Erasmus experiences also for high school students in the last two years of school. This is one of the most important news announced by the Minister of Education Valeria Fedeli for the next academic year.
The student mobility program of the European Union launched exactly thirty years ago has become, over the years, a real point of reference for young university students, representing a unique and unrepeatable experience. In fact, Erasmus allows you to get in touch with students from all over the world, to face your first experiences away from home, and very often to create job opportunities for the future.
With this in mind, therefore, the Miur has included the activation of the program for 16/17 year olds in its agenda. Surely the project, which will be examined in the autumn, will have to provide for substantial differences from the original. First of all, high school students, if they left during the fourth year of school, would not be of age: greater precautions regarding housing, with the need, very probably, to entrust the children to families in the cities where they leave, or to the responsibility of foreign schools.
To date, however, there is the possibility for high school students to leave abroad during the school year, very often through exchange programs, and almost always in linguistic high schools, in which the most deserving students are sent above all to refine their knowledge of languages foreign.
If successful, the project would widen the range of opportunities made available to young people, following the launch of this year's school-to-work program. It was precisely Minister Fedeli who specified: “The formation of human capital must once again be central to society and the political agenda. From school to university to future work, the time has come to invest in lifelong learning”.
