Program and partner countries

PROGRAMME COUNTRIES:

• 27 EU countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden.
• 6 third countries associated to the programme: Iceland, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, Norway, Turkey, Serbia.

PARTNER COUNTRIES:

all other countries.

Programme country students:
1. Students whose citizenship is one of the programme countries.
2. Students with a partner country citizenship who are resident in a programme country or have carried out their main activity (studies, training or work) for more than a total of 12 months, over the last five years (calculated backwards as from the submission deadline defined by the Consortium of applying for the CLE), in a programme country.

Partner country students:
Students with a partner country citizenship who are not resident in a programme country and who don’t have carried out their main activity (studies, training or work) for more than a total of 12 months, over the last five years (calculated backwards as from the submission deadline defined by the Consortium of applying for the CLE), in a programme country.

12-month rule:

Students who are not residents nor have carried out their main activity (studies, training or work) for more than a total of 12 months, over the last five years in a programme country, count as partner country students. The five-year reference period for this 12-month rule is calculated backwards as from the submission deadline defined by the Consortium of applying for the CLE Master.

*PLEASE NOTE - Status of students from the United Kingdom
Students from the United Kingdom who are/have been enrolled in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in European Literary Cultures CLE, intakes 2019-21, 2020-22, 2021-23 and 2022-24, have been assimilated to Programme Country students and/or residents. From intake 2023-25 on, they are encountered in the Partner Countries category.