The European Union provides a set of support programmes for academic cooperation and the improvement of mobility of students, graduates and scientists.

The programme Erasmus Mundus is an interworking and mobility programme enhancing the cooperation in the field of academic education and the intercultural understanding of third countries.

Tempus is an cooperation programme for higher education institutions of the European Union for the interaction with countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the western Balkan and the southern Mediterranean.

With the programme EU Third Countries Cooperation the academic interworking with third countries in Asia/Oceania, North and South America will be intensify.