Press Release: 30 countries, 1,800 universities, 120,000 students to take part in the Erasmus programme this year

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Series Details IP/01/1588 (15.11.01)
Publication Date 15/10/2001
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The European Commission has announced the figures of the activities that will take place around Europe in the acedmic year 2001/02 under the Erasmus programme. Thus, it is foreseen that around 120,000 university students will carry out a recognised period of study in another European country and that more than 10,000 university professors will spend a short teaching period in another university. Erasmus is the “Higher Education” chapter of SOCRATES, the European programme in the field of education, which since 1997 is also open to the associated countries.
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http://ec.europa.eu/comm/education/erasmus.html http://ec.europa.eu/comm/education/erasmus.html
http://ec.europa.eu/comm/education/higher.html http://ec.europa.eu/comm/education/policies/educ/higher/higher_en.html
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