Only around 5% of vocational education and training learners currently go abroad for part of their training.

Omissions

• The 12% figure is an EU-level target for 2030, not an open-ended objective; the claim omits the deadline and the fact that current progress (5.0% → 5.3%) is judged by the Commission as 'not on track'.
• The indicator refers specifically to initial VET (IVET) learners benefiting from a learning mobility period abroad, not to all VET learners including continuing VET and apprentices in every scheme.
• Different definitions of mobility (e.g. Cedefop dashboard short-term vs. long-term mobility indicators) can yield lower figures (around 2.2% for 2021 under one definition), so the '5%' figure depends on the mobility definition used.

Sources

• PrimaryEuropean Commission — Education and Training Monitor 2025, Comparative Report, Chapter 5"VET learners' mobility increased slightly from 5.0% to 5.3% but is not on track towards reaching the 2030 EU-level target of at least 12%."
• PrimaryCEDEFOP — VET Data insights: post-2020 VET policy (data insights paper)"In the 2020 Council Recommendation on VET the EU has set a target for mobility on initial VET of 8% by 2025." (shows that the 12% figure is the later, 2030 EU-level benchmark for the same mobility indicator)