Fact of the day
Increasing numbers of young people are following educational courses in European countries other than their home country. Erasmus is an important EU-funded programme which enables university-level students and teachers to spend a year in another EU country. More than a million students have taken part in it since it began in 1987. This scheme has now gone global with the launch, in 2004, of Erasmus Mundus.
Separately from Erasmus, nearly half a million students are studying at any one time in another EU country. The figures are set out in the table.