Drawing on the Youth Info Survey 2025, this report focuses on the specific needs, experiences, and challenges faced by young people with disabilities or chronic health conditions.
It supports youth information services in better understanding and addressing the needs of this group, identifying gaps in youth information and adapting outreach and support strategies to enhance access to information and mobility opportunities.
This report shows that young people with disabilities or chronic health conditions are just as enthusiastic about going abroad as their peers. They are even more likely to look up mobility-related information. However, they have slightly different preferences in seeking information.
Despite these positive results, further analyses showed that young people with disabilities or chronic health conditions are more likely to face numerous challenges related to mobility. Issues such as discrimination, administrative hurdles, a lack of information, financial costs associated with mobility, discouragement from family and friends, and many others.
Faced with many challenges and barriers, they still manage to go abroad and enjoy their stays to the same extent as their peers. While this is undoubtedly a success story, youth information services may help prepare future generations of young people with disabilities or chronic health conditions for their mobility stays even better: being ready for the challenges, better at dealing with them, and eventually having even more positive mobility experiences.
