Over 53,000 Romanian students went to study abroad between 1998 and 2013 through the educational programme Erasmus, according to the information provided by the National Agency for Community Programs for Education and Professional Development (ANPCDEFP), quoted by local business daily Zf.ro.

Most of the students go to study abroad for a period of six months and the value of the monthly scholarships vary between EUR 150 and EUR 500.

The destinations chosen by most of the young Romanians are France, Spain and Germany.

In the last five years, Romania has received over EUR 61 million from the European Union for the Erasmus programme.

Erasmus is a student exchange programme established in 1987. In Romania, the pogramme started to be implemented in 1998.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com