EU Employment and Skills

📉 The EU unemployment rate was 6.0% in September 2025, stable compared with August 2025 and up from 5.9% in September 2024. Countries with the lowest unemployment rates: 🇲🇹 Malta: 3.0% 🇨🇿 Czechia 3.0% 🇸🇮 Slovenia 3.1% Explore more detailed insights by Eurostat → https://lnkd.in/dfEcaXDE

🎬 Global Careers Month 2025 – Empowering People Through Career Guidance 🗓️ 5 November 2025, 14:00 CET From 5 to 26 November 2025, we will join efforts with Cedefop, European Training Foundation, International Labour Office, OECD - OCDE, UNESCO, and the The World Bank, to highlight the importance of high-quality career guidance throughout life. As part of the #UnionOfSkills, strengthening access to guidance empowers people to navigate transitions confidently, upskill and reskill when needed, and make informed decisions about their futures. Join us at the Opening Ceremony to discover how guidance policies and services contribute to a competitive and inclusive Europe. #GlobalCareersMonth2025 #GlobalCommunity

The green and digital transitions are already reshaping how we live and work 🌱 To help you make the most of it, the EU created a five-year plan: the European Skills Agenda (2020 - 2025). The Agenda helps: ✅ Strengthen sustainable competitiveness ✅ Ensure social fairness ✅ Build resilience to crises #MakeItWork #EUSkillsAgenda

#PactforSkills October Spotlight: Regional Skills Partnerships in the Basque Country and Greece! 🏥 #ZainLab brings together 80+ organisations to improve skills, train professionals and create quality jobs in long-term care. 🌱 Thessaly empowers workers through upskilling in smart agriculture, renewable energy, and digital innovation, driving a resilient and future-ready regional economy. Regional Skills Partnerships turn EU ambitions into local action, with tailored training, stronger communities, and future-ready jobs.

A home is warmth and dignity 🏘 Yet, too many Europeans struggle to pay the rent or buy a decent house. Through #NextGenerationEU, Europe is investing €19.6 billion in affordable housing, giving more people a place to call home 💙 This year, we will present the first European Affordable Housing Plan - for the first time, we take a coordinated approach to the housing challenge so that affordable housing becomes a basic right for all, not a privilege for a few. Watch the stories of change from Lisbon 🇵🇹 ↓

We have proposed €8.5 million to support 5,800 workers in Sweden who lost their jobs due to the bankruptcy of Northvolt, a battery manufacturer. The company's bankruptcy in March 2025 resulted in nearly 6,500 job losses. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) will finance measures to help workers rejoin the labour market, including: 👩💼 Career counseling and guidance 📖 Education and training 🛍️ Support for starting their own businesses    Since 2007, the Fund has intervened in 185 cases, allocating €719 million helping more than 175,000 people in 20 EU countries. #EUFunds 

A milestone decade for apprenticeships across Europe and beyond 💪 The 10th European Alliance for Apprenticeships (EAfA) - European Training Foundation Seminar in Podgorica celebrated ten years of collaboration and innovation in strengthening #apprenticeship systems. With 84 participants from 29 countries, the event highlighted progress in: ☑️ Digital and green transitions in work-based learning ☑️ Inclusive and sustainable apprenticeship models ☑️ Expanding the EAfA family, with members from Kosovo and Ukraine joining Watch the video for more insights ↓ #ApprenEU

🏃♀️ Could exercise help you land a new job? 🤔 In this new Euronews episode of #MakeItWork, we try a new way to connect workers and recruiters.  💼 Meet Sonia, a French cross-border worker in Strasbourg, as she swaps her CV for sneakers, and discovers a new way to make professional connections.  Did you know that 1.8 million people in the EU are cross-border workers like Sonia? They live in one country and work in another. The EU's Freedom of Movement helps them adapt their education and experience to different workplace requirements.  📊 To facilitate their movement, we created the European Employment Services, or EURES, to help people find jobs and country-specific information.  💸 To support their endeavors,1.7 million euros from #EUFunds is being invested to promote fair labour mobility and social inclusion.  📄 Plus, with tools like #Europass, workers can easily showcase their skills and qualifications to potential employers.  🌟Looking ahead, the 2026 #FairLabourMobility package will strengthen the European Labour Authority, combat worker exploitation, and introduce a European Social Security pass, making it even easier for workers to move freely and find work across the EU.  Watch now and learn how exercise can help you connect with recruiters and land your dream job. → https://lnkd.in/dsQeXkFu

Today is the International Day of Care and Support. 👵 ‘We cannot leave older people behind – it’s vital to help them see and feel life’s opportunities.’ That’s Cristina Urda, a psychologist who worked on the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) funded community project for older people, Geras. Projects like Geras in Romania and Home Care in Bulgaria were able to show how EU funding to keep older people active and connected led to real benefits for the areas in which they operated. 🤝 And the effects are lasting. Even though both projects are technically over, the communities they’ve built have outgrown their original limits. #InternationalDayOfCareAndSupport #MakeItWork #EUFunds

75% of Europeans recognise #SocialEconomy as important for the well-being of society in their country 🌱 A new #Eurobarometer published today shows that Europeans embrace the social economy and call for more support. 93% of Europeans think that businesses should be guided by social economy values: 🌍 Focusing on social and environmental goals 💰 Redistributing profits 🤝 Operating with democratic governance structures These findings from the survey highlight a widespread public support for inclusive, sustainable, and participatory economic models in the EU.