Examining international evidence on successful initiatives
This study investigates international NEET rates and identifies successful initiatives that have helped reduce these rates. More specifically, it offers a comparative data analysis on trends in NEET rates (ages 15–24) across OECD countries between 2015 and 2023, and draws on case studies from Australia, Denmark, France, and the Netherlands.
Research article comparing the situation in the UK and France
Young women in the UK and France who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET) and economically inactive (EI) face significant challenges. This research suggests that these women often experience poverty, long-term welfare dependency, and poor living standards, and are largely isolated from the labour market and education.
Creative, non-formal learning in unconventional spaces
CREUS provided a new approach focusing on learning in ‘unconventional spaces’ to support the transversal skills of disadvantaged and unemployed young people (aged 16–24 years) to foster access to initial VET and labour markets.
In Italy, one of the main difficulties of the Youth Guarantee Programme in the course of the first phase was to reach and engage the most discouraged NEETs from social backgrounds characterised by high levels of poverty that affected their ability to enter and remain within training and education courses, to gain work experience and to find out about the possibilities offered by the Programme.
Achieving more effective transitions between education and work
This report examines the quality of the curriculum offer and careers guidance in place at key transition points from education into work, and looks at how it might be improved.
This research engaged with 315 young people (16-24) from across West Yorkshire to enable them to share their experience of Not being in Employment, Education or Training (NEET).
