All language teachers are eligible to participate in the Comenius programme, that is to say:

• All teachers who are qualified in teaching an official language of the European Union
• Professors who train school or college teachers in a foreign language.
• Primary and pre-school teachers involved in language teaching;
• teachers re-training in foreign language teaching;
• those teaching subjects through the medium of a foreign language;
• language teachers returning after a career break
• advisers of teachers or of foreign languages
  

Teachers of foreign languages have the opportunity to take a special teacher course abroad. These courses are aimed at further training teachers to improve their methodology and didactics. Another possibility is to take general language courses in order to improve the “main” languages of English, French, Spanish or German or get to know an less known language.

The Comenius programme is offered and endorsed by the European Union therefore, the European commission offers financial help, and these finances cover:

• The return trip
• Lodging expenses (maintenance and accommodation), depending on the country you choose to go to
• costs for the language course
• Academic fees

The exact amount of the finance is allocated per person based on the length of time you do the course, which is 40 hours in total or a month of participation. The minimum stay is 2 weeks and you can do up to 12 weeks. Of course, the longer you stay the more financial help you get to cover your travel and accommodation costs.

In order to a apply for the scholarship, you need to request for an application from your National Agency, for example in England, the British Council,

The dates of application are the following:

• January 15th 2010 for courses starting may 1st 2010 or later
• April 30th 2010 for courses starting september 1st 2010 or later
• September 15th 2010 for courses starting january 1st 2011 or later (latest start: april 30th 2011)

You can chose any of our language courses that fulfils the requirements for the scholarship: All together you have to take 40 lessons or do one month of language course. Those hours are confirmed by the certificate of attendance you receive from our partner schools at the end of your language course.
Some of our partner schools already have a registration number for the COMENUIS programme, but this is not necessary to receive the scholarship. The number just simplifies the process of granting by the EU.
On our website you can find all our intensive courses of at least 20 lessons per week in a lot of destinations in the EU.

To the teachers of foreign languages we also recommend to have a look at our special teacher courses that lecture besides a general language course also new methodology and didactics.

Those are some of our destinations that already have been accepted for COMENUS: