The Erasmus Programme was initiated by the European Commission 25 years ago, in a time that the commission didn't even have a mandate on education. The community only had 11 members and the Iron ...

MPs have voted against an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill on the issue of Erasmus. The EU programme helps students study in other countries, with thousands from the UK learning abroad ...

The EU’s top education official, Androulla Vassiliou, has called for a revamped Erasmus student exchange programme to place more emphasis on youth employability in the coming years, as the European ...

To most people, Erasmus still means students travelling abroad for a period of study at a foreign university. That continues to be a part of the new Erasmus+ programme, even if the label now applies ...

Grants for the Erasmus student exchange programme are not keeping pace with inflation, pricing out many poorer students - that needs to change, write Nicu Stefanuta and Juan Rayon Gonzalez. Erasmus ...

Mobility programmes have become more popular so much so that in October the 30 countries participating in the Socrates Programme will be celebrating the millionth Erasmus participant. Erasmus is the ...

Opinion: as European Commissioner, the late Peter Sutherland played an important part in establishing the Erasmus higher education exchange programme The European Union’s Erasmus+ programme has been ...

At least three million people know from personal experience what Erasmus is – an opportunity to study abroad with the financial support of the EU. It is widely considered to be one of the EU’s success ...

A photography exhibition of families from across Europe who met through the Erasmus study-abroad programme opens in Dublin on Monday. The show, in St Stephen’s Green until July 29th, tells the stories ...

Established in 1987, the Erasmus programme offers university students the opportunity to study in a foreign country and to have the exams that they completed abroad recognised on their return.

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