Erasmus+ 2021-2027 budget approved

Erasmus+ 2021-2027 budget approved

Members of the European Parliament confirmed yesterday that funds for the next Erasmus+ programme should be tripled to allow more people to take part, better adapting grants to their needs.


For the next generation of the Erasmus+ programme, one of Parliament’s main objectives is that more young people take part in the different learning mobility schemes. It therefore proposes a detailed set of measures to lift all economic, social and cultural barriers, focusing on people with fewer opportunities.

EU Parliament session in Strasbourg

MEPs also accepted new measures and actions to increase number of participants, re-allocating the budget to different parts of the programme to reflect these priorities, offering pre-school and early education staff, young athletes and sport coaches the option to participate in mobility schemes. Vocational education exchanges, especially in border regions will also be a priority in the new programme and have a bigger budget.

Erasmus+ Programme


More synergies with other European funding programmes would enable many quality programmes that currently cannot be financed under Erasmus to benefit from combined funding to complement the adjustment of grants, transport, living costs for disadvantaged learners or to finance new projects.


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