Translation of "Groupe de travail sur la participation des jeunes " (French → English) :

10. Notes that social investment in youth may take a wide range of forms, including: developing partnerships between schools, training centres and local or regional businesses; providing targeted quality training and high-quality youth internship programmes; vocational schemes in cooperation with enterprises; senior employee sponsorship schemes aimed at the recruitment and training of young persons on the job or at securing a better transition from education to work; encouraging young people’s participation in society; and promot ...[+++]ing regional, European and international voluntary mobility, by means of further progress towards the mutual recognition of qualifications and skills; also stresses that social investment can go hand in hand with efficient incentives, such as employment subsidies or insurance contributions for young people that will guarantee decent living and working conditions, in order to encourage public and private employers to hire young people, invest in both quality job creation for young people and continuous training and upgrading of their skills during employment, and support entrepreneurship among youth;

16. Notes that social investment in youth may take a wide range of forms, including: developing partnerships between schools, training centres and local or regional businesses; providing targeted quality training and high-quality youth internship programmes; vocational schemes in cooperation with enterprises; senior employee sponsorship schemes aimed at the recruitment and training of young persons on the job or at securing a better transition from education to work; encouraging young people’s participation in society; and promot ...[+++]ing regional, European and international mobility, by means of further progress towards the mutual recognition of qualifications and skills; also stresses that social investment can go hand in hand with efficient incentives, such as employment subsidies or insurance contributions for young people that will guarantee decent living and working conditions, in order to encourage public and private employers to hire young people, invest in both quality job creation for young people and continuous training and upgrading of their skills during employment, and support entrepreneurship among youth;

Our Workplace Partners Panel, which was a broad-based panel representing industry both labour and business in the province noted it's best achieved through a partnership between labour, business, and government, and that in Saskatchewan there's a need for labour, business, and government to collectively tackle hot issues such as labour market competitiveness and image, productivity, the training system adequacy and capacity, youth ...[+++]engagement when we say youth engagement it leads me to the next point of aboriginal engagement, because in Saskatchewan, youth equals aboriginal youth in the future and also to our supply-demand imbalances that Mr. McKinlay referred to earlier.

the advantages of using the open method of coordination and of sharing best practices in this context; the need to involve young people in the decision procedure, for those decisions which concern them; the need to integrate young people into the labour market, providing targeted training for early school leavers or integrating them, as a transitional measure between school and work, in voluntary civic services; the need to help young people to reconcile private and professional lives; the advantages of ensuring mobility for young ...[+++] people, not only to improve their employment prospects, but also to bring them into contact with different cultures and engender the feeling of being European.

youth information is important for each Member State and common objectives cannot be implemented unless the subsidiarity principle is upheld; the promotion of information supply services which take into consideration the specific needs of young people is crucial to providing young people with access to information; young people form a heterogeneous group whose needs vary depending on their age, gender, socioeconomic circumstances and geographical location; by its very nature, youth information is a highly diverse area affecting many young people in different circumstances; participation ...[+++] by young people in producing and disseminating information remains the key to providing them with information to meet their needs; implementing the common objective with regard to information has resulted in an Internet portal, which the Commission has launched in association with the Eurodesk, ERYICA (European Youth Information and Counselling Agency) and EYCA (European Youth Card Association) networks.

Assistance from the ESF will concern: . training in the priority activities for development (industry, tourism, environment, research, agriculture, etc.); . the occupational integration or reintegration of long-term unemployed adults and young people; . initial training and occupational integration of young people; . the occupational integration or reintegration of those that risk being socially excluded; . the promotion of equal opportunities for men and women; . improvements to training schemes and employment services; . continuous on-the-job training of workers. The EAGGF will contribute in the following five areas: 1.