The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.

1. ESF and YEI support to
youth employment,
including youth
entrepreneurship
Resa Koleva, DG EMPL Unit E1
Brussels, 22 September 2014

2. Social Europe
European Social Fund 2014-20 support to youth:
A dedicated investment priority for young people:
Sustainable integration of young people in particular those not in
employment, education or training, including young people at risk of
social exclusion and young people from marginalised communities,
into the labour market, including through the implementation of the
Youth Guarantee.
But also other investment priorities relevant for youth measures:
Reducing and preventing early school-leaving and promoting equal
access to good quality early-childhood, primary and secondary
education […];
Enhancing equal access to lifelong learning […], upgrading the
knowledge, skills and competences of the workforce […]
Access to employment, active inclusion, etc.
ESF remains the biggest EU fund to support human capital
investment.

3. Social Europe
Youth Employment Initiative (YEI)
•New instrument established in the Multiannual Financial
Framework (MFF 2014-20), integrated entirely into the ESF legal
framework.
•EUR 6 billion for the period 2014-2020: EUR 3 billion from the ESF +
EUR 3 billion from a specific 'youth employment' budget line
•Open to all NUTS2 regions with levels of youth unemployment (15-
24 age group) above 25% (in 2012) => 20 MS are eligible.
•In addition to ESF (European Social Fund) resources, which support
youth employment in ALL MS and regions
•YEI will be spent faster than the ESF, until end-2018 (i.e. it is
"frontloaded"). The aim is to address the problem quickly.

4. Social Europe
YEI: target group and examples of types of actions
YEI will target individuals only (not systems reforms).
Target group: NEETs aged up to 25, or optionally for MS – up to
30 years, who must be residing in the eligible regions and can be:
- inactive or unemployed (including long-term)
- registered or not as job seekers
Possible actions: provision of traineeships and apprenticeships;
first job experience; hiring incentives for employers to recruit
youngsters (e.g. limited subsidising of the salary or social security
contribution); job and training mobility measures; start-up support
for young entrepreneurs; vocational education and training leading
to a qualification; where relevant for early school leavers - second
chance programmes.
Aim: deliver these actions as part of integrated pathways and
based on the individuals' needs/ individual actions plans.

5. YEI in the Member States
MS YEI allocation
BE 42,435,070
BG 55,188,745
CZ 13,599,984
IE 68,145,419
EL 171,517,029
ES 943,496,315
FR 310,161,402
IT 567,511,248
CY 11,572,101
LV 29,010,639
LT 31,782,633
HU 49,765,356
PL 252,437,822
PT 160,772,169
RO 105,994,315
SI 9,211,536
SK 72,175,259
SE 44,163,096
UK 206,098,124
HR 66,177,144
Total 3,211,215,406

6. State of play ESF/YEI programming
 187 ESF/YEI OPs expected; 183 officially submitted, incl.
34 OPs covering YEI
 6 OPs adopted (incl. 3 YEI-relevant OPs representing EUR
1.6 bn)
 EUR 6.4 bn of YEI resources programmed
 Additionally, at least EUR 4 bn of other ESF resources
programmed under investment priority on sustainable
integration of young people into the labour market.
 Most youth-related OPs envisage self-
employment/entrepreneurship measures, both on
employment and education side

7. State of play ESF/YEI programming
 187 ESF/YEI OPs expected; 183 officially submitted, incl.
34 OPs covering YEI
 6 OPs adopted (incl. 3 YEI-relevant OPs representing EUR
1.6 bn)
 EUR 6.4 bn of YEI resources programmed
 Additionally, at least EUR 4 bn of other ESF resources
programmed under investment priority on sustainable
integration of young people into the labour market.
 Most youth-related OPs envisage self-
employment/entrepreneurship measures, both on
employment and education side