The European Commission is committed from Barcelona to promoting the Erasmus+ program.

He wants to improve funding so that it reaches more young people and is not "a tool of the elite, only for the select few."

Improving funding for the Erasmus+ program is one of the commitments made this Wednesday by the Vice President of the European Commission , Romanian Roxana Mînzatu.

This was stated at the closing ceremony of the annual meeting of the Círculo de Economía (Economy Circle ), after the Catalan business forum awarded this initiative its annual European Construction Prize.

"It connects us" and is part of the "essence" of the community project, Mînzatu said. Her goal is to strengthen this academic initiative , which is why she advocated for greater allocation of resources from community institutions, but also from other "national, regional, and local" administrations.

His goal is that, in the future, increased financial support for the program can reach more beneficiaries. " I don't want it to be a tool for the elite , only for the select few," he said.

"We must make Erasmus available to everyone and, to a certain extent, even make it a social right; that's the dream," he explained.

The program was established in 1987 with the aim of promoting the mobility of higher education students from eleven countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Almost four decades later, it has benefited more than 15 million people both inside and outside the EU. For this reason, the addiction symbol was added to its name, to clearly highlight the presence of non-EU countries such as Turkey, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, among others.