Participants should choose a comfortable but inexpensive option for travel, to fit in the budget. We recommend buying tickets as early as possible, NO LATER THAN 26 September!
!!! Before buying tickets, participants must coordinate their choice with us by sending their travel plan at [email protected] with the exact route, prices, dates and time for arriving and departing. Tickets purchased without our confirmation will not be reimbursed!
Please find flights to Skopje International airport (SKP) or Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle Airport (OHD) > www.airports.com.mk or busses/trains to Skopje central bus/train station.
You can also check flights to nearby airports in Prishtina (Kosovo) and Niš or Belgrade (Serbia) from where there are daily buses to Skopje, few times per day. Other options are the airports in Thessaloniki (Greece) and Sofia (Bulgaria), but keep in mind that there is only one bus per day from there to Skopje. You can use Skyscanner or Kiwi to find suitable flights.
The arrival date is 26th of October 2023, so you must arrive before or on that date, before 14:00. The same goes for the departure day which is on the 3rd of November 2023. You are allowed to stay maximum 4 days before OR after the training course (e.g. 2 day before and 2 day after). However, for this stay, we cannot cover any of your expenses and they are totally on your own budget.
When you reach the airport, you should take a shuttle bus from the airport to the city center of Skopje (we recommend stop of main bus/train station). The shuttle bus timetable is prepared according to the arrivals/departures of flights and is handled by the company ‘WTransporter’. One-way ticket for the bus costs 199 MKD. You can check bus schedule on this LINK: www.airports.com.mk/en-EN/passenger-guide/to-from-the-airport/page/bus.
You will receive another set of information regarding your transportation to Krushevo according to your ticket bookings. Τhat means that either we will support you with information on how to reach Krushevo or we will organize a shuttle bus for the whole group. It depends on your arrival dates and times.
REIMBURSEMENT PROCEDURE
Travel costs will be reimbursed until the budget limit, set by the Erasmus+ programme, based on the real costs of the tickets. E.g. if the tickets cost 152 euro and they are within the travel grant range, you will get 152 euro as reimbursement. If they exceed the travel grant per country, then participants should pay the difference.
In order to receive the reimbursement, you need to provide the project coordinator with all original travel documents (tickets, boarding passes, receipts, invoices and email confirmations). All travel documents must clearly indicate price, currency, name of the passenger, date of purchase and travel itinerary. Some tickets can be given in person, while the others need to be sent by post as original and via e-mail as scans to [email protected].
Reimbursement will be done in EURO within 4 weeks after the activity by bank transfer to your organization’s bank account or with an agreement to one person from your national team who will need to reimburse the other participants. Reimbursement will be transferred only if:
- All participants provide all needed travel documents. We will reimburse the traveling only if we have both arrival and return tickets. Screenshots will not be accepted as proof of travel!
- Full attendance on the training course activities.
- Dissemination of the project and its results by organizing local follow-up or visibility activities.
- Reimbursement will be transferred only after all participants fill out and submit the project questionnaire that they will receive from the European Commission in their emails after the training course.
Participants cannot travel in first class. Only in certain cases is possible to use a taxi or travel by car but you must first get approval from the project coordinator.
Please note if you bought your ticket in your local currency which might be different than EUR, then we will calculate your travel costs according to the exchange rates from this official European Commission’s website.
Participants are responsible for obtaining their own health, travel or accident insurance.
Travel grant LIMIT per Participant
- North Macedonia (23€), Poland, Turkiye, Slovenia (275€)
- Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia (210€) and Romania (320€) for GREEN TRAVEL (which means participants can only travel by bus, train or car to the project).
! The given amounts refer to travel both ways.