The Amount of stipend for the project 2024 via LeoSachsen (EUR 200.000) has been exhausted.

Central Calls in the project 2025:

• Tender amount for the July-August 2025 call via LeoSachsen: EUR 100,000 (~ 30 mobilities)
• Tender amount for the January-February 2026 call via LeoSachsen: EUR 100,000 (~ 30 mobilities)

Amount of stipend to be managed by Saxon partner institutions and departments of TU Dresden in the project 2025:

Hochschule/ Fachbereich	Ausschreibungssumme	Verantwortliche
DHSN	EUR 14.400	Ilona Scherm
FHD	EUR 10.200	Paola Yaconis
HSMW	EUR 10.200	Ulrike Worbs-Reichenbach
HTWDD	EUR 10.800	Juliane Terpe
HTWKL	EUR 10.800	Silke Mühl
TUD/ MN	EUR 25.000	Prof. Jan J. Weigand
TUD/ ZLSB	EUR 10.200	Prof. Gehrmann

(=~30 mobilities)

The funds to be tendered decentrally were made available to university partnerships to bridge financial bottlenecks for their KA171 project partnerships.
The funds can be spent within these project partnerships and therefore do not have to be tendered externally.
Stays eligible for funding are
– internships for a period of up to 2 months
– short-term mobility of 5-14 days
– staff mobility for a period of 5-10 days (PhD students)

The partnerships should pay attention to the following funding ratio: Student mobility:staff mobility corresponds to 2:1
Please contact the contact persons listed in the table on the right if you have any questions about the decentralized funding.

As of June of the following year (i.e. currently 2026), unused funds will be returned to LeoSachsen for further allocation to individual applications in the 1st call in the 2026 project.

Students’ mobility for internship purposes can be carried out in the following host institutions:

• public or private small, medium or large enterprises (including public service enterprises),
• local, regional or national public bodies,
• a social partner or other representative of the labor market (including chambers of commerce, craft or professional associations, and trade unions),
• research institutions,
• foundations,
• schools/institutes/education centers (from pre-school through upper secondary education including institutions to vocational and adult education),
• non-profit organizations, associations, NGOs,
• career counseling, guidance, and information centers,
  Higher education institutions.

The sending organization has to be a higher education institution participating in the Saxon Erasmus+ Consortium with an Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE).

• (PhD) students who are enrolled in one of the participating Saxon higher educational institutions and are studying a subject leading to a recognised academic degree or other recognised tertiary level qualification (up to and including a doctorate).
• (PhD) Students who are employed by one of the participating Saxon higher education institutions through an employment contract can apply for short-term mobility funding in the Staff Mobility area.
• Students can receive financial aid at the earliest in their second year of higher education studies in an undergraduate programme.
• Graduates (Please note that the application or written announcement of the mobility must be made while still a student).

Students must carry out their mobility activities in an EU Partner Country or an EU Associated Country that is neither the country of the sending institution nor their country of residence.
From the 2025 call, mobility to Russia and Belarus will no longer be eligible for Erasmus+ funding.

• Long-term stays between 60 and 180 days
  (Attention: the financially supported duration does not exceed 120 days)
• Short-term stays between 5 and 30 days plus virtual component of at least one day (two hours) and at least 3 ECTS must be awarded.
  (Attention: the financially supported duration does not exceed 14 days)
• staff mobility between 5 and 60 days
  (Attention: the financially supported duration does not exceed 10 days)

• Internships in Switzerland and the United Kingdom:
  – Monthly allowance of  750 EUR
  – travel allowance staggerd by distance between EUR 309 and EUR 417
  – If applicable, Top Up  250 EUR/month in case of chronic illness, physical disability (GDB 20), first academic status, working students according to Erasmus+ definition, students with child.
• Internships outside Europe:
  – Monthly accommodation allowance of  700 EUR
  – Travel allowance staggered by distance between EUR 309 and EUR 1,735
  – If applicable, Top Up 250 EUR /month in case of chronic illness, physical disability (GDB 20), first-time graduate status, working students according to Erasmus+ definition, students with children.

Funding is available for up to 120 days of stay per internship, periods of stay beyond this will be included in the Learning Agreement as zero-grant days.
Erasmus+ funding may be increased through other sources that are not EU funds and don’t serve the same pupose. (e.g. through foreign grants, educational loans, foundation funds…).

