scholarships, study grants, tuition waivers
There are a number of financial support programmes offered by most European Universities, their respective national governments or on a supranational European-wide level. The EU funds are made available by the European Commission and support ever increasing numbers of students.
The best known is the Erasmus Programme, which applies to European students of higher education.
A similar programme with a wider scope, named Erasmus Mundus Programme, has been developed in the last years that is also open to students from other countries throughout the world. Participating students are accepted to follow a Master Course at a EU university.
Some countries signed bilateral education agreements with the EU, such as Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Russia, and the United-States, which allow financial support for educational purposes. These include study grants and tuition waivers for university and ‘post-secondary school’ students.
