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Euroguidance Insight

In this issue
October 2012

► Cedefop Seminar in Thessaloniki: A culture of welcome is necessary
Short news
► Interview with Anthony Watts on economic benefits of career guidance

New guidance institution ► Cross Border Seminar in Bled: Career management skills
Hamburg opened a youth career
guidance agency or Jugendbe- ► Interview with Lyn Barham on career guidance to older adults
rufsagentur - JBA) in September
2012. The JBA assists young peo-
ple in finding useful formation
and work. Guidance counsellors Migrants in the EU labour market –
of the local Agency of Employ-
ment will work together with excluded, exploited or active contributors?
staff from different government-
tal institutions. Hamburg is the “Empowering vulnerable adults to tackle labour market challenges”, was the
first federal state (Bundesland) issue debated on a Cedefop seminar in Thessaloniki which took place in June
to have set up a JBA. Further re-
gions are set to follow. The JBA in 2012. The conclusion of the seminar was that it is vital for Europe’s competiti-
Hamburg is the result of an veness within a global economy to abolish obstacles preventing migrants and
agreement between the Federal other vulnerable groups from participating in Europe’s labour markets.
Ministry for Labour and Social
Affairs, or Bundesministerium für The global crisis hit Europe maybe wor- country. The overall employment rate

Arbeit und Soziales and the se than any other world region, espe- of non-EU citizens living in the EU27
Federal Agency of Employment cially since it is coinciding with an was only 55.2 % in 2010 (EU citizens:
(which is also the Euroguidance
Centre Germany) or Bundesagen- imminent demographic change, lower 64.1%). In order to include this ethnic
tur für Arbeit in 2010. The aim is average birth rates and an increasing group into the European labour mar-
to reduce youth unemployment migration rate. This alone requires kets, various reforms will be necessa-
by furthering young people’s great efforts to encounter the ry, for instance addressing future skill
vocational integration. problem. And as if that were not needs through more and better edu-

IAEVG Conference in Mannheim enough, the EU aims at achieving an cation and training, promoting a life-
Euroguidance Germany organi- employment rate of 75% by 2020 cycle approach to active aging as well
sed a Euroguidance stand at this despite the currently prevailing high as tackling labour market segmen-
year’s conference of the Interna- unemployment rates. This ambitious tation and segregation.
tional Association for Educational goal can only be reached by creating
and Vocational Guidance (IAEVG)
which took place at the Institute new jobs and by increasing labour Migrants should be seen as a resource
of Higher Education of the Feder- market participation of vulnerable and diversity as an asset to working
al Agency of Employment (Hoch- groups. life. The EU27 should aim at fostering a
schule der Bundesagentur für Ar- culture of welcome, which is open,
beit – HdBA) in Mannheim. Euro- In 2010, 32.4 million foreigners were receptive and friendly to migrants. As
guidance centres from other EU
countries contributed to the living in the EU member states; out of the social, economic and civic integra-
stand with promotional items. these 12.3 million were EU27 nationals tion of these groups is a highly, com-
living in another member state 20.1 plex issue, closer policy cooperation
Clarissa Cordroch/Euroguidance million were citizens from a non-EU and coordination involving all relevant
Germany