Erasmus Training Centre to support student mobility between Indonesia and the Netherlands

The Erasmus Training Centre in Jakarta supports the exchange of students and researchers between the Netherlands and Indonesia, with training courses and language lessons. The centre was opened officially on 13 February by Minister of Education Jet Bussemaker.

Training centre and meeting platform

The Erasmus Training Centre is an initiative by four universities from the Netherlands (including the University of Groningen), the Netherlands Embassy in Indonesia and Nuffic Neso Indonesia. The centre supports Indonesian students and researchers with courses in English, Dutch and academic skills to make it easier for them to gain access to Dutch higher education. The centre also offers courses in Bahasa Indonesian for Dutch people (and people from other countries). The Erasmus Training Centre is also a platform for bringing together Dutch universities and Indonesian professionals and the organisations they work for.

Unique international partnership

Roughly a hundred Indonesian alumni of Dutch higher education were present at the opening of the Erasmus Training Centre.  Together with representatives of their current employers, they debated the advantages of studying abroad and life-long learning. Minister Bussemaker performed the official opening and congratulated the educational insitutions involved and other initiators on this unique partnership. ‘I hope that the new Erasmus Training Centre can contribute to more person-to-person contacts between the Netherlands and Indonesia, and to further internationalisation of both Indonesian and Dutch education.'

Holland Alumni Network and Erasmus Training Centre

The Holland Alumni network, managed by EP-Nuffic aims to set up and facilitate an international network of Holland alumni, future alumni, Holland Alumni associations, Dutch higher education institutions and relevant organizations all over the world. In Indonesia the Holland Alumni network consists of more than 9600 Indonesianswho have studied in the Netherlands. Nuffic Neso Indonesia in Jakarta  and IKANED, the Indonesian association for Holland Alumni, are jointly coordinating the network.