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You often hear about a disconnect between the education one receives and the needs of the job market. From this observation, the question must be looked into more deeply.
The rate of unemployment for adults 25 years and younger is twice as high as that of adults between the ages of 25-54 (on average, 15.4% in the member countries of the EU). This situation has further deteriorated in 2009, the crisis weighing down greatly on new recruitment. What are the causes at the origin of this discrepancy?
The agenda for Confrontations Europe’s Cercle des jeunes, the details of which will be published during the inaugural reunion the 8th of March 2010 in Brussels, will be to respond to the following questions:
How to explain the high rate of structural unemployment amongst youths? How to create solutions in order to combat against the problem of unemployment within this demographic?
What concrete solutions could be put forward in order to reinforce the links with the professional world, during and at the end of one’s education? How can we most make use of the period of transition between the end of one’s education and the beginning of one’s career?
In addition to these questions, we will talk more generally about the state of youth employment (long internships, temporary employment, jobless and underemployed graduates…).
How should we promote businesses to take on their responsibilities in the education and employment of youths?