Train 1 million young unemployed people for vacant digital jobs through internships/traineeships, apprenticeships and short-term training programmes. Support the upskilling and retraining of the workforce and in particular take concrete measures to support SMEs who face specific challenges in attracting and retaining digital talent as well as retraining their workforce. Modernise education and training to provide all students and teachers with the opportunity to use digital tools and materials in their teaching and learning activities ...[+++] and to develop and upgrade their digital skills. Reorient and make use of available funding to support digital skills and carry out awareness-raising about the importance of digital skills for employability, competitiveness and participation in society.

The €70 million programme on job creation, which aims to contribute to stronger economic and social cohesion, has three main components: (a) Employment-Intensive small scale infrastructure subprojects to include: reduction and cleaning of canal weeds, Nile river bank protection, upgrading rural housing conditions, pavement of rural roads, school rehabilitation, (b) Employment intensive community service subprojects such as solid waste management and collection and early childhood education (nursery) and, nutrition services and (c) Improving workers' employability, with an emphasis on youth employment activities in urban and rural areas.

develop effective outreach strategies towards young people, including information and awareness campaigns, with a view to catchment and registration with employment services, focusing on young vulnerable people facing multiple barriers (such as social exclusion, poverty or discrimination) and NEETs, and taking into consideration their diverse backgrounds (due in particular to poverty, disability, low educational attainment or ethnic minority/migrant background).

They were announced in the red book campaign platform last October which was endorsed by something like eight or nine million Canadians, including a large number of people in Quebec.

In 1994 we began fulfilling our election promise to help Canadian youth when we brought in the youth employment and learning strategy.

Priorities The Employment Sub-Programme will focus on: upgrading skills and on training; on action for jobs, including advice and assistance for the long-term and youth unemployed; extending childcare facilities to permit greater access by women to training and to employment; Urban and Rural Regeneration will focus on: a wide range of actions in favour of urban and village renewal, local infrastructure, rural economic development, fisheries and aquaculture; Cross-Border cooperation will focus on: projects which tap into the vast p ...[+++]otential for North-South trade will be encouraged and supported.