Motivation factors Young people also shared their motivations for going abroad in 2022 or 2023. All in all (see Figure 40), German youth was most motivated to go abroad in 2022 or 2023 by seeking fun and new experiences, getting away from daily routines, and doing something meaningful and useful.
Figure 40: Summary overview of motivations of young people who went abroad for a mobility experience in 2022 or 2023, among German youth.
Note: Sum of "Strongly agree" and "Agree" options is used as the indicator of the overall preferences. The question read “What was your motivation to go abroad?”.
Young people from Germany were just as likely as their peers from other countries to be motivated by getting away from the daily routines, by wanting to have fun and live a new experience, by wanting to do something meaningful and useful, and encouraged by friends. Young people from Germany were much less motivated to go abroad by external obligations (see Figure 41), such as school curricula (only 22% of the Germans and 69% of their fellows went abroad because it was part of their education). Only 17% of German youth feel less motivated to go abroad due to family expectations, compared with 32% at the European level. Employability was also less of a motivator in German youth (67%) than in their peers (86%).
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