Sofia Corradi

Sofia Corradi (5 September 1934 – 17 October 2025) was an Italian pedagogist. She was born in Rome and studied law, becoming a researcher in the field of the right to education as a human right. After experiencing that a course she studied at Columbia University in the United States was not recognized by the Italian education system, she dedicated much of her life in promoting and developing what would become the Erasmus Programme, an exchange programme of students between European universities. She was nicknamed "Mamma Erasmus" or "Mother Erasmus" because of her role in promoting the programme.