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. 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.

Rui Marques, from IPAV Institute in Portugal, talks about integrated governance and which are its main advantages.

The director of this Portuguese NGO also reflects, in this talk, about the main challenges presented to the model, but also its opportunities.

The main takeaway from the talk is that new models of governance, such as the integrated model approach, can help to improve youth employment policies horizontal and vertical coordination.

(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 )