Germany
Strategies for youth employment
- Strategies for youth employment
- Yes
Youth employment strategy planned in the next 2 years
- Discussions within the government
- No
- Consultations with national-level stakeholders (e.g. employers’ and workers’ associations, youth councils, etc.)
- No
- A draft strategy already exists
- No
- Other (please specify)
- Yes
Countries with national action plans for youth employment
- Monitoring framework (timeline and activity/outcome indicators, e.g. youth labour market indicators)
- No
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- No
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- No
- Other, specify
- No
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- No
Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
The Federal Government's Skilled Labour Strategy 2021-2025Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
The Federal Government's Skilled Labour Strategy 2021-2025Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- No
Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- No
- Enterprise Development
- No
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- No
- Labour Law and Legislation
- Yes
- Labour Market Policies
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Social partners' inclusion in the youth employment strategy
- Workers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Fully involved
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Consulted
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Consulted
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Consulted
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- No
- Employers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Fully involved
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Consulted
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Consulted
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Consulted
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- No
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- No
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- No
- Consulted
- No
- Informed
- No
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
2025: Alliance for Initial and Further Training "Allianz für Aus- und Weiterbildung" is a partnership of different stakeholders on the training and labour market - and thus also including the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the Federal Employment Agency. The Alliance pursues the goal of helping mostly all young people to achieve a qualified vocational qualification and strengthening the dual vocational training system. The joint initiative of the Federal Government, the Länder and the Federal Employment Agency “Abschluss und Anschluss - Bildungsketten bis zum Ausbildungsabschluss” (Graduation and Continuation - Education Chains Up to Vocational Training Qualification - Education Chains Initiative) aims to recognize the potential of young people and help them make their future career choices early on and in an action-oriented manner. The Initiative focuses on better aligning the instruments of the Federal Government and the Länder in order to prevent support gaps and double funding. In the youth employment agencies the agencies providing social benefits under Books II, III and VIII of the Social Code and, partly also the administrations of schools, work together to accompany and support young people during their transition from school to work. Through the cooperation of the three social benefit agencies in the youth employment agencies young people receive support from a single source. ______________________ 2024: Alliance for Initial and Further Training "Allianz für Aus- und Weiterbildung" is a partnership of different stakeholders on the training and labour market - and thus also including the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the Federal Employment Agency. The Alliance pursues the goal of helping mostly all young people to achieve a qualified vocational qualification and strengthening the dual vocational training system. The joint initiative of the Federal Government, the Länder and the Federal Employment Agency “Abschluss und Anschluss - Bildungsketten bis zum Ausbildungsabschluss” (Graduation and Continuation - Education Chains Up to Vocational Training Qualification - Education Chains Initiative) aims to recognize the potential of young people and help them make their future career choices early on and in an action-oriented manner. The Initiative focuses on better aligning the instruments of the Federal Government and the Länder in order to prevent support gaps and double funding. In the youth employment agencies the agencies providing social benefits under Books II, III and VIII of the Social Code and, partly also the administrations of schools, work together to accompany and support young people during their transition from school to work. Through the cooperation of the three social benefit agencies in the youth employment agencies young people receive support from a single source. _____________________ 2023: Germany has various alliances that all share the goal of helping young people successfully transition from school to vocational training or academic study and subsequently into employment. In particular: • The establishment of youth employment agencies • The Alliance for Initial and Further Training • The Educational Chains Leading to Vocational Qualifications initiative As Germany is a federal state, benefits and services for young people are provided both by the Federal Government and by the Länder and local authorities. Vocational integration benefits and services are provided on the basis of the German Social Code (Sozialgesezbuch/SGB) – Book II (Basic Security Benefits for Job Seekers), Book III (Employment Promotion) and Book VIII (Youth Welfare) – and are delivered by various agencies (job centres, employment agencies and youth welfare offices). Inter-agency coordination is necessary to ensure that young people receive the support they need. This is to avoid duplication of effort and gaps in support. The three social service providers cooperate in youth employment agencies in order to provide young people with one-stop support. This represents true added value that can provide young people with decisive help in entering employment. Other key partners for youth employment agencies are schools, as it often already becomes evident at school which young people need support in the transition from school to employment. Close collaboration enables schools to facilitate access to youth employment agencies. The Alliance for Initial and Further Training is a cooperation between the Federal Government, industry, unions, the Länder and the Federal Employment Agency. The aim is to strengthen vocational training, which is a central pillar in fulfilment of the Youth Guarantee. This close cooperation ensures that training regulations are updated in line with employers’ needs. The new agreement of the Alliance for Initial and Further Training is due to be signed on the 20th August 2019. The initiative "Graduation and continuation – Education chains up to the vocational training qualification” embodies the shared responsibility of the Federal Government, the Länder and the Federal Employment Agency for successful transition from school to employment. The initiative centres around the establishment of agreements between the Federal Government, the Länder and the Federal Employment Agency to coordinate their respective support programmes in Länder-level strategies. It supports adolescents in finishing school, finding an apprenticeship placement and successfully completing their vocational education and training. Agreements have been concluded with 13 countries, which are valid until the end of 2020. An extension and further development of the Education Chains initiative beyond 2020 is being prepared.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- Yes
- NEETs
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
The European Social Fund (ESF) supports federal and Länder programmes, e.g.: The programme “Career Entry Support” seeks to get young people into vocational training. The aims of the individual programme steps are to help individuals earn a school-leaving qualification, improve their career orientation or enter a vocational training relationship that remains stable for the duration of training. The career start mentors provide the young persons with continuous, individual support from school through to the vocational training stage. If the individual does not manage to successfully transition from school to vocational training, coaching is provided in the transitional field for up to 24 months. The programme “Encouraging Youth in the Neighbourhood” supports young people aged 12 to 26 in urban neighbourhoods and rural districts who lack prospects for the future and are particularly hard to reach with other programmes. This includes, for example, truants, young people who have dropped out of labour market integration.