Erasmus Program Celebrates Its 25th Year

The European program of college scholarships Erasmus celebrates its 25th anniversary. In this program Spain comes step forward as a favorite destination for European university and as the country that sends students to other countries in the European Union. Each year more than 250,000 college students studying in the three months to one academic year in another of the 33 European countries that are part of this project with a budget of more than 3,000 million euros for 2007-2013.

The scholarship Erasmus and other mobility programs can be an important part of the solution (the strong youth unemployment)," because, among other advantages, helps develop language skills, adaptability and knowledge. There is a strong "link" between the success of the Erasmus program and other similar European initiatives and increased mobility within the European Union, "because once young people begin to move, continue to do so during their working life . While aid has ensured that the mobility of students is one of the best tools to combat unemployment and support growth.

Among the improvements the Education and Youth Commission has defended launch "intensive language courses" to encourage young people to move and to correcting the "imbalance" between supply and demand in the labor market across Europe.  During 2009/2010 Spain, with over 30,000 young people, has overtaken France as a country that sends more students to another European country to benefit from a scholarship or work, followed by Germany, Italy and Poland.

In terms of numbers of universities in the 2009-10 academic year, seven Spanish have been present in the ranking of the ten most European Erasmus students receive. The University of Granada, with 1,858 students, was the most European university students received, followed by Valencia and University Complutense of Madrid. The students who come to Spain for six months or a whole year enjoy their time learning Spanish and understand Spanish culture better. It adds extra value on Erasmus program to help the students build self confidence and create intercultural relations.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Erasmus Brussels has appointed 'ambassadors' of academic institutions and former grantees to promote the "benefits and changes" that this project has had on their lives and careers. Tomas Sanchez Lopez, a graduate of the School of Informatics, Technical University of Valencia (UPV) has been selected as Ambassador of the Erasmus and Spain will participate in events commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Erasmus European program to be held throughout this year.