Click here for EUROPA press release, 5 June 2008.
More than 2,000 students and 450 teaching staff
from outside Europe have been selected to receive an Erasmus Mundus scholarship
for the academic year 2008/09. These scholarships will allow them to study in
Europe for one or two years and obtain a Master's degree from one of the 103
top-quality Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses offered by consortia of European
higher education institutions.
In 2008, a total number of 17 new partnerships of Erasmus Mundus Masters
Consortia with higher education institutions in non-European countries were
selected. Altogether, they encompass 62 universities from 28 different third
countries. These 17 partnerships foresee an outgoing mobility of an estimated
477 European students and 192 European scholars over the next two years. The
partnerships allow European higher education institutions, scholars and students
to strengthen their ties with other higher education environments in the
world...
The second phase of Erasmus Mundus (2009-13) is expected to start in 2009
with a planned total budget of 950 million euros. Its main new features are the
inclusion of joint doctoral programmes, increased scholarships for European
students and an intensified structural cooperation with third-country higher
education institutions. In addition, the new proposal integrates a mobility
scheme for all levels of higher education.
One of the characteristic features of the Erasmus Mundus programme is that
student grantees follow their courses in at least two universities located in
different European countries. This gives them the additional opportunity to
learn about European cultures, languages and academic systems.
On 6-7 June 2008 the University for Foreigners of Perugia, in Italy, will
host the 4th Erasmus Mundus Student Seminar and the 4th
General Assembly of the Erasmus Mundus Student and Alumni Association (EMA - www.em-a.eu). About 200 participants are expected
including representatives from the European institutions, Italian, Slovenian and
French national authorities, Erasmus Mundus course coordinators, national
contact points and, of course, more than a hundred students and alumni from the
entire world.
For more information on Erasmus Mundus:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/mundus/index_en.html
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