Luxembourg
Strategies for youth employment
- Strategies for youth employment
- Yes
Youth employment strategy planned in the next 2 years
- Discussions within the government
- Yes
- Consultations with national-level stakeholders (e.g. employers’ and workers’ associations, youth councils, etc.)
- Yes
- A draft strategy already exists
- Yes
- 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)
- Yes
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- Yes
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- Yes
- Other, specify
- Yes
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
• Ministry of Education, Children and Youth (MENEJ) • Ministry of Labour (MT) • National Employment Agency (ADEM) • National Agency for Youth Information (ANIJ) Coordination of Financial Resources: The Ministry of Labour coordinates the implementation of the Youth Guarantee, incorporating input from employer and trade union representatives through structured tripartite meetings and formal consultations with social partners. The Ministry is also responsible for the shared management of the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) in Luxembourg, in collaboration with the European Commission. Under ESF+, funding supports both the Youth Guarantee and the European Child Guarantee, targeting youth inclusion, employment, and equal opportunities. To ensure coherence, all youth-related ESF+ actions are developed in close collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth (MENEJ).Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
• National Youth Action Plan 2022-2025 • Employment policies • European Social Fund plus (ESF+) • National implementation plan for the Youth GuaranteeCountries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Luxembourg has defined national goals and objectives to promote youth employment both within its broader youth strategy and through the implementation of the Youth Guarantee and ESF+ programme. 1. National Youth Action Plan (to 2025): This plan outlines strategic objectives aimed at enhancing youth well-being across three main areas: • Promoting well-being at school; • Supporting well-being within youth work and socio-educational structures; • Empowering youth voice and fostering partnerships through stronger networking among stakeholders. 2. Youth Guarantee Implementation Plan Luxembourg aligns with the EU Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013, which ensures that all young people under 25 receive a quality offer of employment, continued education, apprenticeship, or traineeship within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education. Key national objectives include: • Facilitating smooth transitions into employment; • Providing targeted support to vulnerable youth facing multiple barriers to labor market entry; • Ensuring long-term stable employment and reducing the risk of precarity. 3. European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) 2021–2027: Under Specific Objective ESO4.1, ESF+ in Luxembourg aims to: • Improve access to employment and activation measures for all jobseekers, with a particular focus on young people, including through the implementation of the Youth Guarantee.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
• Ensure that every young person under the age of 25 is offered a quality opportunity - either employment, continued education, vocational training, or a traineeship - within four months of losing their job or leaving formal education, in line with the EU Youth Guarantee Recommendation. • Ensure that approximately 75% of the youth are satisfactorily served by the programme by having their needs met through access to quality employment, education, training, or traineeship opportunities. • Under the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), Luxembourg sets specific objectives for young jobseekers and unemployed youth aimed at combating youth unemployment through targeted, inclusive, and proactive measures.Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- Yes
- Enterprise Development
- Yes
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- Yes
- Labour Law and Legislation
- Yes
- Labour Market Policies
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- Yes
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)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Fully involved
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Fully involved
- 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)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Fully involved
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Fully involved
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- No
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Yes
- Consulted
- Yes
- Informed
- Yes
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
2025: Tableau 2.2 : Principales organisations qui soutiennent et appliquent le programme relatif à la Garantie pour la Jeunesse p. 42. https://gouvernement.lu/dam-assets/fr/actualites/communiques/2014/06-juin/26-garantie/plan.pdf ESF+ Les acteurs impliqués dans les projets à destination des jeunes chômeurs et inactifs seront notamment le Ministère du Travail et de l’Emploi et son Agence pour le développement de l’emploi mais aussi les services de la jeunesse et ou encore la Maison de l’Orientation ainsi que des associations, des acteurs privés, des écoles, des universités et des chambres professionnelles. p. 29. https://fonds-europeens.public.lu/dam-assets/publications/fse/documents-officiels/programme-fse-version-11.pdf ________ 2024: Table 2.2: Main organisations supporting and implementing the Youth Guarantee programme p. 42. https://gouvernement.lu/dam-assets/fr/actualites/communiques/2014/06-juin/26-garantie/plan.pdf ESF+ The players involved in projects aimed at unemployed and inactive young people will include the Ministry of Labour and Employment and its Employment Development Agency, as well as youth services and the Maison de l'Orientation, associations, private players, schools, universities and professional chambers. p. 29. https://fonds-europeens.public.lu/dam-assets/publications/fse/documents-officiels/programme-fse-version-11.pdf --- - Partnership between the public employment service (ADEM) and the Union des entreprises luxembourgeoises (UEL) to promote the professional integration of young jobseekers - Institutionalised cooperation between ADEM (vocational guidance service) and the professional chambers in the context of apprenticeships for young people and young adults - Close cooperation between ADEM and the National Youth Service (SNJ) and local youth organisations in the implementation of the Youth Guarantee - Cooperation between ADEM and public and private training organisations to support vocational training for young jobseekers - Pooling of competences in the field of youth guidance in the Guidance CentreInclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- Yes
- NEETs
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- No
- Other (please specify)
- No
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
The European Union, through the European Social Fund (2014-2020) or the ESF+ (2021-2027), supports active employment policies, including training and professional integration measures for young people (students, employees, job seekers/NEETs).