Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Ventotene, the appeal of Hollande: “Expanding Erasmus’. Renzi: “A new campus for European elite ‘- Il Sole 24 Ore

“We have to expand the Erasmus program.” It is the proposal launched last Monday by French President Francois Hollande during the Ventotene summit with Angela Merkel and Matteo Renzi, a meeting that has put the issue also at the center youth. And during which the Prime Minister Renzi raised the proposal to transform the small island of Santo Stefano prison, near Ventotene, on a college campus.

More investment in culture
“We need strong measures to boost growth and reduce youth unemployment,” Renzi said, explaining that the new campus Santo Stefano – for which the CIPE has already allocated 70 million with a resolution of last May – will host training programs for European elite. German Chancellor Merkel also called for more guarantees for the future of young people and at the same time expressed the hope that “the young people bring into the world the teaching of Europe.” And Hollande said “Europeans should know better than you know now ‘and the Erasmus upgrade goes in this direction. According to the French president Juncker plan is “a good place to start, as to expand with public and private funding for the digital industry and energy ‘, but there is the” youth dimension, the future of this place, “and serve “piuù investments in culture, we want to support young people who have very high expectations.” towards the EU.

Giannini: “Europe of knowledge central theme”
“We are convinced” that in the Matthew Renzi at Ventotene summit draft agenda ‘l’ Europe of knowledge (science, research and innovation, education and cultural heritage) will be a central theme, “he wrote on Facebook minister Stefania Giannini before the summit. “The strengthening of the Erasmus program and its extension to high school students and teachers (a teacher Schengen) – said the minister – the spin-off of investments in research and training from the calculation of the deficit and the reference to investment in research and innovation in the plan Juncker (who blatantly does not seem to talk about it) are three concrete crumbs that we hope will join the order of the leader of the day, as they are already on the agenda of Ministers of Education and Research. “

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