Figure 28: Share of young people who went abroad for a mobility experience in 2022 or 2023, comparison of German youth and their peers from other countries.
Have you participated in a mobility experience in 2022 or in 2023? (e.g. studying, working, internship or volunteering abroad, participating in a training course or seminar abroad)
Germans
24%
11%
4%
61%
Others
32%
4%
3%
61%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% a) Yes, in Europe b) Yes, in a country that is NOT a European country c) Yes, in both d) No
Use of different mobility types Young people who went abroad in 2022 or 2023 were invited to share what mobility activity they attended. All in all, school exchanges were by far the most favourite mobility activity among young Germans in 2022 or 2023, with volunteering and DiscoverEU complementing the top three popular mobility types (see Figure 29). On the other hand, German young people were least likely to use au pair, summer schools, and trainings, workshops, or seminars. German young people do not differ from their counterparts from other countries across many mobility types, such as volunteering, apprenticeships, au pair, work exchanges, university studies, summer schools, or DiscoverEU. German youth and young people from other countries use these types of mobility activities to the same or very similar extent. There were three types of mobility activities in which young Germans participated substantially differently than their peers from other countries in 2022 or 2023. In school exchanges, there were more young people from Germany (33%) than among their fellows from other countries (19%). On the other hand, there were less young Germans in youth exchanges or youth camps (12% in comparison with 27% among their peers abroad) and in trainings, workshops, or seminars (7% in Germany compared to 24% in other countries). The Eurodesk Youth Information Survey 2025 also asked those who went abroad in 2022 or 2023 about the format of mobility experience they chose (see Figure 30). German young people used in-person mobility the most (93%), and hybrid and virtual experiences only marginally (8% and 3%, respectively). These results do not differ substantially from the results of young people from other countries.
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