Erasmus+ KA131 - Blended Intensive Programme (BIP)

What are the Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP)?

The Erasmus+ programme has an action that allows the organization or participation in Blended Intensive programs (BIP), which are short-term intensive programs which are characterized by:

• Being organised by at least three European universities from three different countries of the Erasmus programme. The countries that can participate are the following: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Northern Macedonia, Malta, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Turkey, Czech Republic, Cyprus.

• Combining stays abroad for a short period of time (between 5 and 30 days) of students and staff with a compulsory virtual part that must be able to bring together participants online to work in a collective and simultaneous way in specific tasks that are integrated into the BIP and that have the overall results of the learning.

   

The aim of these programmes is to promote the capacity to develop and implement innovative teaching and learning practices among the higher education institutions involved.

In addition, the Erasmus programme considers that short-term mobility is a way of fostering inclusion, since it allows the incorporation of a wider number of participants and makes mobility accessible to groups that are more difficult to participate in long-term mobility (e.g., people who work or have family burdens).

BIP can be mobility for studies or internships, as well as a BIP for training staff (PDI - PTGAS).

Types of participation in the BIP

The participation of universities in the BIP has two modalities:

• Modality A: as a coordinating institution:
  The institution that coordinates a BIP is the institution that organizes and, normally, the institution that hosts the short-term physical mobility that can be carried out in any place in the territory of the country to which the coordinating institution belongs. The coordinating institution is funded by the BIP organization for a total of €400 per participant (up to a maximum of 20 participants). For this calculation, it is understood that those who receive training and who carry out mobility (the trainers do not count, nor the participants who do not carry out a mobility because they belong to the institution that receives the mobility).

   

• Modality B: as an associated institution:
  • When an institution participates as a partner in a BIP and is not the institution that hosts the activity, its members carry out the short-term mobility of the institution or the other institution, depending on how the BIP is organized. The mobility of the mobility of the members of each participating institution is the responsibility of each of the participating institutions, and is financed by the ordinary funding of the Erasmus programme (KA131).
  • This modality is exclusively aimed at the mobility of undergraduate and master students.

Academic regulations for the implementation of BIPs for the training of students (coordinator and/or partner).

Criteria for the organization of combined mobility and academic recognition of the combined intensive programmes (BIP) of the University of Barcelona (in catalan)