Roumanie

Currently, on a country by country basis between 0.5 to 1.5 % of young people in initial vocational training have a mobility experience during their vocational training courses. The general objective is to significantly increase this percentage and to achieve the outcome that a mobility period in VET becomes a norm rather than an exception.

The majority of mobility schemes targets pupils at general secondary education, almost one third of all schemes is designed for this group. The second largest target group of mobility schemes is adult learners, followed by young people. For other groups like teachers and youth workers some mobility schemes also exist, but these groups are no focal ones in the country regarding the promotion of learning mobility.

In Romania, special attention is attributed to learning mobility in form of language classes and participation in courses. Both of these two activities are covered by 13 mobility schemes. The second most relevant category is work placements which are promoted by 10 mobility schemes. Youth exchanges, school stays and ‘other’ activities still have their share, but are not too relevant.

The LdV programme represents the largest single source of funding for mobility in the area of vocational training, specifically in initial VET. Other sources of funding exist at national, bi-national or multinational level, but it is not possible to establish reliable statistics of their activity. The same can be said of company-funded schemes.
 
Romania is very strong in recognising the learning efforts in the home county as this is being done for most programmes. In some cases the recognition is reciprocal which means it is being recognised in the host country too.
 

Not less than 60% of funding granted within the LdV programme is used to finance mobility, and more specifically the strand ’young persons in initial vocational training.

The majority of mobility schemes targets pupils at general secondary education, almost one third of all schemes is designed for this group. The second largest target group of mobility schemes is adult learners, followed by young people. For other groups like teachers and youth workers some mobility schemes also exist, but these groups are no focal ones in the country regarding the promotion of learning mobility.