Poland receives €1.0 billion for Erasmus+ Programme

Poland will have as much as €100 million this year at its disposal under the Erasmus+ Programme, of which €40 million is earmarked for higher education. In the 2014-2020 financial framework Poland will receive some € 1.0 billion for the educational program. “Poland is the European leader in terms of the academic workers' mobility. As many as 6,000 researchers go abroad for seminars, lectures and conferences. The students mobility totals 16,000 people per year,” Marek Marczewski, head of Foundation for the Development of the Education System, told PAP. Erasmus+ Programme was started in January 2014 and combines all the EU's schemes for education, training, youth and sport. The total sum earmarked for the program amounts to €14.4 billion.