Due to the financial crisis, (youth) unemployment within the EU has reached a historic peak. There were only a few countries, such as Germany, where youth unemployment remained stable or dropped.
Against this backdrop, the German government declared its willingness to contribute to cross-border vocational mobility and the reduction of youth unemployment in the EU by launching the time-limited pilot scheme MobiPro-EU, which is financed from federal funds.
It was at the beginning of 2013 that the first young people from other EU countries, entitled to freedom of movement, came to Germany in order to begin a supported, in-company vocational training programme or to take up employment as a skilled worker.
The special programme MobiPro-EU aims to develop and assess measures and instruments that may help to reduce language barriers, as well as tackling problems within the recruitment or hiring process.
