5. What mobility challenges do young people identify? The Eurodesk Youth Information Survey 2025 offered young people space to share their opinions on challenges they faced when going through their mobility experience or when thinking about organising it. For overall results, see the main report 2025. Reasons for not going abroad Young people who did not take part in any mobility experience in 2022 or 2023 were asked about the reasons for not participating. All in all (see Figure 46), by far the most frequent reason for not going abroad in 2022 or 2023 was lack of time. This is an opportunity for the youth information services, since guidance and good practice examples of negotiating time restraints with mobility experiences can be shared with young people to encourage them in going abroad.
Figure 46: Summary overview of reasons for not participating in a mobility experience in 2022 or 2023, among German youth.
Note: Share of "Yes" answers. The question read “Why haven’t you taken part in mobility activities? Please select all answers that apply.”.
In comparison with their peers from other countries, the same or very similar shares of German young people stated that they did not know why they did not participate, that they did not know how to do that, that they thought it was not for them, that they did not even think about such opportunities, or that they were not interested. In other words, all these reasons were just as common among the German youth as they were among young people from other countries. On the other hand (see Figure 47), German young people were more likely to state that they did not have time (46%) than their peers (23%), and less likely to say that they did not know have information about mobilities (13% versus 29%).
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