Erasmus

Europe News

EU Parliament and Council clash over €1.52bn cuts to 2025 budget

'The EU budget cannot be a prisoner of interest rates by reducing our programmes,' said leading lawmaker Victor Negrescu, as MEPs signalled clear opposition to proposed cuts setting stage for tense negotiations over the EU budget for 2025.

23/10/2024

Europe News

Concern mounts in Spain over EU proposed funding cuts to Erasmus

EU institutions are expected to begin negotiating the 2025 budget in November. If the proposed cut in funding for Erasmus is approved, nearly all countries in the programme will be affected, but even more, Spain, which has been the main destination for Erasmus students since 2001.

08/10/2024

Brussels, My Love?

Brussels, my love? Migration pact at risk before it starts

In this edition, we hear how Sweden wants to pay migrants to return to their countries of origin in a bid to improve integration.

21/09/2024

Europe News

Erasmus+ and research funding slashed in EU’s 2025 budget plans

MEPs and pressure groups have decried a €295m planned cut to the Erasmus+ student exchange programme, formalised by EU member states on Friday.

13/09/2024

Radio Schuman

Will the EU cut its landmark Erasmus+ programme?

The European Commission, European Parliament and the Council are set to start negotiating the 2025 budget in November, but is the Erasmus+ scheme in peril?

12/09/2024

Europe News

Brussels proposes European Degree but struggles to explain why

Graduates could soon be awarded a pan-European degree from a group of universities, as part of new plans unveiled by the European Commission.

27/03/2024

France

EU leaders salute father of European integration Jacques Delors

The former President of the European Commission and prominent figure of the French left passed away on Wednesday aged 98.

27/12/2023

Culture news

Trevor Noah becomes first comedian in 60 years to win Erasmus Prize

You know him from the Daily Show, and now Trevor Noah is being celebrated by the Dutch Academy.

17/03/2023

Travel News

Win a free rail pass with this new EU scheme for young people

The EU is encouraging young people to travel with 35,000 free train tickets.

15/03/2023

World News

Erasmus decoded: Where do Europe's students go when they study abroad?

Hundreds of thousands of students at European universities go to study abroad each year through the Erasmus scheme.

07/03/2023

Europe News

Budapest ready to U-turn on university funding row with Brussels

The European Commission has threatened to cut funds from its education support programme Erasmus+.

26/01/2023

Europe News

Hungary ready to sue EU over cuts to Erasmus funding

Gergely Gulyas, chief of staff to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, told reporters that the funding cut for the Erasmus programme is “unacceptable and unbearable.”

12/01/2023

Italy

Can cultural diplomacy succeed where politics has failed?

A new documentary, 'Erasmus in Gaza' follows the journey of Italian medical student Riccardo Corradini, who was the first European Erasmus student to travel to a war zone when he went to Gaza in 2019.

09/12/2022

My Europe Series

Euroviews. How does the UK's Erasmus replacement work and has it been a success?

It promised the world, but has it delivered?

01/09/2022

USA

Books, cash, ammunition pulled from buried Robert E Lee time capsule

A rare picture of Abraham Lincoln, believed to have been buried in the box, was not discovered.

28/12/2021

Experiences

Eco-conscious students are protecting their future by refusing to fly

Erasmus by Train wants the EU to fund rail travel for students on one of the biggest academic exchange programmes in the world.

16/08/2021

United Kingdom

UK replacement for Erasmus programme receives 40,000 applications

The British government has approved tens of thousands of applications for a new study abroad programme, launched after the UK left the EU’s Erasmus programme following Brexit.

05/08/2021

Travel News

What does the UK’s Erasmus alternative mean for students?

Studying abroad in Europe will be vastly different thanks to Brexit. Here’s what the new UK Turing scheme entails.

09/03/2021

Europe News

Will the Dutch fill the English-speaking vacuum for Erasmus students?

Britain's decision to withdraw from the Erasmus student exchange programme has left many university pupils upset, but the Netherlands is now emerging as a new alternative to the UK.

28/01/2021

United Kingdom

'An act of cultural vandalism': Erasmus alumni on UK leaving scheme

The UK's Brexit transition period for leaving the EU has ended and with it the country's membership of the decades-old Erasmus programme. Here's what alumni of the scheme have to say about the UK leaving it.

01/01/2021