Around 40,000 overseas students pursue higher education in France and 10,000 of them benefit from a Study Mobility Passport (PME).
This system has been put in place for those studying in a sector that is non-existent or locally saturated and which allows them to benefit from travel assistance.
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All these overseas students will now benefit from full coverage of one return plane ticket per year, as announced Thursday by the Overseas Mobility Agency (Ladom) .
Maximum age raised to 28 years
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From now on, the scholarship will no longer be a criterion for evaluating the level of support for Ladom.
All post-baccalaureate students, pursuing their higher studies on the move due to saturation or the non-existence of the targeted studies, will be able to benefit from a boost
,” the agency indicated in a press release.
This assistance will take the form of 100% financing of a round-trip plane ticket per year for the duration of your studies.
Before this decision, students eligible for PME but not on scholarships benefited from 50% support.
Ladom also announced that it would raise the maximum age to benefit from the measure to 28 years, compared to 26 previously.
The expansion of travel assistance was part of the measures presented as part of the Interministerial Committee for Overseas Territories (Ciom), launched in July 2023 by the then Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne to “
concretely improve the lives of citizens Overseas
”.