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The Minister of Education, Universities and Enterprise opens at 9 this morning and half of the conference, which will be developed during Thursday and Friday morning in the auditorium of the Faculty of Business UPCT
With the intervention of Emilio Castillejo, representative of the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the European Commission, will begin Thursday at 9:30 pm in the auditorium of the Faculty of Business UPCT , the work of the Regional Conference Building the Youth Guarantee.
A European commitment to training and employment, organized by the city of Cartagena and the Autonomous Region, inaugurated by the Minister of Education, Universities and Employment, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, and attended by nearly 200 participants.
Here are the representatives of the governments of Austria, Wolfgang Blien, and Finland, Janne Savolainen, who will present the experiences of their countries in the development of systems of Youth Guarantee.
Both Austria and Finland have their own Youth Guarantee programs, a line of work against mass unemployment of young people has endorsed the European Commission and will be the centerpiece of the European PAISIS action against this serious problem of our societies.
In summary, for Youth Guarantee means the commitment of public employment policies to offer concrete proposals for employment or training (jobs, continuing education, apprenticeship training or internship) in a short space of time (which follows by the European Commission is four months) from the youth has completed formal education or lost employment.
A call for pilot yearlong project on Youth Guarantee was recently settled by the European Commission, which has selected and funded 19 projects across Europe, of which six corresponded to Spain.
Five of these projects, which include the City of Cartagena, will also be presented in the conference this day.
These are the City of Gijón, the Xunta de Galicia, Valencia, and the city of Avilés, to which the Government of the Canary Islands, which has its own draft Youth Guarantee is added.
Youth unemployment has become in the last years under the impact of the crisis, a major European problems.
The latest figures place him among European under 25s, at 24.4% in October, representing a total of 5.6 million unemployed youth.
In some countries such as ours, the percentage is even higher, reaching 57.4% (August), just behind Greece (58%).
In April this year the Council of the European Union and agreed to a recommendation to member states for the establishment of national systems of Youth Guarantee. Heads of State and Government of the countries of the Union in June ascordaron forward 6,000 million euros from the European initiative against youth unemployment, initially planned for the period 2014-2020, to 2014-2015.
Of these, 1,800 million corresponded to Spain.
Before year end, governments have to present their ideas on how they intend to launch the Youth Guarantee.
The Days of Cartagena, which continue until Friday morning December 13, intended to familiarize regional and municipal reponsables with this new line of action through knowledge of the precursor experiences or committed projects, to put us in a good place to develop a Youth Guarantee System in the Region of Murcia and for access to resources allocated to it, and at the same time addressing the role that different stakeholders can play in it through networking.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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