The Youth Guarantee and YEI three years on - Youth employment October 2016 Isabelle Deganis, European Commission, DG EMPL (EMPL B1) - Solidar

Youth employment

The Youth Guarantee and
   YEI three years on
                                     October 2016
                                  Isabelle Deganis,
           European Commission, DG EMPL (EMPL B1)

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A Youth Guarantee: Concept
 Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013. Member States commit:

    ensure that all young people under 25

    receive a good-quality offer of

    employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a
     traineeship

    within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal
     education.

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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

Three years on from the launch of
the Youth Guarantee…

• 1.5 million fewer young unemployed 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…

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

    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)

 Better engaging with non-registered NEETs and the low-
  skilled

 Number and quality of offers:
    Cooperation between education providers and employers

    Better mechanisms to ensure that young people receive offers of high quality

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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)

 As announced by President Juncker, the Commission intends to
  step up its efforts in support of youth more generally (e.g
  European Solidarity Corps, mobility and quality framework for
  apprenticeships, European Pillar of Social Rights…)

…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.

Youth Employment Initiative

Report on YEI implementation
             progress

• Implementation – slow start but speeding up

• Challenges for YEI implementation:
   • MS must complete the designation of authorities process
   • Ensure capacity of national Public employment services and
     public authorities responsible for YEI OPs

• Policy challenges:
   • Better outreach to the most vulnerable NEETs (low-skilled)
   • Strengthening capacity and institutional cooperation
   • Improving quality of job and training offers

Extending the YEI

• Additional EUR 1 billion in current prices to supplement
  the initial YEI specific allocation

• To be matched by EUR 1 billion from the ESF

=> overall effect is at least EUR 2 billion

• Eligibility rules remain unchanged (e.g. eligible regions,
  criteria for breakdown of resources and target group)

• Minimum modifications to the legal framework required

Soutien financier de l'UE pour la
garantie pour la jeunesse
12,7 milliards d'euros dans des mesures d'intégration des jeunes sur le marché du
travail pour la période 2014-2020

• Initiative pour l’emploi des jeunes (IEJ) bénéficiant d’un budget de
  6,4 milliards d’euros pour, pour la période 2014-2018:
     concentre son aide sur les régions enregistrant un taux de chômage des jeunes
      supérieur à 25 %. À ce jour, les actions menées au titre de l’IEJ ont soutenu
      plus de 1,4 million de jeunes (dans 20 Etats membres).
     activités destinées aux NEET jusqu’à l’âge de 25 ans ou, si les États membres
      le jugent opportun, jusqu’à 29 ans.
     1 billion pre-finanicng provided in 2015

• Le Fonds social européen (FSE): 6,3 milliards d'euros pour la période
  2014-20, affectées à la modernisation des institutions du marché du travail
  et à la réforme des systèmes éducatifs.

Key planned steps

• Political agreement on MFF and Annual Budget
  2017 adopted (end-2016)
• COM proposal for amended budget 2017 =>
  available global margins for commitment for YEI
  increase (early 2016)
• Amendment of CPR (spring 2017)
• Amendment of PA and OP (summer-autumn
  2017)

Quality Framework for Traineeships

Traineeships can efficiently increase employability + be stepping
stones towards regular employment if they provide:
    • Good learning content and
    • Adequate working conditions

Compulsory traineeship agreement to cover:
   • learning content, mentorship, evaluation

    • working conditions: weekly working time, limited duration, sick
      leave, holidays

    • more transparency already in traineeship advertisment

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Le corps européen de solidarité
 Présenté par le président Juncker lors de son discours sur l'état de
  l'Union, 14 Septembre 2016.

 Le corps sera ancré dans les valeur fondamentales de l'UE que sont
  l'engagement et la solidarité.

 Objectif: offrir au jeunes de - de 30 ans qui souhaitent s'engager,
  l'opportunité de venir en aide aux autres et d'acquérir des
  compétences et une expérience qu'ils pourront faire valoir
  ultérieurement.

 Durée d'une mission: 2 mois – 1 an.

 Point d'entrée unique: portail web consacré au corps européen de solidarité.

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Pour plus d'information…
                                Garantie pour la jeunesse
               http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1079&langId=en

                     La garantie pour la jeunesse dans chaque pays
               http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1161&langId=en

          Communiqué de presse: communication sur la garantie pour la jeunesse
http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=fr&catId=1079&newsId=2629&furtherNews=yes

        Questions et réponses: communication sur la garantie pour la jeunesse
              http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-16-3215_fr.htm

                   Document de travail sur la garantie pour la jeunesse
        http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=16237&langId=en (Partie 1)
        http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=16299&langId=en (Partie 2)

              Document de travail sur le cadre de qualité pour les stages
            http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=16238&langId=en

                Fiche d'information sur le corps européen de solidarité
              http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-16-3062_fr.htm

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