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Recommendation concerning Special Youth Employment and Training Schemes for Development Purposes

Actions were deployed in each of the four pillars of the initiative: (i) a Council Recommendation targeting early school leaving was formulated in 2011[20] and gave impetus to national action to reduce dropout rates, and cooperation at European level in the field of vocational education and training was strengthened; (ii) modernising higher education has been at the core of a Communication from the Commission; (iii) mobility was fostered through a range of instruments, notably the new integrated approach of the Erasmus+ programme, the European Skills Passport or the scheme "Your First EURES job" aimed at providing labour market opportu ...[+++]nities for young people in the 28 Member States; (iv) to fight against youth unemployment and inactivity, a Council Recommendation[21] establishing Youth Guarantees[22] was adopted and Youth Guarantee schemes were launched – they can be supported by the European Structural and Investment Funds and the Youth Employment Initiative, for Member States with regions showing a youth unemployment rate of above 25%.

- The European Investment Bank supports via the 'Skills and Jobs – Investing for Youth' programme investments in human capital (e.g. vocational training, student loans, mobility programmes worth EUR 7 billion during 2013-15) and provides access to finance linked to the employment of young people in SMEs (EUR 26 billion allocated to beneficiary SMEs 2013-15).

For example, the European Commission set up a network of national Youth Guarantee coordinators, organised a series of peer reviews on various aspects of the Youth Guarantee (as part of the European Employment Strategy's Mutual Learning Programme), and developed a toolkit to encourage young people to register with their local providers.

RECALL the Council conclusions of 16 May 2013 on maximising the potential of youth policy in addressing the goals of the Europe 2020 Strategy (1),where the Council agreed to develop, within the framework of the Renewed Framework for European cooperation in the Youth field 2010-2018, a medium-term work plan to guide youth policy and youth related policy work in response to current youth and youth related themes and trends and to highlight relevant areas for coordination and collaboration with education and training and employment policies with a vie ...[+++]w to ensuring youth policy input into the European Semester.