Young people are the most exposed to the effects of the crisis as they postpone educational/professional development and the transition to the adulthood. Public policies have a bigger effectiveness if they are more complementary through a high level of coherence/comprehensiveness of the implemented measures. This aim concerns the integration of LLL with social and labour policies. Youth social mobility demands policies able to affect different phases accompanying youth life cycles. The implementation of such policies/measures depends on multiple actors, while their coherence depends on the multilevel governance, whose synthesis is at the regional/local level. In many EU Countries, Regions play a role in programming, promoting policies at local level on VET and employment, whose success is the basis for youth social mobility and for them going one step ahead. OSA wants to reinforce cooperation among EU Regional/Local Governments via the OMC and compare different models of integrated youth policies as well as encourage common interventions/actions. Recognition about the contribution Regions, social parties can give to the implementation of the EU Strategy in LLL is at the basis of the OSA proposal that addresses sectors concerned by the Lisbon Strategy where regional/local actors often have political competences and considerable resources. This is why in OSA a group of Regional Governments is committed to identify youth policies that, in the framework of coherent and comprehensive LLL, affect the life cycle of citizens aged 16-32. OSA will focus on policies/measures aiming at supporting labour market and social inclusion. Strategies/policies/measures of OSA Regions will be evaluated and selected for learning purposes and, if feasible, for transfer as well. OSA main outputs will consist of Regional Reports (EN) and the Comparative Report (EN) where LLL youth policies/strategies as they are implemented on a regional/local level will be described/validated/analysed in a comparative perspective along with their progress/results achieved in OSA territories. That will contribute to show how regional LLL policies concerning youth can support the implementation of Youth on the move strategy.Outputs will be gathered into www.mutual-learning.eu supplying a support web service for institutions and their mutual learning and transfer. Impact will be in terms of additional Regions that will learn about the OSA LLL youth strategies and further institutions benefitting from them in terms of getting into their regional systems.
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Education and training\Life long learning (2007-2013)\POLICY CO-OPERATION AND INNOVATION IN LIFELONG LEARNING (KEY ACTIVITY 1)\Transnational cooperation on lifelong learning strategies