Published August 4, 2025 | Version 1.1
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Mobility of Erasmus+ students in Europe: Geolocated individual and aggregate mobility flows from 2014 to 2023

Description

General information

This repository holds the spatially enriched Erasmus+ student mobility data from 2014 to 2023. It is based on the official Erasmus+ mobility raw data available from http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/erasmus-mobility-raw-data. The spatially enriched Erasmus+ student mobility data covers the period from 2014 to 2023, and is presented as four tabular files.

For a detailed description on how these data were produced, please see the Scientific Data article of the same name.

The files included are

  1. Erasmus_2014-2023_individual.csv
    1. The full individual-level student mobility dataset.
  2. Erasmus_2014-2023_individual.parquet
    1. The full individual-level student mobility dataset as a compressed parquet file.
  3. Erasmus_2014-2023_aggregate_LAU.csv
    1. The aggregated student mobility flows between LAU units.
  4. Erasmus_2014-2023_aggregate_NUTS.csv
    1. The aggregated student mobility flows between NUTS units.
  5. scripts.zip
    1. The analysis scripts used to produce this data, for most up-to-date scripts, remember to check out our GitHub repository
  6. README_DATA.md
    1. The README file describing each variable in the data.

If you are using the data or scripts herein, please cite the Scientific Data article.

 

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Additional details

Related works

Is described by
Journal article: 10.1038/s41597-025-04789-0 (DOI)

Funding

European Commission
MOBI-TWIN - Twin transition and changing patterns of spatial mobility: a regional approach 101094402

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/DigitalGeographyLab/mobitwin-erasmus
Programming language
Python