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Youth employment policies at EU level, with focus on the

Youth Guarantee

Joint Meeting STYLE/CUPESSEIstanbul, 1-2 September 2014

Katarina LINDAHLUnit Sectorial Employment Challenges, Youth Employment & Entrepreneurship

European Commission - DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

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Youth unemployment rates

Greece, Spain, Croatia: around /more than 50%

Austria, Germany, Netherlands: around /less than 10%

Turkey 17% (2013)

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Youth Employment Package (Dec 2012)

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 GuaranteeCouncil Recommendation of 22 April 2013: 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

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Ongoing: implementation

• Youth Guarantee Implementation Plans from all 28 MS• Monitoring: multilateral surveillance through the European Semester under Europe

2020 strategy & Employment Committee• 18 MSs received Country Specific Recommendations on youth employment in

2014 • 8 MSs received a CSR on the YG: BG, EL, HR, IE, IT, PL, PT, SK

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EU support to YG implementation

•Financial support

• European Social Fund: major employment and training programmes, employment services and education systems reforms

• Youth Employment Initiative (YEI): EUR 6 billion earmarked for early support to individual young unemployed or inactive in regions with youth unempl > 25% (2012)

•Policy and technical support

• Exchange of experience (Oct 2013, April 2014, Sept 2014)

• European Alliance for Apprenticeship

• Quality Framework for Traineeship

• COM assistance: EMPL-Youth-Guarantee@ec.europa.eu, Helpdesk for apprenticeships/traineeships (ESF TA)…

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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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Quality Framework for Traineeships

Traineeships can efficiently increase employability + be stepping stones towards regular employment if they provide:

• Good learning content and• Adequate working conditions

Traineeship agreement to cover:

•learning content, mentorship, evaluation

•working conditions: weekly working time, duration, sick leave, hol's

•more transparency already in traineeship advertisment regarding compensation, social security coverage, hiring practices

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Youth employment – staying top priority

EU leaders' Strategic Agenda June 2014 for new mandate:

•Unemployment still highest concern, especially for young people

•Step up fight to unlock talents and life chances – NEETs,skills, mobility…

Comm PRES-elect Political GLs: "Job Creation my first priority"

•Accelerate implementation of YG schemes

•Progressively broaden YG scope

•Envisaged jobs, growth and investment package to complement YG efforts supported by ESF, YEI etc.

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Youth employment – staying top priority

Further expanding knowledge base - crucial for

•Enabling precise, adequate policy advice over forthcoming European semesters

•Informing technical assistance offered

•Identifying remaining "unknowns"

•Supporting most effective use of available EU (and national) funding

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More informationYouth Employmenthttp://ec.europa.eu/social/youthemployment

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

European Alliance for Apprenticeshipshttp://ec.europa.eu/apprenticeships-alliance

Quality Framework for Traineeshipshttp://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 Jobhttp://ec.europa.eu/social/yourfirsteuresjob