The Centre of European Projects signed an agreement with the Foundation for the Development of the Education System for a project on international learning mobility of pupils and school education staff. We will allocate PLN 91 million to subsidise foreign trips and exchange of teachers and students from all over Poland

- the Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy, Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz said. 

In this edition of the project, we will give preference to people from those regions with higher unemployment, lower income and, above all, lower results in matriculation and 8th grade exams. We are targeting regions, towns and rural areas where educational opportunities are limited. Therefore, above all, children and young people as well as teachers from these places - will be able to participate in international exchange within the European Union and its member states - Minister Pełczyńska-Nałęcz emphasised. In total, the programme will cover nearly 9 thousand people.

Additional funding for international exchange of children and young people

In order to meet the expectations of students and teachers, from 2022 onwards, we will provide additional funds from the European Funds for Social Development 2021-2027 programme to the Erasmus+ money, so that schools on the reserve list (i.e. those that did not receive funding) can also take part in international exchange. Consequently, last year we doubled the number of schools that will organise exchange with foreign countries. This year, we are launching this type of projects once again.

The money from the project entitled “International learning mobility of students and school education staff” will be provided primarily to schools in “disadvantaged” areas, i.e. at risk of exclusion. Positive consideration will be given to those schools on the Erasmus reserve list that are located in counties with high unemployment, in municipalities with low per capita income or schools with poor results in eighth-grade examinations and secondary school leaving examinations in mathematics, other science subjects or a foreign language. The school will have to meet at least one of these conditions.

The project is addressed to schools that have applied for Erasmus+ travel funding. However, due to excessive interest in this programme, they ran out of money.