
{"id":21798,"date":"2010-11-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=21798\/"},"modified":"2017-01-21T04:19:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T04:19:36","slug":"erasmus-grants-are-not-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/erasmus-grants-are-not-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasmus grants are not fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Erasmus programme is dealing out grants unfairly. This is according to students who feel cheated by a complicated system that rewards students from some regions while penalizing others, apparently at random.<\/p>\n<p>The Erasmus exchange programme offers European exchange students grants which are intended to offset the extra costs that arise from studying abroad.<\/p>\n<p>But questions to a sample of international students by the University Post reveal large differences: While some Eastern European students claim around EUR 500, a German student has to make do with a miserly EUR 100.<\/p>\n<h2>Grants used for summer holiday<\/h2>\n<p>Many international students receive a mishmash of grants from their university, the Erasmus programme, and besides that, a top-up by a national grant. <\/p>\n<p>According to the EU Commission\u2019s Directorate General for Education and Culture, students from a country with a lower standard of living get a higher grant going to a country with a high standard of living.<\/p>\n<p>But students say that the system is unfair.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI pay twice as much for my room here in Denmark, compared to my friend who went to Poland. But I receive just ten euro more from the programme than she does,\u00ab says Dutch Erasmus student Kim Teo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Node\/%207897\" target=\"_blank\">Read the European Commission&#8217;s defense of differences in Erasmus grants here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Kim borrows money from the bank to make ends meet, her friend in Poland is now saving money for summer.<\/p>\n<h2>Germans get next to nothing<\/h2>\n<p>\u00bbErasmus grants should be EUR 250 on average EU-wide,\u00ab says Natascha Sander, Information &amp; Communication officer, stating European Commission policy in response to a University Post query. <\/p>\n<p>But even our cursory query among students shows that some receive considerably less, others considerably more. <\/p>\n<p>And even within nations there are differences. Aitor Veiga from the northern Basque city of Pamplona gets EUR 420 a month, while Veronica Martinez Vidal from the Spanish capital Madrid feels the pinch with just EUR 150. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI think this is not fair because we are all university students from the same country and we should have the same rights and opportunities,\u00ab reacts Veronica. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, it is best to come from Poland, with a monthly grant that is sometimes as high as EUR 550 a month. Worst is to come from Germany, whose students sometimes have to settle for only EUR 100, according to our sample.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Node\/7895\" target=\"_blank\">Who gets what? See the full results of the University Post&#8217;s mini-survey here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>uni-avis@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay in the know about news and events happening in Copenhagen by <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">signing up for the University Post\u2019s weekly newsletter here<\/a> .<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some students can save up, others are forced to live in 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This is according to students who feel cheated by a complicated system that rewards students from some regions while penalizing others, apparently at random.<\/p>\n<p>The Erasmus exchange programme offers European exchange students grants which are intended to offset the extra costs that arise from studying abroad.<\/p>\n<p>But questions to a sample of international students by the University Post reveal large differences: While some Eastern European students claim around EUR 500, a German student has to make do with a miserly EUR 100.<\/p>\n<h2>Grants used for summer holiday<\/h2>\n<p>Many international students receive a mishmash of grants from their university, the Erasmus programme, and besides that, a top-up by a national grant. <\/p>\n<p>According to the EU Commission\u2019s Directorate General for Education and Culture, students from a country with a lower standard of living get a higher grant going to a country with a high standard of living.<\/p>\n<p>But students say that the system is unfair.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI pay twice as much for my room here in Denmark, compared to my friend who went to Poland. But I receive just ten euro more from the programme than she does,\u00ab says Dutch Erasmus student Kim Teo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Node\/%207897\" target=\"_blank\">Read the European Commission&#8217;s defense of differences in Erasmus grants here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Kim borrows money from the bank to make ends meet, her friend in Poland is now saving money for summer.<\/p>\n<h2>Germans get next to nothing<\/h2>\n<p>\u00bbErasmus grants should be EUR 250 on average EU-wide,\u00ab says Natascha Sander, Information &amp; Communication officer, stating European Commission policy in response to a University Post query. <\/p>\n<p>But even our cursory query among students shows that some receive considerably less, others considerably more. <\/p>\n<p>And even within nations there are differences. Aitor Veiga from the northern Basque city of Pamplona gets EUR 420 a month, while Veronica Martinez Vidal from the Spanish capital Madrid feels the pinch with just EUR 150. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI think this is not fair because we are all university students from the same country and we should have the same rights and opportunities,\u00ab reacts Veronica. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, it is best to come from Poland, with a monthly grant that is sometimes as high as EUR 550 a month. Worst is to come from Germany, whose students sometimes have to settle for only EUR 100, according to our sample.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Node\/7895\" target=\"_blank\">Who gets what? See the full results of the University Post&#8217;s mini-survey here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>uni-avis@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay in the know about news and events happening in Copenhagen by <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">signing up for the University Post\u2019s weekly newsletter here<\/a> .<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":48,"name":"Politics","slug":"politics","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":48,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1035,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11485,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dutch_Erasmus_student_Kim_Teo_2-1280x853.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38214,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21798\/revisions\/38214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}