Erasmus

Please note that individuals, institutions or organisations from an EU-country that are interested in engaging in Erasmus-activities with Norway should contact the National Agency (NA) of their respective country.

About the Erasmus-programme
Higher education plays a crucial role in producing high quality human resources, disseminating scientific discovery and advanced knowledge through teaching, adapting to the constantly emerging needs for new competences and qualifications, and educating future generations of citizens in a European context. All such functions are of vital importance to the long-term development of Europe.

The increasing speed at which existing knowledge becomes obsolete, and the rapid changes in the means by which it is delivered and renewed, will require the higher education sector to adopt new methods and commit itself wholeheartedly to the provision of lifelong learning.

Against this background, Erasmus contains a wide range of measures designed

1. to support the European activities of higher education institutions
2. to promote the mobility and exchange of their teaching staff and students.

Inspired by a mobility tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages, the Erasmus action and its different activities henceforth fit into the mobility policy promoted by the Bologna Process, which aims at the creation of a European Higher Education Area by 2010.