ERASMUS AND EDUCATION

Consolación Gómez, Jabong OH,

Paola Morineau, Emma Le Maux

About Education in the EU

EU supports Member States through policy cooperation and funding instruments.• Erasmus Program

• European Structural and investment Funds

• The Education and Training monitor

Policies of Education

Policies of Education

EuRopean Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students.

• Erasmus is not only a purely academic exchange, it is a vital and personal experience, in which you learn about other cultures, you make a lot of friends, you study in another country with another type of politics…

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES

• The Member States of the European Union

• Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Macedonia, Liechtenstein and Turkey also participates.

REQUIREMENTS TO BE MET

NATIONALITY

‑European Union

‑Participating countries

ENROLLED IN YOUR

UNIVERSITY 

NOT BE IN FIRST COURSE

‑Having the minimum number

of credits approved LANGUAGE

LEVEL 

SOME DATA AND NEWS FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

• More than 4 million people this year have had mobility opportunities in this program.

• The total budget is the 14700 million euros

• 79% of young people participating in the European mobility program start working three months after finishing their studies.

Education difficulties and its potentials solutions

The privatisation of schools

The school drop-out

• EU objective: reduce below 10%

• Reducing school drop-out:

• Reducing costs

• Professional and social

integration

• More dynamic Europe

Possible options

1st: to increase the EU education budget.

2nd: to create a new specific institution.

Differences in terms of students using the ERASMUS program

Conclusion