Movetia

Austausch und Mobilität

Movetia ist die nationale Agentur zur Förderung von Austausch und Mobilität im Bildungssystem. Ob in der Schweiz, in Europa oder weltweit – Movetia fördert und unterstützt Aktivitäten für Austausch, Mobilität und Kooperation in allen Bildungsbereichen von der Primar- bis zur Tertiärstufe sowie in der Erwachsenenbildung und im ausserschulischen Bereich.

Olivier Tschopp, Direktor Movetia, hat für das Europa Forum einen Beitrag zum Thema Generation Erasmus: Die Zukunft der Bildung in Europa verfasst.

Bild: ZVG

Bild: ZVG

Movetia

Austausch und Mobilität

Movetia ist die nationale Agentur zur Förderung von Austausch und Mobilität im Bildungssystem. Ob in der Schweiz, in Europa oder weltweit – Movetia fördert und unterstützt Aktivitäten für Austausch, Mobilität und Kooperation in allen Bildungsbereichen von der Primar- bis zur Tertiärstufe sowie in der Erwachsenenbildung und im ausserschulischen Bereich.

Olivier Tschopp, Direktor Movetia, hat für das Europa Forum einen Beitrag zum Thema Generation Erasmus: Die Zukunft der Bildung in Europa verfasst.

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«Be it for studying or for an internship: international mobility is educational in many ways and should be part of every curriculum in the future.»

Generation Erasmus: The Future of Education in Europe

Today, the narrative about Switzerland’s place in Europe is running out of ideas. There is a feeling that “the institutional issue” is drawing all the attention, while other valuable approaches are being left aside – for example, the approach that aims to involve younger generations in the construction of a strong and sustainable intercultural understanding between Switzerland and Europe. How can this involvement be achieved? By promoting exchanges, and by encouraging young people to meet and confront each other in a collaborative (or even a competitive) spirit within the framework of educational programmes. Switzerland’s future lies in Erasmus+: an undeniable European success story that has been bringing people together for 35 years.


International cooperation as key to the future of education
“Erasmus” sounds universal and has almost become part of everyday language. While many people associate it with an exchange semester abroad, few know that behind this familiar word and the related clichés about student parties, lies a unique and irreplaceable network of international cooperation and mobility that stretches across Europe and beyond. Its potential for the Swiss education system and its international attractiveness is invaluable.

Why? Because international cooperation means access to networks and collaborative structures which enhance the quality of the education system, contribute to its development and further excellence. Furthermore, adding an international dimension to any curriculum means added value for everyone – for the students, for the institutions and for the education system as a whole.

While international mobility and cooperation have been affected by the pandemic and other global crises, it is important not to lose sight of the bigger picture: the importance of exchange, mutual understanding and open-mindedness is more evident than ever, especially in the context of crisis-management.


Interculturality, the next generation skill
Moreover, the individual skills acquired through an exchange are countless. Among the 10-15 skills of the future identified by employers, many can be acquired by spending a semester at a foreign university, following a traineeship in a company abroad, or by taking part in a job-shadowing at a different institution. Interculturality is a skill in high demand on the labour market, and will most likely remain so in the future.

Social skills, as well as critical and networked thinking for problem solving, have been among the «skills of the future» for some years now. The pandemic has added new requirements: self-management, active learning, resilience, stress tolerance and a high degree of flexibility. All these skills can be acquired and strengthened during a stay abroad. Be it for studying or for an internship: international mobility is educational in many ways and should be part of every curriculum in the future. This is one of the reasons why Learning by going has been chosen as a claim for the new national communication campaign launched by Movetia this year.

If these new skills are highly sought after on the job market, it is also because companies are operating in an increasingly global framework, their activities crossing geographical and cultural borders. In this context, they have to be able to rely on people who are at ease in an international environment, and who understand that there are many different ways of working and of reaching targets as a team. For many companies, interculturality is a key skill for their future.

Erasmus+ is our best bet in order to achieve all of these goals, to improve the quality of the education system as a whole, and to make it shine across Europe. The young people belonging to the new generation are definitely the future of the European continent, and therefore, of Switzerland.

Olivier Tschopp für das Europa Forum, Oktober 2022.

Erasmus+ is the European programme which aims to give students, pupils, apprentices, teachers, etc. the opportunity to go abroad to enhance their skills and therefore their employability. The education programme also helps organisations and institutions to work in international partnerships and share innovative practices in education.

Since 2014, Switzerland is no longer associated to Erasmus+. Even though the Swiss Programme replaces some individual Erasmus+ measures in the area of mobility, there is no compensation for the strategic offerings of Erasmus+, specifically in the area of institutional cooperation. This limits the internationalisation options of Swiss institutions, penalises stakeholders in the education system and places Switzerland at risk of becoming marginalised.

Let Europe Arise. Welches Europa wollen die Millennials jetzt?

«Let Europe arise. Die nächste Generation übernimmt in herausfordernden Zeiten. Welches Europa wollen die Millennials jetzt?» lautet das diesjährige Hauptthema der Gesprächs- und Ideenplattform Europa Forum. Als Höhepunkt der Jahresaktivitäten findet am 23. und 24. November 2022 das Annual Meeting im KKL Luzern statt. Zu den namhaften Speakerinnen und Speakern zählen alt Bundesrätin Doris Leuthard, Deutschlands früherer Aussenminister Sigmar Gabriel, Historiker und Publizist Timothy Garton Ash, Schriftstellerin Nora Bossong, Chefin  Sicherheitspolitik des VBS Pälvi Pulli und Politexperte Fabrice Pothier.

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