The European Commission and the New Zealand Government are providing funding over four years to fund a new European Union/New Zealand tertiary student exchange programme. The programme, administered by the Tertiary Education Commission, will support academic and student exchanges of up to 30 New Zealanders and 30 Europeans to study abroad for between five and 10 months.

The New Zealand Government is providing NZ$600,000 over four years and the European Commission will contribute a similar amount of funding to the programme. Funding is available for one joint project with a consortium of at least three partner organisations from European Union countries and two New Zealand partner organisations.

Proposals from New Zealand tertiary education organisations will be accepted up until 6 June 2008 and it is expected the exchanges will begin in 2009.

This new exchange programme follows a European Union/New Zealand exchange pilot which was launched in 2004.

More information, including the application form and guidelines, are available on the Tertiary Education Commission's European Union/New Zealand exchange programme page.