What is Erasmus Mundus ?
In Europe, higher education is a public right and a public responsibility. The European Commission has a mission to strengthen high-quality international academic co-operation while promoting social cohesion both at the national and at European level.
Erasmus Mundus is a co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education organised by the European Commission under the broader Erasmus+ program. It aims to enhance the quality of European higher education in order to promote the European Union as a centre of excellence in learning around the world and to promote intercultural understanding through co-operation with third countries as well as for the development of higher education in third countries. In addition, it contributes to the development of human resources and the international co-operation capacity of higher education institutions in third countries by increasing mobility between the European Union and these countries.
Since January 2014 the Erasmus Mundus programme has been integrated in the new Erasmus+ programme, the new EU programme for education, training, youth and sport. Erasmus+ brings together all the current EU and international schemes for education, training, youth and sport (including Erasmus Mundus), replacing all existing programmes with one.