The European Union should forge a new European generation fully equipped to cope with the new global challenges, with a deepened sense of European identity, openness and ooperation.

That is why learning mobility should become a natural feature of being European and an opportunity provided to all young people in Europe. We make this proposal as a contribution to two vital policy goals:

• to strengthen Europe's competitiveness, building its knowledge-intensive society;
• and to deepen the sense of European identity and citizenship within its youth generation.

Learning mobility does not stop at Europe's borders. Europe's best students are supported to access the world's best tuition. Europe's volunteers are to be found worldwide. And the world's students, trainees and volunteers have the opportunity to experience Europe, to work and study with their European peers. Europe’s researchers can access the best world institutions and bring their experiences and expertise into Europe’s research area.

Mobility does not simply involve "like-to-like" movement from university to university, from school to school. It also places people into different sectors, from the world of education into the world of business and vice versa; from education into voluntary action; from vocational training to academia; from public research bodies to business.