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;
• countries from the Western Balkans region:  Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, as well as Kosovo under UN Security Council Resolution 1244;
• 17 countries South and East of the EU and the Russian Federation;
• 5 Central Asian countries.

Who can participate?

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/tempus/programme/who_participate_en.php

Information about Tempus:

Tempus aims to promote voluntary convergence of Partner Country higher education systems with EU developments in the field of higher education such as the Lisbon agenda and the Bologna process . In addition to institutional cooperation Tempus also promotes a "people to people" approach.

Tempus provides support to consortia of institutions composed mainly of universities or universitie associations. Non-academic partners can also be part of a consortium.

The overall objective of Tempus is to contribute to the creation of an area of cooperation in the field of higher education between the European Union and Partner Countries in the countries neighbouring the EU.

The specific objectives of Tempus are as follows:

• To promote the reform and modernisation of higher education in the Partner Countries;
• To enhance the quality and relevance of higher education to the world of work and society in the Partner Countries;
• To increase the capacity of higher education institutions in the Partner Countries and the EU, in particular their capacity to co-operate internationally and to continually modernize, and to assist them in opening up to society at large, the world of work and the wider world in order:
  • to overcome inter-country fragmentation in the area of higher education and inter-institutional fragmentation in countries themselves;
  • to enhance inter-disciplinarity and trans-disciplinarity between university faculties;
  • to enhance the employability of university graduates;
  • to make the European Higher Education Area more visible and attractive in the world;
• To foster the reciprocal development of human resources;
• To enhance mutual understanding between peoples and cultures of the EU and the Partner Countries.

Further information:

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/tempus/programme/about_tempus_en.php