Social Agenda Magazine | Number 46 (December 2016)

Boosting youth employment

Summary:

The EU Youth Guarantee has got off to a good start: in 2014 and 2015, it made a difference in the lives of more than 9 million young people across Europe and it is driving in-depth structural reforms in the Member States. Social Agenda n°46 explains how and highlights what more needs to be done to accelerate and release the full potential of the national plans for implementing the Youth Guarantee. With a blueprint of a European Pillar of Social Rights due for adoption in 2017, Social Agenda also explains the context in which this initiative was born. And it puts the spotlight on plans to achieve more evidence-based social policy making by modernising the way data from social surveys is collected and used across the EU.

Contents:

• Social analysis - More evidence-based policy making
• Socail rights: The future of European Social Pillar in context
• Youth Guarantee - releasing its full potential
• Diving structural reforms
• A financial booster called YEI
• Traineeship - the quality challenge
• Changing young people's lives
• Plugging a gap in EU cohesion policy
• Mariana Georgallis, European Youth Forum
• Loris Di Pietrantonio, Head of European Commission ESF and FEAD policy and legislation unit: Linking funds to policy objectives

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