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Erasmus+ is the European Union programme for education, training, youth and sport. It runs
for seven years, from 2014 to 2020, with organisations invited to apply for funding each year
to undertake creative and worthwhile activities.
Erasmus+ aims to modernise education, training and youth work across Europe. It is open to
education, training, youth and sport organisations across all sectors of lifelong learning,
including school education, further and higher education, adult education and the youth
sector. It offers exciting opportunities for participants to study, work, volunteer, teach and
train abroad in Europe.
Erasmus+ provides opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain work
experience and volunteer abroad. Erasmus+ supports transnational partnerships among
Education, Training, and Youth institutions and organisations to foster cooperation and bridge
the worlds of Education and work in order to tackle the skills gaps we are facing in Europe.
It also supports national efforts to modernise Education, Training, and Youth systems. In the
field of Sport, there is support for grassroots projects and cross-border challenges such as
combating match-fixing, doping, violence and racism.
Erasmus+ brought together seven previous EU programmes in the fields of Education,
Training, and Youth; and it for the first time provides support for Sport. As an integrated
programme, Erasmus+ offers more opportunities for cooperation across the Education,
Training, Youth and Sport sectors and is easier to access than its predecessors, with simplified
funding rules.
More about the program on: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmusplus/index_en.htm