The European exchange program founded in 1987, which I am currently one of the lucky recipients, increases much more than the internationalization of strict academic profiles. Beyond the undeniable benefits in terms of employability of everyone, and besides the virtues of the language project, I think there are better behind all this. Something infinitely more personal and vital.
I can not find better than the now classic film L'Auberge Espagnole to illustrate my idea. Let me summarize the plot so rudimentary, it is primarily the story of an economics student, probably his license ALMOST finished, looking for a job and to do so in search of his personal employability. But a council will be given, if he wants to work in MINEFI through a relationship: it would need to partner abroad so as to present an interesting profile in terms of service. Students spend a year in Barcelona and discovers life as never before, comes back, gets the job desired. And then suddenly vanishes professional project may be too bland to make everything explode. Our hero plate all aware that everything's not interested much in substance, and wants to reconnect with his personal dream of becoming a writer.
cynically commented, we can say that escapes the fate of many of his fellows in more or less the same posture, with the revelation of Erasmus. Many students are economics and law, I think we can admit, and certainly the least degree level, without vacuum clean. They are there because you have a job, because the right or the economy is good and it forms, in theory, frameworks. How many of them leave their sensitivity to the dressing room? Abandoning the arts and letters, leaving projects wisely crazy in the closet for their preference for the rigors of a career mapped linearly, or at least the direction it appears to follow. Fortunately, Erasmus comes in there, saving kick in the anthill, and some discover there is still time to pursue their passions if they were chaotic at first.
Beyond this there may be naive and caricatured in these remarks, I think we can certainly remove a certain thing of the Erasmus experience. Slice of life as granted abroad, away from the national habits, they carry within one semester or one year in a special sphere. The mind is on vacation, the world appears large and accessible, the extended capabilities, the richness of a single youth to preserve. This sentiment, floating home, airy community Erasmus pushes us to reach our part of the most affectionate intimacy. We wish to reiterate what we love, before everything, and less kowtowing to the criteria expected by a rigidly preconceived path. Inspiration invades us, our tolerance extends equally to our adaptability, and an insolent smile appears.
Obviously, this song in praise of the European exchange is relative to various other considerations. Such as funding, which may appear questionable, but that is probably the most favorable system in the world ever designed for student mobility. Materially speaking for the European students, an allowance is automatically granted an amount of about EUR 120 per month of stay. In addition it can help the country. In France this aid may be the mobility grant, awarded to fellows based on social criteria and an amount of 400 euros per month of stay. Or mobility grants for students very deserving of a roughly similar amount. The possibility of being funded to the tune of 520 euros per month is certainly positive. Some defects are eroding the beautiful machine in this area, it is true. Thus the payment of aid in the month of ... December (sic), hurting terribly all those unable to advance money the previous three months. But the whole remains nonetheless very satisfying to me to think of the tens of thousands of dollars or pounds sterling fees that constitute the reality of students from other states.
Finally, others are sometimes regret tarnishing this cheerful table. Including ... the fact that students do not benefit enough, at least not as much as they could, given that the offers are still higher than the national demand for mobility. Recent reforms of the education minister has also sought to increase its reach, as desired by the report led by Jacques Attali some time ago. Hope that eventually we are all contaminated virus mood.
Lund to the French. 
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