What is Erasmus Mundus?
Erasmus Mundus is an EU co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education which promotes the European Union as a centre of excellence in learning around the world. It supports European top-quality Masters Courses and provides EU-funded scholarships for third-country nationals participating in these Masters Courses, as well as scholarships for EU nationals studying in third countries. The Erasmus Mundus External Co-operation Window (EM ECW) also promotes partnerships and institutional co-operation exchanges between European higher education institutions and third country institutions and a mobility scheme addressing student and academic exchanges. (For more information on the EM ECW, please see the website http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/extcoop/call/index.htm.) The name of the programme comes from Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus, a 15th-century Dutch humanist and theologian who studied in the best monastic schools throughout Europe. In his days, he was known as one of the m
The Erasmus Mundus programme is a co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education which promotes the European Union as a centre of excellence in learning around the world. It supports European top-quality Masters courses and enhances the visibility and attractiveness of European higher education in third countries. It also provides EU-funded scholarships for third country nationals participating in these Masters courses, as well as scholarships for EU-nationals studying in third countries. For further information, please have a look at http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/mundus/index_en.html.
