About Nordplus Higher Education

About Nordplus Higher Education

The Nordplus Higher Education Programme offers possibilities which include students, teachers as well as other staff involved in teaching and education of specific Nordplus activities.

The programme comprises mobility grants for students and teachers, intensive courses for students to experience more than the usual classroom, teachers learning from each other and networking activities for developing innovative projects. These are the main activities of the Nordplus Higher Education Programme.

Contact your national office for more information.

The programme supports the following activities:

Mobility
  • Student mobility
  • Teacher mobility
  • Express mobility: shorter student mobility lasting less than one month (one week minimum)
Network activities
  • Establishing and developing of networks
Project activities
  • Intensive courses
  • Joint study programmes
  • Development projects within higher education, including curriculum development

The objectives of the Nordplus Higher Education Programme are:

  • To link higher education institutions (HEIs) in the participating countries, private as well as public, offering recognised tertiary level qualifications, establishing networks for exchanging and disseminating experiences, best practices and innovative results
  • To contribute to cooperation between HEIs and other institutions or organisations involved in or having vested interests in the area of higher education
  • To contribute to cooperation between HEIs and the labour market