Erasmus Mundus
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.
Background
In July 2001, the European Parliament and Council received a Communication by the Commission on strengthening EU-third country co-operation in higher education. Following the positive reception of the Communication, the Commission adopted a programme proposal (pdf format), Erasmus World, in July 2002. The programme was then renamed Erasmus Mundus.
On 5 December 2003, the legislative process involving the European Parliament and Council ended and the Erasmus Mundus programme Decision was adopted. It was published in the Official Journal on 31 December 2003 and entered into force on 20 January 2004. The chronology of the different stages of adopting the programme Decision, as well as a summary of the different conclusions reached at each stage of the procedure can be found at the Legislative Observatory of the European Parliament.
The Erasmus Mundus pogramme has been very well received by the European higher education community. They see the programme as a useful means to respond to the challenges European higher education faces today, in particular the need to stimulate the process of convergence of degree structures and to enhance the attractiveness of European higher education world-wide. These are themes central to the Bologna process and to national reform in higher education in Member States.
The programme confirms the Commission's desire to encourage the opening up of European higher education to the rest of the world. It complements the European Union's existing regional programmes in higher education with third countries. Regional programmes, such as Tempus (see also Council's Decision to extend the Tempus programme to the Meda countries), ALFA and Asia-Link, will continue to foster international co-operation in higher education between the European Union and its partners.
Erasmus Mundus, however, is a new global scheme, providing a distinctly �European� offer in higher education. It seeks, primarily, to enhance the quality and attractiveness of European higher education world-wide. Secondly, Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses and scholarships will provide a framework to promote valuable exchange and dialogue between cultures. By supporting the international mobility of scholars and students, Erasmus Mundus intends to prepare its European and non-European participants for life in a global, knowledge-based society.
What is Erasmus Mundus?
The Erasmus Mundus programme is a co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education. It aims to enhance quality in European higher education and to promote intercultural understanding through co-operation with third countries.
The programme is intended to strengthen European co-operation and international links in higher education by supporting high-quality European Masters Courses, by enabling students and visiting scholars from around the world to engage in postgraduate study at European universities, as well as by encouraging the outgoing mobility of European students and scholars towards third countries.
The Erasmus Mundus programme comprises four concrete actions:
ACTION 1 - Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses: they constitute the central component around which Erasmus Mundus is built. They are high-quality integrated courses at masters level offered by a consortium of at least three universities in at least three different European countries. The courses must be "integrated" to be selected under Erasmus Mundus, which means that they must foresee a study period in at least two of the three universities and that it must lead to the award of a recognised double, multiple or joint diploma.
ACTION 2 - Erasmus Mundus scholarships: in order to give the Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses selected under Action 1 a strong external projection, a scholarship scheme for third-country graduate students and scholars from the whole world is linked to them. This scholarship scheme addresses highly qualified individuals who come to Europe to follow the Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses or to work for them.
ACTION 3 - Partnerships: in order to encourage European universities to open themselves up to the world and to reinforce their world-wide presence, Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses selected under Action 1 also have the possibility of establishing partnerships with third-country higher education institutions. These partnerships allow for outgoing mobility of graduate EU students and scholars involved in the Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses.
ACTION 4 - Enhancing attractiveness: Erasmus Mundus also supports projects aimed at enhancing the attractiveness of and the interest in European higher education. It supports activities that improve the profile, the visibility and the accessibility of European higher education as well as issues crucial to the internationalisation of higher education, such as the mutual recognition of qualifications with third countries.
In concrete terms, Erasmus Mundus will support about 100 Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses of outstanding academic quality. It will provide grants for some 5,000 graduate students from third countries to follow these Masters Courses, and for more than 4,000 EU graduate students involved in these courses to study in third countries. The programme will also offer teaching or research scholarships in Europe for over 1,000 incoming third-country academics and for a similar number of outgoing EU scholars. Last but not least, Erasmus Mundus will support about 100 partnerships between Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses and higher education institutions in third countries.
Higher education institutions coming from the 25 European Union Member States and the EEA/EFTA countries (European Economic Area / European Free Trade Association) are eligible for offering Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses jointly, under Action 1. Action 1 is also open to current European Union candidate countries, but official participation of these countries in the programme has not yet been formalised.
The duration of the programme is five years (2004-2008) with a planned financial envelope of 230 million Euro for the whole period.
Who can participate?
The programme is open to:
the 25 EU Member States
the candidate countries for accession to the EU (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey)
the countries of the European Economic Area / European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway)
all the other countries of the world (�third countries�)
Action 1 (see description above) is reserved to the first three categories of countries, while the beneficiaries of Action 2 (see description above) will be students and scholars coming from third countries.
Action 3 partnerships can be established between Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses selected under Action 1 and third-country higher education institutions. Action 3 scholarships for the outgoing mobility to third countries are destined to EU and EEA/EFTA graduate students and scholars participating in Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses.
Action 4 activities are open to higher education institutions and other bodies involved in higher education anywhere in the world, regardless of their participation in other Actions of the programme.
