using their e-ID and password.

A consent form which is to be filled by parent/guardian of students under 16 years of age who are applying for a Students’ Maintenance Grant.

Supplementary Allowances are additional monetary funds awarded to students facing certain circumstances of proven hardship, including financial difficulties.