By EuAsiaNews,
Kathmandu : Thirty seven Nepalese students and one academic are among the 10,000 awardees of the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (EMS) for the academic year 2009-2010.
The Delegation of the European Commission to Nepal announced the grants here last Friday.
Sameer is one of the 37 Nepalese students who received the EMS.”I am overjoyed on bagging such a prestigious scholarship,” said Sameer K.C., 25, of Sarlahi district.
8365 students and academics will go to study or teach in Europe, and 1,561 Europeans will spend periods at partner institutions in countries outside Europe, noted a statement issued by the office of the delegation of European Commission in Kathmandu.
EMS is for four semesters and consists of 20 monthly installments of 1600 euro and a yearly fee of 5000 euro to cover expenses, like tuition fees insurances, administration and travel. Course starts during September every year.
“I was surfing the net for scholarship opportunities in Finland, and suddenly my eyes landed on the Erasmus Mundus,” said Sameer who is going to Finland and Denmark for his Masters in Mobile Computation.”
A total of 89 students from Nepal have won the EMS between 2006 to 2009. Now with the fresh group of winners the number has reached 127.