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EU Swedish Presidency Begins

Sweden assumed its six-month presidency of the European Union on July 1 with a call to tackle climate change and the financial crisis.
"The most important thing is to ensure that we are able to gather the EU together to respond to the challenges that people care about and where strong European cooperation can make a difference," said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. "This is a matter of dealing with the financial crisis together and tackling the rising unemployment that is currently affecting the whole of Europe. It is also matter of doing our bit to rally the whole world to tackle climate change. These two priorities will dominate our Presidency." Read more; Website; Background

10,000 Erasmus Mundus International Study, Teaching Scholarships

The European Commission has just awarded almost 10,000 new grants to be funded by the Erasmus Mundus education program in the academic year 2009-2010. A total of 8,385 students and academics, including many Americans, will come to study or teach in Europe, and 1,561 Europeans will spend periods at partner institutions in countries outside Europe.
"Erasmus Mundus is going from strength to strength," said Ján Figel', European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture & Youth. "In the years since 2004, when it began, the program has been able to establish itself as one of the world's foremost international mobility programs. With its emphasis on quality and excellence, it is doing an outstanding job of promoting European higher education on the world stage. Read more; Background