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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: [email protected]
• 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