35 years of Erasmus, one of Europe's great successes?
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Erasmus+: The EU student exchange programme.
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By: Charlie Dupiot Follow |
Emmanuelle Bastide
1 min
"I left without knowing how to speak English", "I discovered that I wanted to teach French abroad", "I proved that I was capable of living alone and far from my family"... these testimonials are examples of reactions from students who left for their studies with the support of the Erasmus + programme.
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Since 1987, the Erasmus + program, European program for Education, Training, Youth and Sport has benefited 12 million people across Europe.
Today, the Erasmus budget is increased by 80% for the 2021/2027 financial year, no longer solely focused on Higher Education, this program can benefit a variety of audiences: students, apprentices, teachers and trainers, applicants jobs and low-skilled adults, and is opening up to Africa.
Let's blow out their 35 candles together.
With :
- Laure Coudret Laut
, director of the
Erasmus+
France Agency
- Éric Dok-Kwadda
, 30, Chadian student enrolled at the
University of Paris Panthéon Sorbonne
as part of an
Erasmus Mundus
master's degree in Heritage Techniques and Industrial Territories, class of 2020-2022
- Bénédicte Visonneau, English teacher and
Erasmus+
coordinator
at
Lycée Albert de Mun in Paris
- Sihem Sassi,
Team Leader, Human and Social Development Sector at the Delegation of the
European Union in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
.
And a testimony from an Erasmus couple collected by
Charlie Dupiot
.
Roxana, 34, of Romanian origin, and Gert, 35, Belgian.
She studied geography and he studied law.
They met during their Erasmus year in Stockholm.
Between them, Roxana and Gert speak English, the language they have in common.
And it was in English that they confided in our reporter Charlie Dupiot, from their apartment in Brussels where they now live.
The testimony of Roxana and Gert collected by Charlie Dupiot
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