The information about this Country was updated on 19/February/2024.
Outgoing students
Erasmus+ Inclusion Support
This support measures are put in place with the support of the Erasmus+ programme. For additional information, check the National Policies section.
Definition of students with fewer opportunities
A person with fewer opportunities faces personal, physical, mental or health-related conditions that make participation in the project/mobility action not possible without extra financial or other support.
Target groups
The NA uses the following definition of an immigrant by Statistics Iceland: An immigrant is a person born abroad with both parents foreign born and all grandparents foreign born, whereas a second generation immigrant is born in Iceland having immigrant parents.
To confirm the need for the top-up the student has to sign a student declaration. Please note that the higher education institution allocating the Erasmus+ grant may ask for a relevant proof, in addition to the declaration.
Students that belong to more than one target groups can only receive top-up due to one target group.
To confirm the need for the top-up the student has to sign a student declaration. Please note that the higher education institution allocating the Erasmus+ grant may ask for a relevant proof, in addition to the declaration.
Students that belong to more than one target groups can only receive top-up due to one target group.
To confirm the need for the top-up the student has to sign a student declaration. Please note that the higher education institution allocating the Erasmus+ grant may ask for a relevant proof, in addition to the declaration.
Students that belong to more than one target groups can only receive top-up due to one target group.
To confirm the need for the top-up the student has to sign a student declaration. Please note that the higher education institution allocating the Erasmus+ grant may ask for a relevant proof, in addition to the declaration.
Students that belong to more than one target groups can only receive top-up due to one target group.
To confirm the need for the top-up the student has to sign a student declaration. Please note that the higher education institution allocating the Erasmus+ grant may ask for a relevant proof, in addition to the declaration.
Students that belong to more than one target groups can only receive top-up due to one target group.
Grants
Special Needs support: Who is eligible to request real cost support
Students can apply for additional grant support in order to cover the supplementary costs that can arise during a mobility which cannot be covered through the top-up amount for individual support. In particular these costs aim at covering the extra financial support required for participants with physical, mental or health related conditions to allow their participation in the mobility as well as in preparatory visits and for accompanying persons (including costs related to travel and subsistence, if justified and as long as it is not covered through budget categories "travel support" and "individual support" for these participants). In particular these costs aim at covering the extra financial support required for participants with physical, mental or health related conditions to allow their participation in the mobility as well as in preparatory visits and for accompanying persons (including costs related to travel and subsistence, if justified and as long as it is not covered through budget categories "travel support" and "individual support" for these participants).
Other Inclusion support provided
For further information on the top-ups and real cost support, please see: https://www.erasmusplus.is/taekifaeri/haskolastig/inngilding-a-haskolas…
National Inclusion Support
This support measures for outgoing students are put in place with national resources.
Incoming students
National Inclusion Support
This support measures for incoming students are put in place with national resources.
National Policies
Erasmus+ National Inclusion Strategy
National definition of underrepresented groups in Higher Education
Strategies and policy measures to widen participation in Higher Education
Strategies and policy measures related to Mobility in Higher Education
The Ministry has not developed a specific strategy for internationalisation in higher education, only quantitative indicators in the national Fiscal Plan.
In Erasmus+, inclusion has been and continues to be a priority area in Iceland. In the new programme period, three staff members at the National Agency have the role of inclusion officers. They are currently working on a national inclusion strategy for Erasmus+ together with external stakeholders, building on the new Erasmus+ inclusion strategy from EC. Special attention will be paid to accessibility in all events and promotional work carried out by the NA.
Students with disabilities will continue to receive an Erasmus+ grant based on real cost in the new programme period. The NA places emphasis on this target group in the promotion of Erasmus+ with the help of role models who have been mobile in the past. See as an example (only in Icelandic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvVCc4GMaaYþ