Choreomundus Erasmus Mundus 2027 — Fully Funded Dance Heritage Master's in Lithuania
Fully funded Master scholarship in Lithuania for All nationalities students 2027
A two-year Erasmus Mundus master's in dance as living cultural heritage, taught across four countries. Seventeen full scholarships, closing 15 January 2027.
Eligibility
- Bachelor's or master's degree in humanities or social sciences
- Minimum 60% CGPA (roughly a C on the Bologna scale)
- English at B2: IELTS 5.5-6.5, TOEFL iBT 87-109 or Duolingo 100-125
- Portfolio: CV, two reference letters, a 3-minute practice video and a 2-page analytical essay
- Motivation letter
- Apply by 15 January 2027, 23:59 Eastern European Time
Most master's programmes ask what you know. Choreomundus asks what you can do, and then asks you to explain it in writing. The programme studies dance, ritual, martial arts, games and physical theatre as intangible cultural heritage, and it treats the practitioner's own body as a research instrument rather than a subject to be observed from a distance. For a dancer, a coach, a folklore researcher or a cultural officer who has been working in community practice without a research degree, that framing is unusual enough to be worth a serious look.
The 2027-2028 round is open now and closes on 15 January 2027 at 23:59 Eastern European Time. Unlike most Erasmus Mundus consortia, Choreomundus does not sell self-funded places: every admitted student receives a tuition waiver, and seventeen of them also receive the monthly scholarship.
What it covers
The package is unusually clean. The full tuition waiver is valued at EUR 18,000 per person and is funded by Erasmus+ for the whole two years. Scholarship holders additionally receive EUR 1,400 a month for the full 24-month duration, and the application for that money is not separate — ticking the scholarship box on the same form is the entire process.
Seventeen scholarship places are available for the 2027-2028 intake. The remaining admitted students, if the committee admits any beyond the funded cohort, hold the waiver without the stipend. There are no tuition-paying seats, so nobody is admitted on the understanding that they will find EUR 18,000 themselves.
The mobility is the other half of the offer. Semester one is in Kaunas at Vytautas Magnus University, semester two in Athens at the National and Kapodistrian University, semester three in Clermont-Ferrand at the University of Clermont Auvergne, and semester four either in London at the University of Roehampton or back in Kaunas. Students graduate with a single joint diploma signed by all four universities, not a bundle of separate certificates.
Who can apply
The academic floor is a bachelor's or master's degree in the humanities or social sciences, with a minimum 60 per cent CGPA, which maps roughly to a C on the Bologna scale. Dance studies, anthropology, folklore, heritage studies, drama, music, sports and human movement, sociology and cultural studies all fit directly. Candidates from health sciences, biomedicine, engineering or computer science are explicitly considered if they bring serious dance experience, and the consortium also allows admission on a combination of formal learning and approved prior practice.
English at B2 is required, evidenced by IELTS 5.5 to 6.5, TOEFL iBT 87 to 109, Duolingo 100 to 125 or an equivalent certificate. This is a lower language bar than most UK-linked master's programmes, which matters if you have strong fieldwork experience but a modest test score.
Ask yourself three questions before you start. Can I produce a three-minute video of my own practice that a selection committee will find legible without me in the room explaining it? Can I write two pages of analysis about that same video, situating the practice in its social and historical context? And can I name two referees who will actually submit letters before the deadline, not after? A no to any of those is the real obstacle, not the CGPA.
How to apply
Applications run through the Vytautas Magnus University DreamApply portal. You create an account, select the Choreomundus course and the autumn 2027 intake, and upload the portfolio. The portfolio is the application: a CV, two letters of recommendation, a video of no more than three minutes showing your own performance or performance leadership, and a self-written essay of no more than two pages analysing that video and providing its context. A separate motivation letter is also required.
The admission score is arithmetic, published openly: 40 per cent the mean of your diploma grades, 30 per cent the portfolio, 30 per cent the motivation letter. That weighting is a gift to applicants with a strong practice and an average transcript, and a warning to applicants who assume grades alone will carry them.
Official transcripts must be sent directly by your institution to recognition@vdu.lt, or posted to the International Cooperation Department in Kaunas, by the deadline. Do not assume an uploaded scan substitutes for that. Migration paperwork after admission takes two to three months, so an offer in spring is not early.
https://choreomundus.org/for-applicants/
Tips to win
Choose one practice and go deep. A video that jumps between three styles reads as a showreel; a single two-minute sequence with a clear beginning, middle and end reads as research material. The essay is where most applicants lose marks, because they describe the dance instead of analysing it — who performs it, for whom, what changed when it moved to a new setting, and what the movement itself encodes.
Write the motivation letter around a question, not a career. "I want to document how Hazara attan is taught in diaspora communities in Iran" is a research direction. "I want to study in Europe and grow personally" is not, and it scores accordingly.
Line up referees in December. The portal accepts the application without letters, but an incomplete file is not assessed, and referees who are asked on 14 January rarely deliver.
Three mistakes recur. Applicants submit a video hosted on a link that expires or is region-blocked. Applicants send transcripts themselves instead of asking the university to send them. And applicants treat the February interview as a formality when it is the last scored stage.
If you are weighing this against a conventional anthropology master's, the honest comparison is that Choreomundus buys you four countries, a funded stipend and a practice-led methodology, at the cost of a very specific disciplinary frame. Read the programme content page before you decide that frame fits.
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An OEAC advisor can review your portfolio outline, check that your transcript route satisfies the Kaunas requirement, and read a draft of the two-page essay before you submit. Ask for that check at least two weeks before the deadline.
Source: https://choreomundus.org/for-applicants/ — verified 3 November 2026.
Last updated: 3 November 2026.
Photo: Jonas Petronis — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas).
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