Erasmus+Erasmus+
Erasmus+
Virtual Exchange
INTERCULTURAL LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Sarah Guth, President UNICollaboration
Remix: T.MacKinnon @warwicklanguage
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Erasmus+
What is Virtual Exchange?
“Technology-enabled people-to-people dialogues
sustained over a period of time”.
● Use of new media platforms to enable deep, interactive social
learning
● Developed over 30 years from experience in the field of educational
exchange and study abroad
● Making it possible for every young person to have meaningful,
transnational and intercultural experiences.
● Prepares, deepens, and extends physical exchanges, and fuels new
demand for physical exchange.
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Erasmus+
What is Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange?
● Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange is a groundbreaking pilot project
established by the European Commission in 2018.
● Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange aims to expand the reach and scope of
the Erasmus+ programme through virtual exchanges by engaging at
least 17,000 youth by the end of 2019.
● This project will complement the traditional physical mobility
programme.
● An accessible, innovative way for young people in Europe and the
Southern Mediterranean to engage in meaningful intercultural
experiences online, as part of their formal or non-formal education.
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Erasmus+
Target Audiences
Open to any young person aged 18-30 residing in Erasmus+
programme countries and the Southern Mediterranean.
● Young people (aged 18 to 30 years)
● Youth workers
● Students
● Higher education professors
● University managers/administrators
● Educators
https://europa.eu/youth/erasmusvirtual/who-can-take-part_en
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Erasmus+Erasmus+
Activities
INTERCULTURAL LEARNING EXPERIENCES
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Erasmus+
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The professors and their support
teams work together to develop:
● shared learning outcomes
● a syllabus for this new
international component
With a focus on the development
of activities that promote:
● interaction
● collaboration between
students

Erasmus+
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● The courses are usually blended
● They last 4-10 weeks
● They have at least 1 synchronous
video session
● They can be implemented in any
subject or course

Erasmus+
Exchanges & Training
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Erasmus+
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Erasmus+
Recognition
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Erasmus+
Recognition
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Next steps:
• EU visual identity work
under way
• A more unified programme
identity
• Capacity building for
creation and delivery of new
VEs
• Increase connections with
other organisations with
similar aims

Erasmus+
Roadmap
Achieved
• Proof of concept: open
badges use has been well
received on the whole.
• Badges issued to date: 4,366
To do
• Upgrading account to increase
capacity and improve reporting
• Visual identity of badges and
eco-sytem to be developed
further
• Increase awareness of this
form of recognition and how
earners can manage their
awards.
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