
The Youth Guarantee is the flagship policy framework aiming at reducing the share of NEETs in the European Union. This EU initiative has recently been relaunched. The analysis of the Youth Guarantee implementation at the national level shows that the program has contributed to reduce the number of young people not in employment, nor in education and training by about about 3 percentual points, between 2011 and 2019. However, the results show contrasts between North and South and East and West countries, rural and urban areas and different NEETs profiles. In 2021, Rural NEET Youth Network published a special issue entitled "Strategies, policies, programs and projects for rural NEETs”. How can policies for NEETs be improved at the national level? Is there enough knowledge to inform these improvements? And how can decision-making be tailored to rural NEETs?
(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 )