Amid the Brexit crisis, European Commission vice president Frans Timmermans said Brussels would adopt its contingency plans for the Erasmus+ program, along with other pan-European schemes and policies affected by Britain's predicted sudden exit.
A Goethe Institute and Yunus Emre Institute partnership will offer artists across France, Germany, the Netherlands and Turkey international work placements.
The European Commission has announced that UK education and youth organisations will benefit from €187 million of EC funding through the Erasmus+ program in 2019.
The UK government said it's 2016 guarantee will cover all successful Erasmus+ UK applicants bids submitted before Brexit, even in a 'no deal' scenario.
Finland is implementing an EU directive which will double the length of its residence permits for students and researchers from outside the EU, in a bid to encourage them to work in the country.
The European Commission wants to double Erasmus+ participants by 2025 and ensure schoolchildren within the EU learn two languages plus their mother tongue.
New visa rules will make it easier for non-EU students and researchers to work during their studies and to stay on after graduation. They will also facilitate greater freedom of movement for international students between EU countries.
The European Commission is considering a fifteen per cent cut to its budget for the Erasmus exchange programme from 2014 to 2020, in the face of demands for austerity cuts among member states—although in real terms it would still represent an increase. At the same time it is pushing for a student loan guarantee scheme to encourage more students to fund their own studies.
