ERASMUS

EU logoERASMUS is a European Union (EU) led programme that seeks to enhance the quality and reinforce the European dimension of the higher education by encouraging transnational cooperation between universities, boosting European mobility and improving the transparency and full academic recognition of studies and qualifications throughout the EU.


The ERASMUS programme consists of many different activities; student and teacher exchanges, joint development of study programmes (Curriculum Development), international intensive programmes, thematic networks between departments and faculties across Europe, language courses (EILC), European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).


Inspired by a mobility tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages, ERASMUS and its different activities fit into the mobility policy promoted by the Bologna Process, which aims at the creation of a European Higher Education Area by 2010.


Find out more about ERASMUS here.