(d) foster the development of experience of participation where young people live their lives: in particular within the family, at school, in youth organisations, at university, at other places of education or training and at work, in sporting and leisure time contexts.

The idea of applying research results is moreover still looked upon with distrust by many researchers and university leaders, particularly because of the delicate balance to be struck between the requirements of economic use on the one hand, and on the other the need to preserve, in the common interest, the autonomy of universities and freedom of access to knowledge.

[57] Case C-303/06 Coleman, judgment of 17 July 2008, where the Court of Justice ruled that Directive 2000/78/EC protected a mother of a disabled child from harassment and discrimination in employment, when the problems were due to the fact that the mother needed extra time off to take care of her child.

7. Calls on the Member States and the two sides of industry to remunerate overtime in the form of time off or of vouchers (for services or courses) or longer career breaks or sabbaticals, and to conclude agreements for flexible working time on the basis of the Commission study and to support proposals involving the collective shortening of working hours by lowering social security contributions, thus enabling (partial) compensation for workers' loss of income to be guaranteed; such proposals should principally be a matter for collective agreement between the social partners, and stresses that fundamental working time standards should be ...[+++] governed by national and European legislation;

9. On the assumption that such measures would lead to a significant increase in leisure, suggests that the Commission and the Member States should consider decentralised strategies to support lifelong learning, sporting and cultural activities and community work that would be clearly designed to stimulate social development. Such measures would contribute to stimulating strong public demand for leisure and a potential increase in employment in emerging industries;

To move from two days to three days of free time a week is a major change.