This Europe Day, we celebrate all the brilliant activities we’ve taken part in across the continent while looking forward to future opportunities. Erasmus+ kick-started the steady growth of international opportunities available to our student community. Despite UK participation in Erasmus+ coming to an end, there's still a wide range of alliances, networks and partnerships that continue to offer a variety of options to current students for work or study away: Study exchanges Placements Summer schools Volunteering Internships or traineeships Conferences Workshops Short-term mobility Cultural activities Challenge-based initiatives Research Self-directed study Go Abroad Fund The Go Abroad Fund provides financial support for students to undertake a short-term international educational experience during summer months. Find out more about the Go Abroad Fund: Go Abroad Fund Read Daniel Robertson's placement abroad story using the Go Abroad Fund The Turing Scheme This funding can be used by students for international activities that are 29 days or longer: The Turing Scheme's objectives are to prioritise funding for students meeting the Scheme’s widening access criteria and those following degree programmes which contain mandatory periods of overseas work and study placements. The University has secured exchange agreements with almost all previous Erasmus partners. Find out more about the Turing Scheme and see eligibility: Turing Scheme Una Europa Una Europa’s member universities are based in Berlin, Paris, Helsinki, Madrid, Leuven, Leiden, Bologna, Krakow, Dublin, Zurich and Edinburgh and together we have a shared student population of just under half a million students. The Alliance continues to co-create opportunities for students from across its member universities and Edinburgh students have been able to travel to Una Europa Student Congresses, PhD workshops, Summer Schools and have connected online in multicultural teams to work as teams on Una Challenges and online design sprints. Find out more about Una Europa and the opportunities it creates for its European student community: Una Europa - get involved as a student Take on a leadership role or simple be part of the Una Europa student community by joining Edinburgh's Una Europa Student Network: Una Europa Student Network Summer Schools INCiTE Summer School A 2-week, in-person, part-funded summer course in Southeast Asia learning about intercultural competence, design thinking, social innovation, and entrepreneurship. Find out more about INCiTE: INCiTE Summer School NICE Programme NICE offers students the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship and intercultural competence in virtual teams across Europe, followed by a one-week in-person summer school. Find out more about NICE: NICE Programme Further European collaborations opportunities Languages The Centre for Open Learning (COL) has in-person language courses available. All language courses focus on communication skills through task-based learning, with a particular emphasis on listening and speaking. Find out more about the language courses available at COL Language courses at COL TICKET Comprising of seven European partner universities, the consortium provides training to deal with classroom diversity, along with resources relating to the other challenges faced by Higher Education Institutions that can be implemented locally. Find out more about TICKET: TICKET EVALUATE Harnessing the power of evaluation to build better university partnerships through the EVALUATE framework and handbook. The EVALUATE framework and handbook UNICA Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA) is a community of 55 Universities from 38 capitals of Europe and is committed to democratic values, acting as a catalyst for the advancement, integration and cooperation of Member Universities throughout Europe as a means of social understanding, global collaboration, and sustainable development. Find out more about UNICA: UNICA The Coimbra Group As the largest association of European multidisciplinary universities of high international standard, the Coimbra Group is committed to creating academic and cultural ties. Coimbra online collection is a new interactive online historic collection is showcasing selected historical collection items from the members of the Group. Find out more about the Coimbra Group: Coimbra Group Eurolife Eurolife is a network of nine prestigious academic institutions and European centres with world-wide research excellence reputation in Biomedicine and Medicine across Europe. Eurolife promotes and facilitates collaborative research, joint postgraduate training and education, the exchange of researchers and students and the building of joint research projects. Find out more about Eurolife: Eurolife Universitas 21 Universitas 21 (U21) is the leading global network of research-intensive universities, working together to foster global citizenship and institutional innovation through research-inspired teaching and learning, student mobility, connecting students and staff, and wider advocacy for internationalisation. Find out more about Universitas 21: Universitas 21 This article was published on 2024-06-24
