Education

Promoting youth access to the labour market, strengthening trainee, internship and apprenticeship status
Youth unemployment is one of EuropeÂ’s most pressing problems.
The rate of unemployment amongst young people in...

Youth on the Move
The European Commission views Youth on the Move as a key element in its Europe 2020 Strategy.
It combines new and...

Tackling the issue of early school leaving
The percentage of early school leavers in the EU currently stands at 14.4%. Research commissioned by the Commission has...

The European dimension in sport
The latest version of the European treaties, the Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force in 2009, gives the EU new...

On the contribution of the European Institutions to the consolidation and progress of the Bologna process
Since the Bologna Process was launched in 1998, some headway has been made in boosting universities' accessibility for...

Modernising Europe's higher education systems
Within the EU, education is a competence of the Member States, but with around 19 million students and 4,000 universities in...

Recognising and promoting cross-border voluntary activities in the EU
Some 100 million Europeans, almost a quarter of EU citizens, engage in voluntary activities.
Most of them consider...

Horizon 2020 - EU investments for research and innovation in the field of energy
The Horizon 2020 programme (2013-2020) is the EU investment programme for research and innovation. It pursues...