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Erasmus 30years
In the frame of the 30th anniversary of the Erasmus Programme, Erasmus+ has just published a new video that shows just some of the ways Erasmus+ brings together students, staff and managers from across the world.
Europeans and non-Europeans talk about their experiences and we get an idea about the real benefits of these international mobility and cooperation projects.

The video is available at the following Erasmus+ webpage:
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/video-gallery/international-dimension_en

More in detail, we hear a few words from a Vietnamese student in Portugal, the coordinator of an Erasmus Mundus joint programme in Belgium, Portuguese and Polish professors who have returned from Bosnia-Herzegovina and China respectively, the international relations manager of a Polish university, two visiting US professors in Portugal, and the coordinator of a capacity-building project that brings together European and Chinese universities.

Shorter extracts from this 08:13-minute video have been prepared for social media use and have started to appear on Erasmus+ page (https://www.facebook.com/EUErasmusPlusProgramme).

Erasmus+ International Dimension - Erasmus+ - European Commission

Greetings on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Erasmus, a programme which has supported the university studies of over 5,000 Indian students in the European Union.

To commemorate this milestone, we have launched a page to connect alumni with each other and with the European Union Delegation. Please like us here, and share this page:

www.facebook.com/ErasmusIndia

We also request you to send back to us a two-minute video or a written note in 150 words, narrating your experiences in Europe and what you gained from it.

These videos and stories will be flashed on our page, Twitter page and YouTube channel etc.

The best videos will receive awards and some of them will be featured on the occasion of Europe Day celebrations, on 09 May 2017. The most active (Delhi-based) contributors will also be invited to this party.

Please rush your contributions (deadline: 19 April 2017) to:

o [email protected] Tel: +91 9871539324
o [email protected] Tel: +91 9999035336
o [email protected]

We are collecting updated information of all our Erasmus Scholars. Please click on the link below to access the Google Form, fill out your details and submit:

http://bit.ly/erasmusturns30

We look forward to your participation in developing a strong network of Erasmus Scholars in India.

Erasmus India We're marking #2017 as the year of significance as Erasmus Programme completes its 30 years of Brill

Manipal University - Dept. of European Studies, Erasmus Plus Capacity Building in Content and Language Integrated Learning, called for applications at various levels.

Executive Director, Office Manager and Research Associate

For more details: http://erasmus.iescp.net

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Discover Europe - Workshop at University of Calcutta 6th and 7th April, 2017

Workshop: Discovering Europe
6th to 7th of April, 2017 at University of Calcutta.

Meeting of the Steering Committee
7th to 8th of April, 2017 at University of Calcutta.

Workshop: Discovering Europe
Ideas, experiences and reflections from an Indo-European Mobility Consortium,
University of Calcutta, 6th & 7th of April, 2017

Jawaharlal Nehru mused in 1946 – just before India’s Independence – that

India was in my blood. ... And yet I approached her almost as an alien critic, full of dislike for the present as well as for many of the relics of the past that I saw. To some extent I came to her via the West and looked at her as a friendly Westerner might have done. I was eager and anxious to change her outlook and appearance and give her the garb of modernity. And yet doubts rose within me. (The Discovery of India, p.50i)

Having studied in Britain, he later confessed that his English education changed his view on India and subsequently he went on a great voyage to discover India – her diversity, but more importantly the unity within. As he wrote:
Though outwardly there was diversity and infinite variety among our people, everywhere there was that tremendous impress of oneness, which had held all of us together for ages past, whatever political fate or misfortune had befallen us. The unity of India was no longer merely an intellectual conception for me: it was an emotional experience which overpowered me. That essential unity had been so powerful that no political division, no disaster or catastrophe, had been able to overcome it. (ibid. p.59)

This first-hand experience resulted in the coining and frequent usage of his famous dictum: Unity in Diversity. The same vision, in its Latin form In Varietate Concordia, has been adopted by the European Union as its official motto in 2000 – alongside other symbols like the flag or anthem – indicating an entanglement and closeness of ideas of India and Europe / EU.

Given the specific Indian angle of this Erasmus Mundus consortium enabling mobilities from India to Europe, this workshop invites reflections on the impact of contemporary encounters with Europe. How have prolonged stays in one of the six European partner universities – in academic environments and beyond - influenced the view of Europe and the EU member countries respectively. In which ways have the subjectivities of the fellowship awardees evolved, their response to Europe as an idea and their material experience of it, and how they negotiated the ambivalence of Europe as former colonisers and Europe as a cosmopolitan space. How have ideas of Europe and experiences of Europe interacted, challenged, mediated or changed each other? How has Europe surprised or revealed its darker sides – the underbelly of Europe in times of refugee crisis, Brexit and new border controls?

We also invite contributions and interventions on the processes of “Indianization” of Europe, for example the indirect extension and acceptance of Indian administrative categories (reservation categories) to European universities based on EU-India agreements as well as the “Europeanisation” of Indian academia (e.g. credit transfer etc.). How has Erasmus Mundus through its consortia of partners impacted beneficiaries as well as institutions on all levels in a scenario where both Europe and India are deterritorialized and consistently cross-pollinated each other? Does the gaze/viewing of each other leads to reimagining of the Indian self as well as a “discovery” - a new look and take on – Europe?

We invite titles and short abstracts (not more than 200-300 words) till 6th of March 2017. Please send them to [email protected]. IBIES consortium will cover travel and accommodation for the selected papers.

Call for Papers for a Workshop on:
Anthropology of Fright. Perspectives from Asia
Aarhus University, 18-19 May, 2017

more details on the CISCA / Contemporary India Study Centre Aarhus page here on facebook

4th Steering Committee Meeting @ Aarhus University, May 26-27, 2016. Few more photographs.

Erasmus Mundus Student Exchange Programme Student's Feedback.

4th Steering Committee Meeting @ Aarhus University, May 26-27, 2016.