• You have an employment contract with the AdBK in administration or teaching (lecturers are nevertheless excluded)
• Your stay does not take place in your country of primary residence
• Your stay should not take place in Germany
• Your stay serves your own further education and training

or

• Your stay serves the purpose of teaching at a partner university of the AdBK
• Your supervisor agrees to the stay

Target groups:

• Academic and artistic staff (m/f/d)
• Workshop managers (m/f/d)
• Professors (m/f/d)

(Lecturers cannot receive funding from the AdBK.)

Possible formats for “teaching abroad”

• Exhibition formats that you supervise for students at a partner university
• Guest lectures, block seminars, individual courses within the regular curriculum/course programme of the partner university, compact courses lasting several days
• Doctoral colloquia

Prerequisites/minimum requirements

• The AdBK has a partnership agreement with the desired host institution (all partners can be found here)
• You teach at least 8 hours per 5-day week. The number of hours is reduced accordingly for shorter stays.
• You can also combine stays for teaching with your own further education and training. The stay is then considered a stay for teaching purposes.

Target groups:

• Academic and artistic staff (m/f/d)
• Workshop managers (m/f/d)
• Professors (m/f/d)
• Staff from all areas of administration

(Unfortunately, lecturers cannot receive funding at the AdBK.)

Possible formats for ‘Further education and training abroad’

• Job shadowing
• Workshops
• Internships
• Visits to staff weeks
• Attendance at language courses (in this case, the funding period of 5 days may be extended, subject to funding availability)
• Visits to partner universities, e.g. for the exchange of best practices in all subject areas, including digitalisation issues
• Visits to potential partner universities for the purpose of establishing new partnerships
• Visits to companies, manufacturers, galleries, museums, archives, film producers, sound laboratories, etc. for the purposes of material research, research, deepening artistic or craft techniques, didactic exchange, etc.
• As a rule, the host institution must participate in the labour market or be active in general, vocational or higher education. Therefore, exchanges with individual artists are not possible.

Basic information

• You have a contractual relationship with the AdBK.

(lecturers cannot receive funding from the AdBK.)

• Your project serves your personal professional development
• You can also combine stays for teaching and your own further education and training. The stay will then be considered a stay for teaching purposes. In this case, please refer to the section ‘Teaching abroad (STA)’.

Application Process

1. Please send the current application form to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 23:59 on 25 January 2026. The call for applications applies to stays beginning between 15 March 2026 and 15 September 2026. As a rule, stays of up to 5 days (plus necessary travel days) are funded.
2. We will notify you by 13 February 2026 whether your application has been successful. You will then also receive a registration link to Mobility Online so that the Erasmus+ funds can be paid out. Details can be found under the separate heading: ‘APPLICATION PROCESS & PAYMENT’. Please note that you must submit all necessary documents, fully signed, at least 7 days before the start of your mobility.

Submission & selection

• We would like to explicitly encourage mid-level faculty to submit applications
• As a general rule, we ask that you submit all your planned projects. This is the only way we can obtain additional funding if necessary.
• If more applications are received than funds are available, preference will be given to individuals who have never received funding before.

Before mobility

1. Once the International Office has confirmed that your application has been successful, register in full on Mobility Online for Erasmus+ funding.

The application tool will then guide you step by step through the form. You must complete the following documents and online forms provided in the application tool:

• Business trip application approved(!) by the Human Resources Department
• Online form ‘Mobility Agreement’ – this is where the objectives of your mobility are recorded; the information should correspond to your application.
• Notification regulation – every scholarship must be reported to the tax authorities. Here you agree to the notification and provide your tax ID
• Declaration for green travel and additional travel days
• In addition, you must provide personal data (address, etc.) for scholarship calculation and processing.

2. Once all the information and documents have been submitted, we will send you the Mobility Agreement for signature by the host university and yourself.
3. After you have uploaded the Mobility Agreement in the application tool, we will send you the Grant Agreement (= scholarship contract) together with the so-called ‘Confirmation of Stay’ (CoS).
4. You have submitted all the necessary documents, fully signed, at least 7 days before the start of the mobility period.
5. You carry out the mobility as planned.

After your mobility period

6. Upload the signed Confirmation of Stay (CoS). The CoS must be signed by the host institution at the end of your stay and confirms that the stay took place.
7. You complete the EU Survey Report, which will be sent to you directly by the European Commission for the evaluation of the programme.
8. We will transfer the scholarship no later than 5 days after submission of your CoS or no later than 30 days after signature by all parties on the Grant Agreement. (We would like to point out that regular business trips are also always payed out retrospectively).
9. You will receive a certificate of participation at the same time. Participation in the Erasmus+ programme will also be noted in your personnel file. We thus comply with the requirements of the Erasmus+ programme.

As a rule, the AdBK funds stays of up to 5 days (plus necessary travel days). The amount of funding depends on your destination country, the duration of your stay and your means of travel. The current funding rates can be found in this overview from the AdBK for the current funding year. All funding information can also be found at the DAAD.

Please note that there is no legal entitlement to funding or a specific grant amount, as we can only approve funding subject to the availability of funds.

Double funding

It is not permitted to receive an Erasmus scholarship and another EU scholarship or a DAAD scholarship at the same time!

However, Erasmus+ funds can be combined with various other scholarships, fees or travel funds from, for example, host institutions. You can apply for internationalisation funds at the AdBK and Erasmus+ funds for yourself at the same time, provided that you then make the entire internationalisation funds available to the students. Please always notify us of any planned double funding at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Participants who meet the following requirements have the option of submitting a separate application (‘actual cost application’) to apply for a subsidy for additional costs incurred during their stay abroad, generally up to EUR 15.000 per stay:

• with a degree of disability (GdB) of 20 or more
• a proven disability that results in additional financial needs
• a chronic illness (physical or mental)
• child/children who are travelling with you for the entire duration of your stay abroad

Please feel free to contact us if you would like further advice or would like to submit an actual cost application: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Reimbursement of exceptional costs for expensive travel

These costs will be approved if recipients can prove that the travel allowance does not cover at least 70% of the travel costs. If the exceptional costs for expensive travel are approved, they will replace the travel allowance. The application must be submitted in writing to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at least 6 weeks before the start of the journey. The exceptional costs for expensive travel can cover up to 80% of the total cost of the journey.

Within the scope of the approved service or training trip, statutory accident insurance cover is provided in accordance with the relevant regulations.

Incidentally, an ERASMUS+ mobility grant does not include insurance cover. If you are funded by ERASMUS+, you are required to confirm that you have health insurance, international health insurance, accident insurance and liability insurance that meet certain criteria – among other things, the international health insurance must also cover pandemic cases.

Please check with your insurance company in good time. Alternatively, there is the option of taking out discounted group insurance, e.g. through the DAAD.

Further information on DAAD group insurance