Effective policies to address youth unemployment require horizontal coordination – between different governmental departments - as well as vertical coordination - between priorities placed at the European, national and regional levels. Unfortunately there is still a dominant, bureaucratic culture of policy-making silos, with only a few interconnections between education, employment or social welfare. This problem seems to be more challenging in Southern European countries such as Greece or Italy. In northern countries such as Denmark or Sweden policy-design for younger generations results more often in integrated services deliverance such as one-stop-shops, improving youth job seeking and employability. Moreover, broadband European policies, such as the Youth Guarantee struggle to be translated into meaningful programs at the national or the regional levels, due to shortage of on-the-ground resources or a mismatch between policy priorities and young people’s needs and expectations. New models of governance, such as the integrated model approach, can help to improve youth employment policies horizontal and vertical coordination. What is integrated governance? How is this model implemented? And what are its challenges and opportunities? Answers to this and more on this episode.

(Contains excerpts of "Dream Come True": https://bit.ly/3iZdeMd , "Little Idea": https://bit.ly/3JW5LJV and "Think BIG": https://bit.ly/3J9Np7b , all by Scott Holmes Music, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 )