Participants in the Erasmus + programme or the European Solidarity Corps who continue to incur costs in connection with such travel will be able to keep the grant they received. In any case, they will also be able to resume the programme once the pandemic is over. The European Commission said so in a fact sheet published on Wednesday 1 April.
As a reminder, Erasmus + facilitates the mobility of students, apprentices, teachers and youth workers, while the European Solidarity Corps enables young people to take part in voluntary activities, traineeships or fixed-term jobs within the EU.
The Commission’s fact sheet is in the form of a question-and-answer session and is addressed both to the participants and to the institutions organising the two programmes. It stipulates that participants (whether they have returned to their home country or still reside in the host country) may keep their scholarship if they still have expenses “directly and exclusively” related to their stay or if they are participating in an e-learning course at the institution. At the same time, the document calls on graduate institutions to be “as flexible and pragmatic as possible” in helping students achieve their learning goals.
Link to fact sheet: https://bit.ly/3aBAkD5 (Original version in French by Sophie Petitjean)