🌍 The Felice Veneziani Scholarship – Honoring a Legacy, Inspiring the Next Generation
Felice Veneziani
The Felice Veneziani Scholarship is proudly sponsored by EazyCity, a global education and mobility company founded in Cork, Ireland, in 2004. Today, EazyCity supports thousands of students and young professionals from across Europe every year.
👤 Who Was Felice Veneziani?
Born in Ferrara in 1914, Felice Veneziani was the grandfather of EazyCity co-founder Enrico Zoppi. A man of strength and values, Felice had a profound impact on Enrico’s life. In his memory, this scholarship was created to give back by offering life-changing opportunities to deserving young people.
“As a company we feel very fortunate, and we would like to give something back by supporting students who truly deserve this opportunity — through their academic achievements and their commitment to extracurricular activities.” – Enrico Zoppi
🎓 What the Scholarship Offers
Each year, five outstanding students are selected for a study and work experience in Ireland during the summer. The program includes:
✈️ Round-trip flights to Ireland
🏡 One month of accommodation
📘 English language course
💼 Internship placement in a local company
It’s a unique opportunity to immerse in a new culture, gain valuable work experience, and build international confidence.
📝 Apply for the 2026 Scholarship
We are delighted to confirm that five new students have been selected for this year — our fourth edition of the scholarship — and will be travelling to Cork and Waterford in July 2025 to begin their study and work experience in Ireland.
We are proud to renew the Felice Veneziani Scholarship for 2026! If you're passionate about cultural exchange, personal growth, and international learning — we invite you to apply for next year (2026).
👤 Who is Enrico Zoppi, Director of the EazyCity Group
Born in 1980 in Turin, Enrico Zoppi is the co-founder and Director of the EazyCity Group.
“I’m extremely proud of what we’ve built over these 21 years of welcoming people from all over the world. Our organic growth has been the result not only of my role as a ‘director behind the scenes,’ but above all, the collaboration with my business partner Julia, the constant support of my wife Costanza, and the dedication of our entire team, who have always believed in the EazyCity vision.
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Ireland is the country where I grew up as a person and where I was able to fulfil myself professionally. It has been — and still is — an exciting journey, full of meaningful encounters and defining moments.
I often think about the students who are just beginning their study and work experiences abroad. I vividly remember that feeling of freedom, lightness, and limitless possibility. Experiencing another culture up close can truly transform us — not just in terms of future professional opportunities, but more importantly in terms of personal and human growth. Taking part in a study-abroad experience is a gift you give yourself — for your life and for your career.”
EazyCity is happy to renew the Scholarship for 2026!
What are the emotions we experience when we go abroad to study? When I travelled to Ireland to study English in my early 20s, for sure I experienced curiosity, excitement, anxiety, fear, happiness, freedom.
I started feeling alive the moment I planed the trip to Dublin. Now that I am no longer a student and I co founded EazyCity I often find myself thinking about all the students and young professionals we welcome on a weekly basis, their emotions and what it actually means to them going abroad to study for the first time.
After almost 20 years in the Language Travel sector I can easily say that studying abroad encourages the development of:
Self-esteem
Language and communication skills
Sense of adaptability
Human interactions
Emotional Intelligence
New skills
To confirm this, however, is a scientific research, which compared the scores relating to the self-esteem of some sixteen-year-olds who left for a year of study abroad, with those of their peers who had not left. Upon their return, the students showed much higher levels of self-esteem than those of their peers. Research Source
As a business we feel very fortunate, we believe that giving back is often more important than receiving so from this year 2022 onwards we launched the "Felice Veneziani Scholarship" for 5 students which will allow them to study English and do a work experience for a month in Ireland. If you wish to apply for 2023 EazyCity Scholarship click on the link above but before we invite you to watch the video interview of the 2022 Scholarship winners.
We asked the students who won the Felice Veneziani Scholarship in 2022 to share their study abroad experience from an emotional point of view. The interview is in Italian but you can visit our YouTube channel to watch other interviews here
written by Enrico Zoppi - Co Founder EazyCity
Note: Felice Veneziani is the grandfather of Enrico Zoppi. I wanted to create a scholarship in honour of my grandfather to remember this fundamental figure in my personal and professional path.
In the past 12 months we have experienced unprecedented increases in energy prices and with more increases set to be announced in the coming weeks. In Ireland we have seen on average an 87% increase in the price of gas & electricity since 2021.
Our aim at EazyCity is to share with you some good tips for responsible energy consumption and avoid the waste of energy while staying in our properties.
How to save electricity?
A number of basic actions can be taken to reduce electricity costs by making the best use of domestic appliances, electronic devices and the heating and lighting system in the home.
Here are some suggestions to avoid unnecessary waste of energy.
FRIDGE
Be sure to organize the storage in the refrigerator so that the cold is distributed correctly.
Check for leaks.
Do not put hot dishes in the fridge or freezer. It is better to wait and let them cool out naturally.
Do not leave the door open for too long.
Keep the fridge temperature at medium temperature, not too high.
WASHING MACHINE
Run the washing machine on a cooler cycle, 30 degrees is fine for most clothing.
Put the washing machine on during off-peak hours.
Use the washing machine when you have a full load.
Avoid pre-washes
Do your laundry once a week
DRYER
Avoid using it as much as possible.
When you use it, put your clothes in for the minimum amount of time possible.
OTHER KITCHEN APPLIANCES
Use the microwave to heat food but not to defrost it. You can let frozen food defrost in the fridge.
If you need to monitor the cooking, avoid opening the oven so that it does not lose heat.
Remember to clean the oven frequently.
When using the kettle, only boil as much water as you need.
