Funded seats
20
Participants with fewer opportunities, current project
Our commitment
CUT's Erasmus Policy Statement commits the University to a fully inclusive education, and to mobility opportunities for everyone. This page says what that means in practice.
It covers our students and staff going abroad and the participants who come to us, and it applies the University's own instruments — the Equality Plan and the Equal Access Plan for Persons with Disabilities 2024–2028 — rather than inventing a parallel policy for Erasmus+.
What it is worth
Participants with fewer opportunities receive additional support on top of the standard grant. It is not a separate fund you compete for — it is added to your grant once your category is confirmed.
€250 /mo
Long-term student mobility
€100 one-off
Short-term & blended · 5–14 days
€150 one-off
Short-term & blended · 15–30 days
€100 /day
Staff mobility
Live from the Mobility Platform · Erasmus project 2026 rates
Green travel support is additional, not an alternative — taking the train does not cost you the inclusion top-up, and the reverse.
Who qualifies, and who decides
Eligibility follows the University's special categories Α, Β and Γ — families with special circumstances, serious health or other serious problems, and other special categories. It is a documented assessment made by the service that already holds the evidence, not a declaration we take on trust and not a judgement this Office makes.
01
You tick one box
In your Erasmus application you declare that you fall within one of the University’s special categories. That is all the platform asks of you.
02
The Student Services and Welfare Service decides
Categories Α, Β and Γ are determined by the Υπηρεσία Σπουδών και Φοιτητικής Ευημερίας under the University’s Rules for Scoring Socio-economic Status — a published points system covering per-capita family income and documented social circumstances. The Erasmus Office does not assess need and does not decide it.
03
No documents come to us
No medical, social or financial document is uploaded to the Erasmus platform at any point. The evidence stays with the Service entitled to see it.
Where the standard top-up does not meet the need, the Office agrees adapted arrangements with the host before departure and applies to the National Agency for real-cost inclusion support. Write to outgoing@cut.ac.cy before you apply — not after you are selected.
Participants coming to CUT
Tell us at nomination, or as soon as the need is known. Three doors are open to you, and the Erasmus Office is the one that opens them.
Support for the person
Student Development Centre (ΚΦΑ)
Counselling, disability and chronic conditions, dyslexia and learning difficulties, tutoring and study support. The Erasmus Office introduces you and confirms your status, so the service is open to you as it is to our own students.
counseling@cut.ac.cy+357 25002411 · +357 25002534
Barriers and access
Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ΔιαΣυμ)
Where the obstacle is the building, the system or the procedure rather than the person, we raise it here — the University’s equality, diversity and inclusion office.
dio.office@cut.ac.cy+357 25002493
If you are treated unfairly
Students Ombuds
If you believe you have been treated unfairly or improperly by any service or member of staff, you may go to the University’s Ombuds yourself — independently of this Office.
How to file with the Ombuds →On access to the buildings themselves. The University's campuses sit in central Limassol, across a mix of modern and older buildings, so physical accessibility is not uniform between them. The University works to its Equal Access Plan for Persons with Disabilities 2024–2028, and where a building cannot be adapted the teaching, examination or meeting arrangements are. Tell us what you need and we will tell you plainly what is possible in your semester and what is not — before you commit to coming.
Participants who declare a disability are entered on the University's disability registry and included in its emergency escape planning. The Equal Access Plan covers every incoming participant this Office facilitates. We answer within ten working days, saying what can be arranged and what cannot. Ask: incoming@cut.ac.cy.
What we commit to, in numbers
A commitment without a number is a sentiment. These are the figures on the current Erasmus+ project and the floor we hold to beyond it — published here, and reported against here each year.
Study mobility
15
Of the twenty
Traineeships
5
Of the twenty
Standing floor
8%
Of funded outgoing mobilities, any project year
The twenty seats are a contractual commitment on project 2026-1-CY01-KA131-HED-000432661. The 8% floor is ours: whatever the size of a future project, participants with fewer opportunities will not be less than eight per cent of the outgoing mobilities we fund in a project year.
Where this comes from
Under the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education, CUT commits to equal access and inclusion for participants from all backgrounds. The instruments behind this page are the University's Equality Plan, its Equal Access Plan for Persons with Disabilities 2024–2028, and the Rules for Scoring Socio-economic Status that decide categories Α, Β and Γ.
Your data. Anything you tell us is handled under the University's Personal Data Protection Policy and Law 125(I)/2018. The Data Protection Officer is reachable at gdpr.dpo@cut.ac.cy. No medical, social or financial documents are held in the Erasmus platform.
Review. This page is reviewed annually, alongside the University's Erasmus Charter self-assessment.