Youth

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Youth Baltic Sea States Subregional
Cooperation
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European Youth Pact
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The Youth Pact aims

• to improve the education, training, mobility,
  vocational integration and social inclusion of
  young Europeans, ()

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Why do we need a Youth Pact?

• Target group youth becomes more important in
  the frame of the Lisbon strategy
• Solve the problems of youth unemployment
• And of the of the aging society

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3 lines of action

• Employment, integration and social advancement
• Education, training and mobility
• Reconciliation of working life and family life

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What should WE do?

• improve the situation of disadvantaged young
  people
• decrease the number of pupils without any school
  exam
• Lower the youth unemployment
• increase the mobility of young people
• improve the access to high quality child care

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Criticism

• Focusing to much on economical growth, no
  sustainability and social aspects
• Quantity, no quality
• The youth NGOs did not get the chance to
  participate in the development
• Important topics are missing, e.g. ecological
  aspects participation culture
• No extra funding for activities

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Youth meeting at the BSSSC Conference

• Invitation to the prep-meeting by the Secretariat
  for Youth of Western Pomerania
• 35 young people form 8 countries, representing
  youth NGOs of the regional level
• Opportunity to meet and exchange experiences
• Including youth aspects in the resolution
• Learn about cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region

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Youth network in BSSSC

• Outcome of the last BSSSC annual conference in
  Malmö, Sweden
• One young person and one youth coordinator from
  each country
• 2 young people are send to the board as observers
• Bring up youth issues to the BSSSC board

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We want to

• Take part in the decision making of the BSSSC
• Give the young people the opportunity to meet
  each other to build up a strong network for the
  future
• Implement the aims of the Youth Pact together
  with the regional governments of our Baltic Sea
  Region

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Thanks to the organizers