CoP Employment, Education and Skills

BACKGROUND

Transnational cooperation on the implementation of the European Social Fund (ESF) has a long-standing and successful history. As the programming period (2014 – 2020) came to end the new ESF+ aims to make EU funding more flexible, simple and effective by combining the ESF, the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), the Fund for European Aid to the most Deprived (FEAD), the Employment and Social Innovation Programme (EaSI) and the EU Health Programme. Four CoPs (Communities of Practice) helped ensuring learning and exchange within the ESF Transnational Cooperation Platform, one of which was the CoP Employment, Education and Skills. This CoP addressed three sub-themes, which build on some of the previous Thematic Networks related to employment, youth and learning and skills:

• Integration into employment of young disadvantaged NEETs, including through youth mobility actions;
• Long-term unemployment (LTU) and employability of inactive persons;
• Education and training, including transitions towards employment and synergies between funding instrument.

Anette Scoppetta acted as thematic expert of the CoP Employment, Education and Skills.