Transcript Elodie Fazi_Investing in Europe`s invisible generation

Youth employment
YG and YEI three years on
Investing in Europe's invisible generation
Elodie Fazi, EMPL B1
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"The European Union should not
only preserve our European way of
life but empower those living it. I
cannot and will not accept that
Europe is and remains the
continent of youth unemployment"
President Juncker, 2016 State of the Union speech
What is the Youth Guarantee?
A commitment from Member States (in the form of a Council
Recommendation adopted in April 2013) to:
• provide every young person under 25
• a good-quality offer of employment, continued education,
apprenticeship or traineeship
• within 4 months of becoming unemployed or leaving
education.
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Where are we now? (15-24)
Three years on from the launch of
the Youth Guarantee…
• 1.6 million fewer young unemployed in the
EU
• There are almost 900,000 fewer NEETs in
the EU
• The employment rate for young people has
started to rise again
• 1.4 million young people directly supported
by the EU (YEI)
The Youth Guarantee has
become a reality across the EU…
…supported by the mobilisation of
EU funds (YEI and ESF)
• The Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) with EUR 6.4 billion: for
the first time provided direct targeted support to young NEETs
in regions with YU > 25 % = 1.4 m young people supported so
far
• Over the 2014-2020 period, the European Social Fund (ESF) will
directly invest at least EUR 6.3 billion — in addition to the Youth
Employment Initiative — to support the integration of young
people into the labour market
• The Commission has proposed adding EUR 1 billion from the EU
budget to the YEI, to be matched by the same amount from the
European Social Fund.
Policy reforms and innovation in
policy design
 Break down silos across policy areas and build
partnerships
 Apprenticeship and traineeship reform
 Public employment services > improved targeting of
services
 Emphasis on early intervention and non-registered
NEETs
Acceleration and broadening the
YG: lessons and challenges
 Full and sustainable implementation > Continued
political commitment and financial support
 Better engaging with non-registered NEETs and
the low-skilled
 Strengthening capacity and coordination
 Number and quality of offers
Next steps
 Full roll-out of the national Youth Guarantee Schemes
 Continue to use YEI support until 2018 + Commission has
proposed EUR 1 billion more for YEI over 2017-2020 (matched
by EUR 1 billion from ESF)
 December 2016 Youth Package: stepping up efforts in support
of youth more generally (e.g European Solidarity Corps,
mobility and quality framework for apprenticeships, European
Pillar of Social Rights…)
More information
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Communication 4 October 2016: Youth Guarantee and Youth Employment
Initiative three years on (COM/2016/0646 final)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legalcontent/EN/TXT/?qid=1477901398883&uri=CELEX:52016DC0646
• SWD Youth Guarantee and Youth Employment Initiative three years on
http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=16237&langId=en (Pt1) SWD(2016) 323 final
http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=16299&langId=en (Pt2) SWD(2016) 323 final
• Communication "Investing in Europe's Youth"
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2016:940:FIN
• Communication "Improving and Modernising Education"
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legalcontent/EN/TXT/?qid=1481206862153&uri=COM:2016:941:FIN
• Communication "European Solidarity Corps"
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2016:942:FIN
• Webpage European Solidarity Corps
https://ec.europa.eu/info/eu-solidarity