Academic recognition of study abroad erasmus newsletter Published for The Commission of the European Communities Task Force Human resources, education, training and youth by ERASMUS Bureau Vol. 1991 - No. 10 As a tangible symbol of the benefits of ERASM US expected to blossom increasingly in the future, students in the medicine group of the European Community Course CreditTransferSystem (ECTS) who came to study abroad at the Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg I) in 1989/90, the first year of ECTS, presented an apple tree sapling to the University medical faculty. ECTS student representatives, Diego Lopez (University of Valencia) and Jennifer Woodd-Walker(Universityof Bristol) attend to the soil at the informal planting ceremony which followed (see article on page 7). ERASMUS Guide to Former ERASMUS students continue to play an increasing part in informing and advising those setto follow in their footsteps. We highlight an attractive simple example from Ireland on p. 16. Front cover photograph : Degree-awarding ceremony at the University of Bath, U.K. REMINDER TO OUR READERS Our readers are reminded that the ERASMUS Newslettern now only published in English and French. Please do not forget toinform the Office for Official Publications and/orthe ERASMUS Bureau ofthe language version you would like to receive. Please do not forget to return your mailing label to enable us to serve you properly.