YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Education, training and learning mobility  107 Figure 2.14: Desire to study abroad in the future. Do you intend to complete part of your education abroad in the future? 80% 20% 60% 40% Definitely not Maybe Probably yes Probably not 2020 2010 24.8 25.9 32.1 9.7 7.5 17.6 25.8 34.9 12.9 8.8 Definitely yes 0% 100% Source: Mladina 2020. According to the Erasmus+ Annual Report 2018 (released in January 2020), and 2018, out of the 2189 Slovenian students who participated in study mobility programmes, the largest number of Slovenian students taking part in exchanges did so in Germany (327), Austria, (238) and the Czech Republic (147). The young people who took part in the qualitative part of the study also recognised the importance of mobility and expressed either a desire to participate in international learning mobility or bitterness at not having taken advantage of this opportunity, whether they describedmobility as an extremely positive experience. “I haven’t done (an Erasmus exchange) yet, but I plan to in the future. I am just getting ready to leave, I am supposed to go to Lithuania next semester for an exchange. I thought about it at the first stage, but then I didn’t go.” (Aleš, 25, student of Sustainable Development Management) “I didn’t go. This is my biggest mistake during my studies. I kind of decided to go in the second part, so in the third or fourth year, and then what happened was that I got an opportunity to get a job afterwards (here) and I decided to do that and then I did not (have the opportunity) anymore. But definitely that’s the biggest mistake I made.” (Nejc, 27, young politician)