
It refers to Rotterdam's Erasmus, the favourite son of the XVth century, and who was esentially a humanist.
Erasmus is at present an acronym for "European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students". This European students' cultural exchange programme, adopted in 1987, and which currently gets the cooperation of more than 2,000 university centers, has the objective of facilitating the mobility of students around the Union's Member Stat











