• Promoting employment and supporting jobseekers
• Helping the young find sustainable jobs
• Supporting entrepreneurs and businesses
• Giving workers the skills to adapt to change
• Encouraging gender equality, better work/life balance and active ageing

• Investing in education and training systems
• Reducing the number of early school leavers
• Improving access and quality in tertiary education
• Encouraging lifelong learning
• Making education relevant to the labour market

• Combating social exclusion and poverty
• Integrating marginalised communities
• Promoting social enterprise and the jobs it brings
• Supporting community-led development initiatives
• Reducing discrimination in the labour market

• Modernising employment institutions
• Investing in public administrations to support reforms and governance
• Helping stakeholders to deliver employment, social and education policies