As long as the official participation of the candidate countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey) in the programme is not formalised, they will be considered third countries (this applies to Actions 1, 3 and 4). The official participation of EEA/EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) has already been formalised and they participate in the programme on the same conditions as the EU Member States.
The programme is addressed to:
Higher education institutions
Students having obtained a first degree awarded by a higher education institution
Scholars and professionals who lecture or conduce research
Staff directly involved in higher education
Other public or private bodies active in the field of higher education (only for Action 4, see description above)
How is Erasmus Mundus implemented?
The programme is implemented by the European Commission via annual calls for proposals that are published on this website. Applications for all Actions are to be addressed to the Commission. Students and scholars, however, that wish to submit their applications to participate in an Erasmus Mundus Masters Course (with or without a scholarship) must apply directly to the selected Erasmus Mundus Masters Consortium offering the Course in question.
The Erasmus Mundus programme is being implemented as of the academic year 2004/2005.
Erasmus Mundus national structures, which are national contact and information points, exist in each participating European country.
How can I apply?
The Erasmus Mundus programme is implemented as of the academic year 2004/2005. The European Commission published a first call for proposals relating to the academic year 2004/2005 in April 2004 which covered Action 1 (Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses), Action 2 (scholarships) and Action 4 (enhancing attractiveness). This call is closed now. The results of this first call can be found under selected projects.
Further calls for proposals covering the following academic years will be published annually starting in March 2005.
European higher education institutions (for Actions 1 and 2) are invited to read the calls for proposals relating to the relevant academic years carefully. The one relating to the academic year 2005/2006 is presently available on this website. Future calls will also be published on this website in March every year. The calls give guidance to applicants and include the application forms. The deadlines for the submission of applications under the call relating to 2005/2006 are 31 October 2004 for Action 1 and 31 March 2005 for Action 2.
Students and scholars (for Action 2): the list of selected Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses for which scholarships can be requested is available on this website (as from September 2004). Students and scholars are invited to apply directly to the offering consortia according to their instructions. Application deadlines vary from Course to Course.
European and third-country higher education institutions (for Action 3): partnerships under Action 3 can only be established by Erasmus Mundus Masters Consortia offering Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses selected under Action 1. The first partnerships will start in the academic year 2005/2006 and are therefore included in the call for proposals relating to that year. It is available on this website and contains all information needed to apply. The deadline for the submission of proposals is 31 March 2005.
World-wide higher education institutions and other bodies active in the field of higher education (for Action 4): the next call for proposals including Action 4 will be published on this website in March 2005 and will contain all information needed to apply. The deadline for the submission of proposals will be 31 May 2005.
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Background
In July 2001, the European Parliament and Council received a Communication by the Commission on strengthening EU-third country co-operation in higher education. Following the positive reception of the Communication, the Commission adopted a programme proposal (pdf format), Erasmus World, in July 2002. The programme was then renamed Erasmus Mundus.
On 5 December 2003, the legislative process involving the European Parliament and Council ended and the Erasmus Mundus programme Decision was adopted. It was published in the Official Journal on 31 December 2003 and entered into force on 20 January 2004. The chronology of the different stages of adopting the programme Decision, as well as a summary of the different conclusions reached at each stage of the procedure can be found at the Legislative Observatory of the European Parliament.
The Erasmus Mundus pogramme has been very well received by the European higher education community. They see the programme as a useful means to respond to the challenges European higher education faces today, in particular the need to stimulate the process of convergence of degree structures and to enhance the attractiveness of European higher education world-wide. These are themes central to the Bologna process and to national reform in higher education in Member States.
The programme confirms the Commission's desire to encourage the opening up of European higher education to the rest of the world. It complements the European Union's existing regional programmes in higher education with third countries. Regional programmes, such as Tempus (see also Council's Decision to extend the Tempus programme to the Meda countries), ALFA and Asia-Link, will continue to foster international co-operation in higher education between the European Union and its partners.
Erasmus Mundus, however, is a new global scheme, providing a distinctly �European� offer in higher education. It seeks, primarily, to enhance the quality and attractiveness of European higher education world-wide. Secondly, Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses and scholarships will provide a framework to promote valuable exchange and dialogue between cultures. By supporting the international mobility of scholars and students, Erasmus Mundus intends to prepare its European and non-European participants for life in a global, knowledge-based society.
What is Erasmus Mundus?
The Erasmus Mundus programme is a co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education. It aims to enhance quality in European higher education and to promote intercultural understanding through co-operation with third countries.
The programme is intended to strengthen European co-operation and international links in higher education by supporting high-quality European Masters Courses, by enabling students and visiting scholars from around the world to engage in postgraduate study at European universities, as well as by encouraging the outgoing mobility of European students and scholars towards third countries.
The Erasmus Mundus programme comprises four concrete actions:
ACTION 1 - Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses: they constitute the central component around which Erasmus Mundus is built. They are high-quality integrated courses at masters level offered by a consortium of at least three universities in at least three different European countries. The courses must be "integrated" to be selected under Erasmus Mundus, which means that they must foresee a study period in at least two of the three universities and that it must lead to the award of a recognised double, multiple or joint diploma.
