当我们进入新的一年的时候，我们也在欧盟之外这样做。在政府和欧盟领导人针锋相对的谈判的最后阶段，捕鱼配额和公平竞争的环境吸引了人们的注意，而伊拉斯谟+计划的废除是最令人沮丧的自我破坏行为之一。该计划允许寻求高等教育、工作安排和培训交流的参与者在其他成员国的大学度过最多一年的时间;提供一个扩展视野，学习语言和体验不同文化的机会。仅在2019年，就有近5.5万名年轻人受益于该计划，资助金额总计1.447亿欧元。

Now, after 33 years and hundreds of thousands of UK participants, that door is closed.

I was one of those students. In 2005 I spent a year in Barcelona at the polytechnic school of architecture. It was daunting at first; studying in another language (Catalan mostly rather than Castilian Spanish which I learned the bones of before going). What struck me was the emphasis on the technical aspects of architectural education. Afternoons were spent calculating the size of radiators. Exams resembled A-levels; rows of desks, a scale ruler and pencil, 90 minutes to draw a stack of window details.

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