Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) has successfully participated in Erasmus every year since the programme started. The European mobility funding programme is a central building block for achieving RUB's strategic internationalisation goals in the area of internationalisation of teaching and learning. Erasmus funding in KA 131 is of particular importance for the following RUB objectives: - Enabling early, diverse and repeated international and intercultural experiences for students and early career researchers abroad and on campus. - Increasing the number of international students and academics at RUB through attractive offers in research, teaching and transfer/global engagement, supported by efficient and customised programmes. - Development of an informed, cosmopolitan attitude and intercultural competence of all RUB members.