ACTION 2 - Erasmus Mundus scholarships: in order to give the Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses selected under Action 1 a strong external projection, a scholarship scheme for third-country graduate students and scholars from the whole world is linked to them. This scholarship scheme addresses highly qualified individuals who come to Europe to follow the Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses or to work for them.
ACTION 3 - Partnerships: in order to encourage European universities to open themselves up to the world and to reinforce their world-wide presence, Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses selected under Action 1 also have the possibility of establishing partnerships with third-country higher education institutions. These partnerships allow for outgoing mobility of graduate EU students and scholars involved in the Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses.
ACTION 4 - Enhancing attractiveness: Erasmus Mundus also supports projects aimed at enhancing the attractiveness of and the interest in European higher education. It supports activities that improve the profile, the visibility and the accessibility of European higher education as well as issues crucial to the internationalisation of higher education, such as the mutual recognition of qualifications with third countries.
In concrete terms, Erasmus Mundus will support about 100 Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses of outstanding academic quality. It will provide grants for some 5,000 graduate students from third countries to follow these Masters Courses, and for more than 4,000 EU graduate students involved in these courses to study in third countries. The programme will also offer teaching or research scholarships in Europe for over 1,000 incoming third-country academics and for a similar number of outgoing EU scholars. Last but not least, Erasmus Mundus will support about 100 partnerships between Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses and higher education institutions in third countries.
Higher education institutions coming from the 25 European Union Member States and the EEA/EFTA countries (European Economic Area / European Free Trade Association) are eligible for offering Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses jointly, under Action 1. Action 1 is also open to current European Union candidate countries, but official participation of these countries in the programme has not yet been formalised.
The duration of the programme is five years (2004-2008) with a planned financial envelope of 230 million Euro for the whole period.
Who can participate?
The programme is open to:
the 25 EU Member States
the candidate countries for accession to the EU (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey)
the countries of the European Economic Area / European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway)
all the other countries of the world (�third countries�)
Action 1 (see description above) is reserved to the first three categories of countries, while the beneficiaries of Action 2 (see description above) will be students and scholars coming from third countries.
Action 3 partnerships can be established between Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses selected under Action 1 and third-country higher education institutions. Action 3 scholarships for the outgoing mobility to third countries are destined to EU and EEA/EFTA graduate students and scholars participating in Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses.
Action 4 activities are open to higher education institutions and other bodies involved in higher education anywhere in the world, regardless of their participation in other Actions of the programme.
As long as the official participation of the candidate countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey) in the programme is not formalised, they will be considered third countries (this applies to Actions 1, 3 and 4). The official participation of EEA/EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) has already been formalised and they participate in the programme on the same conditions as the EU Member States.
The programme is addressed to:
Higher education institutions
Students having obtained a first degree awarded by a higher education institution
Scholars and professionals who lecture or conduce research
Staff directly involved in higher education
Other public or private bodies active in the field of higher education (only for Action 4, see description above)
How is Erasmus Mundus implemented?
The programme is implemented by the European Commission via annual calls for proposals that are published on this website. Applications for all Actions are to be addressed to the Commission. Students and scholars, however, that wish to submit their applications to participate in an Erasmus Mundus Masters Course (with or without a scholarship) must apply directly to the selected Erasmus Mundus Masters Consortium offering the Course in question.
The Erasmus Mundus programme is being implemented as of the academic year 2004/2005.
Erasmus Mundus national structures, which are national contact and information points, exist in each participating European country.
How can I apply?
The Erasmus Mundus programme is implemented as of the academic year 2004/2005. The European Commission published a first call for proposals relating to the academic year 2004/2005 in April 2004 which covered Action 1 (Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses), Action 2 (scholarships) and Action 4 (enhancing attractiveness). This call is closed now. The results of this first call can be found under selected projects.
Further calls for proposals covering the following academic years will be published annually starting in March 2005.
European higher education institutions (for Actions 1 and 2) are invited to read the calls for proposals relating to the relevant academic years carefully. The one relating to the academic year 2005/2006 is presently available on this website. Future calls will also be published on this website in March every year. The calls give guidance to applicants and include the application forms. The deadlines for the submission of applications under the call relating to 2005/2006 are 31 October 2004 for Action 1 and 31 March 2005 for Action 2.
Students and scholars (for Action 2): the list of selected Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses for which scholarships can be requested is available on this website (as from September 2004). Students and scholars are invited to apply directly to the offering consortia according to their instructions. Application deadlines vary from Course to Course.
European and third-country higher education institutions (for Action 3): partnerships under Action 3 can only be established by Erasmus Mundus Masters Consortia offering Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses selected under Action 1. The first partnerships will start in the academic year 2005/2006 and are therefore included in the call for proposals relating to that year. It is available on this website and contains all information needed to apply. The deadline for the submission of proposals is 31 March 2005.
World-wide higher education institutions and other bodies active in the field of higher education (for Action 4): the next call for proposals including Action 4 will be published on this website in March 2005 and will contain all information needed to apply. The deadline for the submission of proposals will be 31 May 2005.
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