Promotion of Labour Mobility in Europe #PLME16 | Page 3

Memo of European Commission from 8 November 2013 “EU measures to tackle youth
unemployment” state that “The potential of job mobility to help tackle youth unemployment
could be further developed: the workforce in employment in the EU is around 216.1 million
persons of which only 7.5 million (3.1%) are working in another Member State. EU surveys show
that young people are the group most likely to be mobile.” At the same time in some member
states there is constant shortage of professionals.

European Union offers number of mechanism to support labour mobility, especially youth
labour mobility, among which are EURES, "Youth Guarantee”, Erasmus+ and other
mechanism.

However, across Europe, it currently takes an average of 16 months for those out of work to
actually find a job and many young people never heard about those mechanisms and do not
know how to use it. Furthermore EU Youth Strategy states that “The discussion should focus
on the training, recognition of skills and mobility of youth workers and leaders, as well as on
the promotion of innovative solutions in youth work.”
These data are the reason why EUROSUD in collaboration with other project partner organized
Training course “Promotion of Labour Mobility in Europe” under Erasmus + programme.

The project gathered representatives of youth organisations and organisations working with
youth from Italy, Malta, Croatia, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Greece, Spain and was hosted in
Giovinazzo, metropolitan area of Bari, Italy from 09.04.2016. until 16.04.2016. by EUROSUD.

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Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union