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This study focuses on the level of cultural intelligence of university students who travel to the Erasmus Programme and Erasmus Programme countries with the program experience and the desire of students to live abroad after the Erasmus program experience. The data of the study was collected from 20 participants who studied in different universities and departments in Turkey. As a data collection tool in the study, the researchers took advantage of the semi-configured interview technique, which includes questions derived from the scale of cultural intelligence translated into Turkish, as well as questions related to the program experiences of participants. A comprehensive literary scan revealed the hypotheses and the research results supported all the hypotheses. The Erasmus Learning Mobility Programme, its scope and objectives are described in the literature section; the concept of cultural intelligence and its subdimensions are defined. The first hypothesis is that the participant’s cultural intelligence affects the experience of taking advantage of the Erasmus Learning Mobility Program. Participants who benefit from the program have noted that during the time they are studying abroad they are mostly socialized with international students like themselves, which has confirmed another hypothesis. The majority of participants who expressed their desire to live abroad after the Erasmus Learning Mobility Program showed that their living standards were the main reason for this, which confirmed another hypothesis of the study.

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