This project is called MOVE,
which does not make any sense, just the "move",
and it means that, mobility.
It includes nine European institutions,
from six countries, object of study of the project.
It includes Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg,
Norway, Romania and Spain.
We have done this project, fundamentally,
firstly to discover who move.
What do I mean by this?
The first difficulty that we have
when it comes to studying this is that we do not have a census.
There is no official record in Europe of young Europeans
to tell us who are moving.
We extended that survey
with a model a little more exploratory,
that it's called "snowball effect."
According to official statistics
of the percentage of young Europeans, in these six countries,
as we will see, like in the case of Spain,
out of 5.700.000 young people
in our survey, around 1000,
only 20 percent states that
have had some experience of mobility.
The main destinations are usually:
United Kingdom, France and Germany, in that particular order.
In other countries it changes.
What we do share are the reasons:
Geographic factors, as it is our case with France,
especially for Catalonia, Aragon and the Basque Country.
In the case of the United Kingdom, you can figure out why,
we have been English studying for 15 years in high school
we have to take some profit out of it.
The most popular is the United Kingdom.
Germany has increased its popularity in recent years.
It is motivated by an increase in the learning of this language
in secondary schools.
What are the motivations or the obstacles that you find
at the time of making that decision?
We have asked a lot about it.
The most popular answers were
as usual, the idiomatic ones.
It goes in two directions.
On the one hand, if we can speak the language
we feel stronger and confident.
Leaving is easier.
On the other, this mantra that we have,
despite15 years studying English
we have to perfect it.
We finish our studies and we're leaving
to see if we can learn while scouring dishes.
Those who can't speak the language
have a greater psychological barrier
The probability for someone young to leave without knowing the language
it's much smaller than for the one who does.
But there is another determining factor: the lack of economic resources.
Therefore, as a last reflection, or penultimate,
we ask ourselves what influences the decision to move.
We have seen the motivations and the obstacles.
In the end, what's more relevant?
The individuals? Their circumstances?
Or the context of the individuals?
The individual decision is less relevant than the circumstances.
That is, their educational level, their socio-economic level,
but also, the economic background of their families
and the context, the "country context".
Which is maybe the most relevant thing.
That is, the country of origin,
depending on whether it conditions, helps or encourages
language learning.
If they are encouraged with scholarships, grants, credits
or other types of policies, that determines significantly
the youngster's chances to mobilize.
The youngster who decides to move
increase his chances of success
in professional and personal development significantly
in comparison with the one that does not move.
And it also significantly reduces the chance
of being unemployed
On the contrary, there is an inequality,
the one who does not leave has more challenges to face
for not going.
So reflect, think, and decide to move.
Thank you.