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There was the generation of ‘The Spanish apartment’, for which the university rhymed with Erasmus. It was the generation of universities abroad or in any case far from home, the generation of vacations away from family and around the world as soon as possible. That generation projected towards the ‘outside’ – and now on the threshold of forty closed at home in smart work, with children and distance learning – that the Coronavirus epidemic and the subsequent confinement has become a yellowish memory. Because the boys, the university students, now want to be close to home. For now. We saw it immediately, these days, with the first entrance exams to the university, …
Had Generation from ‘The Spanish Apartment’, for which the university rhymed with Erasmus. It was the generation of universities abroad or in any case away from home, on vacation away from family and around the world as soon as possible. That generation projected towards the ‘outside’ – and now on the threshold of forty closed at home in smart work, with children and distance education, that the epidemic Coronavirus and the next emergency shutdown made a yellow memory turn. Why are the boys, the University students, now they want to stay close to home. For now.
We saw it right away, these days, with the first Admission Test in college, in veterinary medicine as well as in medicine: almost 9 out of 10 students they will try to enroll in a college close to their place of residence, up to 70% in their region, a brave 17% in a neighboring region or not too far away. To the South, From where most first-year students go to the great universities of Rome, Bologna, Milan and Venice, one in three children will not move. With the hope, which feeds half of them, of requesting a transfer to another university if the next academic year sees the end of the epidemic or a much more reassuring epidemiological picture.
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Meanwhile, however, that off-site flow that into the Italian cities of central and northern Italy, even small ones like Siena and Perugia, fueled the rental market, the restoration, but also the copy shops has ceased, with obvious economic repercussions. The same can be said of internships, of all that baggage of activities and experiences in the presence that Covid-19 has made at least uncertain.
A separate chapter deserves theErasmus. In the last academic year, fully affected by the pandemic, around 47 thousand university students: The health emergency froze the program during the most difficult months but the European Commission, which oversees the entire organization, has confirmed that the project will continue in the second part of 2020. Although the trend of candidacy To be part of it, it is positive that the carefree times of Cedric Klapisc’s film seem distant. Also because we don’t leave immediately. Rather.
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The formula found is that of “combined mobility‘, which means a period of virtual activity and learning and only afterwards, if the health situation allows it, can you move abroad. Certainly the year was difficult. Suffice it to remember that at the beginning of February Politecnico di Milano It had sixty students in China, fortunately none in Wuhan, and the state had a handful of university students and some professors. Fortunately, they all went back in time, but this was not the case for other university students who were stuck in France or Spain.
“I would like to go home but I can’t, all the trains have been canceled,” Elena, a student from Brescia in France, said in March. Worried voices from one end of the continent to the other have occurred in recent months amid the desire to go back home and the concern of losing university credits: according to data from the European Commission of the 165 thousand students who were on Erasmus at the time of the crisis, more than 60% chose to go home.
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