EU funding for foreign exchange of students from socially-disadvantaged areas, New University

Ljubljana, 10 September 2020 – Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy has issues a grant decision for the programme “Mobility of students from socially-disadvantaged areas for 2019, New University”. The said programme is one of the several initiatives through which the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport supports the mobility of students of Slovene universities. The programme worth EUR 1,800 will receive European Social Fund support in the amount of EUR 1,440.   

The programme aims to enhance foreign exchange of Slovene students from socially-disadvantaged areas which will enable gaining new skills and thus becoming more competitive in the labour market. In addition to gaining new competencies and expertise the students will also improve their language skills, get an insight into how to function in different environments, learn to adapt, cooperate and become more independent and more confident. Their experience abroad would improve the students’ competitiveness in the labour market after finishing their studies. Improved and internationally open higher education and the future actions of higher education graduates will have an indirect effect also on the internationalisation of other social groups.      

Programmes such as the abovementioned, are implemented with the help of grants awarded in the framework of the Operational Programme for the Implementation of the EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 under the Erasmum+ programme.  

PHOTO: Črt Slavec, student behind the computer