Objectives : informal side

  Erasmus is also concerned with “informal” objectives, such as : To develop an “open mind” culture among students. To allow them to physically know the other countries of the E.U., their culture, their language; that they mix in the classrooms and the cities with the native students, …, all of this in order to [...]

Objectives : formal side

  The different objectives of the Erasmus programme can be defined as following : To increase the number of university students that spend a defined period of time to study abroad. To promote the cooperation between the universities of the member states of the E.U. To improve the mobility of teachers with the objective of [...]

Now

During all its years of existence, it is estimated that Erasmus has allowed more than a million and a half of students to study abroad. Its aim now is to double this number by the year of 2012. But the programme is not limited to the mobility of students, it is also open to teachers [...]

The beginnings

  The first steps of the creation of the Erasmus programme take place in 1987, when the student’s association AEGEE and the French president François Mitterrand created a transnational project in order to promote the learning of new cultures and languages. At this time, there were only 11 countries associated to this project : Denmark, [...]