Erasmus+ provides funding for teaching staff mobility at European universities which hold a valid Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE). Through their stay, teaching staff should strengthen the European aspect of the host university, complement existing courses and impart their specialist knowledge to students who do not want to or cannot study abroad. Where possible, the development of joint programmes at partner universities as well as the exchange of course content and teaching approaches should play a role in staff mobility. Staff from foreign companies and organisations can also be invited to German universities for educational purposes.

Staff mobility must take place in a programme country which is not the country of the sending university (except for incoming mobility, see below) and not the main country of residence of the person concerned.

For teaching purposes, staff at a German higher education institution with an ECHE are eligible to receive funding for mobility to a host higher education institution with an ECHE (outgoing mobility). Staff from a higher education institution or a public or private organisation active in the labour market or in the fields of education, training or youth in another programme country are also eligible to receive funding for teaching purposes at a German higher education institution with an ECHE (incoming mobility).

Staff mobility can combine teaching with training activities. Any period spent abroad for teaching or training purposes may be carried out as blended mobility. Notice: Erasmus+ financial support may only be granted for physical mobility (presence at host university).

Repeated applications for funding are possible but grants are primarily awarded to people who have not done yet an Erasmus stay abroad.