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Information specifically for Outgoings 2023/24​

Dear ERASMUS participants 2023/24,

here you will soon find all specific information concerning the ERASMUS year 2023/24. All general information concerning outgoing ERASMUS procedure can be found at Information for outgoings. 


We are currently updating our system with the nominations we received from the program coordinators at the departments. You will be able to check your current status in the beginning of May at the latest. If your application was successful, you will be able to download a participation certificate in your Mobility Online account. 


The information for 2023/24 will be updated below within the month of May. Thank you for your patience. 

The information below is from the year 2022/23. Thus, there may be changes for 23/24 which will be published here as soon as we receive them. 

To increase the qualitative impact of its actions and ensure equal opportunities, the ERASMUS program will reach out more and better to people of different ages and from diverse cultural, social and economic backgrounds. It is at the heart of the program to come closer to those with fewer opportunities, including people with disabilities and migrants, as well as European Union citizens living in remote areas or facing socio-economic difficulties.

Students with fewer opportunities receive a top-up amount to the individual support of their EU Erasmus+ grant with an amount of 250€ per month of funding. This additional financial support - a so-called Social top-up - can be received by certain target groups to cover additional expenses or needs. Below you find information on the different types of special funding depending on the target group.

The Social Top-ups can all be combined with the green travel top-up. However, the 250€ top-up can only be awarded once, even if several criteria apply to you. 

Application: In order to know about your status in this matter, for us at the Global Office it is sufficient that you fill in the querry in the workflow of your mobility online participant's account. After you download the document Declaration of honour - Social Top-up, you sign it and upload it and we can work with that for the time being. But you also agree to - at a later point in time - provide supporting documentation upon request (depending on the additional funding, e.g. medical certificate, disability certificate, travel receipts, parents' declaration, salary slips or similar).

For mobilities to the UK we cannot grant Social Top-ups due to the regulations.

Students whose parents or caregivers do not have a degree from a university or university of applied sciences are considered first-time academics. €250 per month of funding are available in addition to the regular monthly Erasmus grant.

A degree from a university-like university of cooperative education is considered an academic degree. Likewise, courses of study completed abroad count as academic degrees, even if they are not recognized in Germany. A master craftsman's diploma is not considered an academic degree.

Proof: Declaration of honour - Social Top-up in ERASMUS participant's account

You also agree to provide supporting documentation upon request at a later point in time.


Students who earn a significant amount of their own living may be reluctant to embark on a stay abroad, as they are often unable to continue working while abroad and earnings are lost. To alleviate this problem, there is now a Social Top-up in the amount of €250 if the following criteria apply:

·         employment subject to social insurance
·         net earnings of more than €450 and less than €850 in any month
·         continuously employed for at least six months during the two semesters prior to the stay abroad 

The activity must have taken place during this period:

  • Stay abroad in/from fall semester: 1 August of the previous year through 31 July of the year abroad
  • Stay abroad in spring semester: 1 February of the previous year through 31 January of the year abroad

The employment may be a single one or several immediately following each other. An interruption within the regular vacation period during employment is not a problem.

  • the activity is not continued during the stay abroad, so that there is a loss of earnings

Proof: Declaration of honour - Social Top-up in ERASMUS participant's account

You also agree to provide supporting documentation upon request at a later point in time.

Students who take their child or children abroad with them can also receive an additional €250 per month. The prerequisite is that the child or children is/are taken along during the entire stay. The allowance is €250 per month per family, regardless of the number of children. The application is also possible if a caregiver (partner) travels along.

Proof: Declaration of honour - Social Top-up in ERASMUS participant's account; copy of the child's/childrens' birth certificate, documatnation of travel for the child/children after conclusion of mobility

If particularly high additional costs arise from taking your child/children with you for your stay abroad, a so-called "real cost application" can be submitted instead with a few months' advance notice, through which up to €15,000 per semester can be covered. It is also possible to receive a grant for a preparatory trip to explore the local conditions. This requires a lot of time in advance, so we ask students to seek advice early.

Students with a degree of disability of 20 (GdB 20) or more can receive a top-up of €250 per month of funding.

Proof: Declaration of honour - Social Top-up in ERASMUS participant's account, severely handicapped pass or official letter of the state social service department


Students with a chronic illness that leads to additional financial needs for the stay abroad can also receive an additional €250 per month of funding.

Proof: Declaration of honour - Social Top-up in ERASMUS participant's account, doctor's certificate which declares that based on the chronic illness leads to additional financial needs in the host country compared to Germany.

If particularly high additional costs arise due to your stay abroad, a so-called "real cost application" can be submitted instead with a few months' notice, through which up to €15,000 per semester can be covered, e.g. for an accompanying person. It is also possible to receive a grant for a preparatory trip to explore the local conditions. This requires a lot of time in advance, so we ask students to seek advice early.

Pre-conditions:

  • degree of disability of 20 (GdB 20) or more
  • chronic illness that leads to additional financial needs for the stay abroad
  • The funds are being used to cover the additional costs due to the disability or chronic illnes that result from the stay abroad during the ERASMUS mobility.

Proof: Declaration of honour - Social Top-up in ERASMUS participant's account, severely handicapped pass or official letter of the state social service department

Proof: Declaration of honour - Social Top-up in ERASMUS participant's account, doctor's certificate which declares that based on the chronic illness leads to additional financial needs in the host country compared to Germany.You also agree to provide supporting documentation upon request at a later point in time.

You also agree to provide supporting documentation upon request at a later point in time.

Green Travel - Ecologically friendly student mobilities

The EU Green Deal is meant to push the EU to climate neutrality by 2050 and all EU actions and strategies should help to reach this goal. The ERASMUS program still sets the main focus on physical mobility to the host country, but the ecological footprint has to be reduced. Green mobility means environmentally sustainable travel.

In accordance with the ERASMUS guidelines and as a motivation for a Green Mobility the Global Office of Goethe-University will pay out a Green Travel Top-up to each 2022/23 ERASMUS participant who will travel to and from the host destination by train, bus, or car (ride-sharing with others). Participants travelling for part of their journey by ferry (e.g. Scandinavia) will receive the bonus as well, if the rest of the journey is being undertaken by train, bus or ride share. Air-travel obviously will not be funded. 

Green Travel funding consits of:

  • a 50€ lump sum 
  • 2 - 4 additional travel days (20€ or 18€ or 16.66€ per day depending on country group)
  • accordingly 2 - 4 additional days times 8,33333333€ (=1/30 of 250€), if the participant receives a Social Top-up

Students have to fill in a querry in the regular workflow of their participant's account in order for the global office to identify recipients for Social Top-up and Green Travel Top-up. Green travel funding will be paid out within the first and final installments and corrected in the final installment, if students did not travel green to and from the host institution. Since you already have to upload a proof of travel together with your arrival and departure certificates in order to prove physical mobility, we are able to check the mode of travel when checking these uploads.

Here you find further information on GREEN ERASMUS.

For mobilities to the UK Green Travel funding is not possible.

Contact us

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Global Office
Eschersheimer Landstraße 155
c/o House of Labor
3rd floor
60323 Frankfurt am Main