Programme level overview of project data
About the programme
Erasmus+ is the EU's programme to support, through lifelong learning, the educational, professional and personal development of people in education, training, youth and sport, in Europe and beyond.
In doing so it contributes to sustainable growth, quality jobs and social cohesion, driving innovation, and strengthening European identity and active citizenship.
It has offered a life changing learning experience to millions of EU citizens and supports various activities such as learning mobility, cooperation, and policy reform.
Erasmus was established in 1987 as an exchange programme for higher education students. Ever since the first year, when 3,200 students from 11 European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and United Kingdom) participated, the programme has constantly been evolving.
Charts showing the number of participants who started their learning or teaching mobility between 1 January and 31 December of each year, with the corresponding distribution per gender or profile (staff or learners).
Figures do not include international mobility with partner countries worldwide. Both charts will update together upon selecting either a set of years, gender or type of participant.
Today, it is one of the European Union's most visible success stories with 18 million people participating since 1987.
The number of participants in learning mobility is still growing every year and has nearly doubled since 2014.
Thanks to strong support from EU institutions and EU countries, Erasmus+ provides more and more opportunities to learn and to participate in transnational projects, while expanding its international dimension.
Structure
Erasmus+ is implemented mainly through three so-called “Key Actions”, each reflecting levels of intervention.
Key Action 1 supports learning mobility of individual projects
Key Action 2 supports cooperation among organisations and institutions
Key Action 3 supports policy development and cooperation
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The programme also supports Jean Monnet Actions, which offer opportunities to spread knowledge on the EU in the fields of education and training (data available later).
Total projects, organisations and grants
Explore Erasmus+ data since 2014 with this chart.
You can customize the chart by clicking on the axis titles to open drop-down menus—this allows you to view the total number of projects, total number of organizations, or grant funding amounts by year or field.
Budget covered
The EU’s multiannual financial programming (the EU’s long-term budget) spans over seven years. Two statistical periods are covered: the 2014-2020 and the current programming period, started in 2021 and ending in 2027.
The overall budget envelope was nearly doubled from the previous period, with gradual yearly increases peaking in 2027, to support key political objectives such as building a European Education Area, empowering young people, and promoting a European identity through youth, education and culture policies.
This increased ambition also highlighted the goal of increasing the number of participants (pupils, higher education students, trainees, teachers, trainers, youth workers, sports coaches, and also learners in vocational education and training and adult learning staff), of reaching out more to people from all social backgrounds, while also building stronger relations with the rest of the world and promoting more forward-looking study fields.
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