Skills development and employment: Apprenticeships, internships and volunteering
This study discusses participation, outcomes, quality and challenges of apprenticeships, internships/traineeships and volunteering schemes. Though important, all three forms face challenges that need attention in the related existing and planned EU-level initiatives (such as the planned Quality Framework for Apprenticeships). Issues concern, for example, providing clarity on the employment status (mainly for apprenticeships) and on fair remuneration, thus limiting the risk of being sources for cheap labour. The note was prepared by Policy Department A at the request of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) to support the Committee’s work on the New Skills Agenda.
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Simon Broeki, Terence Hogarth, Liga Baltina, Amerigo Lombardi (Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini)
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- access to education
- apprenticeship
- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- business classification
- education
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- employment
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- EU initiative
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- fight against unemployment
- Framework Programme for Research and Development
- job creation
- labour market
- labour market
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- research and intellectual property
- small and medium-sized enterprises
- social affairs
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- updating of skills
- voluntary work