An Erasmus+ grant for study abroad is a contribution to your travel and daily living costs. Your sending or receiving institution signs the grant agreement and applies for funding on behalf of its students. For a DAAD scholarship, you read the call for applications for your chosen scholarship programme in the scholarship database, and DAAD scholarships do not have to be paid back. The France Excellence Eiffel regulations call Erasmus+ "an Erasmus+ scholarship". Our guide on Erasmus Mundus covers the EU scholarship for joint Master's programmes.
Last updated: November 2026.
What does an Erasmus+ study grant cover?
An Erasmus+ study grant is a contribution to your travel and daily living costs. The details of the grant depend on many different conditions, including the differences in living costs between your country and the destination country, the number of students applying for a grant, and the distance between countries and the availability of other grants. As an Erasmus+ student, you are exempt from fees for tuition, registration, examinations, and charges for access to laboratories or libraries at the receiving institution. Small fees for insurance or student union membership may still apply. Our guide on Erasmus+ vs regular study abroad covers the grant in more detail.
What does a scholarship cover?
What a scholarship covers depends on the programme, as the DAAD, the NL Scholarship, France Excellence Eiffel and Stipendium Hungaricum show.
🎓 DAAD: DAAD scholarships do not have to be paid back and usually consist of a monthly scholarship payment and a flat-rate travel allowance.
🎓 NL Scholarship (formerly Holland Scholarship): you will receive the NL Scholarship in the first year of your studies, and the NL Scholarship is not a full-tuition scholarship.
🎓 France Excellence Eiffel: France Excellence Eiffel scholarship holders receive a monthly allowance and several services (international transportation, national transportation, insurance, housing searches, cultural activities). Tuition fees are not covered by the France Excellence Eiffel program. Recipients of a French government scholarship are exempt from tuition fees associated with pursuing a national degree or the title of "diplômé d'ingénieur" at public scientific, cultural, and vocational institutions under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Higher Education.
🎓 Stipendium Hungaricum: tuition-free education, with exemption from the payment of tuition fee, a monthly stipend, an accommodation contribution and medical insurance. The Stipendium Hungaricum provisions are only a contribution to the living expenses of the Scholarship Holders.
Our guide on government scholarships in Europe gives the conditions and amounts.
Is an Erasmus Mundus scholarship a grant or a scholarship?
An Erasmus Mundus Joint Master (EMJM) offers EU-funded scholarships for the best students applying. The EMJM consortium, the participating institutions, has the sole responsibility for the selection, recruitment and monitoring of individual students. Among the selected students, a number may benefit from an EMJM scholarship. The scholarship will be a contribution to the costs of the students and shall cover travel, visa, installation and subsistence costs. Erasmus Mundus projects cannot charge Erasmus Mundus scholarship holders tuition fees or other mandatory costs related to student participation in the course. EMJM scholarships can be offered to students from all over the world. Our guide on Erasmus Mundus covers how the programme works.
Can you combine a scholarship with an Erasmus+ grant?
Whether you can combine them depends on the programme rules below.
➕ Erasmus+: you may also be eligible for additional grants from your institution, government or other sources.
⛔ Eiffel: an Eiffel scholarship may not be combined with another French government scholarship, an Erasmus+ scholarship, or a scholarship from the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie.
⛔ Stipendium Hungaricum: the scholarship holder is not entitled to use financial support for taking part in other scholarship programmes or partial studies outside Hungary. You are allowed, for a short stay (not longer than 30 working days), to participate at a conference related to research or studies funded by institutional sources or other scholarship programs, such as Erasmus+ and CEEPUS. You are also allowed a stay that does not affect the requirement of the habitual residency principle.
⛔ EMJM: students who have previously obtained an EMJM scholarship are not eligible to apply for an additional scholarship under the EMJM.
Our guide on DAAD scholarships covers the German programme.
Where do you apply for each?
For Erasmus+, you reach out to the international or Erasmus+ office of your university, and for a DAAD scholarship, you read the call for applications in the scholarship database.
🎓 Erasmus+ study exchange: there's no central application form to study abroad with Erasmus+, and you can reach out to the international or Erasmus+ office of your university or higher education institution to start the process. Your sending higher education institution must select applicants in a fair and transparent way. If you are accepted for a grant, you will sign a participant grant agreement with your sending or receiving institution.
🎓 DAAD: read the call for applications for your chosen scholarship programme in the scholarship database.
🎓 Stipendium Hungaricum: you submit your application through the online application system of Tempus Public Foundation.
🎓 France Excellence Eiffel: the French institution submits your application online via the dedicated Campus France website, and applications sent directly by students or by foreign institutions will be declared ineligible.
Our guide on how to write a scholarship motivation letter helps with the application.
Frequently asked questions
Is Erasmus+ a scholarship?
Erasmus+ calls it a grant, and the amount is a contribution to your travel and daily living costs. The France Excellence Eiffel regulations call it "an Erasmus+ scholarship". Our guide on Erasmus Mundus covers the EU scholarship for joint Master's programmes.
Does the Erasmus+ grant cover everything?
No: the amount is a contribution to your travel and daily living costs. Our guide on Erasmus+ vs regular study abroad covers the grant in more detail.
Are Erasmus+ youth projects funded the same way?
No: in Erasmus+ Youth Exchanges and youth worker activities, participants receive no pocket money or cash allowance, while food, accommodation and travel are covered. Our guide on what Erasmus+ covers in youth projects goes through the items.
Do I have to pay back a DAAD scholarship?
No: DAAD scholarships do not have to be paid back. Our guide on DAAD scholarships covers the German programme.
Where can you go from here?
Our guide on Erasmus+ vs regular study abroad covers the Erasmus+ side. Our guide on government scholarships in Europe covers the scholarship side. The Youth Works Hub pages below cover the next steps.
Related pages: Erasmus+ vs regular study abroad · Erasmus Mundus · DAAD scholarships · government scholarships in Europe · what a fellowship is
👉 Scholarships: youthworkshub.org/?tab=scholarships
👉 Erasmus+ projects: youthworkshub.org/?tab=erasmus-projects
