What is Erasmus?
Erasmus is the EU's flagship education and training programme, enabling more than 180,000 students to study and work abroad each year, as well as supporting co-operation actions between higher education institutions across Europe. It caters not only for students, but also for professors and business staff who want to teach abroad and for university staff who want to be trained abroad.
‘Erasmus Programme’ is an European Union education and training programme which aims to increase the quality of higher education in Europe. For this purpose, it promotes the co-operation among higher education institutions in Europe. These partnership and mobility activities are financially supported within this context. In addition to mobility actions, the Programme supports higher education institutions to work together through intensive programmes, networks and multilateral projects.
Besides the maintenance of co-operation among higher education institutions (HEI) , Erasmus programme promotes the collaboration between HEIs and labour markets so that universities will meet the need of labour market and graduates will have more job opportunities.
The European Commission is responsible for the overall implementation of Erasmus Programme managed by the national agencies and the Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture based in Brussels in the 31 participating countries.
Actions under Erasmus Programme run by the Turkish National Agency are:
NEVSEHIR UNIVERSITY ERASMUS CODE: TR NEVSEHI02
Who can Participate?
The Erasmus Mundus Programme 2009-2013 is open to higher education institutions and to any organisation active in the field of higher education and research as well as to students, doctoral candidates, teachers, researchers and university staff (academic and/or administrative) from any part of the world.
Erasmus signatory states are:
- the European union (EU) 27 Member States
- the European Economic Area (EEA) countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway)
- a candidate country (Turkey)
The status of ‘Erasmus student’ applies to students who satisfy the Erasmus eligibility criteria and who have been selected by their university to spend an Erasmus period abroad, either studying at an eligible partner university or carrying out a placement in an enterprise or other appropriate organization. For study mobility, both universities must have an Erasmus University Charter awarded by the European Commission. For placement in enterprise the home university must hold an extended Erasmus University Charter.
Detailed information about Erasmus programme can be found on the web pages of Turkish National Agency and the EU Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme linked below: