August 2010

More students than ever went abroad for studies and company placements with EU support through the Erasmus programme in 2008/09. According to new figures released in June, almost 200 000 higher education students received grants to study or train abroad. This represents an overall increase of 8.7% on the previous academic year and means that more than two million young Europeans have benefited from Erasmus funding since the programme's launch in 1987.