Under the Youth Guarantee, EU Member States will ensure that all young people up to 25 years of age receive a good quality offer of employment, an apprenticeship or a traineeship or the chance to continue their education within four months of leaving school or becoming unemployed, said László Andor, European Commissioner responsible for Employment, Social …
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EC proposes to help jobless by improving efficiency of public employment services
Member States’ public employment services have a crucial role to play in helping the 26 million unemployed in Europe to get a job. This is why the European Commission has proposed a Decision to help public employment services to maximise their effectiveness through closer cooperation to better address the needs of the unemployed and businesses. …
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European Commission gives €77 million boost to high-tech manufacturing sector SMEs
The European Commission is contributing €77 million from its 7th R&D Framework Programme (FP7) to an innovation initiative for the manufacturing sector designed to help high-tech small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) exploit the potential of ICTs to help grow their businesses, the EC press service announced. The “I4MS” initiative (ICT for Manufacturing SMEs) will …
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PreziDay Europe! Not to miss!
First ever PreziDay Europe to take place in Hamburg, Germany on April 5th, 2013 From the start the innovative presentation tool “Prezi” was built around the idea of building a strong community. Prezi has since completely changed the way we give presentations today. Forget about the old, static slides, and say hello to the creative …
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European Skills Passport launched
The European Skills Passport, which helps people to assemble their skills and qualifications online, has now been launched by the European Commission. The Passport enables people to improve the presentation of their CVs by bringing together their educational and training certificates in one place, providing evidence for the qualifications and skills declared in the CV. …
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New EU support for youth in East Partnership region
The European Commission has adopted a programme to support cooperation with the Eastern Partnership countries in the field of youth. Youth exchanges, raising awareness, voluntary activities, trainings and networking opportunities will be supported to strengthen skills of young people and capacities of youth organisations in the Eastern Partnership countries. In total, more than 1,400 projects …
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EIB lends €60 million to Piaggio Group for projects carried out in Italy
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Piaggio signed a €60 million finance contract to support Piaggio Group’s research and development projects. The loan will be for a term of seven years and will be used for research and development projects to be carried out at Piaggio Group’s Italian sites. The investments planned by Piaggio over the period …
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Nobel prize for the EU
The EU has received the 2012 Nobel prize for advancing the causes of peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe. In its announcement on 12 October, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said its decision was based on the stabilising role the EU has played in transforming most of Europe from a continent of war to …
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Youth employment: EC proposes package of measures
Some 5.5 million young people on the labour market (more than 1 in 5) cannot find a job, and 7.5 million young people aged 15-24 are NEETs – not in employment, education or training. The economic cost of not integrating young people into labour market has been estimated by Eurofound at over €150 billion per year, or 1.2% of …
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