85. Reminds the Commission that in order to ensure both the sustainability, safety and adequacy of pensions, pension reforms need to be accompanied by policies that: develop employment opportunities for older and young workers in order to contribute to a sustainable pensions system; limit incentives to early retirement schemes and other early exit pathways; provide for the compensation of times spent caring for children or dependent family members; develop employment opportunities for older workers; guarantee access to lifelong learning for both employed and unemployed people of all ages; enhance healthy ageing at the workplace, con ...[+++]sidering physical and psycho-social risks to health and safety; introduce tax benefit policies offering incentives to stay in work longer; and support active healthy ageing; stresses that pension reforms require national political and social cohesion, and should be negotiated with the social partners and representatives of younger and elder generations as the directly affected population groups in order to be successful; calls on the Member States to take into full account Parliament’s position on the Green and White Papers on pensions;

Early leavers from education and training in % of population

68. Calls on the Member States to provide a wide range of support structures, such as scholarships, grants, student loans on favourable terms, tutoring, mentoring and networking assistance to disadvantaged students throughout their studies, in order to prevent them dropping out at the secondary or tertiary stage, and at tertiary level help them gain access to the Erasmus programme, in which current participation rates for students coming from low-income families are lower than average, as well as promoting their access to quality internships in business, public administration and the media, in order to enable them to acquire appropriate ...[+++]work experience and a support network for their future job success, as well as to integrate their specific views into the institutional culture;

– Raise the effective retirement age by improving working conditions, reducing early exit from the labour market (for example by introducing tax benefit policies giving incentives to stay longer at work) and enable workers to make flexible transitions from work into retirement

- Raise the effective retirement age by improving working conditions, reducing early exit from the labour market (for example by introducing tax benefit policies giving incentives to stay longer at work) and enable workers to make flexible transitions from work into retirement

Supported exclusively by the ESF, they will concentrate on three priorities: the adjustment of the working population to changes in work (life-long learning), promoting employment and combating early departure from the labour market (active aging, greater participation by women), employment of categories in difficulty (the disabled, ethnic minorities).This Objective will have some 18 % of total funding, divided equally between the ERDF and the ESF.