EPNOE brings together universities, research institutions, and industry partners working across polysaccharide science and innovation.
Through the EPNOE Erasmus Mobility Initiative, we aim to make existing mobility opportunities more visible and easier to explore within our network.
This initiative is not a new funding programme. It is a practical effort to help members find the right contacts, identify possible host institutions, and support research exchange through existing mobility frameworks such as Erasmus+ and institutional exchange schemes.
Across the EPNOE network, many institutions already offer strong expertise, research environments, and international mobility structures.
But for students, doctoral candidates, researchers, and staff, the first question is often simple:
Who should I contact?
The EPNOE Erasmus Mobility Initiative helps answer that question by creating a clearer map of mobility contacts, research areas, and possible host connections across member institutions.
Discover potential host institutions, research groups, and areas of expertise within the EPNOE network.
Find the right Erasmus, international office, or institutional mobility contact.
Support short research visits, traineeships, training periods, teaching mobility, and future collaborations through existing institutional routes.
Explore possible research stays, traineeships, or international learning opportunities through EPNOE member institutions.
Build connections with laboratories, supervisors, and research groups working in related areas.
Discover opportunities for teaching, training, knowledge exchange, or professional development.
Help connect institutional mobility structures with research communities inside the EPNOE network.
EPNOE does not replace Erasmus offices or institutional mobility procedures.
Instead, EPNOE helps create the first connection.
We aim to:
– Map relevant mobility contacts;
– Make member expertise more visible;
– Support connections between sending and host institutions;
– Help junior researchers understand where opportunities may exist;
– Document mobility stories within the network.
The formal application, funding, and administrative process remains with each institution.
The EPNOE Erasmus Mobility Initiative begins with one practical step: helping members find the right people to contact.
By sharing your institution’s mobility contact and broad areas of expertise, you help make your institution more visible within the EPNOE community. This can lead to new research connections, short visits, traineeships, staff exchanges, and future collaborations.
The process is designed to be light, practical, and easy to maintain.
Each EPNOE member institution is invited to provide the name and email address of the person or office responsible for Erasmus, international mobility, or exchange opportunities.
This may be an Erasmus coordinator, international office representative, faculty mobility officer, or another relevant institutional contact.
This gives EPNOE members a clear starting point when they are exploring mobility possibilities with your institution.
Member institutions may also share a few broad research keywords or areas of expertise.
For example:
This will help students, PhD candidates, researchers, and supervisors quickly understand whether your institution could be a relevant host or collaboration partner.
EPNOE will use the information to create a clearer overview of mobility contacts and expertise across the network.
This will not be a complicated database. It will be a simple and useful resource that helps members know:
Why this matters:
Your institution becomes easier to discover within the network, especially by junior researchers looking for guidance and possible host environments.
Once the contact map is in place, researchers, students, supervisors, and staff can use it as a first step to explore opportunities.
They may use it to ask:
This lowers the barrier for new conversations and makes the EPNOE network more active beyond conferences and events.
EPNOE will help make the connection, but the official process remains with the relevant institutions.
Funding, eligibility, agreements, and application requirements will still be handled through the Erasmus or international office of the sending and host institutions.
Members can participate without taking on a new administrative burden. EPNOE supports visibility and connection, while institutions continue to follow their own procedures.
As exchanges happen, EPNOE hopes to document selected mobility examples from within the network.
These stories may highlight:
This gives visibility to member institutions, showcases the value of the network, and encourages more researchers to explore mobility through EPNOE connections.
For member institutions, this initiative offers a simple way to make research expertise, mobility contacts, and potential host opportunities more visible across the EPNOE network. By participating, institutions can support junior researchers, encourage academic exchange, and open new conversations with trusted partners in polysaccharide science and innovation. EPNOE facilitates the first connection, while formal mobility procedures remain with each institution’s existing Erasmus or international office structure.
No. EPNOE is helping members make better use of existing mobility opportunities.
No. Applications, agreements, and funding procedures remain with the relevant institutions.
A member institution can submit the contact of its Erasmus coordinator, international office representative, faculty mobility officer, or another relevant person.
Yes. Industry members may be relevant for traineeships, research collaboration, knowledge exchange, or future mobility discussions.
EPNOE will use the information responsibly and define the contact map format with care for institutional preferences and data protection.
By sharing your institution’s mobility contact, you help EPNOE create a more connected and accessible network for students, researchers, staff, and member institutions.
Together, we can make existing mobility opportunities easier to understand, easier to access, and more meaningful for the polysaccharide research community.