MEGA – Million of Erasmus Grants
The project’ ambition is to create and develop a digital tool that will simplify the management of Erasmus+ mobility grants at university level and secure the payment of these grants to the concerned students, both in terms of accuracy and calendar.
The MEGA project is by itself an innovation, as for the first time, it suggests digitalisation in the field of Erasmus grants payment.
Erasmus+ Students
Students will benefit from a more efficient and secure payment procedure of their Erasmus grant.
Higher Education Institutions
Higher education institutions will be supported in their administration of the Erasmus+ grant.
Policy makers
Practical policy recommendations with evidence-based indications on how to further improve the services and Erasmus+ mobility grants management.
News
MEGA celebrates project results in (hybrid) final conference
The final conference of the MEGA Project took place on Monday, December 2nd, in Brussels and online. Read about the main highlights!
MEGA Final conference
Join us on December 2nd in Brussels or online for the project final event!
MEGA Project Wins Best Poster Award at EAIE Conference 2024
The MEGA project poster has been recognised as one of the three winners of the Best Poster Award at the 2024 EAIE Conference in Toulouse.
Improving Financial Management of Erasmus+ Grants: Findings from PR1 Study
Learn more about the methodological guidelines for effective Erasmus+ grant distribution, enhancing student funding management and improving the grant process.
Project updates and next steps
MEGA project partners convened in Nancy to discuss the results of a survey exploring existing realities of the Erasmus+ grant payments. Learn more
The MEGA project kicks off online!
The Million of Erasmus Grants (MEGA) project kicked off on January 17th and 18th, 2022. Learn more
Introducing the MEGA project
The Million of Erasmus Grants (MEGA) project strives to lift the administrative burden not only from the shoulders of HEIs staff but also of the students. Read more
Resources
Methodological guidelines for student grant distribution (PR1)
The guidelines will gather information on the financial management of the Erasmus+ grants from different European HEIs. Based on survey results, the guidelines will help design a general applicable tool that will respect national and local differences and constraints.
Status: Published
Milestones: Evaluation process finalised, Methodological framework published
Benchmarking report (PR3)
Once the prototyping and the deployment of the platform will be complete, an investigation will be carried out in order to gather insights from the user experience and evaluate whether the platform overcomes the main obstacles thus reducing the delays in payments to the students.
Status: Planned
Milestones: Report published
Grant management digital solution Proof of Concept (PR2)
A digital Proof of Concept (PoC) of a platform that automatically executes some part of the payments will be designed with the intended goal to significantly simplify, secure and accelerate the payment of Erasmus grants to their beneficiaries.
Status: Planned
Milestones: Presentation at the Final Conference
Policy Recommendations (PR4)
The policy recommendations will target the main stakeholders, namely HEIs, National Erasmus+ Agency and European institutions. They will build from the findings of the previous project results and show/advocate how the PoC for Erasmus grants management could increase the efficiency of the Erasmus+ mobility management.
Status: Planned
Milestones: Policy recommendations paper published
Partners
University of Lorraine
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra
Mendel University in Brno
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Selcuk University
European University Foundation
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Contact Us
Donato Lorubio
donato.lorubio@univ-lorraine.fr