19 – Apprentice Wind Turbine Technician
Mobility in Stockholm – Sweden
20 years old – Apprentice blacksmith
Mobility in Stockholm – Sweden
Euro App Mobility (EAM) is a non-profit association, created in 2020 by major apprenticeship training networks, at the initiative of former minister Jean Arthuis, to develop the international mobility of apprentices in France and at the European level
Funded by the Ministry of Labour, the association currently brings together about forty members mainly from public, private, interprofessional, and consular CFA networks. It also addresses businesses, employer organizations, and professional federations.
With the prescribers and stakeholders of international apprentice mobility; CFAs, OPCOs, Erasmus+ Agency, DGEFP, Regions; EAM works concretely to embed international openness at the heart of the pedagogical programs of work-study training pathways.
The Erasmus+ program is open to apprentices and work-study students. This integration, achieved in 1995, was a first step. However, various obstacles have confined them for too long to short-term mobility, whereas university students and students from ‘grandes écoles’ have massively benefited from the program since its creation in 1987. Euro App Mobility was created to change the situation.
The European Higher Education Area is unanimously recognized as a success, readily and proudly attested to by students of the “Erasmus” generations. The time has come to generalize mobility for young people from all backgrounds.
The advent of a European apprenticeship and vocational training area must overcome financial, legal, administrative, linguistic, pedagogical, and psychological barriers, thanks to the mobilization of field actors, training centers, and employers, encouraged by national, European, and regional political authorities. This is a simple measure of inclusion and equal opportunities, demanded by young people who massively express this expectation in all surveys.
At the European level, a Council Recommendation from 2024 set the minimum share of vocational learners to benefit from international mobility at 12% by 2030.
In France, the President of the Republic has raised the ambition to 15%.
To achieve these objectives, EAM acts and advocates with its partners to:
To make mobility referents and their equivalents in Europe permanent and professionalized actors in training centers
To organize European networks of partners
To recognize the value of long-term mobility, exceeding two months, for apprentices and integrate it into the work-study training pathway.
To conduct experiments with CFAs and willing employers.
To make mobility a recognized criterion for the quality of vocational training.
To recognize the achievements of mobility by endowing it with credits.
To evolve and relax national legal frameworks.
To develop a common European approach and create a unique European status for apprentices in mobility.
To make mobility referents and their equivalents in Europe permanent and professionalized actors in training centers
To organize European networks of partners
To recognize the value of long-term mobility, exceeding two months, for apprentices and integrate it into the work-study training pathway.
To make mobility a recognized criterion for the quality of vocational training.
To conduct experiments with CFAs and willing employers.
To recognize the achievements of mobility by endowing it with credits.
To evolve and relax national legal frameworks.
To develop a common European approach and create a unique European status for apprentices in mobility.
