Focus on Youth Employment - European good practice projects

One in five young people in Europe cannot find a job. The lack of quality employment opportunities threatens an increasing number of young people with a sense of exclusion. The transition from education to independence and a place in the world of work is becoming longer and more precarious. And those with the fewest skills or the fewest opportunities are most at risk.

There is not single remedy, but there is a need for wide-ranging efforts to seek solutions. Youth in Action is a valuable part of these efforts, with its focus on learning through experience. This EU programme challenges young people by presenting them with novel environments - other countries, languages or cultures, new ways of working, or new demands on their abilities to organise themselves and to make plans and carry them out.

This brochure gives some examples of how non-formal learning and the Youth in Action programme contribute to building up young people's knowledge and skills, and give them a glimpse of what it requires to seek and hold down a job or to become and entrepreneur. It makes them more employable.

• These good practices were collected by the Youth in Action national agencies and SALTO Inclusion - and published by the European Commission (2012).
• Order your paper copy from the Publication Office bookshop at: http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/focus-on-youth-employment-pbNC3111275/ or download it in pdf here.