By EuAsiaNews,
Brussels : The European Commission announced here
Wednesday that it has awarded almost 10,000 new grants to be funded by the EU’s Erasmus Mundus programme in the academic year 2009-2010.
1,833 students are being awarded scholarships to study for one or two years at the Masters course of their choice, alongside students from Europe .
The scholarship-winners come from 105 countries: China is the most-represented country, followed by India, Brazil, Mexico, Bangladesh, the US, Ethiopia, Russia and Indonesia;
Moreover 489 academics with outstanding academic track records will come to Europe for shorter periods of teaching, research or tutoring activities within one of the Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses.
The academics come from 75 countries; the best represented in this category are the US, China, India, Australia and Canada.
The objective of Erasmus Mundus is to enhance the quality of European higher education and promote it around the world.
EU Commissioner for education Ján Figel said ” Erasmus Mundus is going from strength to strength. In the years since 2004, when it began, the programme has been able to establish itself as one of the world’s foremost international mobility programmes.”