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Low qualifications, disengagement from education and training and long-term unemployment are interconnected phenomena and tend to cumulate throughout a person’s life.

This report was produced on the basis of 28 ‘Descriptions of Practices on outreach and activation of NEETs’ submitted in October 2014 by 25 PES in 23 countries.

The aim of this report is to highlight existing practices, lessons learned, challenges and success factors on improving outreach to NEETs.

This seminar was hosted by the Croatian Ministry of Labour and Pension System and brought together representatives from national ministries, public employment services (PES), non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and youth organisations from the host country (Croatia) and 16 Member States.

This paper was commissioned by the ILO’s Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia in October 2015 with the aim of mapping the main initiatives and the lessons learnt from the implementation of outreach initiatives that targeted discouraged and other inactive young people.

This report examines the NEET indicator and uses variables captured routinely by the EU Labour Force Survey to disaggregate the NEET population into seven subgroups. It provides an analysis based on the data available for each subgroup and describes the composition and characteristics of Europe’s NEET population at both EU28 level and in each Member State.

The website summarizes Eurofound's extensive research on NEETs

This brief reviews the strategies to support unemployed young people in finding work. It is based on the analysis of evidence of similar strategies that have been put in place by EU countries over the past two decades.

This brief analyses the outreach approaches and strategies that target young people who are inactive with the objective of supporting them in entering the labour market or re-engaging in education and training activities. In particular, it explores the practices implemented through national YG schemes in support of inactive young people to re-enter the labour market or return to education and training.

This brief reviews the implementation of early intervention measures within national YG plans and anaylses the interactions between prevention and curative policies and their effectiveness in addressing the difficulties young people face at different stages in the life-course.