2. What do German Young People think about mobility? The Eurodesk Youth Information Survey 2025 provided young people with an opportunity to share their opinions on mobility in general. For overall results, refer to the main report 2025. Young Germans are just as open to going abroad as their peers from other countries (about 69% of them are very open to going abroad, and additional 29% are open to it). Young Germans are, however, more discouraged from going abroad by climate change concerns (see Figure 1), with 41% of them stating climate change concerns in comparison with only 29% of their peers from other countries. Youth information services should use this finding and place a corresponding emphasis on sharing information about green travel options and other ways of mitigating the environmental impact of mobility, as this might encourage more German young people to seek mobility experiences.
Figure 1: Climate change concerns in the mobility context, comparison of German youth and their peers from other countries.
Are climate change concerns discouraging you from going abroad for a mobility experience?
Germans
7%
34%
43%
16%
Others
8%
21%
43%
30%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
a) Strongly agree b) Agree d) Disagree e) Strongly disagree
Beneficial impacts of mobility Both young Germans and their peers from other countries consider a mobility experience to be beneficial to their continuous education (about 98%). German youth, however, are less enthusiastic about the benefits of the mobility experiences to their personal and professional lives (see Figure 2). While the overall rates of appreciation of mobility experiences for personal and professional lives are similarly high in the group of German youth and in the group of their peers from other countries (over 95% for both the German youth and those from other countries), German young people are less prone to enthusiasm, with 52% of them stating they believe mobility experience to be very positive to their personal life (in comparison with 62% in their peers from other countries), and 42% of them seeing very positive benefits for their professional life (in contrast to 62% in their peers from other countries). Youth information services may use these findings for example by sharing real life examples or research proof of positive impacts of mobilities on various aspects of young people’s lives.
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