• The content of the internship must be related to your current studies.
• The internship must take place in an eligible country for which there is no travel warning issued by the Federal Foreign Office.
• Short-term internships must include a virtual component of at least one day (at least 2 hours).
• So-called returnees (international students returning to their country of origin for an Erasmus+ internship) must provide proof of their primary residence in Germany.
• Final theses can be funded with an Erasmus+ grant provided the work/project tasks correspond to an internship and on-site supervision and evaluation are guaranteed.
• The Erasmus+ internship must be carried out as a full-time internship (at least 35 hours per week).
• Sufficient insurance cover must be provided for the Erasmus+ internship.

Any failure to comply with the provisions of the Erasmus+ contract for the internship may result in the Erasmus+ grant being reduced or withdrawn.
This refers to

• Shortening or termination of the internship to less than 2 months or less than 5 days
• changes to the agreed internship content and work tasks

• Degree-oriented affiliation to one of the participating universities
• Complete application within one of the two application deadlines in the project:
  01.07. – presumably 31.08. of each year
  01.01. – presumably 28.02. of each year
• Compliance with the applicable formal, general eligibility criteria
• A lead time of at least 2 months must be observed (e.g. complete your application on 02.08. of a year: funding period begins on 02.10. of the same year at the earliest and only if there is still an eligible period of 60 days).
• Compliance of the internship objectives with the eligible objectives of the Erasmus+ program
• The grant is awarded subject to the availability of financial resources in the project.
• The grant is awarded subject to financial need, which is not considered to exist if the host organization pays a monthly internship fee of EUR 2,000 or more. (The information in the internship contract is decisive in this respect.)
• The scholarship is awarded on the basis of geographical distribution.
  – For this reason, funding for stays in Switzerland is subject to a quota of 20% of the total volume of the respective funding year. Again, 50% of this is reserved for PJs.
  – For this reason, repeated applications for internships in the same country will not be funded.
• The grant is going to be awarded while ensuring that the finance is spread across the entire Erasmus+ consortium.

The application for Erasmus+ funding takes place (almost) exclusively online. The online application link for the 2025 project will be available online at

• from 01.07.2025 – probably 31.08.2025 and
• from 01.01.2026 – probably 28.02.2026

Calls may be closed prematurely after the end of the first call month if more than twice as many complete applications have already been received by then than can be funded.

Application process:
You begin your application by completing and submitting the online application form for the KA131 Student Mobility Outside Europe program. The form asks for information about yourself (as a student), your home university and your destination institution.
Immediately afterwards, you will receive an automated registration request. If you follow this, you will be given access to your workflow, in which you can also enter personal information and information required for funding processing in a data-secure manner.
The last step you need to take in the workflow is to confirm that you have entered your application in full. By setting this status (from incomplete to complete), a date stamp is set, which ultimately determines the start of your possible funding.
From this point on, you can sit back and wait for LeoSachsen to respond to your application.

• Every first complete application in an eligible country.
• Every second complete application in an already funded country, if the university is different from the first application.
• Every third complete application, in an already funded country, if the university is different from the first two applications.
• […] The process will be repeated as often as necessary to include all universities in the award process.
• Another complete application, in turn, goes to the next complete application by date.

The first student to be notified are the application, which are being rejected due to incompleteness receive feedback.
In a second step, the funding contracts are sorted according to the start of the internship.
Only at the end, when it has been ensured that the scholarship funds available for this call have been spent, will all further applications be rejected due to lack of funds in the project, taking, thereby, into account withdrawals from the program as well as failure to start the internship.

Within the European Union, Erasmus+ student mobility is now well known and is supported by numerous international agreements to facilitate exchanges within Europe.
Outside Europe, many of these facilitating structures have not yet been established. In case of lack of financial resources in the funded project, a complete Erasmus+ zero-grant agreement can ensure the quality of your stay at different levels:

 

• Presentation of the Erasmus+ trainee as part of the sending institution instead of an individual mobility which is difficult to assess for the hosting institution. This can increase the willingness of the host institution to accept the traineeship.
• Ensuring the quality of the internship as, in addition to the work tasks, mentoring and monitoring as well as the evaluation of the internship are specified in the agreement.
• Facilitating visa acquisition by acknowledging the internship as part of the study program.
• Opens up the opportunity to apply for the NA DAAD insurance for Erasmus+ interns.
• Facilitating the recognition of the internship through defined Erasmus+ processe.

