The Erasmus Programme was initiated by the European Commission 25 years ago, in a time that the commission didn't even have a mandate on education. The community only had 11 members and the Iron ...

The EU’s top education official, Androulla Vassiliou, has called for a revamped Erasmus student exchange programme to place more emphasis on youth employability in the coming years, as the European ...

To most people, Erasmus still means students travelling abroad for a period of study at a foreign university. That continues to be a part of the new Erasmus+ programme, even if the label now applies ...

Opinion: as European Commissioner, the late Peter Sutherland played an important part in establishing the Erasmus higher education exchange programme The European Union’s Erasmus+ programme has been ...

A photography exhibition of families from across Europe who met through the Erasmus study-abroad programme opens in Dublin on Monday. The show, in St Stephen’s Green until July 29th, tells the stories ...

The Erasmus Programme is a European Union student exchange programme established in 1987. For the past three decades, it has offered students from across the world studying in European and British ...

Mobility programmes have become more popular so much so that in October the 30 countries participating in the Socrates Programme will be celebrating the millionth Erasmus participant. Erasmus is the ...

Hundreds of Irish students who are participating in the Erasmus+ programme in the UK will be able to complete their stay in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to the European Commission. There ...

At least three million people know from personal experience what Erasmus is – an opportunity to study abroad with the financial support of the EU. It is widely considered to be one of the EU’s success ...

Established in 1987, the Erasmus programme offers university students the opportunity to study in a foreign country and to have the exams that they completed abroad recognised on their return.

Holyrood ministers are exploring options to keep Scotland involved in the EU's Erasmus programme. The scheme, which offers opportunities to study abroad, is ending in the UK because of Brexit, with a ...