Press Release: Erasmus Mundus: an additional 69 universities join the programme

The European Commission on 9 February 2005 selected a further 17 Erasmus Mundus master's courses, involving 69 European universities new to the scheme. The selected master's courses were supposed to start at the beginning of the following academic year (2005-2006) and come on top of the 19 that already started in the autumn of 2005. The Erasmus Mundus programme aims to strengthen European cooperation and international ties in higher education. For the academic year 2005-2006, the number of recipients of Erasmus scholarships was expected to increase to about 900 students and 100 academics.