The International Mobility of Students Apprentices at the Heart of Building a Skills Economy: the Example of the Corsican Territory

Abstract

At a time of exacerbated globalization, education, and more generally

training, is a key factor for our society, at the heart of territories chal

lenged to renew themselves in the face of the emergence around the globe

of new centers of economic and demographic gravity, with their own

models. Training, and its link with working life, is a real challenge to

face, in the near future, the technological, economic, political and envi

ronmental revolutions that we are already facing. Beyond what is called

sandwich training or continuing vocational training in Higher Education,

the current challenge is indeed around lifelong learning, old concept but

whose forms always call for an actualization in modernity. At the heart of

a small island territory like Corsica, this challenge is all the more crucial

to take up as it foreshadows its attractiveness in a context of glocalisation now durably anchored. In an ever-changing global environment, with

moving landmarks, increasingly complex personal and professional lives,

and where everything that seemed well compartmentalized yesterday

faces increasing porosity, the purpose of this contribution is to explain

that the international mobility of students apprentices, at the heart of the

construction of a skills economy, is a major strategic issue for the devel

opment and structuring of a small territory such as Corsica.