Social participation and equal opportunities are guiding themes of the Erasmus+ program generation 2021-2027. By removing the potential barriers, the access conditions for people with fewer opportunities are to be improved and equal access is to be created.
For this purpose, Erasmus+ offers concrete measures that address different levels: Starting with the 2021 call, financial support offers will be extended in the form of a top-up for students in addition to the regular monthly Erasmus+ grant.
In addition, participants with a disability (GdB 20 or more) or chronic illness (with additional financial needs abroad) and students who start their stay abroad with a child/children can take the opportunity to submit an application for a real cost subsidy for the additional costs incurred abroad.
Persons in this target group (fewer opportunities) also receive travel expenses for certain mobility formats or have the option of applying for and starting a preliminary trip in advance.
If you have any questions on the subject, please contact us.
General information and the Erasmus+ criteria catalog can be found here.

There is no insurance coverage associated with an Erasmus+ mobility grant. Neither the European Commission nor the NA DAAD are liable for damages resulting from illness, death, accident, injury to persons, loss or damage to property in connection with Erasmus+ stays abroad.
The following insurances should be verifiably in place during the Erasmus+ mobility:

• Liability insurance (professional and personal liability, if applicable)
• Insurance for accidents and serious illness (including full or partial disability)

Recommended:

•  travel insurance (including repatriation from abroad)

For internships it is obligatory to have accident insurance for damages suffered by the beneficiary at the workplace and liability insurance for damages caused by the beneficiary at the workplace.
Insurance costs can be financed by the participant from the mobility grant. All Erasmus+ participants might consider the NA DAAD group insurance as one option, because, it offers comprehensive insurance coverage. Further information on this can be found here.
Please make sure that all your insurances either cover an extended time frame beyond the planned stay or can be extended comparatively easily from abroad in order to be able to insure unforeseen extensions of the stay, e.g. due to illness or accident.

When preparing for travelling, please also refer to the country-specific travel and security advice issued by the German Foreign Office.
All travelers are recommended to register in the electronic registration of the Federal Foreign Office for inclusion in the crisis prevention and response measures of the Federal Foreign Office (Elefand)

1. Duale Hochschule Sachsen (all 7 locations: Bautzen, Breitenbrunn, Dresden, Glauchau, Leipzig, Plauen, Riesa)
2. Fachhochschule Dresden
3. Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Dresden)
4. Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Leipzig)
5. Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (Dresden)
6. Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur (Leipzig)
7. Hochschule Meißen
8. Hochschule Mittweida
9. Hochschule Zittau – Görlitz
10. Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg
11. Technische Universität Chemnitz
12. Technische Universität Dresden
    – mit Dresden International University (DIU)
    – mit Internationales Hochschulinstitut (IHI) Zittau

Documents with personal data (application documents, Erasmus+ scholarship contract, closing documents and further, individually relevant documents regarding the Erasmus+ internship) are required by the Leonardo-Büro Sachsen electronically and in paper form for the processing and review of the application, for the decision regarding the award of an Erasmus+ scholarship as well as for the monitoring and accounting of the Erasmus+ internship. These documents will be kept in the Leonardo-Büro Sachsen for another ten years after the end of the project through which the scholarship holder was funded, in accordance with the requirements of the Erasmus+ program and legal requirements of the state of Saxony. This is necessary because both the European Commission in Brussels and the National Agency and Testing Institutions in Germany are entitled to audit the application process and the allocation of Erasmus+ scholarship funds in general and in each individual case during this period. After the expiration of this period, the documents of the applicants and trainees will be destroyed in the Leonardo-Büro Sachsen in a data-protection-safe manner.

Every applicant or scholarship holder can complain in writing to report deficiencies in the area of Erasmus+ scholarships for internships abroad. The first contact person, regardless of the complaint, is the Erasmus+ coordinator Dr. Husam Mohammad.
In justified cases, e.g. in case of inactivity of the Erasmus+ Coordinator or her deputy, Dr. Husam Mohammad, the complainants can directly contact the management of the Leonardo-Büro Sachsen.

The contact persons forward the complaint to the responsible offices and ensure that it is resolved in a timely manner. Every complaint is treated confidentially. If it seems necessary for problem resolution, relevant persons (e.g. representatives of the sending university or contacts of the receiving institution) will be involved.
Depending on the nature of the complaint, the complainants are informed either directly or in the form of a disclosure of the problem-solving process, taking into account data protection.

All complaints and the actions developed as a result will be included in the next analysis of strengths and weaknesses by the Leonardo-Büro Sachsen as part of the evaluation of the relevant Erasmus+ project with the Saxon universities. In the case of problems that require a general, across-the-board solution, a separate evaluation will also take place in the following meeting of the “Saxon Erasmus+ Consortium”. It will be examined whether the reported problem could be solved and whether the measures used to solve it are effective in the long term. In case of particularly serious deficiencies, there is the possibility of an early evaluation.