new delhi the european union is organising a virtual education fair from friday to give indian students an opporturnity to explore range of courses in 19 leading universities situated in 13 european countries the fair will take place on september 28 and 29 and thereafter from october 25 to 28 more than 15000 students have already registered online to participate in these webinars aspiring students will get a chance to directly interact with officials from higher education institutions in the webinars to be organised as part of european higher education virtual fair ehevf india 2018 european unions ambassador to india tomasz kozlowski said i am excited to launch this unique initiative that will link european education institutions with indian students at any point of time there are over 50000 indian students pursuing education endeavours in europe over the years increasing number of indian students have started looking at european universities due to unparalleled quality diversity and opportunities they offer themhe said europe is considered as one of the best destination for international students because of the wide variety of englishtaught courses on offer the richness of campus life and the proximity to asia this virtual fair is an endeavour to further our european offerings to indian students i am hopeful that more indian students will make the best use of this opportunitythe eu has been organising the education fair since 2015 to promote europe as a destination for higher education and research for indian students the fair endeavours to build bridges for longterm institutional linkages between the eu and indian institutions as part of educational ties between the eu and india eufunded erasmus mundus programme 2018 saw 73 scholarships to indian students for joining the joint masters degree programmes in europe till today erasmus has awarded 5700 scholarships to indian nationals increasing with the rate of 15 annually from 2014 to now close to 200 indian higher education institutes have joined the erasmus programmeeurope is the second most preferred destination for indian students with onefifth of the worlds universities and onefourth of the worlds students europe has the widest and most diverse range of high standard education and research in fact world university rankings confirm that in terms of quality european universities are among the best