Erasmus+ and Vocational Secondary Education: Analyzing Participating Students' Views. A Case Study of Students' Mobility in the Prefecture of Preveza, Greece (original) (raw)

After the advent of the knowledge society there has been a lot of debate, among countries and supranational organizations, on the promotion of lifelong learning policies and cooperation policies on education and training issues. In this context, training policies and mobility programmes at all levels of education and/or training are high on the international political agenda. At the same time, it is well known that vocational education and training is inextricably linked to the labour market and undoubtedly to employability (Stamelos, Vasilopoulos, Kavasakalis, 2015). Within this broader framework, many policies and programmes have been developed and implemented at European level to defend this objective, with the most contemporary of them, Erasmus+. This article presents a case study of a students' mobility programme. In detail, the purpose of this article is to investigate and analyse the participating students' views in individual mobility actions under the Erasmus+ programme in secondary vocational