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The Erasmus Programme (European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students[1]) is a European Union(EU) student exchange programme established in 1987. Erasmus+, or Erasmus Plus, is the new programme combining all the EU's current schemes for education, training, youth and sport, which was started in January 2014. The Erasmus Programme, together with a number of other independent programmes, was incorporated into the Socrates programme established by the European Commission in 1994. The Socrates programme ended on 31 December 1999 and was replaced with the Socrates II programme on 24 January 2000, which in turn was replaced by the Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013 on 1 January 2007. It was create in 1987 for the iniciative of the student association AEGEE Europe, created by Franck Biancheri, and promoted by the european Commissar for education, the programme was integrated in 1995. Orientated for the higher education, it has the objective «To improve the quality and to strengthen the European dimension of the higher education promoting the transnational cooperation between universities, stimulating the mobility in Europe and improving the transparency and the full academic recognition of the studies and qualifications in the whole Union ». The acronym was created to coincide with it honor, with the name with Latin of the philosopher, theologian and humanist Erasmo de Róterdam (1465-1536). In 2007 the programme Sócrates II enter in the third phase denominated LLL (with the acronym Lifelong Learning). This program in turn is based on four subprograms: Comenius, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci y Grundtvig.4 Until 2199 higher level academic institutions participating in the Erasmus initiative in 31 countries involved in the Socrates program. Erasmus for students The prerequisites of the students to take part in the program Erasmus are to be dealing a university career of average or top degree and to have completed it’s first year of formation. In addition, they must be citizens of one of the member states associated with the program Sócrates. The students selected for the program Erasmus will deal it studies during a period of between three months and one year in another European country that they will calculate and recognized in it university of origin once return. The students can request also a scholarship Erasmus as economic aid for the after cost of living abroad. In all the countries classes of support offer in the language of the country to facilitate to the student’s integration in the nation

Erasmus Mundus Sponsored by the European Commission and approved by Decision 2317 / EC of the Parliament and the Council of the European Union on December 5, 2003, is an important strategic line of the European Commission for the internationalization and modernization of universities and degrees and the protection and promotion of excellence universitaria.5

The amount of the Erasmus scholarship in Spain The Erasmus scholarship has three main components. First, all Erasmus students receive a grant from the European Union of about 110 euros per month. Nationally, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport also gave grants to Erasmus students from 185 euros per month maximum, depending on the economic situation of each student, which as of October 29, 2013 was changed, and can receive this contribution only it has been a recipient of a grant from the Ministry in the previous year, a change that was welcomed with great discrepancy to be retroactive, forcing thousands of Erasmus Spanish settled in their destination to consider the return to Spain for failing to meet the cost. Finally, some Autonomous Communities also grant aid whose amount depends on each region. In total, Erasmus students can gather between 200 and 800 euros per month, depending on their family's financial situation and the autonomous community in which you reside. More Erasmus Initiative Fraternité 2020 is registered by the European Commission on 9 May 2012. Initiative Your goal is to get 3% of the EU budget is dedicated to programs such as Erasmus from 2014 (the current rate is 1.2%). To succeed, you need to gather 1 million signatures until November 2013.

The "Erasmus experience" For many Europeans and other nationalities university Erasmus and Erasmus Mundus programs offer the opportunity to live for the first time in a foreign country. For this reason it has become a social and cultural phenomenon, being enormously popular among students and becoming even subject of films and French film L'Auberge Espagnole, in which the experience of six Erasmus students recounted during their stay in Barcelona (Spain) in a shared flat and as discover how far the identity of Europe exists through a certain heterogeneity. On the other hand, in 2012, "One year Erasmus" book in which the adventures of a student in Brussels, reaching deeper into the feelings that arise in the Erasmus student narrated published.

The program not only encourages learning and understanding of the culture and customs of the host country but also the sense of community among students from different countries. Erasmus experience is considered a time of learning and promoting social life. The "Erasmus parties" held in the host cities are known in university settings throughout Europe for being boisterous and multilingual events. The importance of this program has overflowed the European academic world, being recognized as an important to promote cohesion and understanding of the EU among young people element. This has made avenges coining the term "Erasmus generation" to distinguish those college students through this experience have created bonds of friendship border, possessing a clear European citizenship. Erasmus exchange program of the European Union has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 2004 as one of the most important programs of cultural exchange history of humanity.