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Students from the UK will no longer be able to participate in the Erasmus + program. The exchange program is outside the agreement between this country and the European Union, which closed, on Thursday, the terms of the new economic and political partnership and concluded the “Brexit” negotiations days before the deadline expired. transition time.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the country will create its own program, in conjunction with “the best universities in the world.” It is intended that give students the “opportunity” to go not only to European universities, but also to “the best universities in the world”. “Because we want our young people to experience the immense intellectual stimulus of Europe, but also of the whole world,” he said, in statements cited by The Guardian.
The program will be called Turing, in honor of Alan Turing, a British mathematician whose work ranges from computer science to artificial intelligence and who first became known for helping to decode German communications during World War II.
In January, Boris Johnson said, recalls the same newspaper, that the program was not under any threat. However, on Thursday, confirming the end of the alliance, the government official admitted that it was a “difficult decision” and justified it with the cost of the program.
Still cited by The Guardian, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Sussex, Adam Tickell, called it “a real sadness” to leave the program and also Vivienne Stern, director of the internationalization unit of the universities of the United Kingdom, said that it was “extremely disappointing”. However, he added that the new program may include scholarships not only to study, but also to work and volunteer.
