The European Commission (EC) has proposed a strategy to boost movement into and out of the European Union (EU) for students and researchers. In an initiative outlined on 11 July, some visa restrictions would be eased to help non-European scientists to enter the EU and stay for more than 90 days. Member states will respond to the directive by August. The strategy also calls for a January relaunch of the Erasmus student-exchange scheme, with a budget of €14.5 billion (US$19 billion) for 2014–20 — a 40% increase on 2007–13. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme to fund international researchers will have €5.6 billion for 2014–20, but expects to recruit an extra 10,000 scientists with co-funding from participating countries, says EC policy officer Ragnhild Solvi Berg.