EUROPE: Further and healthier quality practices looked-for

Stays education courses as well as better integration of young people is the key to more and more, into the job market looks like. Full-time jobs during the transition to education, and to make more young people at the time.

It is believed that the lack of relevant skills for young people to apply for jobs they are not selected to be one of the main reasons.

More good quality practices they introduce into the curriculum of higher education that would allow on-the-job training and experience of young people would help them when looking for jobs after graduating.

However, to ensure the success of the training, practices primarily to acquire practical experience and practical skills to young people who either formal or non-formal education that they have acquired the knowledge and qualifications to be a learning experience helps. They never need to replace paid work.

Stays as part of higher education should include:

* Educational institutions, interns and hosting organization, the main principles in practice, how many credit points intern diploma and learning goals and tasks, including an explanation should help to define a legally binding written contract between.
* Length and obligations, practices, which are shared with the students at the beginning of his internship learning objectives specified in the description.
* Practice a supervisor (s) or guardian (s) by specifically trained for the role of guidance.
* Intern right, or right instead of feeding practices, housing and public transport tickets for reimbursement of costs incurred in the collection.
* Fair remuneration for the work carried out training requirements outlined in the contract, including the additional overtime pay.
* Clear evaluation criteria during practices.

These criteria are outlined in the European Youth Forum, led by experts, who are the European Quality Charter on Internships and apprenticeships that will eventually establish quality standards at the European level on-the-job training for young people in the drafting of a group.

The main reason for this initiative, more reports of their practices, the quality of education and the mounting evidence that in practice they are often non-formal education for young people about the lack of quality employment, replacing the intern.

A public consultation launched by the European Youth Forum and is open until 30 June 2011, these principles are universal as possible to collect more ideas to improve them.

European Quality Charter on Internships and apprenticeships with the drafting of the European Youth Forum is an important campaign for the young fellows, past and present, the situation in Europe has launched a map. The goal is to identify the scope of the problem.