17 Facts About Erasmus Programme

Erasmus Programme is a European Union student exchange programme established in 1987.

Erasmus+, or Erasmus Plus, is the new programme combining all the EU's current schemes for education, training, youth and sport, which was started in January 2014.

In 1989 the Erasmus Programme Bureau invited 32 former Erasmus Programme students for an evaluation meeting in Ghent, Belgium.

Erasmus Programme encouraged a recovery of the Catholic Patristic tradition against what he considered to be contemporary abuses of the Sacraments and certain excessive devotional practices.

Erasmus Programme famously clashed with Protestant revolutionary Martin Luther on the subject of free will.

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Erasmus Programme travelled widely across Europe and he was a pioneer of the European Republic of Letters.

Erasmus Programme was one of the first intellectuals to use as a vehicle of diffusion of his ideas a path-breaking technology, namely the movable type and spent a lot of his time inside printing workshops.

In 2004 Erasmus Programme was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation.

Erasmus Programme+ provided grants for a wide range of actions including the opportunity for students to undertake work placements abroad and for teachers and education staff to attend training courses.

Erasmus Programme+ conducted projects in Central Asia's Kazakhstan, funding 40 projects involving 47 Kazach universities with more than 35.

Erasmus Programme students represented 5 percent of European graduates as of 2012.

Inversely, one study looking in details at French and Italian students found that the primary predictor of participation to Erasmus Programme was students' prior academic records, not the occupation of their parents.

Erasmus Programme had previously been restricted to applicants who had completed at least one year of tertiary-level study, but it is available to secondary school students.

Many European students, the Erasmus Programme is their first time living and studying in another country.

Programme fosters learning and understanding of the host country, and the Erasmus experience is considered both a time for learning as well as a chance to socialize and experience a different culture.

Erasmus Programme's gives a particular attention to the need to activate an exchange between young people from all over Europe to contribute to the strengthening of its unity and integrity.

For example, more than a quarter of Erasmus Programme participants meet their life partner through it and participation in Erasmus Programme encourages mobility between European countries.