15. Emphasises the importance of the cultural sector in combating youth unemployment, since it is very attractive to young people and offers them more job opportunities; recalls also the role played by culture in generating more and better employment through education, skills development, training and informal learning; seeks to direct cohesion policy instruments towards improving and increasing the number of jobs in the cultural and creative sectors;

24. Stresses the need to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education by supporting and facilitating the creation of new companies by young people on the basis of academic research (spin-offs), reducing the bureaucratic burden involved in establishing such companies, and creating a clear and supportive regulatory framework for student entrepreneurs; considers that, in this context, schools and universities should allow time and space for, and grant recognition of, initiatives by young people so as to give them the necessary confidence to undertake new projects that may prove useful in setting up independent businesses; ...[+++] welcomes initiatives which reward young people for successful business ventures (e.g. an award for the best student company of the year); further emphasises the importance of companies giving young people the chance to obtain their first direct in-house work experience; reiterates the need to promote company visits and traineeship schemes with such objectives, so as to give young people an overview of the business world;

She talked about it being its own culture almost, and that there's a particular kind of globalization or there's a particular culture being developed, and it's shifting Canadian culture in terms of the arts and in terms of how young people and young Canadians understand their culture as being tied to that, those media.

the advantages of using the open method of coordination and of sharing best practices in this context; the need to involve young people in the decision procedure, for those decisions which concern them; the need to integrate young people into the labour market, providing targeted training for early school leavers or integrating them, as a transitional measure between school and work, in voluntary civic services; the need to help young people to reconcile private and professional lives; the advantages of ensuring mobility for young people, not only to improve their employment prospects, but also to bring them into contact with different cultures and engender the fe ...[+++]eling of being European.

Action A - culture and education : are designed and managed by culture professionals, with an educational approach which will appeal to young people - even children - and will get them interested in all aspects of culture.

This final session will be attended by P. Leuprecht, Assistant Secretary General at the Council of Europe, N. Fontaine, the Vice-President of the European Parliament, E. Tomas, the Minister of Culture of the French community in Belgium, H. Weckxs, the Minister of Culture and of Brussels Affairs of the Flemish community of Belgium, A. Merkel, the Minister for Youth in the German government, M. Siopsis, the Secretary of State for Youth in Greece, and C. Nissen, representing the Danish Ministry of Culture.