Pull the plug on the laptops and other appliances when they are fully charged.
Charge your devices during off-peak times.
Shut down and unplug your devices when they are not in use.
HOME LIGHTING
Turn off the lights when you are leaving the room.
Choose daylight whenever is possible.
HEATING SYSTEM AND SHOWER
Ensure that the heating is turned off when leaving the house.
Seal your windows and doors and close your curtains at night to retain heat.
Please take showers under 5 minutes
Contact us if you need more information [email protected] Tel. 00353214222243
Check out the estimated cost for using these appliances:
Globally today, there are almost 800 million people who have little or no access to education. Adults and children who do not have basic literary skills. Back in 1820, the world's population from secondary school age onward had a literacy rate of only 12%, according to The World Bank.
In 1900, it exceeded 20%. From the 1950s on, world literacy began to improve significantly, hitting 42% in 1960 and 70% in 1983. Today, the global literacy rate stands at 87%, or almost nine out of ten people worldwide.
Here at EazyCity we believe that education is a basic human right for all and that everyone should have access to. In this big world of ours we also want to do our small part. In the last 18 years we have been promoting study language programs and professional internships to thousands of young European and US students who wish to improve their language skills as well as develop important soft skills, useful for their personal and professional growth.
We care about the world we live in and we would like to share with you these important organisations we find inspiring and motivating:
Eighteen years of EazyCity, wow! We only started celebrating our company anniversary from our 5th year in business. We did not celebrate our 1st year, probably because we were so busy building the company that we didn't think it was important, or may be we didn't expect to last more than a few years.
Julia and I started this business to essentially make life "eazy" for students looking for a house, a job or a language course in Cork, where it all began. We absolutely loved opening other branches in Ireland, UK, Spain, Italy and US. So far helping students and young professionals to settle into a new country has been very rewarding and fun. Over the years we met so many interesting people from pretty much all over the world. Since 2004 we welcomed people from over 60 different nationalities.
This year's anniversary is special because we had two difficult years because of the pandemic. We feel very fortunate to have a fantastic team and to still have the same passion for this great industry.
Here at EazyCity we strongly believe in inclusion, in freedom of speech and most importantly we believe in the freedom to be whoever we want to be.
Watching Madame Drusilla Foer, the charming and cultured artist (alter ego of Gianluca Gori) giving an incredible speech about inclusion from the stage of the 72° Edition of Sanremo Festival - the most important Italian music event, reminded us how vital it is to be ourselves, without any "masks" to please society. The main message was to listen to people with an open mind, without prejudice.
Drusilla Foer (alter ego of Gianluca Gori)
We would like to share Drusilla's speech:
"Diversity is a word that I don't like, it has something comparative and a distance that doesn't convince me. I find that words are like lovers: when they no longer work, they must be changed immediately. I looked for a term that could replace such an incomplete word. And I found it: Uniqueness. I like it, it's a word that everyone likes. We all think we are unique. Easy? Not at all.
We need to understand what our uniqueness is made up of, what we are made of. Beautiful things. The ambitions, the values, the convictions, the talents. But the talents must be trained, followed. We must have responsibility for our own convictions. We must take care of our own strength. It's not that easy.
Getting in touch with one's uniqueness is a crazy job. How do you do it?
I would have a way. All the things that live inside us we take them by our hands. The take beautiful ones and the ones we think are ugly and we lift them by our hands. They rise together with us, in the purity of the air, in the freedom of the wind, in the light of the sun, in a big loving embrace and we cry: "What a beauty, I am all these things!".
It will be crazy cool. And it will be great to embrace our uniqueness. Let's try the greatest revolutionary act that can be done today, which is listening. Listen to others, listen to the uniqueness.
Let our thoughts flow freely without prejudice, shame, and let us free ourselves from the imprisonment of stillness."
Since 2004 we welcome students and young professionals from all over the world. In the last 18 years we interacted on a daily basis with people from different nationalities and cultures. We counted more than 60 different nationalities. We feel very privileged and proud to organise the study & work experience for all our clients but the main thing is that in these two decades we have learned so much from all our clients though their stories.
The Irish Government allows an extra 30 cents compared to 2021 which brings the minimum national wage to €10.50 per hour.
Category of Employee
Hourly Rate
Aged 20 and over
€10.50
Under 18
€7.35
Aged 18
€8.40
Aged 19
€9.45
The pandemic has affected our Study Travel Industry.
In 2020 all destinations experiencing a decline in the value of their English Language Travel business of between 51 and 81%. Overall the US dollar value of the industry decreased by US$5,534,277,684 between 2019 and 2020 with some destinations expecting greater losses in 2021.
Please find below a few stats from the Study Travel Network official website. More stats via this link
At EazyCity we care a lot about the world and we believe that it's very important to know the facts about the following topics:
Global Warming
Global Hunger
Girls Schooling
Gender Equality
Farmers Income
Economic Growth
and much more
Every year our team is involved in a charity / environment project. We love playing a part and give our tiny contribution for a better world. In 2019 our management team was in Amsterdam collecting plastic from the canals.
We recently came across the Swedish Foundation called GapMinder, founded in Stockholm on 25 February 2005 by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Hans Rosling, a very important physician, academic and public speaker.
Their mission is pretty simple but so powerful and we wanted to share it with you:
"Ourmission is to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview everyone can understand."
Most people have a more dramatic view about the world, GapMinder is a great platform to learn more about our society.
Gapminder identifies systematic misconceptions about important global trends and proportions and uses reliable data to develop easy to understand teaching materials to rid people of their misconceptions.
Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious, or economic affiliations.
Test your worldview, we are sure you will learn a lot about the world we live in. You will discover many facts that you didn't know before.
