DAADeuroletter fokus Schweden UHR’s priorities Increasing the number of mobilities and mobility projects is high on the UHR’s agenda, as are the priorities of Erasmus+: inclusion and diversity, digital transformation, environment and the fight against climate change, and participation in democratic life, common values and civic engage- ment. To advance these priorities, UHR participated in the Long-Term Activity (LTA) on sustainability in Germany (organised by the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, BIBB) in December 2021, for example, and in April 2022, together with the Danish Ministry of Education, it organised a meeting in Stockholm on inclusive mobility in higher education, attend- ed by more than 100 participants from 20 countries. This meeting was sponsored by Erasmus’s Training and Cooperation Activity (TCA). Regarding inclusion and diversi- ty, to look at one priority in more detail, UHR will continue to partic- ipate in the Nordic TCA to increase knowledge about available data on underrepresented groups and focus on competence-building support for beneficiaries through meetings with HEIs and regional networks for disability coordinators, while the na- tional initiative of student Erasmus+ ambassadors will continue to pro- mote the increased use of role mod- els for inclusion. UHR, says Edquist, «will do all it can to highlight the the NA directors. Moreover, Swe- den also has good relations with the Baltic countries. Additionally, UHR frequently works together with the Dutch and the German national agencies responsible for higher ed- ucation – the Nationaal Agentschap Erasmus+ Onderwijs & Training and the Erasmus+ National Agency High- er Education –, often through TCAs. The collaboration with NAs in other countries is an important quality aspect. Especially within key action 2 – cooperation among organisa- tions and institutions – interpreta- tion of the Erasmus+ framework, calibration of the assessment work, and equal implementation of new activities are crucial. «The sharing of knowledge can inspire more efficient ways of working», Edquist underlines. «In the field of digitali- sation, for example, we have learnt from the Baltic countries and Fin- land.» Personal remarks as a conclusion «I really think that the slogan for the programme describes the value of it: Erasmus+ Enriching lives, opening minds», concludes Edquist. «UHR is committed to increasing partici- pation in the programme. We want to enable more pupils, students, teachers, and staff to take part in the programme, to increase partici- pation in mobility projects, and give new groups new possibilities. That’s what we are working for.» n actions and provisions of the pro- gramme that specifically facilitate inclusion, such as blended intensive programmes, top-up, and inclusion support for participants, and award national funding to charter holders in order to increase inclusion and di- versity capacities in their Erasmus+ projects.» Co-operations, at home and abroad To these and other ends, UHR col- laborates with several Swedish insti- tutions. One of them is the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society (Myndigheten för ungdoms- och civilsamhällesfrågor, MUCF), the Swedish National Agency for Eras- mus+ Youth and Sport as well as the European Solidarity Corps based in the Southern city of Växjö, with which UHR cooperates on commu- nication, for example, but which also organises joint activities, such as the launch event of the new Eras- mus+ programme. Other institutions are the Council of the European Social Fund in Sweden, the Swedish National Agency for Education, the Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education, and the Na- tional Agency for Special Needs Edu- cation and Schools. Furthermore, as both the aforemen- tioned LTA and the TCA indicate, UHR also regularly cooperates with other national agencies, albeit to varying degrees, in different con- stellations as well as under chang- ing circumstances. The closest and most intensive relationships are with its Nordic neighbours; biannu- al meetings take place both at the level of the directors general and 51