How can Erasmus students help to promote Erasmus?
• Are there promotion issues relating to new partner states and the accession countries?(p4b) • Are there issues in relation to under represented subjects?(p4c) • How can we surmount impediments to mobility?(p4d) • How can we ensure the widest social participation?(p4e) • Is language a pre-requisite?(p4f) (p4a) How can Erasmus students help to promote Erasmus? Why should they do so Many excellent suggestions came out of these workgroups about the promotion of Erasmus. One key area was for Erasmus students to promote Erasmus to schools, to let potential University students know about Erasmus and the advantages of taking this opportunity, ‘to plant the seeds’ about Erasmus early on. Promotion to people at a younger age was seen as important. For example, in Germany it is expected to ‘do’ Erasmus, and ‘everyone in Spain knows about Erasmus.’ The fact that you did not have to have a language to go on an Erasmus exchange and that it was a study abroad programme for all subject areas, not ju