This year, 66 Russian students have received the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters (EMJM) scholarships under the EU’s Erasmus+ programme. The number of scholarship-winners from Russia continues to be high, confirming Russia’s position as one of the top EMJM scholarship recipients worldwide. Under the EMJM scheme, students get an opportunity to pursue Master degree in leading […]
Erasmus+: 44 European Universities to cooperate across borders and disciplines
The Commission has announced the results of the 2022 call for the European Universities initiative: with a record budget of €272 million from Erasmus+, 16 existing European Universities will continue to receive support, and four new alliances will be able to start their cooperation. Together with the 24 alliances selected in 2020, a total of 44 […]
Erasmus+Mobility Project for Young People – Youth Exchanges
Erasmus+Mobility Project for Young People – Youth Exchanges Under this action, organisations and informal groups of young people can receive support to carry out projects bringing together young people from different countries to exchange and learn outside their formal educational system. Erasmus+ supports non-formal learning mobility of young people in the form of Youth Exchanges, […]
Erasmus+ Capacity Building-Youth
This is an EU grant for the organisation of international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of youth in Programme and third countries not associated to the Programme. They aim to support the international cooperation and policy dialogue in the field of youth and non-formal learning, as a driver of […]
Erasmus+: A success in 2020 in spite of restrictions
The 2020 Erasmus+ annual report published today shows that the programme supported almost 640,000 learning experiences abroad last year and provided funding to 20,400 projects and 126,900 organisations in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic. The sudden switch to online learning demonstrated the importance of digital remote solutions for teaching and learning. Erasmus+ continues to play a vital part in […]
European Year of Youth 2022 to empower young people
Parliament confirmed on Tuesday the decision to organise youth-focused and youth-centric activities and initiatives across all member states in 2022: Focus on including youth in European and national policymaking Young people will co-create year’s programme MEPs ensured budgetary top-ups for Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps to finance accompanying initiatives The 2022 European Year of Youth […]
What’s new in the Erasmus+ programme?
The European Parliament approves the new edition of the Erasmus+ programme, the EU’s flagship programme for education, training, youth and sport. The programme, which has demonstrated that it plays a significant role in fostering European identity, will have almost double the funding in 2021-2027 (over 28 billion EUR from different sources) when compared to the […]
Erasmus+ Jean Monnet: Networks
The Jean Monnet Networks aim to constitute the support to schools and VET providers for boosting knowledge on how to teach European Union subjects, they will also give an international edge to the learning exercise. The activities will facilitate a common understanding on learning methodologies about European Union matters among practitioners working in different contexts, […]
New Erasmus+ programme in the European Union
The Commission adopted the first annual work programme of Erasmus+ 2021-2027. With a budget of €26.2 billion, (compared to €14.7 billion for 2014-2020), complemented with about €2.2 billion from EU’s external instruments, the new and revamped programme will fund learning mobility and cross-border cooperation projects for 10 million Europeans of all ages and all backgrounds. It […]