Who can participate?

Eligible participants

Higher education institutions who wish to implement Joint Projects or Structural Measures  in consortia composed of institutions from the EU and the Partner Countries.
Any organisation who will contribute actively to the objectives of the projects (Joint Projects or Structural Measures). Such organisations may be:

• Associations, organisations or networks of higher education institutions national or international rRector, teacher or student organisations.
• Non-governmental organisations;
• Social Partners or their training organisations;
• Chambers of commerce, labour associations or other public or private professional organisations;
• Private or public enterprises;
• Research institutions.

Individual students, university and other staff
Individuals cannot apply directly to the Programme. Individual mobility is not an objective per se of Tempus. Limited and short term mobility of students, academic staff and university administrators may be possible as part of aTempus project, but only as long as it contributes to achievement of the project's objective(s).

Public administrations (ie. Ministries, other national, regional and local administrations) may be "associate partners" in the project but may not receive funding from the grant (with the exception of 'per diems' and travel costs). This applies to both Joint Projects and Structural Measures.

'Individual Experts' who are not members of the partnership, may be invited to participate in project activities, provided that their involvement can be justified and will assist all partners in achieving the project's objectives. It is also necessary to justify that their particular expertise cannot be found within any of the Partner Institutions.

Please note that more information on which beneficiaries and participants will be considered eligible  is included in the Tempus Calls for Proposal.

Eligible Countries

Tempus IV is open to higher education institutions and to other organisations active in the field of higher education, provided they are established in the EU Member States or in the Partner Countries.

There are four groups of eligible countries:

•  27 EU Member States;
• 6 countries from the Western Balkans region, including Kosovo under UN Security Council Resolution 1244;
• 16 countries South and East of the EU and the Russian Federation;
• 5 Central Asian countries.

Institutions from the following five countries may participate in Tempus projects as partners, but only if they finance their participation themselves: Turkey and the EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland).
Please note that a full list of the countries who are considered eligible to participate in the Tempus Programme is included in the Calls for Proposals.

Organisations established in one of the following countries are eligible (for the 2009 Call for Proposal). Countries that are not listed below are ineligible.