The current Erasmus+ budget is €27 billion.
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The current Erasmus+ budget is €27 billion.
Since 1987, 18 million participants have benefited from the Erasmus+ programme.
Only around 5% of vocational education and training learners currently go abroad for part of their training.
According to CEDEFOP, only 18% of vocational education and training teachers feel recognised and valued in their profession.
Three out of four Europeans would prefer general education over vocational education and training.
Almost one in three workers report work-related stress, depression or anxiety, and 44% report severe pressure or work overload.
Almost 20 million Europeans live in another EU country for work or are temporarily posted abroad by their employer.
Recognition of a Spanish nurse's professional qualification to work in Belgium takes at least three months.
Only seven professions currently benefit from automatic recognition of professional qualifications in the European Union.
There are 5,700 regulated professions in the European Union.
In the European Union, 40% of highly educated third-country nationals work below their qualification level, double the rate for EU nationals.
Recognition of an Italian engineer's professional qualification to work in Germany takes at least four months.
Recognition of an engineer's qualification from the United States to work in the European Union takes around 14 months.
One out of four children, or approximately 19 million children, are at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
93 million Europeans, or one out of five, are at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
Only 3.7 million Europeans have been lifted out of poverty and social exclusion so far.
Afghanistan is the only country where girls are banned from secondary and higher education, with nearly 2.2 million girls denied schooling beyond primary level.
More than half of the population in Afghanistan depends on humanitarian assistance for survival.
Fatal workplace accidents in the European Union have fallen by 70% in the last three decades.
Romania is third in the European Union in the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion, with a rate of 27%.
In the past ten years, the at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion rate in Romania dropped from 37% to 27%.
Around 15% of NextGenerationEU investment is dedicated to education, child care, health and long-term care support.
Every day, nine workers across the European Union fall victim to fatal workplace accidents.
6.2 million people are employed as formal care workers, mostly women.
200,000 Romanian children were lifted out of risk of poverty and exclusion in 2024
EUR 1 billion from the European Defence Fund is being used for drone and counter-drone prototypes.
The percentage of children in Romania at risk of poverty and exclusion fell from almost 40% to 33%
In December 2024, the UN resolution on death penalty moratorium was adopted for the first time with a two-thirds majority of all UN states voting in favour
The proposal for the next Multiannual Financial Framework includes a minimum 14% social investment commitment for all national plans.
The European Child Guarantee in Romania has an allocation of approximately EUR 7 billion
The global number of recorded executions increased by 32% in 2024
Two thirds of all states are today abolitionists in law or practice
The Commission proposed EUR 90 billion in loans for Ukraine last week.
Over 40% of all recorded executions in 2024 were related to drug offences
One out of three children in Romania is at risk of poverty and exclusion