Solidarity Corps, Interreg Volunteer Youth, and the EU Youth Dialogue. There were also very similar shares of young people from Germany and from outside Germany who did not know if they benefited from support of any of these mobility schemes (10% and 6%, respectively).
Figure 32: Mobility schemes used by young people who went abroad for a mobility experience in 2022 or 2023, comparison of German youth and their peers from other countries.
Did you benefit from any of these EU programmes for this mobility experience? No
Germans
40%
60%
Others
80%
20%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Not selected Selected
Did you benefit from any of these EU programmes for this mobility experience? Erasmus+
Germans
82%
19%
Others
40%
60%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Not selected Selected
There were, however, two major differences between German youth and their counterparts from other European countries (see Figure 32). There were many more young people from Germany who claimed that they did not use any mobility scheme to support their time abroad (60%) than young people from abroad (20%), and there were many less young Germans who claimed to be using Erasmus+ (19%) compared to 60% of their peers. This result may be due to availability of other funding schemes that young people in Germany may use, such as the KJP (Kinder- und Jugendplan), or schemes run by various German ministries. That makes it hard for youth to know what the source of their funding is. Moreover, it needs to be noted that the survey did not have any means of verifying the respondents’ claims, and therefore these results may be influenced by external factors, such as memory of the respondents, visibility of the Erasmus+ brand in the German context, and other. This limitation, of course, applies also to all support scheme-related findings below.
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