Erasmus+: what does the future hold for Europe's best-known programme?

EU Untangled

News, Politics

5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

"A life-changing experience" might be an accurate way to define the Erasmus+ programme. Over the past three decades, the EU’s flagship programme has allowed over 10 million people to benefit from cross-border exchanges in Europe and beyond. Now, Erasmus+ is undergoing changes of its own caused by a larger budget, a messy Brexit and a ravaging pandemic that has stalled mobility flows all over the world. ESN President Kostis Giannidis joins Victor, Harpa and Alex to discuss the challenges and opportunities lying ahead of an Erasmus+ programme that promises to be more inclusive, more digital and a lot greener.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to EU Untangled, the podcast where we try our best to unravel
0:07.8	the complexity of EU politics and policies. Today we have a special guest. His name is
0:15.0	Kostis Janidis and we're going to be talking with him about possibly the best known policy that the European
0:22.7	Union has put out there, the Erasmus Plus program. I'm also quite thrilled because on the podcast we also have my two most beloved co-hosts,
0:50.1	Alex, who is joining us from Berlin and Harpa, who is finally back all the way from
0:55.4	Reykjavik. Yeah, baby. Yeah, baby. You've been having some shaky times over there, Harpa.
1:03.5	Shaky times indeed. Fiery and explosive times, potentially still. So, yeah, basically basically we've been having earthquakes in Iceland.
1:13.9	So it's close to 40,000 now within the period of two weeks.
1:19.2	And that's more than we had for the entirety of the last two years.
1:22.4	So I'm fired up and ready to record.
1:27.0	Shaken, not steered.
1:29.0	Oh, shaking, that's stirred.
1:30.5	I've been waiting to work that joke into something in a conversation for two weeks now,
1:34.9	and I still haven't managed to figure it out.
1:36.9	And here you go straight away.
1:38.5	Damn.
1:39.8	Alex, it's good to have you back, man.
1:43.4	Nice to be back. And I'm very excited to be now in a team of four this time for this episode.
1:51.3	Costis, I'll give you the floor now.
1:53.9	We should have let our guests start, but somehow I lived you at the end.
1:57.5	I'm so sorry about that.
1:58.8	It's okay.
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