Erasmus programme and the University of Verona, ERACON 2005 –

The aim of the paper is to present some data about the mobility of the students of the University of Verona. The University of Verona is a relatively young and small institution in comparison with other Italian universities but this could also be one of the reasons of its specific attention to the mobility of the students enrolled. This behaviour has become particularly clear in the last decade with the change in the corporate governance of the universities, induced by the law named ‘On the autonomy of the Italian universities’. As we may see, the data present a growing number of students going abroad and a growing number of links in the actual European Union, long before the last enlargement of 2004. A second theme we would like to point out is the importance of the criteria for the selection of the outgoing students. The recent changes in the curricula could impair the growth of students’ exchanges increasing the difficulties of comparison with the curricula of the partners.