On 22 January 2018, Franco-German Day, at the French embassy in Berlin, the topic of apprenticeship mobility took center-stage with high-level ranking figures from both countries attending and representing the worlds of politics, education, industry, business and trade unions. All present underlined how important it was to enhance apprenticeship mobility within Europe, in line with what already occurs with students. The participants also drew attention to elements impeding mobility and sketched out some potential solutions. At this occasion, European Employment and Social Affairs Commissioner Marianne Thyssen reiterated the goals of the new ErasmusPro program, namely that within the next three years enable approximately 50,000 apprentices to take part in placements of at least three months each in a European country other than their own.
A very different picture for apprentice mobility. The Erasmus Plus program is the most well known program in terms of mobility and over the past thirty years has enabled 9 million youths and young adults to experience life ‘abroad’. The European Commissioner recalled that this program was already open to apprentices but that a great deal fewer took up the Erasmus opportunity as compared with the university student population. “As a general rule they tend to go abroad only for a few weeks and th
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