Vincenzo Cicchelli studied, in a vast survey, students who went on Erasmus mobility during their schooling. According to him, young Europeans experience, in these trips, the plurality of a world that they must inhabit and within which, despite borders, they must find common spaces.
Vincenzo Cicchelli is a lecturer (qualified to direct research) in sociology at the University of Paris Descartes and secretary general of the European Sociological Association. Specialist in youth and cosmopolitan socialization, he published in 2012 The cosmopolitan spirit. Youth training trip to Europe (Presses de Sciences Po), work in which he studies the learning of European cultures within a generation where the feeling of belonging to a national identity remains strongly anchored.