#erasmus

#erasmus

The EU provides funding through the scheme for people to study, train or volunteer in other European countries for up to a year. The UK replaced it with its own Turing scheme in 2021, which funds similar placements worldwide. The government said it would not comment on ongoing talks. Prime Minister Keir Starmer had suggested in May that a youth mobility scheme could be part of a new deal with the EU.

Sofia Corradi, the creator of the EU's Erasmus program which has sent millions of young people abroad throughout Europe to study, died in Rome aged 91, Italian media reported Saturday. Her family, who announced her death according to media reports, described the academic as a woman "of great energy and intellectual and emotional generosity". The professor of education at Rome's Roma 3 University, Corradi -- known as "Mamma Erasmus" -- in her 20s won a prestigious US Fulbright scholarship, which took her to Columbia University in New York where she received a master's degree in law.