{"id":109418,"date":"2020-02-18T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=109418"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:42","slug":"european-student-exchange-and-research-budget-may-not-be-increased-as-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2020\/02\/18\/european-student-exchange-and-research-budget-may-not-be-increased-as-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"European student exchange and research budget may not be increased as planned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the negotiations on the European Union\u2019s long-range budget are proving so troublesome, the proposed budget for Erasmus grants and the Horizon Europe research programme may not be able to be realised.<\/p>\n

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Since the negotiations on the European Union\u2019s long-range budget are proving so troublesome, the proposed budget for Erasmus grants and the Horizon Europe research programme may not be able to be realised.<\/p>\n

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However, if Brussels receives<\/em> less money, it will not be able to award<\/em> as much money, either. One of the things that may suffer is the planned increase in the budget for the Erasmus programme. Under the European Commission\u2019s proposals, the budget would be doubled, from \u20ac15 to 30 billion for the 2021-2027 period. This would allow 12 million students and scholars (three times as many as in the last seven years) to study abroad.<\/p>\n

And actually, the budget should be even further increased, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said last summer when she applied with the European Parliament for her position. It should be raised from \u20ac15 to 45 billion. For its part, the European Parliament is in favour of tripling the budget, as well. However, this target seems unlikely to be achieved now that five heads of government have dug in their heels. There are those who fear that the budget will not even be doubled. So the European Parliament has now broken off the negotiations on Erasmus+.<\/p>\n\n\t

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