2. • ERASMUS is the most successful exchange programme
for university students and it means European Region
Action Scheme for the Mobility of the University Students.
3. • ERASMUS is an excellent programme that offers you the
opportunity to live, get a higher education and work
abroad. Over 3 million students from 33 countries have
participated since it began in 1987.
• The satisfaction is so big that some of them just end up
living there. ERASMUS promotes inter-cultural dialogue
between European youngsters.
4. • The programme can last between 3 to 12 months and
students should be enrolled on the 2nd cycle at IST.
• The ERASMUS programme involves 2000 education
institutions in 33 countries.
• ERASMUS programme offers a number of Mobility
Scholarships but the students don’t necessarily need to
have one.
6. • The number of scholarships awarded each year depends
on the EU budget availability and these scholarships are
awarded by the Education Ministry, at national level.
• The scholarships awarded to ERASMUS students don’t
contemplate the usual everyday expenses that a student
would normally have at the home university. The
scholarships awarded are, on average about, 250€ per
month.
7. • With this assignment we discovered that we want to go
study abroad as well and discover the world and act all
sixes and sevens thru out Europe.