Youth Employment Initiative – Introducing a guarantee for young people, improving the quality of internships, launching European Alliance for apprenticeship and transforming EURES. The Youth Guarantee – Ensures that all young people under 25 get a concrete offer within 4 months of them leaving formal education or becoming unemployed. EURES – European Employment Services – free movement of workers within European Economics Area and Switzerland ERASMUS plus – Support Programme countries effort to efficiently use the potential od Europe’s human and social capital 6 Active Labour Market Policy in CR
Youth Guarantee Implementation Programme The text of the Youth Guarantee Implementation Programme has become a key strategic document of the Czech Republic for the support of young people in the labour market. With this programme the Czech government guarantees to offer a job opportunity, further education, training or internship to every young person under 25 years within 4 months after becoming unemployed, completing formal education or dropping out of the formal education system. Measures of the program have the character of both prevention, particularly through the development of career counselling, and remedy, facilitating the entry of young people into the labour market. The first solution, which could help with the problem of young unemployment people is special programme in Czech Republic, which is called Youth Employment Initiative. This programme is primary targets on young people without job, education or requalification in the regions with the highest percentage of young unemployment people (25 %). This Initiative is financed by European Union and in 2015 the Czech Republic received aroud 13 millions eur. The Initiative includes requalification’s programmes, tax concessions for companies, which hire young people and also consulting for schools and universities with cooperation with labour offices. 31