regarding youth employability and skills, as well as the
transition from studies to work and between jobs, to:
6.2.1 refocus
their macroeconomic policies on sustainable job creation and investment
in quality education, training and lifelong learning schemes;
6.2.2 adjust their educational systems towards equipping young
people with a wider array of skills and linguistic abilities to
better qualify for the evolving needs of labour markets and multiple vacant
jobs across Europe;
6.2.3 improve youth access to high-quality education, which
can be better achieved by greater competitiveness of schools in
both the public and private sectors;
6.2.4 remove administrative and tax obstacles to youth mobility
for studies, training and work, and stimulate this mobility;
6.2.5 give impetus to youth entrepreneurship through an enabling
environment, advisory services, tax facilities, grants and microcredits
especially designed for young people;
6.2.6 facilitate young people’s access to development programmes,
patentability and employment in the green economy, health, innovation
and information technology sectors;
6.2.7 use the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives
(2012) to encourage the creation and development of youth co-operative
enterprises;
6.2.8 improve the Europe-wide recognition of professional qualifications
and non-formal education;
6.2.9 offer tax incentives for employers who propose apprenticeships
to young people while retaining older workers, notably for the inter-generational
transmission of skills in the workplace;
6.2.10 subsidise employers’ contributions to social insurance
schemes or even grant a moratorium on them for a limited period
of time so as to stimulate the recruitment of young people;
6.2.11 endorse and promote the implementation of the European
Quality Charter on Internships and Apprenticeships in the national
context;
6.2.12 implement any programmes and databases for the exchange
of information between national public employment services with
a view to favouring the access of young people to all European job
vacancies;
6.2.13 address the exclusion of young people from the educational
system, as well as the risk of a digital divide due to the lack
of equal opportunities for access to the Internet;
