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In this dissertation, I analyze the idea of cultural citizenship in the participation of the Erasmus+ Program and the reality of its manifestation in German culture and society. Following Máiréad Nic Craith, cultural citizenship is defined here as a "set of practices (juridical, political, economic and cultural) that define a person as a component member of society" and has been neglected as a form of study by anthropologists (2004). Drawing from Nic Craith's definition, my notion of cultural citizenship is that it is an inherently cultural process, fluid and constantly evolving (2004). The focus for my investigation is the EU-sponsored Erasmus+ Program, created 30 years ago to develop and transfer a common sense of community and European cultural identity through study exchange throughout the EU Member States. The longstanding goal of the Erasmus+ Program is that current and former Erasmus+ students will be catalysts and members of this shared European identity. This doctoral research questions how do these European university students, who each bring their own individual notions of nationalism and cultural citizenship, experience this program in Germany? To answer this question, over the 2015-2016 academic year, I have documented the Incoming- and Outgoing- Erasmus+ students' experiences at a historic and international German university, Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen in Lower Saxony, Germany. My infield ethnography comprised of multifaceted semi-structured interviews (with the Erasmus+ students, Universität-Göttingen Erasmus+ coordinators, and EU policymakers in Brussels and Bonn), participant-observations, surveys, spontaneous conversations, and demographic data. The procedure of analysis was grounded theory, coding of interviews with qualitative data analysis software ATLAS.ti, and data triangulation. . The results show that 10 Key Themes emerged including European Identity, the Erasmus+ Experiences, European Shared Belonging, and Cultural citizenship. Through data triangulation, these students are engaged in citizenship and living this European project dream, during their Erasmus+ stay.In conclusion, this doctoral research probes deeply the larger questions of how are these students practicing citizenship in an uncertain EU and hesitant Europe and how does the German university foster a transformative notion of cultural European citizenship.