Erasmus programme
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.
Many studies show that a period spent abroad not only enriches students' lives in the academic and professional fields, but can also improve language learning, intercultural skills, self-reliance and self-awareness.
Their experiences give students a better sense of what it means to be a European citizen. In addition, many employers highly value such a period abroad, which increases the students' employability and job prospects.
- "I realised that the experience made a whole new person of me and that I would never look at the world and Europe, my home, as I did before."
- "ERASMUS life for me is about opportunities. Every opportunity I had, I took it and I thank ERASMUS for it."
- "ERASMUS is a lot more than a studying experience. For me it is a way to look at the world with new eyes, to feel and discover new emotions and learn what is not written in the textbooks."
- "It is true – when you're in ERASMUS, you find out a lot about yourself."
