Youth empowerment

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🗓️ 5 April 2019

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The European Union is engaged in helping Member States address young people's needs and aspirations through a youth strategy. The strategy is backed by a number of funding programmes, most notably the Youth Employment Initiative, Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps and it is best known for the mobility opportunities it has created. Future challenges include reaching a wider spectrum of young people, especially those from disadvantaged and hard-to-reach groups, making the results of the consultative process, known as structured dialogue, more tangible, and improving synergies between policy areas for greater effectiveness.
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0:00.0	Want to know what Europe does for you?
0:04.0	Welcome to the European Parliamentary Research Service podcast on Youth Empowerment.
0:08.0	Young people are the future of Europe.
0:11.0	They're doctors, teachers, artists, scientists and politicians of the future.
0:16.0	So the European Union is helping member states address young people's challenges and needs
0:20.0	to ensure they have the best
0:21.2	chances to succeed in life. Want to know more? Stay with us.
0:27.2	The European continent is aging and the proportion of young people aged 15 to 29 is declining.
0:33.7	Today they account for 17% of the population compared to over 19% in 2006.
0:39.7	On the whole, young people are better educated than older adults and youth unemployment rates have begun to decrease.
0:46.2	However, they are still more exposed to poverty and social exclusion and temporary contracts and financial insecurity make it very difficult for the vast majority of them to leave the nest.
0:56.0	They smoke less, drink less and drive more safely than previous generations, but obesity due to bad eating habits and lack of physical exercise is still an issue.
1:05.1	Young people are also less likely to vote or stand for election than older adults. But in recent years, there has been a
1:11.9	slight increase in interest in politics, political action and volunteering. Furthermore, almost
1:17.3	eight in 10 young Europeans identify themselves as European citizens. And in a 2018 survey,
1:23.4	they placed education, skills and the environment at the top of their priorities for EU action.
1:28.3	So what is the European Union doing for them?
1:30.5	Well, the European Union is engaged in helping member states address young people's needs and aspirations through a youth strategy which covers areas such as employment, entrepreneurship, social inclusion, participation, education, training, health, well-being, voluntary activities,
1:45.5	the global dimension, creativity and culture.
1:48.2	To finance all these actions aimed at promoting youth empowerment, the EU draws upon a number
1:52.7	of funding programmes that are specifically focused on them.
1:55.8	Stay with us and we'll review some of the most important.
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