The ESDP is always one of the most significant policies of the EU for shaping both foreign relations and the integration process. After security and defense issues have become more important due to political developments since the beginning of 2000s, the ESDP has started to move towards the CSDP. From ESDP to CSDP and today's new initiatives, the EU has taken good steps for further integration. Although new tools brought by the Lisbon Treaty like mutual defense and solidarity clauses and new initiatives which aim to move the CSDP one step further such as EUGS, PESCO, and EDF could lead to long-term results in bolstering the EU's defense capabilities, EU Member States ask for cooperation efficiently in research and acquiring new military capabilities. Analyzing the period from the ESDP to the CSDP by applying neofunctionalist integration theory with a particular focus on new tools and initiatives launched after the Lisbon Treaty came into force, this paper aims to demonstrate that even the pauses in further integration efforts in the defense security and defense issues take place, the EU is continuing to follow a possessed path going to a common security and defense policy.

This study focuses on the cultural intelligence levels of university students studying abroad in the framework of Erasmus Study Mobility Program with their experience during the Program and their preferences living abroad after this experience. The data of the study were collected from 20 participants who have studied in different departments at various universities in Turkey. The semi-structured interview technique, which includes interview questions derived from the Cultural Intelligence Scale, which was translated into Turkish by the researchers and obtaining information about the program experiences of participants was used as a data collection tool in the study. Hypotheses were put forward through a comprehensive literature review and the research results supported all hypotheses. The literature section defines both the Erasmus Study Mobility Program with its scope and objectives, and the concept of cultural intelligence with its sub-dimensions. Based on the research results, first hypothesis confirms

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