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In the framework of the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, the Commission proposes three EU headline targets to be achieved by the end of 2030 in the areas of employment, skills, and social protection. 

The European Commission’s 2024 Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) report provides a complete picture on EU labour market trends over the last year. Focusing on key topics such as boosting employment, social inclusion, competitiveness and economic growth, the report also sheds light on the topic of NEETs and early leaving from VET. 

This paper explores how different subgroups of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) are conditioned by institutional configurations across 26 European countries. 

This paper furthers a better understanding of the group of NEETs. It investigates whether young people not in employment, education or training identify with the common label of NEETs, despite difference in terms of key characteristics such as educational levels, gender and/or age. 

This publication focuses on the topics of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) in a rural setting, this edition brings together a number of articles dealing with this complex social challenge. Next to the economic dimension of the NEET issue, the authors investigate regional and partly bottom-up approaches involving local actors and their target populations.

Mobility programmes have shown to enhance learners' skills, autonomy, confidence, and open-mindedness. They also help learners define their future careers and life choices, with participants experiencing shorter transitions from education to employment. 

This assessment report provides a comprehensive overview of the European public employment services (PES) landscape. The report highlights trends in PES service delivery, strategic orientation as well as good practice examples from different EU Member States. 

The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) published its latest report on youth in 2024. The report provides a snapshot of young people’s situation in today’s Europe, focusing on educational and career paths, housing circumstances and family situation. 

Young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) are absent both from the labour market and the education sector, thus facing a high risk of professional, digital and social exclusion.

Following a long recovery from the economic crisis (2007–2013), young people in the EU proved to be more vulnerable to the effects of the restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This package is a tool to support the organization of training sessions on monitoring the performance and evaluating the results of YG schemes.

The aim of this guide is to offer easy-to-use tools to practitioners with the view to monitoring the performance of the measures included in the implementation plans of the national Youth Guarantee schemes.

The aim of this guide is to provide a template for the collection and analysis of monitoring data on key reforms, early intervention, outreach approaches, activation strategies and labour market integration measures that are part of the Youth Guarantee.

This comprehensive document consists of training methods, schedules, core modules and effective element combinations in a toolkit style. There are themes and overviews of current training best practice, and specific case studies and examples outlining effective training. This training material pack is a ‘ready to go’ template for NEET teachers and training organisations. This template is made up of teaching materials which are broken down into individual modules to be completed in a 5-day course.

At EU level NEETs (Not in Employment Education or Training) are considered one of the most problematic groups in the context of youth unemployment. The aim of the NET not NEET project was to enhance networking and co-operation amongst public and private actors.