Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a cross-border exchange programme which gives new or aspiring entrepreneurs the chance to learn from experienced entrepreneurs running small businesses in other participating countries. It supports new entrepreneurs with the skills necessary to start and/or successfully run a small business in Europe. New entrepreneurs gather and exchange knowledge and business ideas with […]
Choose your favourite Erasmus coin
In 2022 the Erasmus programme celebrates its 35th birthday. Are you one of the millions of people who have loved the experience? Or maybe you have heard about Erasmus but not yet had a chance to take part? We’re looking to you to choose the commemorative €2 coin to celebrate the programme. You can pick […]
Impact of COVID-19 on the Erasmus programme and the EU Solidarity Corps
How has the pandemic affected the 170,000 students participating in the Erasmus+ programme or the European Solidarity Corps, and how can the EU help? Education has been greatly affected by the COVID-19 crisis. The closure of universities and travel restrictions complicate the situation for participants in cross-border mobility programmes such as Erasmus+ student exchanges and […]
COVID-19: specific measures for the Erasmus+ programme
The Spanish Service for the Internationalisation of Education (SEPIE) is an Autonomous Body, dependent on the Ministry of Universities, whose main function is to act as the National Erasmus+ Agency in Spain, in charge of all the channelling and dissemination, management of resources such as budgets, promotion, and impact studies of the Eramus+ Programme (2014-2020) […]
Erasmus+: Small collaborative partnerships
Small Collaborative Partnerships will allow organisations to develop and reinforce networks, increase their capacity to operate at transnational level, exchange good practices, confront ideas and methods in different areas relating to sport and physical activity. Scope Selected projects may also produce tangible outputs and are expected to disseminate the results of their activities, although in a […]
Erasmus+: a life-changing experience for 10 million young Europeans
The 2018 annual report on Erasmus+, published recently, shows that over the last three decades, more than 10 million people have participated in what turned out to be a life-changing experience for many of them. At the opening of a stakeholder event on the new Erasmus+ programme in Brussels, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education […]
Erasmus+KA3 – Centres of Vocational Excellence
The European Commission call for proposals EACEA 33/2019 aims to support the establishment and development of transnational cooperation platforms of Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) to connect Centres operating in a given local context at European level. Cooperation platforms The transnational cooperation platforms will bring together CoVEs that: – Share a common interest in specific sectors or trades […]
Erasmus+ Programme : Joint Masters Degrees
Erasmus+ is the EU Programme in the fields of education, training, youth and sport for the period 2014-2020. Scope An Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) is a prestigious, integrated, international study programme, jointly delivered by an international consortium of higher education institutions (HEIs) and, where relevant, other partners with specific expertise and interest in […]
Erasmus+: EU boosts participation of African students and staff in 2019
The EU has invested an additional €17.6 million to support over 8,500 newly selected African students and staff to participate in Erasmus+ in 2019. This increase in Erasmus+ funding is one more step towards the commitment announced by President Jean-Claude Juncker in his State of the Union speech in September 2018 to have supported […]