Travel.
Erasmus+ · Deutsche Schule Prag

Take your class
abroad.

Student group mobility — what it is, what it costs, and what it gives back.

Erasmus+ funds schools to send students on structured international exchanges. As a teacher, you travel because your students travel — you design the programme, lead the group, and bring it home. The grant covers most of the cost.

Find out how
Grant covers
100% core costs
Travel, accommodation, and daily subsistence — all funded. You are not out of pocket.
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Current accreditation
Valid to 2027
KA120-SCH-000190080 · DSP holds full Erasmus+ accreditation — no separate application needed to propose a mobility.
What support you actually get

You are not doing this alone.

The most common reason teachers hesitate is not the educational programme — it is the fear of what happens when something goes wrong. Here is what is in place.

Administrative cover

All logistics — travel, accommodation, grant documentation, parental consent collection — are handled by the coordinators and administration. You do not manage paperwork alone.

Legal responsibility clarity

The school carries institutional liability for Erasmus+ mobilities. The Participant Agreements and Learning Agreement define responsibilities clearly before departure. You are covered by the school's insurance framework throughout.

If something goes wrong

The Erasmus coordination team and school management are your first point of contact for any incident — medical, logistical, or behavioural. You are not expected to resolve problems unilaterally. Escalation protocols are in place.

Cover lessons

Timetable cover for your absence is arranged by school management as part of the mobility planning process — not left to you to negotiate individually.

Parental concerns

The coordinators handle parental queries about the programme, costs, and consent. The consent form covers medical, conduct, and media questions systematically so individual conversations are rare.

After you return

Post-mobility reporting is supported by the coordination team. Your main obligation is one dissemination contribution — a short staff presentation, a newsletter paragraph, or a lesson drawing on the experience.

"Just being responsible for a group on your own. I was pretty exhausted after the trip — but happy to have done it." Sirina Agred, French teacher · exchange visit, Marseille 2026
What is student group mobility?

Your students travel.
You lead. Erasmus pays.

Student group mobilities are structured visits where a DSP class travels to a partner school abroad — or hosts one here. DSP's preferred model is the reciprocal exchange: both groups travel, both grants fund the trip. You plan the educational programme; the grant covers the logistics.

DSP strategic goals this supports
🌍 European languages & cultures 🗣 Democratic education & media literacy 💚 Mental health & student participation 🌱 Ecological sustainability
DSP preferred model

Reciprocal exchange

Your group visits a partner school; their group visits DSP. Both legs are grant-funded. Students are expected to host an incoming guest and travel in return — this reciprocity is central to how the model works. Where hosting genuinely isn't possible for a particular student, the coordinators discuss alternatives on a case-by-case basis.

two-way · grant covers both legs · repeatable

Short-term learner mobility

A structured visit of around a week, including travel. Your class travels to a partner school for a jointly planned educational programme — or hosts an incoming group at DSP. Concrete, manageable, and immediately visible to students and parents.

approx. one week · most common

Blended mobility

A physical mobility combined with virtual collaboration before and after. Often the most pedagogically rich format — students meet online, travel together, and continue working across borders.

hybrid format · growing fast
How it works

From idea to departure
in five steps.

The coordination team handles the grant administration. Your job is the educational programme — the coordination team handles everything else.

01

You have an idea

Tell the Erasmus coordinators which year group, subject, and rough destination you have in mind. Nothing needs to be fixed yet.

02

Team approves

Coordinators assess fit with the school's strategic goals and identify a suitable partner school. Go/no-go within two weeks.

03

Programme designed

You and the partner school agree on dates, activities, and learning objectives. The Educational Programme document is prepared.

04

Admin handled

Travel and accommodation booked through Tamara Čakarmišova. Parental consent forms collected. Grant paperwork filed.

05

You travel

Lead the group, document the programme, collect participation certificates. Share one piece of dissemination on return.

What's in it for you?

Real gains.
Not paperwork.

  • ✈

    Your costs are covered

    Travel, accommodation, and a daily subsistence allowance. You are not out of pocket.

  • 📚

    Curriculum you design

    The educational programme is yours — designed with the support of the coordination team. Language, humanities, science, arts — mobility is a format, not a subject.

  • 🌍

    Professional development logged

    Leading a group mobility counts as documented CPD — design, intercultural pedagogy, international partnership work.

  • 🤝

    Long-term partnerships

    A good mobility usually repeats. Many DSP teachers have taken the same group to the same partner school across multiple years.

