Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, appearing on the BBC1 current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
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The Department for Culture, Media and Sport confirmed that the UK will join the Erasmus+ scheme in January 2027 with individual student mobility and placements to begin in the 2027/28 academic year.
The scheme will allow individuals to study, work and gain professional development placements across the EU and participating countries. This comes after the UK and the EU agreed at a summit in May 2025 to work towards a youth experience scheme which would enable young people from both the UK and EU to live, work and study for a limited time in each other’s respective countries.
The UK left the Erasmus scheme in 2020 under the Brexit agreement, with former prime minister Boris Johnson claiming that it failed to deliver ‘value for money’.
The Turing Scheme which replaced Erasmus and has now ended, focused on UK participants going abroad and did not fund international students and staff coming to the UK. It was limited to just students and learners across universities, further education and schools, whereas Erasmus+ will include staff, apprentices, youth workers and sport development projects.
How will this affect young people in the UK?
UK organisations are still able to take part in Erasmus Mundus programmes open to institutions from all over the world.
Application for Erasmus+ funding open later this month and individual student mobility and placements will likely begin in late 2027.
Projects will focus on four key areas: inclusion and diversity, environment and climate change, digital transformation, and participation in democratic life.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said: “We want Erasmus+ to provide every young person, from all backgrounds and all regions, the opportunity to take part and have the enriching, life altering experience of international exchange.”
The Government says it will focus on areas that saw less engagement with Erasmus in that past, including the north of England and the Midlands.
Maria Maiorova, Erasmus student network treasurer at Imperial College, told City London News that she is “very excited for the UK to re-join the Erasmus scheme as that it would provide students more opportunities to come here.”
The government says more than 100,000 people could benefit from the Erasmus+ scheme in the first year alone.
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The Department for Culture, Media and Sport confirmed that the UK will join the Erasmus+ scheme in January 2027 with individual student mobility and placements to begin in the 2027/28 academic year.
The scheme will allow individuals to study, work and gain professional development placements across the EU and participating countries. This comes after the UK and the EU agreed at a summit in May 2025 to work towards a youth experience scheme which would enable young people from both the UK and EU to live, work and study for a limited time in each other’s respective countries.
The UK left the Erasmus scheme in 2020 under the Brexit agreement, with former prime minister Boris Johnson claiming that it failed to deliver ‘value for money’.
The Turing Scheme which replaced Erasmus and has now ended, focused on UK participants going abroad and did not fund international students and staff coming to the UK. It was limited to just students and learners across universities, further education and schools, whereas Erasmus+ will include staff, apprentices, youth workers and sport development projects.
How will this affect young people in the UK?
UK organisations are still able to take part in Erasmus Mundus programmes open to institutions from all over the world.
Application for Erasmus+ funding open later this month and individual student mobility and placements will likely begin in late 2027.
Projects will focus on four key areas: inclusion and diversity, environment and climate change, digital transformation, and participation in democratic life.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said: “We want Erasmus+ to provide every young person, from all backgrounds and all regions, the opportunity to take part and have the enriching, life altering experience of international exchange.”
The Government says it will focus on areas that saw less engagement with Erasmus in that past, including the north of England and the Midlands.
Maria Maiorova, Erasmus student network treasurer at Imperial College, told City London News that she is “very excited for the UK to re-join the Erasmus scheme as that it would provide students more opportunities to come here.”
The government says more than 100,000 people could benefit from the Erasmus+ scheme in the first year alone.
