General information

The CASEU (Central ASian and European Universities) is an Erasmus Mundus project, with financial support granted by the European Commission, that offers scholarships to European master students, PhD researchers and staff members (academic and administrative) to follow a mobility period, in some of the best universities in Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan. These are fully covered scholarships; they include a monthly allowance, travel costs, insurance coverage and tuition fees.

The principal objectives are:

• To establish strong ties and mobility flows between Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and European universities, covering the levels of master’s, PhD and staff.
• To develop strategies and create a best practices guide for improving mobility among European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and Central Asian Republic HEIs.
• To generate mutual enrichment and intercultural understanding for the people participating in the project, including the recipients of scholarships, who will be able to diffuse their experiences among society as a whole upon their return.
• To intensify and expand the International Academic Mobility Networks already in place in some European HEIs and Kazakh and Uzbek HEIs.
• To construct a joint stable and ongoing mobility scheme that will be achieved through a larger number of bilateral student and staff mobility agreements, which will promote joint doctoral studies and degrees and allow for international placements.

Beneficiaries:

In order to be eligible, European masters students and doctorate candidates:

1. Must be a national of an EU Member State;
2. For Target Group 1 (TGI): students need to be registered at one of the European countries Higher Education Institutions within the partnership at the time of submitting their application to the partnership.
3. For Target Group 2 (TGII): students need either to be registered in a HEI (not included in the partnership) of any European country or to have obtained a university degree or equivalent from a Higher Education Institution of any European country;
4. Must have sufficient knowledge of the language of the courses or of one of the languages currently spoken in the hosting countries.

Students who have already had an ERASMUS MUNDUS scholarship can not apply to the same type of mobility.

Academic and administrative staff in order to be eligible, academic and higher education staff:

1. For Target Group 1: Must work in or be associated to one of the Higher Education Institutions within the partnership (TGI);
2. For Target Group 2: Must work in or be associated to one Higher Education Institutions in Europe(TGII);
3. Must be national of an EU Member State;
4. Mobility assignments must be based on partnership agreements between the members of the partnership;
5. The home and host universities and the individual staff must agree on the programme of lectures to be delivered by the visiting teachers, on the research activities or on the type of training to be followed by staff
6. the exchange may constitute a post-per-post exchange or a one-way visitor flow to a third country.

Mobility flows:

1st cohort places: Call for applications launched on November 14th, 2014 until January 9th, 2015:

2nd cohort places: Call for applications launched on autumn 2015:

3rd cohort places:Call for applications launched on autumn 2016:

EXCEPTIONAL cohort:  cal for applications opened until July 29th, 2017

Grants:

Monthly subsistence allowance

A part will be provided upon arrival to cover initial costs. The first and second installment will be provided once the scholar is in his/her host country. The remainder will be provided on a periodical regular basis.

Travel expenses

The unit costs are applied for return tickets for the direct/linear distance (“as the crow flies”).

TG1: on one side the location of the home institution and on the other side the hosting institution premises;

TG2: on one side the location of origin of the student/staff and on the other side the hosting institution premises;

This amount will be paid only once. 

Participation costs (Tuition/Registration fees)

If mobility is under 10 months, the scholar will continue paying his/her registration fees at his/her home university and the host university must apply a fee waiver policy (no registration/tuition fees). Excepting small fees for covering, for example, library costs or laboratory consumables, which are equally charged to local students, incoming students will not be charged tuition fees.

In case the mobility lasts longer than 9 months and 30 days, tuition fees at the host university will be funded with up to a maximum of € 3.000 per year (if applicable).

Insurance costs

Full insurance coverage (health, travel, accident) will be provided to cover the incoming students and staff.