days-long mobilities (the overall interest of about 70% in comparison with about 82% in their peers from other countries). Figure 7: Interest in mobility lengths, comparison of German youth and their peers from other countries.
How long would you be interested in going abroad for? About half a year
Germans
51%
35%
14%
Others
41%
34%
25%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
a) Very interested b) Interested c) Not interested
How long would you be interested in going abroad for? A few days or 1 week
Germans
44%
26%
30%
Others
59%
23%
18%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
a) Very interested b) Interested c) Not interested
The information services may use this finding to focus more on sharing more information on advantages and opportunities for year-long mobilities and on the short ones of a week or a few days to encourage German youth to use these formats. Given the high preferences of German youth in doing internships, working, or studying (see previous graphs), young people from Germany might indeed be interested in the long-term formats of a year or so, when the advantages are clearly outlined for them. Preferred mobility formats Young people from Germany align with their peers in preferences of the mobility options. They most prefer the in-person experiences, are somewhat interested in hybrid ones, and very little interested in the virtual mobilities. Figure 8 shows that German young people are even more interested in the in-person mobilities than their peers from other countries, but they are significantly less interested than their peers in hybrid experiences (the proportion of respondents interested is about 52%, compared with about 70% among peers abroad), and in virtual mobilities (the overall interest of about 17% in comparison with about 36% in their peers from other countries).
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