The practical sequence, from choosing a destination to confirming individual placements.
Before individual student placements can be planned, a school needs to settle on a destination and a host organisation there. These two decisions are connected — a destination is only realistic if there's a reliable partner who can actually deliver placements, accommodation and support once students arrive.
A teacher coordinating logistics for an internship abroad.
For most schools, this planning happens alongside — not after — the Erasmus+ KA1 application itself, since a concrete placement plan strengthens the application. See how a school can participate in an Erasmus+ project for how the funding side fits together with this planning.
In practice, most schools rely on a host partner to handle everything on the ground — placement matching, accommodation, transfers, workplace tutors and monitoring — while the school focuses on student selection, the funding application, and staying in touch during the mobility. That division is what makes organising an internship abroad manageable for a small coordination team.
The placement-matching step in more detail.
Read more → Erasmus+ PartnershipsFinding the host partner this whole process depends on.
Read more → Erasmus+The paperwork that runs alongside this planning.
Read more →DNA Europe is a Lisbon-based host organisation for Erasmus+ KA1 VET mobility, coordinating placements, accommodation and documentation for partner schools.
