With the aim of providing a support to faculty members when writing project applications within the Erasmus+ program, the University of Sarajevo organizes a series of info meetings. The first such meeting had taken place on 9 April 2014, when Mr. Phillipe Ruffio, a representative of the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) outlined general principles for participating in Erasmus+ program. The second info meeting on Erasmus + program was in the University of Sarajevo’s Rectorate on Tuesday, 11 November 2014.
 
The third meeting on Erasmus + on the topic “Opportunities in the Higher Education” will take place on 21 November 2014 from 10:00 to 12:00. The speaker will be Mr. Suad Muhibic, National Erasmus+ Office Director. 

Erasmus + is the new EU program for education, training, youth and sport, which replaced the seven existing programs: Lifelong Learning Programme (Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Comenius and Grundtvig), Youth in Action, Erasmus Mundus, Tempus, Alfa, Edulink and the Cooperation program with industrialized countries. The Erasmus + program will last seven years - from 2014 to 2020.
The University of Sarajevo is among the higher education institutions from partner countries neighboring the EU: Western Balkans, along with Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia.

The following actions are available in the new Erasmus + program:
1.    Key Action 1: joint master programs: coordinated only by a country from the program countries group, yet partner countries can be consortium members (corresponding to the former Erasmus Mundus program Action 1).
2.    Key Action 1: international credit mobility (corresponding to the former Erasmus Mundus Action 2): the applicants from the Programme countries category. This category includes 28 EU countries + Macedonia, Turkey, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland. The BH institutions can be a partner in the project consortium.
3.    Key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practice: Capacity Building in Higher Education: the BH institutions may apply or be a partner in a project consortium (corresponding to the former Tempus program).
4.    Key Action 2: Knowledge Alliances: coordinated only by a country from the program countries group, yet partner countries can be a consortium member, with a limited budget if their participation significantly contributes to the project.
5.    Key action 2: Sectoral Skills Alliances: coordinated only by a country from the program countries group, yet the partner country can be a consortium member if their participation significantly contributes to the project
6.    Key Action 2: Strategic Partnerships, coordinated only by a country from the program countries group, yet partner countries can be consortium members if their participation significantly contributes to the project,
7.    Key Activity 3: Jean Monnet projects of higher education institutions and organizations in the European studies field. BH institutions may apply or be a project consortium partner