14-01-2025 The Netherlands surpassed the 2020 EU target of 6% for VET student mobility early, but the 2025 target of 8% remains challenging. Despite a post-pandemic rise, numbers have not returned to previous levels. Could new concepts bridge the gap?
Dutch VET-students participating in Erasmus+ programmes stay abroad with an average stay of nearly 10 weeks – more than twice as long as the European average! Traditionally, a stay abroad involves an internship or study trip but new alternatives are emerging.
In 2024 two groups of 13 students from Yuverta, spent a month travelling through eastern Europe. They completed school assignments and digital lessons while visiting companies, NGOs, and participating in excursions. Could this be the way forward for VET-students’ visits abroad?
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- Cedefop (2025). Netherlands: exploring new study visit concepts
Each year ECBO, as partner in the ReferNet network, published three articles to inform European partners on VET news in the Netherlands.