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Erasmus: Europe's student exchange scheme

The programme that's allowed millions of EU students live and study in other countries since its creation in 1987.

Since 1987, million of students have been able to live and study in other countries in Europe thanks to the Erasmus student exchange programme. The scheme was the result of 18 years of campaigning by Italian academic, Sofia Corradi, who saw the benefits of studying abroad herself back in the 1950s. Sofia Corradi, now known as "Mamma Erasmus", talks to Rachel Naylor, along with Lucio Picci, one of the first students to go on the programme.

PHOTO: Erasmus students based in Italy at a celebration in Rome in 2017 (Getty Images)

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