A national Erasmus program is announced for ESO and Bachillerato students
The student period is one of those that more chances offer in life. Meet new people, live experiences and grow as a person. All this is at hand. To encourage these issues, there are different programs such as Erasmus that allow travel and continue to expand knowledge in other cities around the globe.
However, this type of program was only available to university students. Although this will change soon after the Government has announced 'Cervantes', a system that will help ESO and Bachillerato students to spend an academic year in other centers. Although that yes, the mobility will be only national.
Students from 14 to 18 years old
As announced Dolors Montserrat, Minister of Health, during the Health and Social Services Commission, the Cervantes program will be available for third and fourth year students of Compulsory Secondary Education, ESO, and first and second year of Secondary Education. The requirement that students who want to benefit from this novelty will have to have will be between 14 and 18 years old.
The intention is to allow students who meet these requirements to benefit from visiting other cities and regions from Spain. At the moment no restriction has been announced, neither in duration nor in places to visit. Although everything seems to indicate that the offer that will be available to students is quite broad, at least that is deduced from the words of Motserrat.
"A student from Penedés will be able to study in Burgo de Osma", explained the minister during the announcement of the Cervantes program in this Commission. As Montserrat explained, the mission is encourage the personal growth of Spanish students and feed their innovative spirit.
Benefits of an Erasmus
These mobility programs are usually really beneficial for students. This is the case of the aforementioned Erasmus scholarship, with which many university students get important benefits for them:
- Improvement of languages. Being in contact with people from other countries and having to hold conversations with them forces you to handle other languages, either English or the nation in which you reside.
- Know other cultures. Knowing how other people live and learning from them is something that opens the mind. Understanding how they work in other countries and keeping the good helps personal growth.
- New friends. These experiences always involve contact with new people and often translate into friendships that last forever, even in spite of the distance between the different places of residence.
- Provides autonomy. Going out of the comfort zone and finding a way to solve problems with those who always help us away is a good way to learn how to take care of oneself and promote personal autonomy.
Damián Montero
