What is the Youth Guarantee?
The Youth Guarantee is a commitment by EU Member States to ensure that all young people under 25 can find a good-quality job or acquire the education, skills and experience they need to find a job in the future, within four months of leaving school or becoming unemployed.
How does it work?
Each Member State operates a national Youth Guarantee scheme unique to that country. The scheme brings together partners from across public administration, education and business in order to support a variety of activities designed to help young people find work.
These activities include apprenticeships at local businesses, traineeships that mix on-the-job experience with theory-based classes, job offers, financing for start-up companies or the self-employed and training courses.
Who can participate?
All young people under 25 (under 29 in some countries) who have just left formal education or become unemployed can take part in the Youth Guarantee.
Businesses and organisations can also participate by becoming a partner and supporting the activities being offered through the scheme.
Where does the funding come from?
The Youth Guarantee is funded through a mix of national budgets and contributions from the European Social Fund and Youth Employment Initiative.
What has the Youth Guarantee achieved so far?
14 million young people have entered Youth Guarantee schemes since January 2014 and around 9 million of these took up an offer of support.
Youth Guarantee success stories
- Aristea Zachari (Greece)
- Tina Fonovic (Slovenia)
- Elvis Skripunas (Lithuania)
- Nikolay Petrov (Bulgaria)
Where can young people and businesses find out more?
The details of each country’s contact point can be found on the Youth Guarantee registration page of the DG EMPL website.
Full information about the scheme can be found on the Youth Guarantee pages of the DG EMPL website.
Related links:
European Social Fund: http://ec.europa.eu/esf/home.jsp?langId=en
Youth Employment Initiative: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1176&langId=en
Aristea Zachari (Greece): http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=89&langId=en&newsId=2633&furtherNews=yes
Tina Fonovic (Slovenia): http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=89&langId=en&newsId=2624&furtherNews=yes
Elvis Skripunas (Lithuania):http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=89&langId=en&newsId=2626&furtherNews=yes
Nikolay Petrov (Bulgaria): http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=89&langId=en&newsId=2630&furtherNews=yes
Youth Guarantee registration page: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1218&langId=en
Youth Guarantee pages:https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1079&langId=en
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Details
- Publication date
- 7 March 2017
- Authors
- European Labour Authority | Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
- Topics
- News/reports/statistics
- Success stories
- Youth
- Related section(s)
- Sector
- Accomodation and food service activities
- Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies
- Activities of households as employers, undifferentiated goods- and services
- Administrative and support service activities
- Agriculture, forestry and fishing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Construction
- Education
- Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
- Financial and insurance activities
- Human health and social work activities
- Information and communication
- Manufacturing
- Mining and quarrying
- Other service activities
- Professional, scientific and technical activities
- Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
- Real estate activities
- Transportation and storage
- Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
- Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles