Overview
- Italian news agency ANSA reported that her family confirmed Corradi’s death in Rome at the age of 91.
- Tributes highlighted her influence on European youth, with Emmanuel Macron and Italy’s Antonio Tajani praising her role in shaping a 'Generation Europe.'
- Corradi conceived the exchange system after Italy declined to recognize her Columbia University law degree, culminating in Erasmus’s launch in 1987.
- Since its creation, the program has enabled study periods abroad for roughly 16 million people, including about 2 million in France.
- Now operating as Erasmus+, the scheme spans the EU and partner countries such as Iceland, Norway, Serbia, and Turkey and supports around 850,000 mobilities annually.