The COVID-19 pandemic has upended daily life for millions of Europeans. Among them are hundreds of thousands of young people living in different countries as part of the EU's Erasmus exchange program.

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 program has been expanded to be more inclusive, and triple the number of participants. It will cover all levels of education and training, and will be called Erasmus+. The European Union plans to ...

Britain leaving the EU could put the Erasmus student exchange scheme under threat. Six former students explain why this matters There are fears over the future of the Erasmus, a £112m EU exchange ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to replace the E.U.-wide Erasmus program with a national version, but former participants and university officials say the decision is shortsighted. By Elian ...

In the framework of the Erasmus program the Department of Physics helps students in their third year of the Bachelor’s or first year of the Master’s program in finding a place for a study abroad ...

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 ...

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 ...

Europe’s popular exchange programme Erasmus, deprived of part of its anticipated funding in the upcoming EU budget, will not be able to send as many people overseas as it had hoped starting 2021. And ...

More than a quarter of those who take part in the Erasmus scheme meet their long-term partner while studying abroad, and more than one million babies may have been produced as a result (Getty) Where ...