  • 🎓

    Students remember it

    A mobility is often the single most memorable educational experience of a student's time at DSP. That belongs to you.

30+
Partner countries eligible
€0
Out of pocket for teacher
2027
Accreditation valid until
Student outcomes

What students
actually gain.

Language acquisition accelerates. Students who resist practising in class tend to engage fluently when the context demands it.

Social dynamics shift. Students who rarely interact at school often connect most deeply during a mobility. Teachers consistently identify this as one of the most significant outcomes.

Motivation carries over. Students return with a reason to engage — a contact, a project, a language that now means something personally.

These outcomes are difficult to manufacture in a classroom. They tend to arrive unexpectedly — a student sitting in front of a sculpture for a long time, just looking; a student who barely speaks in class holding a conversation in a foreign language. One of Justin Steinmetz's students did exactly that in Helsinki.

"All the students got along so well that they started organising outings together after the programme activities. I didn't expect that at all — but it was very encouraging." Sirina Agred, French teacher · exchange visit, Marseille 2026
"One of the students ended up sitting in front of a sculpture for ages, just looking — soaking it in. When we talked about what had held her there, it was genuinely illuminating. You just don't get moments like that in a normal lesson." — Justin Steinmetz, Erasmus+ group mobility, Helsinki
The grant in plain language

What Erasmus+ covers.

The school's accreditation grant is already in place. These are the cost categories it funds for group learner mobilities.

✈️

Travel

Return flights or rail for the whole group. Booked through administration — not out-of-pocket, not reimbursed later.

Covered · all participants
🏨

Accommodation

Hotel or partner school accommodation for the duration. Host family placements are welcome but not a funding requirement.

Covered · all participants
💶

Daily subsistence

A per diem allowance for meals and incidentals. Rate confirmed before departure by Radka Rubricius in finance.

Per diem · teacher + accompanying staff
📋

Organisational support

A flat-rate grant contribution toward the coordination costs of running the mobility — paperwork, preparation, administration.

Flat rate · per mobility
🌐

Language preparation

Access to OLS (Online Language Support) for participants. Free language courses before departure if the host country language is eligible.

Optional · OLS platform
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Inclusion support

Additional funding is available for students with special educational needs or disadvantaged backgrounds. No student should be excluded on cost grounds.

Supplementary · on application
Common questions

Before you ask
the coordinators.

No. Identifying and approaching partner schools is part of the coordinators' role. If you already have a contact — a colleague from a conference, a school you've visited privately — bring it to Klára or Justin and they'll assess fit. But you don't need to start from scratch.
Erasmus+ includes a specific inclusion fund for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Additionally, because accommodation and travel are grant-funded rather than parent-funded, the out-of-pocket cost to families is typically much lower than a standard school trip. No student should be excluded on cost grounds — speak to the coordinators if inclusion is a concern.
In DSP's reciprocal exchange model, students are expected to host an incoming guest and travel in return. This reciprocity is what makes the model work — both groups benefit, both groups contribute. Accommodation costs are grant-funded, so hosting is not a financial burden. If a student genuinely cannot host for reasons outside their control, the coordinators will discuss alternatives individually. A blanket opt-out from hosting while still travelling is not the norm.
The paperwork and logistics are handled by the coordinators and administration. Your investment is the educational programme — designing what the students will actually do, preparing them before departure, and leading them during the mobility. Experienced teachers estimate 10–15 hours of preparation for a first mobility; subsequent ones are faster.
DSP's Erasmus+ accreditation covers the full school from Klasse 1 through to the Abitur year. In practice, group mobilities work best from Klasse 5 upward, but there's no upper or lower grant restriction. The suitability of a year group is an educational judgement, not an eligibility question.
Yes. Student group mobilities are not restricted to language teachers or humanities. Science exchanges, arts programmes, sport mobilities, and STEM projects have all been funded under Erasmus+. The requirement is that the programme connects to at least one of DSP's four strategic goals — which is a broad brief.
How participation works

DSP runs a small number of group mobilities each year, selected in coordination with school leadership and department heads. Participation rotation is monitored to ensure the same teachers are not repeatedly burdened or excluded. The Erasmus team works to ensure workload is manageable and each mobility is properly supported from planning through to archive. If you have an idea, the first step is a conversation — not a commitment.

Ready to go further? Erasmus+ Staff Handbook → Documents · workflows · checklists · contacts