Youth on the Move

update November 2012Pavel Trantina, EESC

pavel@trantina.cz

Youth on the Move

Three areas:

• Improving education and training systems at all levels

• Stronger policy efforts for improving youth employment

• More EU youth mobility for learning purposes and on the labour markets

28 Key new actions in 5 chapters

Original Opinion – March 2011

SOC/395: Youth on the Move

Follow-up of the EESC Opinion

•LMO meeting in Madrid – 6 June 2011

•Round table on Youth Employment – Dublin, 17 November 2011

• Invisibility of the EU in social issues • Low level of foreign language education• Too few of time for visitors of job centres • No culture of internships• No involvement of social partners in

development of VET • Early school leaving • Apprenticeships • Recognition of Irish craft qualifications

Dublin – topics 1

• Professional career guidance • No support for Single open-ended contracts, but

Youth Guarantee should be introduced• Youth in Action Programme • Key role of the welfare system • Financial start-ups for self-employment • How to engage young people in social partners,

especially trade unions?

Dublin – topics 2

Participation in other events 1

• Presentation “Young generation - its education and employment” delivered by Pavel Trantina at ETF Conference in Torino on 11 May 2011

• Presentation of Pavel Trantina at the National Youth Conference on Unemployment – Bulgaria, 17 May 2012

Participation in other events 2

•Madi Sharma and Pavel Trantina – presentations at the EC seminar on youth, entrepreneurship, volunteering and CSR – 25 September 2012

•Presentation of the study “The impact of Non Formal Education in Youth ‐Organisations on Young people’s Employability” – hosted by Pavel Trantina in the EESC, Brussels, 26th October 2012

• Your Europe, Your Say 2011 – discussion topic: Youth on the Move

• The Economic Crisis, Education and the Labour Market “ Conference – Brussels, 24 January 2012

• Conference “From School to Work” organized by LMO – Roskilde (DK), 4 February 2012

• ”Quality jobs for youth: are we asking too much?” Conference organized by LMO together with the European Youth Forum – 20 April 2012

EESC events 2011-2012

• Group III Conference Youth Education and Employment within the Europe 2020 Strategy – Sofia, 8 June 2012

• Group I Conference “The Future of Youth in Europe - European Youth: Hope or Despair for the New Generation?” – Versailles, 29-30 August 2012

• Young European Entrepreneurs Seminars - organised by Group I – 2011, 2012

EESC events 2011-2012

Related EESC OpinionsSOC/410: The economic crisis, education and the labour market SOC/421: Youth employment, technical skills and mobilitySOC/429: Modernisation of higher educationSOC/431: EU Policies and VolunteeringSOC/409: Making post-secondary vocational education and training more attractiveSOC/438: Erasmus for AllSOC/ 450: Youth Opportunities InitiativeDraft SOC/463: Towards a job-rich recovery

• on Erasmus for all proposal – with Deputy DG EAC

• Youth Mini-hearing prepared at the SOC Section in December 2012

"The Youth package will comprise :•a " Chapeau" Communication on the implementation of the Youth Opportunities Initiative + Country fiches Annex for EU-27 countries +Croatia;•a Proposal for a Council Recommendation on Youth Guarantees + Staff Working Document;•a Communication launching the 2nd phase of the Social Partners' consultation on a Quality Framework for Traineeships accompanied by an Analytical Paper and a Staff Working Document on outcomes of the public consultation and first phase Social Partner consultation.

SOC Section debates

Some observations• Lack of understandable reporting from the EC

on the development in the Flagships – example: http://ec.europa.eu/youthonthemove/about/policy-actions/index_en.htm

• Resistance of some member states• Lack of coordination between the EESC groups

and bodies and lack of conclusions from their events – no interlinks

• Rapporteurs of Opinions on Flagships are ready to be more involved in the coordination