Who we are

Erasmus Mundus Action 2 (formerly known as “External cooperation Window”) for Iran, Iraq, and Yemen is designed to fund higher education student and teaching staff mobility activities between 7 leading European universities and 12 universities from Lot 8 countries; Iran, Iraq, and Yemen.

The aim of the project

§	academic excellence

§	to create a sustainable, energetic and vibrant exchange programme

§	to exchange students and staff from all Target Groups (university staff and students from partners in the programme; graduates/students from non-partner universities; vulnerable groups) as well as the five types of mobility (undergraduate, masters, doctorate, post-doctoral and academic staff)

§	Realize the exchange programme

§	Promote European Higher Education

Aim of Lot 8 Consortium

To enhance the medium term political, cultural, educational and economical links between the European Union and Iran, Iraq, and Yemen by focussing on:

§	strengthening third country institutions

§	building human resources capacity

§	building infrastructure capacity, and

§	improving knowledge, curricula and quality of the educational content and processes

What are Lot 8 Countries?

The geographical coverage of EM ECW for Lot 8 (EM8) includes the following three countries: Iran, Iraq, and Yemen.

Who can benefit from a scholarship?

Nationals of Iran, Iraq, and Yemen.

Coordinator

The coordinator is the University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) in Enschede, The Netherlands. There are 19 partners in total in Europe, Iran, Iraq and Yemen and 11 associates from Switzerland, the Netherlands, Iran, Iraq and Yemen.

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