CYP Now - Government prepares Erasmus replacement scheme

The government has begun developing its own student exchange scheme in case the UK is unable to negotiate access to the next phase in the Erasmus+ programme, which gets under way in 2021.

Brexit has thrown the UK's future involvement in the Erasmus+ youth study and training scheme into doubt, when the current phase ends in 2020.

A House of Lords EU home affairs select committee report in February urged the government to negotiate the UK's inclusion in the next phase, which runs from 2021 to 2027, as an associated third country. It also called on ministers to consider setting up their own scheme if this failed.

Speaking during a House of Lords debate on the report, government whip Viscount Younger of Leckie said that the government has already started work developing a UK scheme to be enacted should the UK not be involved in the next phase of Erasmus, which funds young people in the European Union to study and train in other member states.

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