Erasmus Mundus is an EU co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education which promotes the European Union as a centre of excellence in learning around the world. It supports European top-quality Masters Courses and provides EU-funded scholarships for third-country nationals participating in these Masters Courses, as well as scholarships for EU nationals studying in third countries. The Erasmus Mundus External Co-operation Window (EM ECW) also promotes partnerships and institutional co-operation exchanges between European higher education institutions and third country institutions and a mobility scheme addressing student and academic exchanges. (For more information on the EM ECW, please see the website.) The name of the programme comes from Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus, a 15th-century Dutch humanist and theologian who studied in the best monastic schools throughout Europe. In his days, he was known as one of the most brilliant students of the time. “Mundus” is the Latin word for “world” and thus stands for the programme’s global outreach.

The programme's overall aim is to enhance the quality of European higher education by fostering co-operation with third countries. The programme's specific objectives are: to promote a quality offer in higher education with a distinct European added value, attractive both within the EU and beyond its borders; to encourage and enable highly qualified graduates and scholars from all over the world to obtain qualifications and/or experience in the EU; to develop more structured co-operation between EU and third-country institutions and to encourage outgoing EU mobility as part of European study programmes; to improve the accessibility of higher education and to enhance the profile and the visibility of European higher education throughout the world.

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