Learning mobility panel

From 28 to 30 April, the Commission gathered a Citizens' Panel in Brussels for the third and final session of deliberations on how to expand learning opportunities abroad to everyone. The ideas put forward by the citizens turned into 21 concrete recommendations aiming to facilitate the mobility of learners, educators and staff from one country to another.

With the general goal of making the learning environment more accessible for everyone, the panel's recommendations highlight the importance of increasing further the awareness of opportunities and encourage the participation of people with fewer opportunities. They also outline opportunities and challenges brought by digitalisation and explore sustainable solutions to reduce the environmental impact of mobility.

Over three weekends in March and April, 150 randomly selected citizens of different age groups and backgrounds from all 27 Member States discussed and identified obstacles to learning mobility abroad.

The European Commission is asking citizens for help in making learning mobility in Europe more accessible to and better known by any learner or educator. The citizens’ panel is part of a broader consultation strategy, which aims at gathering opinions and proposals of all interested parties and stakeholders in the framework of the public consultation currently underway until 3 May 2023.

Citizens are invited to take the following points into account:

• The need to include multiple groups of learners and trainers, and in particular, people with fewer opportunities (because of disabilities, health problems, economic, social, geographic and other barriers) and less mobile groups (such as school pupils and teachers, apprentices and trainees, adult learners and educators);
• the need to keep mobility as environmentally friendly as possible in choosing the means of travel and promoting sustainable practices, in order to contribute to the fight against climate change;
• opportunities and challenges that digitization might offer (for example, better use of digital platforms for learning, blending on site and online learning);
• the potential of learning mobility for intercultural dialogue, active citizenship and promotion of common values.

Find out more in the information kit that is available in the documents section below.