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Getting Europe’s youth back to work

Programs to boost skills and education of those under age 30 are key to competitiveness and growth.

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Invent the future – study science, technology and engineering

Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, argues there’s nothing that beats a career in science and technology: Great pay and lifelong employment opportunities, while transforming the world and meeting the most interesting people.

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Back to the future: Apprenticeships that work

Open innovation networks can help SMEs become highly profitable, but they only work as long as the value jointly created is significantly larger than that produced by the partners on their own.

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Webinar

Webinar with the EU's Chief Scientific Advisor Anne Glover on 9 April, 2013

Learn how to bridge Europe's skills gap in science, engineering and technology - and ensure EU competitiveness in future industries. 

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European universities embrace a new discipline: entrepreneurship
As courses on entrepreneurship multiply, traditional attitudes toward failure are finally starting to shift.

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Innovation and risk: Putting an end to the fear of failure
To overcome economic crisis, Europe needs to give its entrepreneurs star status and back innovative young companies.

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Future tech - No language left behind
Machine translation can help preserve languages in the digital age.

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European activities in the field

The Europe 2020 flagship initiative "Youth on the Move" is a comprehensive package of initiatives to improve young people’s education and employability, reduce high youth unemployment and increase the overall youth employment rate. More

Microsoft activities in the field

The recently launched Microsoft YouthSpark initiative, unites longstanding programs aimed at helping young people to reach their full potential. More
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