Councillor of Education of the City of Lorca, Francisco Montiel, has announced that it is open the deadline to apply for municipal aid for students Lorca Erasmus Scholarship for the year 2012-2013.
Through these grants, the Consistory is to "help young people who choose college Lorca take a course outside of Spain. This is an additional aid that is received through the grant itself and offers support students time to pay the expenses generated by this experience. "
Montiel said that "any university Lorca to benefit from an Erasmus grant during the year 2012-2013 may apply for assistance, regardless of college or the place you are going to move. Students also benefit from a scholarship ILA mobility of students with Latin America can benefit from municipal aid.
The mayor said that "to apply for assistance must be submitted to the Registry of the City Council for the instance that can be downloaded on the municipal website www.lorca.es, photocopy of ID, the wheel of registration, a photocopy of the credential of being a student Erasmus and the account number of the recipient. After the course, students must present documentation of having completed the study abroad during the year. For any other queries, please contact the Department of Education , located on the 3rd floor of City Hall, and through telephone 968479713.
The council has also announced that "with regard to aid for the 2011-2012 academic year, have been approved a total of 46, of which 45 are for Erasmus students and 1 to a student ILA. The significant of each aid amounts to 300 euros, which will be paid to students in the coming weeks, so that the total investment of City Hall in aid to Lorca who have studied abroad amounted to 13,800 euros. "
Among the favorite destinations of students Lorca during the past year, Montiel stated that "Italy and France are the countries chosen by 9 students Lorca, followed by England and Portugal with 6, 4 Belgium, Poland and Germany with 2, and 1 student in countries like Austria, Slovenia, Greece, Scotland, Lithuania and Romania. In fact there have been universities that have agreed various Erasmus of the City of the Sun, as is the case of the French University of Cergy-Pontoise with 3 Lorca and the Universities of Coimbra and Bologna with 2 each. In turn, the ILA student has completed his studies at the Universidad de Los Andes ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca