Eramus Mundus in brief
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What is Erasmus Mundus?

The Erasmus Mundus programme supported by the European Commission is a co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education. It aims to enhance quality in European higher education and to promote intercultural understanding through co-operation with third countries.
The programme is intended to strengthen European co-operation and international links in higher education by supporting high-quality European Masters Courses, by enabling students and visiting scholars from around the world to engage in postgraduate study at European universities, as well as by encouraging the outgoing mobility of European students and scholars towards third countries.

The Erasmus Mundus programme's main features are:

ACTION 1 - Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses:
they constitute the central component around which Erasmus Mundus is built. They are high-quality integrated courses at masters level offered by a consortium of at least three universities in at least three different European countries. The courses must be "integrated" to be selected under Erasmus Mundus, which means that they must foresee a study period in at least two of the three universities and that it must lead to the award of a recognised double, multiple or joint diploma.
 
ACTION 1 - Erasmus Mundus scholarships:
in order to give the Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses selected under Action 1 a strong external projection, a scholarship scheme for third-country graduate students and scholars from the whole world, as well as for EU graduate students is linked to them. This scholarship scheme addresses highly qualified individuals who come to Europe to follow the Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses or to work for them.

In concrete terms, the European Commission supports more than 100 Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses of outstanding academic quality. It provides grants for thousands of graduate students from third countries (category A), as well as for EU graduate students (category B) from 2010-11, to follow these Masters Courses, and for thousands of EU graduate students involved in these courses to study in third countries. The programme also offers teaching or research scholarships in Europe for over 1,000 incoming third-country academics and for a similar number of outgoing EU scholars. Last but not least, Erasmus Mundus supports about 100 partnerships between Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses and higher education institutions in third countries. The planned financial envelope totals 230 million Euro for the whole period.

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