The article deals with problematic issues of international student mobility of students as a means of professional and personal self-development of future teachers. The aim of the research is to determine theoretically and empirically the socio- managerial and psychological-pedagogical conditions for the development of future specialists in the field of education readiness to participate in the processes of international student mobility. Research methods: analysis of conceptual positions and a critical review of research on the problem of international student mobility, student questionnaires, methods of descriptive statistics. The results of an empirical study of incentives and inhibitors of future teachers ' participation in the processes of educational and scientific exchange between higher education institutions are presented. Based on the results of the study, the authors provide a justification for the need to develop systematic measures to overcome organizational and managerial, competence-activity, and socio-psychological barriers to international student mobility. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2020.