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Trainee Forum

How to improve the quality of traineeships in the EU? Trainees from inside and outside the European institutions met on 25 January in Brussels to discuss ways to improve the quality of traineeships in Europe.

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Youth Guarantee

The Youth Employment Package includes a proposed Commission Recommendation to EU countries on introducing the Youth Guarantee to ensure that all young people up to age 25 receive a quality offer of a job, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within four months of leaving formal education or becoming unemployed.

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European Job Days 2012

European Job Days are dynamic recruitment events that bring jobseekers and employers together.

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Your first EURES job

The European Commission is launching “Your first EURES job” (YFEJ) – a new targeted job mobility scheme to enhance job opportunities for young people on the European labour market and to encourage employers to fill bottleneck vacancies with a young, mobile workforce.

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Agenda for new skills and jobs

This initiative is how the Commission will help the EU reach its employment target for 2020: 75% of the working-age population (20-64 years) in work.

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European Work Councils

Restructuring, relocation and outsourcing have consequences on employment and working conditions.

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Moving in the EU - Your social security rights

Find out what happens to your healthcare, your pension and your unemployment rights when you move to another EU country.

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New Skills for New Jobs - EU

In this ever changing world, new kinds of jobs emerge every day.

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Youth unemployment

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Your first job abroad

Your First Job Abroad is an initiative designed to publicise how much more easily workers can move within Europe with the right help and advice from EURES, the European Jobs Network.

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Youth on the Move – strengthening support to Europe's young people

A new flagship initiative aimed at helping young people to gain the knowledge, skills and experience they need to make their first job a reality.

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G20 Employment Ministers – better skills and jobs, fighting poverty

The G20 has a crucial role to play.

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Balancing work and private life

Balancing work, family and private life is a daily challenge for millions of European men and women.

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European job days 2009

Every year, EURES teams throughout the EU organize hundreds of ‘European Job Days’ – the perfect place to recruit, to meet employers, to discuss your plans with a EURES Adviser or to find out more about how the EU can help you.

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Creating Green Jobs

One of the key features of the EU's response to the current economic crisis is to emphasise the job-creating potential of the green economy, both as part of the European Recovery Plan and the European Commission's proposals to tackle climate change.

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Tackling Europe's falling birth rate

Tackling Europe's falling birth rate: story of older workers in active ageing and people balancing work and private life in Europe.

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Better skills in the health sector

Training to improve skills in the health sector: example of nurses' diabetes training project in the Netherlands co-funded by the EU through the European Social Fund

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Facing up to a globalised world

Facing up to a globalised world: the EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) and the support it can provide to workers in Europe.

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EU Job Days

EU Job Days bring together jobseekers and employers: short clip on the EU's annual Job Days initiative to promote mobility for workers in Europe

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Adapting to economic change

Helping workers and businesses adapt to economic change: example of projects in Portugal (making globalisation positive; training business managers) co-funded by the EU through the European Social Fund.

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Better job opportunities

Improving job opportunities for people: example of training projects in Estonia (bus driver instructor learns interactive teaching methods; former pre-school teacher makes career change in sales management) co-funded by the EU through the European Social Fund.

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Women in business and a professional police force

Women in business and a professional police force: example of projects in Lithuania (helping women go into business or improve their existing business; providing training in English and computer skills to police officers) co-funded by the EU through the European Social Fund

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Older workers

Enabling workers over 50 to remain employable: example of training project in France (older workers learning new skills and sharing valuable professional experience with younger workers) co-funded by the EU through the European Social Fund

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European Job Days 2008

Jobseekers and employers can come together to find new opportunities, all with expert EURES Advisers present to offer advice and guidance.

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Helping people remain employable

Helping people remain employable: example of training project in the Czech Republic (Czech railways provide staff with re-training to adapt their skills to the evolving needs of the company) co-funded by the EU through the European Social Fund.

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Ageing population

The European Union is faced with the ageing of its population.

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Flexicurity pathways at the national level

The Mission has visited a number of Member States and discussed with them how they have been developing and implementing their flexicurity pathways at the national level.

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