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 1st of October!
!!! 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 1st of November, so you must arrive before or on that date, preferably before 14:00. The same goes for the departure day which is on the 8th of November 2022. You are allowed to stay maximum 4 days before OR after the youth exchange (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 180 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 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 and via e-mail (original and scanned versions) to [email protected]
Reimbursement will be done in EURO within 4 weeks after the activity by bank transfer to your organisation’s bank account or to the group leader.
Reimbursement will be transferred only if:
- All participants provide all needed travel documents. We will reimburse the traveling only if we have both the tickets from arrival and return.
- Full attendance on youth exchange activities.
- Dissemination of project and its results by organizing local follow-up or visibility activities.
- Reimbursement will be transferred only after the group leaders submit the project reports that they receive from European Commission in their emails after the youth exchange.
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 us.
We might be able to reimburse you in person in cash, but this can only be done if your national group can provide us with all the original travel documents during the youth exchange.
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 EU website.
Participants are responsible for obtaining their own health, travel or accident insurance.
We can not reimburse COVID-19 tests for your travel except if you show symptoms during the youth exchange.
Travel grant LIMIT per Participant
- N.Macedonia 23€
- Serbia 180€
- Bulgaria 180€
- Italy 275€
- Romania 275€
- Spain 360€
! The given amounts reffer to travel both ways.