Ricerc@Sapienza

According to the last Erasmus+ Annual Report (2019a), the official document about data and statistics on mobility edited by the European Commission, almost 10 million people enjoyed the Erasmus programme during the last three decades. This number is also composed by all the students that, starting from year 2015, have taken advantage of the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM) that is a specific programme which aims to promote international mobility of European students and staff to and from non-EU partner countries.

The promotion of mobility among students and academic staff is one of the main objective of the Bologna Process, a series of ministerial meetings and agreements between European countries put in place to ensure comparability in the standards and quality of higher-education qualifications.