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Today, the United Nations Focal Point on Youth released the 2011 World Youth Report, which explores the transition of young people from education and training into the labour market. The European Youth Forum was actively involved in discussing the concept and submitting input for the Report.
This year’s World Youth Report is special for a number of reasons. For the first time, it is based on the young people themselves, through youth representatives who contributed their thoughts and ideas on an e-discussion. These young people shared experiences and recommendations for preparing for, entering, and remaining active in the workforce, structured through weekly topics that now represent each chapter of the Report. This is also the first time that the World Youth Report has been interactive, allowing readers to engage in youth employment issues online.
 Today, the United Nations Focal Point on Youth released the 2011 World Youth Report, which explores the transition of young people from education and training into the labour market. The report found that young people are most worried about the lack of job opportunities, insufficient government investment, and the quality and relevance of their education. They feel that some higher education is "overly theoretical" rather than giving them practical skills that are vital to getting hired in the work force. Young people also often feel that they are the last to be hired, and the first to be dismissed creating many instabilities in the workplace.
Not all of the report is as pessimistic. The world's youth are hopeful that new technologies, the "green" industry, and entrepreneurship will provide opportunities for jobs in the future. “Today we have the largest generation of young people the world has ever known,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the report’s introduction. "We need to pull the UN system together like never before to support a new social contract of job-rich economic growth. Let us start with young people.”
This year's World Youth Report is special because for the first time, the findings are straight from youth themselves, who were able to contribute their thoughts, ideas and experiences on an online platform using social media. In this, the European Youth Forum was actively involved in discussing the concept and submitting input for the report.
Read the report online today!
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 Après sa coopération fructueuse avec Eurodesk, le Forum européen de la Jeunesse est ravi d'annoncer que les pages tant attendues sur le dialogue structuré avec les jeunes sont dorénavant disponibles sur le Portail européen de la Jeunesse.
Divisée en deux volets, la nouvelle page européenne fournit des liens aux derniers résultats politiques du processus, tandis que les pages nationales permettent aux jeunes et aux parties prenantes d'accéder aux rapports de consultation de leurs pays et de contacter leurs groupes de travail nationaux. Arrivé à son second cycle de 18 mois, le dialogue structuré est un espace qui permet aux jeunes et aux décideurs de discuter de politique jeunesse de l'UE et de l'alimenter, tant au niveau national qu'européen. La priorité générale du cycle actuel est la participation des jeunes à la vie démocratique; la présidence danoise se concentre actuellement sur les aspects créativité et innovation dans ce domaine.
Pour plus d'informations, consultez notre page sur le Dialogue structuré.
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