European Young Women's Christian Association

World Young Women's Christian Association | World YWCA | YWCA [Abbr.]

World Young Women's Christian Association [ WYWCA | World YWCA ]

World Young Women's Christian Association

World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations | YMCA [Abbr.]

World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations

World Alliance of YMCAs

National Alliance of YWCAs and YMCAs of Switzerland

It seeks synergy with other institutionalised political dialogues to which the EU or its Member States are party (e.g. the EU-Rio Group Ministerial Meetings and the Ibero-American Summits). This should help boost the EU-Latin America alliance.

10. Recalls that there are currently two million vacancies in the EU and emphasises the importance of addressing skills shortages and mismatches by promoting and facilitating mobility for learners, as well as cross-border recognition of qualifications, through a better use of all EU tools and programmes, such as Erasmus+, the European Qualifications Framework, the European Skills Passport, the Youth Guarantee, the Europass CV, the Entrepreneurial Skills Pass, EURES, Knowledge Alliances, the European Alliance for Apprenticeships, the E ...[+++]uropean Credit Transfer System, the European Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training (EQAVET) and the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET); highlights the importance of ESCO, which identifies and categorises the skills, competences and qualifications relevant for the EU labour market and education and training, in 25 European languages; underlines in this context the importance of the adequate transferability of social rights within the Union and reiterates the importance of Erasmus+, the European Social Fund and EURES in this respect; calls on the Member States to promote training courses in particular sectors in which there are particular gaps between supply and demand;

The previous announcement of the alliance between the European Union and the group of 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states have stressed their shared commitment for an ambitious and binding global climate deal to be agreed in Paris.

29. Recalls the importance of the mobility of workers, geographically and across sectors, as a choice for a competitive labour market, and stresses the need to reduce the administrative and linguistic barriers that are liable to restrict it, and to further develop tools to facilitate mobility such as swift recognition of formal, non-formal or informal qualifications between Member States, the European Qualifications Framework, the European CV and the European Skills Passport, as well as providing sector-specific language courses and training on intercultural communication; encourages the raising of awareness of, and further improvement ...[+++]of, the EU-wide EURES job portal by ensuring, in particular, that a sufficient number of EURES advisors are trained and distributed equally throughout EU territory in order to make EURES an essential tool in the EU job market; stresses the importance of enhanced cooperation among national public employment services and the future inclusion of private employment services and other stakeholders in the EURES network; stresses the importance of EU initiatives aimed at stimulating mobility and creating opportunities, such as ERASMUS+, the European Qualifications Framework, the Europass CV, the European Skills Passport, the European Job Mobility Portal (EURES), the Knowledge Alliances and the European Alliance for Apprenticeships; calls for better promotion of these initiatives with a view to improving the labour market in Europe;