How Erasmus+ funding works

Erasmus+ does not pay one amount. It pays four, and they go to different places.

Only one of the four reaches The London School of English. The rest goes to the person travelling and to the organisation sending them. That is important when you are writing a budget, because it changes what you are actually asking your finance team to approve.

Here is what each one covers, followed by a tool that works out your own figures.

Who applies, and when.

Your organisation applies, not you. The application goes to the national agency in your own country rather than to anyone in Britain, and there is one deadline a year.

Applications close on 19 February, at midday Brussels time. Some national agencies run a second round closing on 1 October. Projects funded in the February round begin between 1 June and 31 December, and the first courses that UK providers can host run from autumn 2027.

What the application looks like depends on where your organisation already stands. If it holds an Erasmus accreditation, you submit a budget request rather than a competitive proposal, every eligible request is funded, and there is no limit on how many people you send across the project. If it is new to the programme, you apply for a short-term project instead: up to 30 participants, running between six and eighteen months, assessed against published criteria.

The four amounts

Course fee. €80 per participant per day, for courses of between two and ten days. This is the only part that comes to The London School of English, and it covers part of the course price rather than all of it.

Daily living allowance. Paid to the participant to cover accommodation and food while they are here. Each national agency sets its own daily rate within a published range, so the figure depends on which country you are applying from rather than on where you are going.

Travel. A single lump sum based on how far the participant is travelling, measured in bands rather than exact distances. Travelling by train or coach pays a higher rate than flying. In the 100 to 499 kilometre band, which covers Paris, Brussels, Lille and Amsterdam, that is €285 rather than €211.

Organisational support. €100 per participant, paid to your organisation towards the cost of arranging everything.

Travelling sustainably is worth more than the extra money suggests. Environmental practice is one of the criteria an application is scored on, so choosing the train strengthens the case as well as the budget.

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