Module 1: Why learning mobility

The future of education in the EU is being debated with the goal to achieve a common European Education Area by 2025. The European Commission proposes to make international mobility truly accessible for all by increasing participation in the Erasmus + programme and by creating a European student card.

Another proposal to support mobility for learning and working purposes is the mutual recognition of diplomas worldwide. The Council of the European Union has adopted a recommendation "to promote automatic mutual recognition of qualifications in higher education and upper secondary education and the results of study periods abroad" (2018 / C 444/01) and UNESCO Member States the United Nations Convention on Higher Education. This establishes universal principles for the recognition of studies and degrees and is said to be able to improve the mobility of the more than 220 million students enrolled in higher education worldwide.

A further aspect is language learning. In 2018, a recommendation for improved language learning in Europe was adopted. It applies from an early age and provides a common benchmark for language proficiency in high school (mother tongue + two other languages before 2025).

The European Commission's mobility initiatives also include several specialised networks – among them Europass, Eurodesk, EURES and Euroguidance. The European qualifications framework known as EQF, aims at making qualifications more transparent. Euroguidance can help answer difficult questions about studying abroad, help network with guidance professionals in another country or gain insight into the development of lifelong guidance / career guidance in Europe.

Euroguidance has contact points in 34 countries and guidance professionals are welcome to them for further information. Contact information is available on the network's website www.euroguidance.eu.