Exchanges Funding

• The Funding for School Exchanges Scheme is part of an awareness raising campaign and focusses language teachers on the importance and benefits of undertaking a school exchange.
• Exchange experiences provide excellent opportunities for increasing awareness of the value of learning languages.
• Students who are confident in their language skills are more likely to be open to the idea of doing an Erasmus placement if they progress to Higher Education.
• Funding encourages schools that may have issues with funding to run a school exchange. Students benefit from the exchange (improved language skills, new way of thinking, CV, independence, confidence, appreciation of what they have, new friends, experience other culture, experience life with other family, potentially work experience). Teachers also benefit from the exchange (language skills up to date, job‑shadowing/team‑teaching methodologies with exchange teachers in Target Language country).
• Funding offers the possibility to a school of offering a scholarship to a student, who would not otherwise be in a financial position to go on the school exchange.
• Promotion of school exchanges by funded schools is an important aspect of the scheme. All exchanges should have a Student Social Media Leader responsible for posting photos and videos.