Why Erasmus Mundus?
Erasmus Mundus provides a response to the challenges European higher education is facing today: preparing European citizens for life in a global, intercultural and knowledge-based society and enhancing the quality and world-wide attractiveness of European higher education. This coincides with the European Union’s “Lisbon strategy”: EU governments have committed themselves to making Europe the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world and to turning European education systems into a world-wide reference for excellence and quality. Erasmus Mundus also supports the intergovernmental “Bologna process” by helping converge European university degree structures, which will make European higher education more transparent and attractive to students and academics both within and beyond the European Union.
