JoinEUsee > PENTA – EU & South Eastern Europe: Participating, Exchanging and Networking in a Transnational Alliance for Internationalization in Higher Education

JoinEUsee > PENTA is a scholarship scheme for mobility between the EU and the Western Balkans. It is co-financed by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission (EACEA) in the framework of the Erasmus Mundus 2009-2013 initiative, which is a worldwide cooperation and mobility programme in the field of higher education. It support mobility at all levels of higher education, including both mobility for students (undergraduate, master, doctoral and post-doctoral) and staff (academic and administrative).

The Erasmus Mundus JoinEUsee > PENTA scholarships include a monthly subsistence allowance, travel expenses, insurance costs and tuition fees. Only mobility flows between the EU on the one side and the Western Balkan partner countries on the other side are eligible for scholarship funding. The Erasmus Mundus JoinEUsee > PENTA partnership operates in line with the objectives of the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 programme. It strives to contribute to the achievement of better understanding and mutual enrichment between the EU and third countries in the field of higher education and society at large.

For more detailed information on the objectives and aims of the project can be found in the section “Aims of JoinEUsee > PENTA“