Kathmandu: 53 Nepali students from across 🇳🇵will be making their way to Europe this year with prestigious Erasmus+ scholarships . They will be studying a diverse range of subjects from gender studies and mechanical engineering to forestry and urban studies.
Altogether 53 Nepalese students- 27 girls and 26 boys have been awarded full scholarships for the period 2023-2025 and they will spend 2 years fulltime in prestigious European Universities and beyond to pursue their Master’s Degrees in various fields. During the Pre-Departure Orientation, the students got useful tips and advice for living and studying in Europe.
The main subject areas of their choice are Cyber Security, Global Forestry, Environment Technology & Engineering, Urban Studies, Media, Arts & Culture, Women’s & Gender Studies, Documentary Film Making, and Plant Breeding.
The European Union is the largest global donor in education with its Erasmus+ program. The new Erasmus programmes’ budget for 2021-2027 is totalling 26.2 billion euros, compared with 14.7 billion euros for the previous seven-year cycle of 2014-2020. With this very substantially increased budget, Erasmus+ will be even more inclusive, more digital, and more green!
Welcoming the awardees, EU Ambassador to NepalNona Deprez, said, “I am indeed very pleased to share that Nepal is among the top 20 recipients of the prestigious Erasmus plus scholarship globally and would like to congratulate the students for their outstanding academic achievements.”
Ambassador Deprez said the Erasmus scholarship is unique in that it allows for degree mobility and recognition of joint or multiple diplomas in the EU and beyond. She wished the scholarship holders all the luck and professional and personal growth in their exciting academic journey and hoped to see them returning to Nepal to contribute to bridge the human resource gap.
She observed that since 30 out of the 53 students receiving the scholarship are from the Bagmati province there is a glaring need to spread the word far and wide across Nepal about this unique opportunity that is open to all.
More than 800 Nepalese students have benefitted from the EU’s Erasmus+ Scholarship Programme. The Erasmus+ scholarships also provide opportunities for Europeans to undertake short-term studies and teaching in various universities across Nepal.