EU strategy for youth – investing and empowering

The Commission presents this working document in which it proposes a series of European Union indicators on youth.

It should be noted that, in 2009, the Commission had put forward an EU strategy for Youth based on the open method of coordination (please refer to summary of the non-legislative initial document dated 27/04/2009 in this procedure file). In that document, the Commission proposed creating a working group to discuss possible indicators for priorities in relation to youth participation, volunteering activities, creativity and youth and the world, as well as for young people who left school, who are unemployed or are not following training courses.

The Commission therefore established an ad hoc group of experts responsible for defining these indicators, which were determined in January 2010. This document provides an overview of the work and the results of the European experts on youth and presents a matrix of the indicators that were defined.