Quality education for quality jobs
The present report is aimed at providing a general overview of the education/training, labour market and social situation of young people in Europe. It provides an overview of European education and training, including major developments, and summarises the results of a survey conducted among ETUC affiliates between September and November 2011. This survey investigated the social partners' perspectives on youth transitions and had three main objectives: (1) to gauge the extent to which trade unions were aware of and involved in youth transitions from school to work; (ii) to raise the topical issues of traineeships and get the social partners' points of view; (iii) to explore the most important concerns and to promote exchange of good practices on the occasion of the ETUC Youth Committee Conference (Krakow 2011).