Road to Porto: Delivering Social Rights for Young People

How to ensure youth & employment policies reach their final ‘destination’ under the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan

Thursday, May 6th from 10.00 – 11.30 AM

Dear members, friends and partners,

The youth organisation of the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions, ‘CESI Youth’, in collaboration with ‘StartNet – network transition education to work’, kindly invite you to participate in a 90 minutes online event on the 6th of May from 10.00-11.30 AM on:

Road to Porto: Delivering Social Rights for Young People
How to ensure that youth & employment policies reach their final ‘destination’ under the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan

The Action Plan on the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights comes at a crucial moment when the fight against youth unemployment and precariousness is more important than ever.

Despite continuous efforts to decrease the rate of NEETs (young people not in employment, education or training), youth unemployment is currently ramping up again in the EU, largely due to the COVID-19´s economic fallout.
Despite the commitments to readdress the EU’s policies on internships and the Reinforced Youth Guarantee, quality jobs as well as appropriate education and training opportunities are still out of sight for too many young people in Europe.
How can we enable young people to build their future and to contribute to an inclusive and sustainable recovery, through socially fair green and digital transitions? How can we ensure access to quality education and training, apprenticeships and career guidance for all? And how can we protect young people from exploitation in the labour market and inadequate social protection?
The EU´s and its Member States´ delivery on the European Pillar of Social Rights is essential, with the Social Summit in Porto on 7 May and the Action Plan being milestones on this road.

Young people and youth organisations should not only be passengers, but also drivers of the process. And that is the objective of this interactive online event: to engage policymakers, practitioners, experts, yet most importantly young people themselves. Only they can ensure that a strong youth perspective lies at the heart of the Social Summit deliberations and of national strategies to deliver on the Action Plan.

Please register for the event below.

The event is co-financed with funds of the European Union.

With kindest regards,
CESI Youth and StartNet

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In the context of the online meeting we welcome input for EU policy makers, representatives of national trade unions and youth organisations but also experts and practitioners on the above mentioned topics. The draft agenda will be shared closer to the event.

Agenda

09:50 – 10:00     Log-in & youth video testimonials

Session 1: Youth, the European Pillar of Social Rights & Social Summit – Setting the stage

Moderation: Gesa Spätling – Goethe-Institut / StartNet

10:00 – 10:05     Opening – Matthäus Fandrejewski – CESI Youth representative

10:05 – 10:15     Stan Van Alphen – European Commission

10:15 – 10:20     Panagiotis Chatzimichail – European Youth Forum

10:20 – 10:30     Kim van Sparrentak – Member of the European Parliament

10:30 – 10:40      Engagement via Slid.do

Session 2: Delivering Social Rights to young people in Europe – Discussion, questions & answers

Moderation: Matthäus Fandrejewski

10:40    João Paulo Rebelo – Secretary of State of Youth and Sport & European Youth Ambassador for the event to the Social Summit

10:50    Youth video testimonials & practitioner’s comments

João Pedro Videira – Portuguese Youth Council

Dolores Kores – Director Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Youth

Patrik Bole – Slovenian Youth Council

Discussion, questions & answers

11:25    Closing – Jan Wilker – Goethe-Institut / StartNet

João Paulo Rebelo – Secretary of State of Youth and Sport & European Youth Ambassador for the event to the Social Summit

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