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 erasmus

ERASMUS is the EU's flagship education and training programme enabling 200 000 students to study and work abroad each year. In addition, it funds co-operation between higher education institutions across Europe. The programme not only supports students, but also professors and business staff who want to teach abroad, as well as helping university staff to receive training.

ERASMUS actions include support for:

 

Students:

  • studiing abroad
  • doing a traineeship abroad
  • learning a new language

 

Universities/Higher Education Institutions Staff:

  • teaching abroad
  • receiving training abroad

 

 

Universities/Higher Education Institutions, working through: 

  • intensive programes
  • academic and structural networks
  • multilateral projects

 

Business:

  • hosting students placement
  • teaching abroad
  • participating in university cooperation projects

 

Impact on higher education

An overriding aim of the programme is to help create a ‘European Higher Education Area’ and foster innovation throughout Europe.

In addition to exchange actions (‘transnational mobility’), ERASMUS helps higher education institutions to work together through intensive programmes, networks and multilateral projects.

Thanks to all these actions, ERASMUS has become a driver in the modernisation of higher education institutions and systems in Europe and, in particular, has inspired the establishment of the Bologna Process.