The Official Journal of the European Union has published a new call for proposals for the implementation of Erasmus Mundus II named EACEA/29/09 with a total budget of 106,20 M€.

The Erasmus Mundus programme's overall aim is to promote European higher education, to help improve and enhance the career prospects of students and to promote intercultural understanding through cooperation with third countries, in accordance with EU external policy objectives in order to contribute to the sustainable development of third countries in the field of higher education.

This call will be open until the 30th of April 2009 and it has a global budget for 2010 of 106,20 M€

The call has three priorities as follows:

A. Action 1: ERASMUS MUNDUS JOINT PROGRAMMES
This action that aims at fostering cooperation between higher education institutions and academic staff in Europe and third countries with a view to creating poles of excellence and providing highly trained human resources is composed of two sub-actions:

• Action 1A - Erasmus Mundus Master Courses (EMMCs) and
• Action 1B - Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates (EMJDs).

B. Action 2: ERASMUS MUNDUS PARTNERSHIPS
The Call for proposals is launched with a suspensive clause concerning the ACP lot. The EDF funding (and consequently the award of the resulting grant for the ACP lot) is subject to the pending signature of a Financing Agreement between the European Commission and the ACP Group of States.

This action aims at fostering structured cooperation between European and third-country higher education institutions through the promotion of mobility at all level of studies for students (undergraduate and masters), doctoral candidates, researchers, academic and administrative staff (not all regions and lots may include all mobility flows).

C. Action 3: PROMOTION OF EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION
The Call for proposals is launched with a suspensive clause concerning the ACP lot. The EDF funding (and consequently the award of the resulting grant for the ACP lot) is subject to the pending signature of a Financing Agreement between the European Commission and the ACP Group of States.