The document discusses the EU's efforts to address high youth unemployment in Europe. It outlines several key initiatives: 1) The Youth Employment Package aims to help EU members tackle unacceptable levels of youth unemployment by ensuring young people receive offers of jobs, education or training within four months of leaving school or becoming unemployed. 2) The Youth Employment Initiative provides extra support for young people under 25 in regions with youth unemployment over 25% in 2012. 3) The Youth Guarantee aims to ensure young people under 25 receive a good quality offer of employment, education, apprenticeship or traineeship within four months of leaving school or becoming unemployed. 4) Other initiatives discussed include New Skills for New Jobs, Education

1. HELLO, EUROPE
WE’VE GOT A PROBLEM
IS ANYBODY THERE?
Unemployment
Who can I
talk to?
Is anybody
there?

2. FACTS

3. 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.

4. 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:

5. 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:

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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:

13. YOUTH
GUARANTEE

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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

17. 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;

18. EDUCATION
AND
CULTURE

19. 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 &
entrepreneurship
• 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.