LLLWeek '26 - Recognising long-term pupil mobility to foster democratic capacity
Fri, 04 Dec
|Maison de la Francité ASBL
EFIL and EEE-YFU Short-term mobility is growing, while long-term mobility is lagging behind. Let's recognise longer learning periods abroad needed for building skills for resilient democracies!
Time & Location
04 Dec 2026, 14:00 – 15:30
Maison de la Francité ASBL, Rue Joseph II 18, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
About the event
Learning mobility is rapidly growing in the school sector for what concerns short-term group or individual mobility. Few pupils across Europe benefit from long term individual pupil mobility (3 to 10 months), which fosters specific competences thanks to its length and immersive nature: critical thinking, adaptability, social, meta-subjective and meta-contextual intelligence which are key for resilient democracies and navigating our brand-new world shaped by fragmented societies and artificial intelligence. Recognition of the learning period abroad remains the main barrier: let’s explore how to improve visibility of competences developed and access to this mobility programme!
14:00 Opening by Elisa Briga (Secretary General, EFIL) and Kea Hoppe (Deputy Director, EEE-YFU)
14:10 The impact of long-term pupil mobility and its contribution to basic skills.
Danijela Rolih, Research Assistant – International Youth Exchange and Peacebuilding Project, Royal Holloway University in London
Kea Hoppe (EEE-YFU), the Final Declaration of the YFU symposium on supporting long-term…
