One million children have been born as a result of cooperation under the Erasmus+ programme.

Omissions

• No newer official estimate exists: the 'one million' figure originates in the European Commission's Erasmus Impact Study of 2014 and has been repeated unchanged since (e.g. by the Commission itself in 2019); no 2024-2026 Eurostat or Commission figure recalculating the number of 'Erasmus babies' could be found.
• The claim is an estimate/extrapolation ('around one million babies are likely to have been born'), not a measured or registered number of births.
• The 2014 estimate covers the Erasmus student-exchange programme since 1987, not specifically 'cooperation under the Erasmus+ programme' (Erasmus+ only exists since 2014); the MEP's phrasing attributes the figure to the current programme's cooperation strand.
• The figure rests on self-reported survey data about partners met during mobility (27% of Erasmus students meet a long-term partner while on Erasmus; 33% have a partner of a different nationality), multiplied over total mobility numbers — a methodological extrapolation.
• The claim was stated as established fact ('we actually have one million children born') whereas the underlying source is an approximation made over a decade before the session date.

Sources

• PrimaryEuropean Commission — press release IP/14/1025 'Erasmus Impact Study confirms EU student exchange scheme boosts employability and job mobility'"On this basis, the Commission estimates that around one million babies are likely to have been born to Erasmus couples since 1987."
• SecondaryEuropean Commission official Medium account — 'Nine things you didn't know about Erasmus!'"27% of Erasmus students meet their long-term partner while on Erasmus. On this basis, the Commission estimated in 2014 that around one million babies are likely to have been born to Erasmus couples since 1987."
• Secondaryeducations.com — 'What are Erasmus Babies?'"approximately 1 million babies, named 'Erasmus babies', have been born to Erasmus couples over the past 30 years" and quotes the Commissioner: "Nine million so far since 1987 when we created Erasmus. And the nicest thing is that we have roughly one million... We have an entire generation of Erasmus babies coming up."