Mobility Grants

How to apply for a Grundtvig mobility grant?

Staff working in any sector of adult education, including:

teachers/trainers in adult education and the trainers of such teachers/trainers;
heads and managerial staff of organisations providing adult learning opportunities;
staff involved in intercultural adult education, or working with migrant workers and travellers;
staff working with adults with special educational needs;
staff working with adults at risk, for example, mediators and street educators;
counsellors or career advisors;
the inspectorate;
other education staff at the discretion of national authorities.
former and unemployed teachers re-entering the profession after a period away from teaching

an adult education teacher of non-language subjects through a foreign language;
a teacher re-training as an adult education foreign language teacher;
a member of staff participating in a Grundtvig Partnership and requesting training in a Partnership language;
a member of adult education staff requesting training in a less widely taught and less used language for teaching purposes.

Any candidate interested in a training event should contact the organiser to express his or her interest and check that places are still available before applying to his LLP National Agency for a Comenius or Grundtvig grant. Applicants for a Grundtvig grant may be required to enclose with their application a confirmation of provisional registration.
Application forms are available on the website of the LLP National Agency in your country. This form should be filled out properly and sent to the NA before the deadline.
If the candidate is then awarded a grant, s/he will contact the organiser to confirm this and to formally register for the training event. If the candidate has not been awarded a grant, it is his/her responsibility to cancel any pre-registration which may have been made.
The duration of the selection process differs per each country and it can last between 7 and 10 weeks.
From the moment the candidate receives the grant and confirms his/her attendance at the training event, s/he has responsibilities towards the training provider. If s/he cancels her/his attendance, s/he will be responsible for paying any cancellation fee which the organiser may claim.
If the training provider cancels the training at short notice, s/he may be asked by the candidate for compensation if s/he has already incurred costs.

Grundtvig mobility grants can also be obtained for participation in more informal training such as a placement, observation period, job shadowing, teaching visit or exchange (depending on the programme) in a relevant organisation involved in education.
Grundtvig mobility grants can also be obtained for participation in a European conference or seminar organised by a Comenius or Grundtvig Network or Multilateral Project or a National Agency or by a genuinely representative European association active in the field of adult education.
The rules described above are an (not binding) extract from the “Instructions for providers of Comenius and Grundtvig training events”. Full text available.
The course database is available on http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/