European student group calls for funding to support mobility.
The European Student Union (ESU), which represents more than 11 million students, is calling for measures to boost student movement in Europe. A statement on 26 April from the union in Brussels says that a voluntary agreement, known as the Bologna Process, has stalled. Improving mobility was a motivation for the process, which was adopted in 1999 to make quality-assurance standards comparable across the participating nations. For better mobility, more graduate-level grants need to become portable, says ESU chairman Allan Päll. Portable schemes, such as Marie Curie Actions and Erasmus, represent only a tiny percentage of the available funding, he notes.
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Mobility boost. Nature 485, 270 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7397-270a
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