Overview

• Her family said she died in Rome between October 17 and 18 and remembered her for her energy and intellectual generosity.
• Sofia Corradi, a professor of Educational Sciences at Roma Tre, spent decades promoting a shared system to recognize study abroad coursework.
• After a Fulbright year at Columbia University, she encountered rejected credits on returning to Italy, prompting her to draft an exchange model in 1969.
• The proposal informed early European cooperation that culminated in the Erasmus launch in 1987, later known as Erasmus+, with participation exceeding 16 million students.
• Her contributions earned major honors including the 2016 European Carlos V Prize, an honorary degree from the Sorbonne, Spain’s Gran Cruz, and the Premio Bellisario.