Europe should cooperate with the UK and Switzerland on Erasmus+, with the long-term goal of supporting their reassociation to the program, according to a group representing European universities.
The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities has set out recommendations for the future of the mobility program, including working with schemes like the UK’s Turing, further incentivising green travel and providing support to displaced students and scholars.
In its contribution to an interim review of the current Erasmus+ program by the European Commission, the Guild “strongly” supported prioritising continued cooperation with the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
Aligning different schemes with Erasmus+ rules would simplify the current landscape, “with the ambition of reassociation of the United Kingdom and Switzerland”, authors of the paper wrote.
