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Youth employment &“Youth on the Move”
Kick-Off meeting « Future City Jobs » London, 11/10/2011
Brigitte DEGENPolicy & Communication Officer
European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
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EU economy: what is the current picture?
• 23 million people (on average 10% of active population) now unemployed
• Much higher percentage for young people (20,9%), harshly hit by the crisis (more than 40% unemployed youth in Spain & Greece)
• In 2009, EU GDP fell by 4% ; industrial production dropped by 20% to 1990s levels
• National deficits at 7% of GDP on average, national debts at over 80% of GDP on average
• EU‘s growth potential has already halved as a result of the crisis
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EU priorities for young people (1)
ENSURING TRANSITIONS
•Individualised professional guidance and advice
• Youth guarantees
• Vocational training, apprenticeship
• Targeted active policies
• Personalised approach, reach out to young people in partnership with various relevant actors
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EU priorities for young people (2)
IMPROVING THE LABOUR MARKETS
•Stimulating the offer• Reducing segmentation• Promoting quality mobility
MOBILISING EU SUPPORT:• Sharing experiences & good practices (Progress)• Using EU funding, in particular ESF
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Europe 2020: 3 relevant EU headline targets
By 2020
• 75 % employment rate for people between 20 and 64
• < 10% early school leavers & min. 40% hold tertiary degree
• reduce by 20 million the number of people at risk of poverty
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Europe 2020: 3 interlinked priorities
Smart growth: developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation
Sustainable growth: promoting a more efficient, greener and more competitive economy
Inclusive growth: fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and territorial cohesion
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Europe 2020: 7 flagship initiativesSmart Growth Sustainable
GrowthInclusive Growth
Innovation« Innovation Union »
Climate, energy and mobility
« Resource efficient Europe »
Employment and skills
« An agenda for new skills and jobs »
Youth education and employment« Youth on the
move »
Competitiveness« An industrial policy for the
globalisation era »
Fighting poverty« European platform against poverty »
Digital society« A digital agenda
for Europe »
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Youth on the move
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3 strands of key actions
• Improve education and training systems: lifelong learning, higher education, VET
• Facilitate EU mobility for learning purposes and on the labour market
• Policy framework to improve youth employment
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1. Actions to support education & training
• Re-launch cooperation on vocational education and training
• Modernise universities
• Quality framework for traineeships
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2. Support for learning and job mobility• Access to job opportunities in the wider EU labour market
through new mobility scheme: Your first EURES job
• A European Vacancy Monitor to increase transparency
• Ensure free movement of young workers and monitor the application of EU legislation to ensure that mobile workers enjoy the same rights as « home » young workers
• Remove obstacles and increase opportunities: proposal for a Council Recommendation on promoting learning mobility
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• For all young people: graduates from VET, graduates from HE, vulnerable groups (NEETs, low-skilled, women, ethnic minorities, migrants, disabled)
• Focus on: transitions, fighting segmentation, provide adequate safety nets, encourage youth entrepreneurship & self-employment
3. A framework for youth employment
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A framework for youth employment
What do we want to achieve?
Reduce high youth unemployment Raise youth employment rates
EU had these objectives already before the crisis when youth employment was not satisfactory either, but there are important additional short term challenges in the jobs crisis:
tight public budgets fewer job openings, risk of “lost
generation”
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A framework for youth employment :How does EU intervene?
• Design and implementation of youth policies: first and foremost a Member States’ competence
• EU has mainly a policy coordination role:
* setting common priorities
* monitoring progress
* making recommendations to individual Member States
* promoting mutual learning and best practice exchange
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Priorities of the policy framework * Help young people to get the first job and start a career * Support youth at risk
* Provide adequate social safety nets for young people
* Support young entrepreneurs and self-employed
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Improve education-to-work transitions
Information, guidance and counselling
Skills development at labour market entry (vocational training, apprenticeships)
Early contact with labour market during studies (traineeships, internships)
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Youth Guarantees
Ensuring that all young people are in a job, further education or activation measures within four months of leaving school and provide this as a “Youth Guarantee”
Implementation at national level; Youth Guarantees (and similar approaches) need to be based on consensus and joint action of different stakeholders
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“Single contract”
In segmented labour markets, introducing an open-ended "single contract" with a sufficiently long probation period and a gradual increase of protection rights, access to training, life long learning and career guidance for all employees.
Make permanent contracts more attractive, e.g. by introducing minimum incomes specifically for young people and by positively differentiated non-wage costs.
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Strengthening social safety net for youth
* Offering a good balance between rights to benefits and targeted activation measures based upon mutual obligation; in order to avoid that young people fall outside any social protection system and to avoid benefit traps.
* Modernising social security systems to take account of specific situation of young people, especially their increased risk of precariousness
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Promoting youth entrepreneurship & self-employment (1)
• Increasing knowledge on entrepreneurship and self-employment
• First report on "entrepreneurial activity in Europe" focusing on the social and employment aspects of entrepreneurship;
•Policy brief on youth entrepreneurship beginning of 2012
• Youth@Work campaign
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Youth@Work
Awareness-raising campaign to build contacts between young people and small businesses (SMEs). The aim is to:
help young jobseekers find jobs in SMEs and rapidly gain experience and skills
raise awareness among small businesses about the potential benefits of recruiting inventive, dynamic young people
make young people aware of the existing tools that can help them become self employed or set up their own business
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Promoting youth entrepreneurship & self-employment (2)
Supporting entrepreneurship & self-employment financially:
European Social Fund
European Progress Microfinance Facility
ERASMUS for young entrepreneurs
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Progress Microfinance
Creating jobs and fighting exclusionby:Increasing access to, and availability of, microfinance for:
vulnerable groups (unemployed, disadvantaged people, youth...)
micro-enterprises, especially those in the social economy
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Some relevant links
Promoting entrepreneurs & the self-employedhttp://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=952&langId=en
Progress Microfinance http://ec.europa.eu/epmf
Erasmus for young Entrepreneurs http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/
Youth on the movehttp://europa.eu/youthonthemovehttp://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=950
Youth@Workhttp://ec.europa.eu/social/youth@work
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Thank you!