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Youth Employment EU Policy Context

Max UEBE, Head of Unit

Unit Sectorial Employment Challenges, Youth Employment & Entrepreneurship

European Commission - DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

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Youth unemployment rates in January 2014

Greece, Spain, Croatia: around /more than 50% Austria, Germany, Netherlands: around /less than 10%

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Update on Youth Employment Package

Council recommendation on establishing a Youth

Guarantee (April 2013)

Launch of and Council Declaration on a European

Alliance for Apprenticeships (July/Oct 2013)

Council Recommendation: Quality Framework for

Traineeships (March 2014)

Mobility of young workers

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A Youth Guarantee Council Recommendation of 22 April: Member States

ensure that all young people up to 25

receive a good-quality offer of

employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a

traineeship

within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal

education.

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The Youth Guarantee is:

• … an outcome-based approach

• … a long-term structural reform, including VET /

apprenticeships reform

• … about coordinated partnerships (ministries, social

partners, youth organisations etc)

• …investment with substantial political backing within MS

governments

• …integrated pathways and prevention, not only cure

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Next step: implementation

• Youth Guarantee Implementation Plans (22 received, 20

assessed)

• Feedback to Member States (bilateral meetings)

• 8 April conference: "Youth Guarantee – making it happen"

• COM assistance: EMPL-Youth-Guarantee@ec.europa.eu

• Monitoring: multilateral surveillance/ European Semester Majority of MS received CSRs on youth in 2013 and likely to receive in

2014

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Main challenges/problems:

• Sufficient supply and quality of offers,

also non-subsidised

• "Silo thinking"

• Outreach to non-registered young

people

• Long-term strategic planning

• Provisions for monitoring and evaluation

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Youth Employment Initiative

• To support measures set out in the YEP, and in particular the Youth Guarantee

• EUR 6 billion for the period 2014-2020 - open to all NUTS2 regions with levels of youth unemployment above 25% (in 2012)

• EUR 3 billion from the ESF and a further EUR 3 billion from a new 'youth employment' budget line.

• Individual support

• In addition: ESF

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Quality Framework for Traineeships

Traineeships can increase employability of young people if of good

quality.

Compulsory traineeship agreement to cover:

- learning content, mentorship, evaluation

- working conditions: weekly working time, limited duration, sick

leave, holidays

- more transparency already in traineeship advertisment regarding

Compensation

Social security coverage

Hiring practices

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European Alliance for Apprenticeships

Improving the

• Supply

• Quality

• Image

of apprenticeships

Targeted knowledge transfer

Spotlights on benefits

Smart use of EU programmes

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Recent achievements

•Council Declaration (Oct 2013)

•20 Member States’ commitments

•Some 30 pledges: Social Partners, chambers,

VET providers, youth, etc.

•Mutual learning

• VET peer review

• Monitoring and Evaluation seminar

• Thematic network apprenticeships/work-based learning

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FI: Apprenticeships in Youth Guarantee; 1,000 apprenticeship posts in Young Adult’s Skill Programm LT: double the

share of WB VET by 2020

LV: pilot in WBL in 6 VET institutions and 29 entreprises (2014)

PL: Increasing involvement of employers in education & examination process

NL: Business commitments to 10,000 extra apprenticeships; Technology pact

BG: Legislative reform to introduce dual VET

Some examples

DE: bilateral agreements with 6 MS

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More information

Youth Employment

http://ec.europa.eu/social/youthemployment

Youth Guarantee

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1079&langId=en

European Alliance for Apprenticeships

http://ec.europa.eu/apprenticeships-alliance

Quality Framework for Traineeships

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/

en/lsa/141424.pdf

ESF Technical Assistance apprenticeship/traineeship schemes

http://ec.europa.eu/social/youthtraining

Your First Eures Job

http://ec.europa.eu/social/yourfirsteuresjob