It's unpopular to say this but the Erasmus programme was never about 'broadening horizons' or creating 'global perspectives'.

It was an EU social identitarian project funded in order to create a *European* identity.( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13511610.2018.1495064# / https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03050060500515785)

The amount of money the EU pours into surveys, research, flagging projects, and jingoistic programmes to basically socially engineer a loyalty to 'EU citizenship' is bonkers.

The Commission literally states this stuff in the open, and no one over here talks about it.

Erasmus was built to create a sense of 'europeanness' amongst future elites.

Turing scheme on the other hand has no political agenda.

It's a better, *global* programme not based on narrow continental loyalty - with a focus on disadvantaged communities https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-turing-scheme-to-support-thousands-of-students-to-study-and-work-abroad