European Universities Ready to Welcome Indian Students for Fall 2021!

This year has been unpredictable with the advent of the global pandemic shuffling our regular routines. While 2020 impacted almost every aspect of our lives, we adapted rapidly to the new normal from shifting our workplaces home to the educational sphere turning to online learning. Many universities around the world have taken several efforts to ensure that education does not suffer. To provide the right assistance to aspiring international students, universities across the globe took the much-needed steps to turn to online learning and even exempting standardised prep scores like GMAT, GRE, etc. European Universities are also ready to welcome Indian students for the Fall Intake 2021 and conducted the European Higher Education Virtual Fair India 2020 (EHEVF) online from 25th -27th November to bring universities and international students together.

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European Higher Education Virtual Fair India 2020 Highlights

The fair saw the participation of over 9000 Indian students which is a testimony to the growing interest of Indian students to pursue their higher education from Europe. There were a large number of European universities which shows that they are interested in building an interaction with Indian students. Reports suggest that the number of students studying in European universities has increased significantly over the last 5 year owing to the efforts of European states to host Indian students.

The webinar was spread over three days and focused on the following areas:

• IT and Engineering
• Business and Management
• Natural Sciences and Liberal Arts
• Social Sciences

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Participants of EHEVF

The following European states were a part of the EHEVF 2020 and the universities from these states are all ready to welcome Indian students for Fall 2021 intake!

• Belgium
• Italy
• Hungary
• Sweden
• Portugal
• Lithuania
• Cyprus
• Estonia
• Bulgaria
• Spain
• Latvia
• Poland
• Finland
• Germany
• France
• Czechia
• Ireland
• Netherlands
• Slovakia
• Estonia
• Slovenia

Scholarships for Indian Students

Other than benefits at the level of the EU Member States, the European Union offers scholarships to Indian students allowing to receive a master’s degree by touring two or more Member States during the study period, which adds to the cultural diversity a student may achieve from studying in Europe.

During the webinar by European universities to welcome Indian students, M. Adrian Veale, Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, European Commission, Brussels, assured the students that although the current Erasmus+ scholarship programme is coming to an end in December 2020, the European Union will initiate a new scholarship programme for the next seven years and will continue to offer the popular Erasmus Mundus Scholarship programme in the coming months.

Dr. Surbhi Singh of the Centre for Migration of India, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India, welcomed the opportunity to take part in the virtual fair to raise awareness of the opportunities for Indian students to travel globally and to Europe. The MEA has launched a Madad platform for Indian students preparing or studying abroad to assist students and also to answer their concerns about consular services provided by Indian missions. A checklist offering advice to Indian students to make the best-informed option has also been set up at EU level.

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Hence, it is surely great news that the European universities are ready to welcome Indian students for the upcoming Fall 2021 admissions and this webinar mainly connected aspiring students with the universities in Europe! Want to study in Europe for the upcoming 2021 intakes? Let Leverage Edu experts help you find the right program and university and further guide you through the admission process to ensure that you get successfully shortlisted! Sign up for a free session now!