Peer Learning Event on EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY-MAKING IN GUIDANCE

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Peer Learning Event on EVIDENCE-BASED
POLICY-MAKING IN GUIDANCE INCREASING THE VOICE
OF YOUNG ADULTS IN DEVELOPING EDUCATION-TO-WORK
TRANSITIONS Cedefop, Thessaloniki 19-20 November
2007

• PLENARY SESSION 19 November 2007
• TOPIC 1 EU Communication on Promoting young
  peoples
• full participation in education, employment and
  society
• Mr Mika Launikari
• Lifelong Guidance Project Manager
• European Centre for the Development of
  Vocational Training Cedefop
• Email mika.launikari_at_cedefop.europa.eu Tel.
  30-2310-490104

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INTRODUCTION

• STARTING POINTS
• Social exclusion and unemployment of young people
  constitute a waste of human capital and create a
  social and economic cost
• More opportunities to learn, but less established
  pathways
• Child poverty, poor health, school drop-out,
  unemployment, role of the family
• Stronger partnership between EU and young people
  needed
• PROGRESS TO DATE
• A need for a transversal youth strategy in
  Europe stronger cooperation between policy
  fields impacting on youth and a greater focus on
  youth in such policies
• European Youth Act (2005) gives special attention
  to young people within the Lisbon Strategy
• White Paper on Youth (2001)

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BETTER AND MORE EDUCATION FOR ALL YOUNG PEOPLE

• Education is crucial for young peoples
  transitions into the labour market and successful
  participation in society -gt key competences to be
  developed
• LLL strategies to prioritise quality and quantity
  of investment to early childhood education
• Developing counselling to avoid mismatches
  between education outcomes and labour market
  requirements
• Labour market relevance and attractiveness of VET
• Implementation of European Qualifications
  Framework
• Young peoples access to mobility and LLL

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YOUTH AND EMPLOYMENT A CHALLENGE FOR EUROPE

• Young adults unemployment often turns into
  long-term unemployment or inactivity
• Youth unemployment long regarded as a temporary
  phenomenon in the transition from education to
  the labour market
• Too many youngsters arrive at the threshold of
  the labour market with insufficient
  qualifications -gt temporary, part-time, low-paid
  employment
• RECOMMENDATIONS
• Improving flexicurity easy hiring - easy firing
  (flexibility for employers) high level of
  benefits for the unemployed (security for
  employees)
• Internships linked to the training or study
  curriculum
• Promoting entrepreneurship education as a key
  competence
• Increased use of EU funds and programmes for
  supporting young peoples transition from
  education to employment

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USING THE FULL POTENTIAL OF ALL

• SOCIAL INCLUSION of youth with a migrant/ethnic
  background or from disadvantaged minorities (e.g.
  Roma) young children in poverty pupils living
  in disadvantaged areas early school leavers
  disabled young people etc.
• -gt Promoting equal opportunities for all
  children and young people
• GENDER IMBALANCES young women are
  overrepresented among the unemployed whereas
  young men among the early school leavers
• -gt Eliminating gender stereotypes in education,
  culture and employment
• BETTER HEALTH Young peoples health influenced
  by family, school and social circumstances
• -gt Commission will prepare a new health strategy
  in 2007 with support actions for young people

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ACTIVE YOUNG CITIZENS

• For a strengthened partnership the Commission
• invites the European Institutions and young
  people to reinforce their partnership in a joint
  declaration
• invites the European Youth Forum to voice the
  concerns of young people with fewer opportunities
  and of those who are not members of any
  organisation
• will draw up an EU report on youth every three
  years
• For participation the Commission
• invites MS to implement the objectives within the
  youth OMC
• uses EU programmes for promoting young peoples
  participation
• For voluntary activities the Commission
• invites MS to encourage and recognise
  volunteering of young people

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Peer Learning Event on EVIDENCE-BASED
POLICY-MAKING IN GUIDANCE INCREASING THE VOICE
OF YOUNG ADULTS IN DEVELOPING EDUCATION-TO-WORK
TRANSITIONS Cedefop, Thessaloniki 19-20 November
2007

• TOPIC 2 USER-CENTRED APPROACH TO QUALITY
  ASSURANCE
• As described in the forthcoming Cedefop study on
  EUROPE AND THE SHIFT TOWARDS LIFELONG GUIDANCE
  A synthesis report on progress in implementing
  the Council resolution

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• EVIDENCE INCIDATE Not many comprehensive systems
  that set out to assure quality in the delivery of
  guidance services by drawing on the full range of
  strategies and approaches (administrative-,
  practitioner-, user-centred).
• USER-CENTRED SYSTEMS to give users more direct
  power over the control of the guidance services
  that they receive and as service recipients
• a) to determine whether service standards have
  been attained and/or
• b) to be involved in the design, management and
  evaluation of
• guidance services and products
• AN INCREASING TREND IN THE EU is to consult users
  of guidance on their satisfaction or otherwise in
  relation to services received -gt No examples of
  purely consumer-led Quality Assurance models
  available
• PES set out to guarantee citizens rights for
  quality, proximity, persona- lisation and
  individualisation of public services