Employment and social affairs

Youth Guarantee

Through the Youth Guarantee scheme, the EU wants to tackle youth unemployment by ensuring that all young people under 25 receive a good-quality, concrete offer of a job, apprenticeship, traineeship or continued education programme within 4 months of leaving formal education or becoming unemployed.

Youth Guarantee country by country

Objectives

• Create quality jobs throughout the EU
• Help workers to find jobs in their own or another EU country
• Promote skills and entrepreneurship
• Coordinate and modernise social‑security schemes
• Create better working conditions through common minimum standards
• Support social inclusion and combat poverty
• Protect the rights of persons with disabilities

Targets

By 2030:

• At least 78% of people in the EU aged 20 to 64 should be in employment
• At least 60% of all adults in the EU should participate in training every year
• The number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU should be reduced by at least 15 million

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