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HELLO, EUROPEWE’VE GOT A PROBLEM
IS ANYBODY THERE?
Unemployment
Who can I talk to?
Is anybody there?
FACTS
More than 4.5 million young people (aged 15-24 years) are unemployed today in the EU, with peaks of more than 40% in several countries, like Spain.
The Member States with the highest rates are Greece (50%) and Spain (49%).
The EU youth unemployment rate is more than double the overall unemployment rate.
Employment rates for young people fell more than four points between 2008 and 2014 (from 37.3% to 32.5%) – about eight times as much as for adults.
FACTS
More than 7 million people in the 15-24 age group
are neither in employment nor in education or
training.
11% of those aged 18-24 are early school leavers.
High youth unemployment co-exists sometimes with
increased difficulties in filling vacancies. This points to the existence of labour market
mismatches, due to inadequate skills, limited geographic mobility or
inadequate wage conditions.
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
The EU is working to reduce youth unemployment in line with the wider EU target of achieving a 75% employment rate for the working-age population (20-64
years).
European employment strategy. Its main aim is the creation of more and
better jobs throughout the EU, promoting close policy
coordination among EU Member States and EU Institutions
•Youth Employment Package•Youth Employment Initiative•A Call to Action on Youth Unemployment•Youth on the move•New Skills for New Jobs•Measures in the Field of Education and Culture
It envolves several key actions, the most relevant
ones are:
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
PACKAGE
Measures to help Member States tackle unacceptable levels of youth unemployment and social exclusion by giving young
people offers of jobs, education and training.
It includes a proposed Recommendation to Member States on introducing the Youth Guarantee to ensure that all young people up to age 25 receive a quality offer of a job,
continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within four months of leaving formal education or becoming
unemployed.
To facilitate school-to-work-transitions, the Package also launches a Quality Framework for Traineeships so as to enable young people to acquire high-quality work experience
under safe conditions.
It also announces a European Alliance for Apprenticeships to improve the quality and supply of
apprenticeships available across the Member States and outlines ways to reduce obstacles to mobility for young people.
•- Supporting job creation•- Restoring the dynamics of labour markets•- Improving EU gobernance
Measures are proposed in the following areas:
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
PACKAGE
• encouraging labour demand• targeting hiring subsidies to new hiring• reducing the tax on labour while ensuring fiscal sustainability• promoting and supporting self employment, social enterprises and business start-ups• transforming informal or undeclared work into regular employment• boosting 'take home' pay• modernising wage-setting systems to align wages with productivity developments• fostering job creation
SUPPORTING JOB CREATION BY
Harnessing the potential of job-rich sectors: ICT,
green economy (analysis),healthcare
Mobilising EU funds for job creation: European Social Fund.
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
PACKAGE
• encouraging companies' internal flexibility to protect jobs in crisis times• encouraging decent and sustainable wages• making job transitions pay• reducing the labour market segmentation between those in precarious employment and those on more stable employment• anticipating economic restructuring• developing lifelong learning and active labour market policies• delivering youth opportunities and the youth employment package • reinforcing social dialogue• reinforcing public employment services
Reforming labour markets by:
• coping with skills mismatches• ensuring better recognition of skills and qualifications and anticipating skills needs • improving synergy between the worlds of education and work
Investing in skills by:
• removing legal and practical obstacles to the free movement of workers• enhancing the matching of jobs and job-seekers across borders .
Moving towards a European
labour market by:
RESTORING THE DYNAMICS OF LABOUR MARKETS
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
PACKAGE
IMPROVING EU GOVERNANCE
Reinforcing coordination and multilateral surveillance in employment policy by:
• publishing selected employment indicators.• developing a device to keep track of progress implementing national reform programmes
Effectively involving the social partners by monitoring and exchanging views on wage developments
Strengthening the link between employment policies and relevant financial instruments, taking into account the country specific recommendation
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
INITIATIVE
It was launched to provide extra support to young people aged below 25
and living in regions where youth unemployment was higher than 25% in
2012.
It will particularly support young people who are not in
education, employment or training, including long-term unemployed
youngsters or those not registered as job-seekers.
This will ensure that in parts of Europe where the challenges are most acute, young persons can receive targeted
support.
The YEI typically supports the provision of apprenticeships, traineeships, job
placements and further education leading to a qualification.
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
INITIATIVE
The Youth Employment Initiative is one of the main EU financial resources to support the implementation of Youth Guarantee schemes. Under the Youth Guarantee, Member States should put in place measures to ensure that young people up to the age of 25 receive a good quality offer of employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within four months of leaving school or becoming unemployed.
The Youth Employment Initiative is complementary to other actions undertaken at national level, including those with European Social Fund (ESF) support, with a view to setting up or implementing the youth guarantee schemes. The ESF can reach out beyond individuals and can help reform employment, education and training institutes and services.
YOUTH GUARANTEE
The YEI typically supports the provision of• apprenticeships,• traineeships,• job placements and• further education leading to a qualification.
The Youth Employment Initiative is one of the main EU financial
resources to support the implementation of Youth Guarantee
schemes. Under the Youth Guarantee, Member States should
put in place measures to ensure that young people up to the age of 25 receive a good quality offer of
employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a
traineeship within four months of leaving school or becoming
unemployed.
YOUTH GUARANTEE
Advice on apprenticeship and
traineeship schemes
The EU is supporting Member States to develop high quality apprenticeship and traineeship programmes to:• make the school-to-work
transition easier• equip young people with the
right skills and experience for sustainable employment.
• In this framework, it provided an advice service on apprenticeship and traineeship schemes until the end of 2014. Activities included:
YOUTH GUARANTEE
HELPDESK
A Helpdesk on apprenticeship and traineeship schemes to provide strategic, operational and policy advice for:• policy makers at national, regional and local level in the areas of youth employment, education and training policies
• ESF Managing Authorities• relevant national and regional agencies• social partners or their members• who were planning, setting up, running or evaluating apprenticeship and traineeship schemes.• A LINKEDLN GROUP
• to connect with high-level apprenticeship and traineeship stakeholders;
• to share news and activities;• to stay on top of the latest European and national developments.
• Visit http://bit.ly/esfnetwork and click ‘Join Group’.
• The LinkedIn group continues to exist, so you can still join!
A CALL TO ACTION ON
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
Working together for Europe's young people – A call to action on youth unemployment
(2013). It was a communication from the European Commission to different institutions like
the European Parliament.
Its two main aims were:
- Accelerate the implementation of the
Youth Guarantee
- Develop EU-level tools to help EU countries and
firms recruit young people.
YOUTH ON THE MOVE
Youth on the Move is a package of policy
initiatives on education and employment for young people in
Europe. It is part of the
Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
GOALS
Improve young people’s education
and employability, to reduce high youth
unemployment and to increase the
youth-employment rate – by making
education and training more relevant to young
people's needs
Encourage young people to take
advantage of EU grants to study or train
in another country
Encouraging EU countries to take
measures simplifying the transition from education to work.
NEW SKILLS
FOR NEW JOBS
PURPOSE
Promote better anticipation of future skills needs
Develop better matching between skills and labour market needs
Bridge the gap between the worlds of education and work
NEW SKILLS
FOR NEW JOBS
Practical measures include
Forecasts by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
(CEDEFOP)
Analysis of emerging trends at sectoral
level and the development of sectoral skills
councils
European Framework for key competences for lifelong learning – which defines the
eight key competences that everyone should
have to thrive in a knowledge society;
EDUCATION AND
CULTURE
EU YOUTH STRATEGY
What is the EU's role? Agreed by EU Ministers, sets out a framework for cooperation covering the years 2010-2018. It has two main objectives:•- To provide more and equal opportunities for young people in education and the job market
•- To encourage young people to actively participate in society.
EDUCATION AND
CULTURE
How is this being done? The objectives
are achieved through a dual approach which
includes:
- Specific youth initiatives, targeted at
young people to encourage non-formal learning, participation,
voluntary activities, youth work, mobility and
information,
- 'Mainstreaming' cross-sector
initiatives that ensure youth issues are taken
into account when formulating,
implementing and evaluating policies and actions in other fields
with a significant impact on young people, such
as education, employment or health
and well-being.
The EU Youth Strategy proposes initiatives in eight areas:• Education & training• Employment & entrepreneurshi
p• Health & well-being• Participation• Voluntary activities• Social inclusion• Youth & the world• Creativity & culture.
What's new?• The EU Youth Report 2015• External evaluation of EU Youth
Strategy.