UBC’s Best Youth Guarantee Practices travel to Brussels by Matti Mäkelä | matti.makela@turku.fi Photo: City of Turku, Joonas Salo
This year’s main activity of the UBC Task Force Supporting Youth Employment and Well-Being has been organizing the UBC Conference Supporting Youth Employment and the Implementation of the Youth Guarantee in Brussels on 20 May.
work. In June Task Force will arrange a conference in Gdańsk together with the School to Work Flagship. The Conference concentrates on the following themes: early school leaving, NEETs and integration of newly arrived refugees and migrants.
The Conference concentrates on the implementation of the Youth Guarantee in the Baltic Sea Region and successful networking and the best practices of peer development. Task Force’s own work is presented thoroughly, of course, but participants will also hear about other networks, such as School to Work in Baltic Sea Region and StartNet in Central and Southern Europe. Best practices and some examples of successful innovation transfers are also part of the program.
Next fall the Task Force is planning to arrange two study visits. First one will take place in Turku, where program themes are attractiveness of the VET, integration of the migrants and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics). Second study visit in Malmö will be organized with the themes of basic skills and integration of the migrants. More information: https://www.s2wflagship.eu/
The event is brought to a climax by a panel discussion, which tries to find answers to some major questions, such as “What are the main challenges of the future?” and “How we are able to face and solve them?” The target groups of conference are policy makers, education and welfare specialists, NGOs, municipalities and public institutions. UBC will arrange a conference together with the Committee of the Regions. School to Work in Gdańsk During the first half of the year 2019 Task Force has continued collecting good practices and widening the national and BSR networks. One good example of the latter activity has been a newly started cooperation with the StartNet Net-
33 Photo: City of Turku, Jussi Vierimaa