Last update: 24/02/2025

The European Union’s Erasmus+ mobility programme is a unique experience to study across the continent and discover different cultures. Through “Santander Erasmus Grants”, we help customer and non-customer university students who want to follow that path. This initiative is part of our commitment to education, entrepreneurship and employability.

At Santander we believe that education is key to addressing the challenges of today’s constantly changing world. Against this backdrop, the Erasmus+ programme enables students to enhance their academic training, learn languages, hone their skills and discover new cultures. This will open more doors for students in the near future. 

And at Santander Open Academy we want to help them experience studying abroad through our “Santander Erasmus Grants”. To apply, students must have been accepted onto the Erasmus+ programme. 

Some 100 universities in the 27 EU Member States are offering this for academic year 2025/2026. To award these grants, we consider academic excellence while seeking to promote inclusion and equal opportunity in education.

““Santander Erasmus Grants” in numbers

Investing in talent and education: our commitment to society reflected in every initiative

At Santander, education, employability and entrepreneurship are the three key pillars of our aim to add value to society and help people and business prosper. As one of the private sector’s leading contributors, we have been working on this purpose for nearly 30 years.

Initiatives like the “Santander Erasmus Grants” enable us to align with the objectives of the Erasmus+ programme:

• Reduce unemployment, especially among young people.
• Promote adult learning, especially new skills that the job market is demanding.
• Encourage young people to take part in democratic life in Europe.
• Support innovation, cooperation and reform.
• Reduce early school leaving.
• Promote cooperation and mobility between Member States.

Developing future professionals in an international setting also provides added value for companies, which in a changing world are looking for people who can manage global environments using both hard skills (technical knowledge, language skills, etc.) and soft skills (communication, resilience and independence). Undoubtedly, this is an opportunity for students to acquire the knowledge that will help build a more prosperous future.