State Grants and Loans as a Means to Increase Outgoing Mobility (STiME)

STiME has been co-financed by Lifelong Learning Programme (ERASMUS Accompanying Measures) in October 2012 for a period of 12 months.
This project will be delivered by the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) in collaboration with the Deutsches Studentenwerk (DSW). ESU is a member of the Advisory Board of the project.

Its major output of the project is a study on national grant and loan systems for students, covering 31 European countries (EU-27 and EFTA-4). The two main objectives of the study are:

to explore if and under which exact conditions “state grants and loans” are portable, i.e. provide funding for study abroad (in Europe or beyond).
to provide statistical data and information on the outbound mobility of students funded under these schemes, and identify the share of mobility
funded by these schemes of total outgoing mobility, thus assessing the impact of the schemes in terms of their “relative quantitative importance”.