Social Mobility – how can we increase opportunities through training and education?
EU-decision makers, civil society, qualification providers and employers discussed the role of training and education to improve social mobility, at recent ACCA, PwC, EMI and European Youth Forum joint event held at the European Parliament
Over the past few decades globalisation, digitalisation and automation have changed the way we work and live A recent Eurofound study has also identified that EU citizens are increasingly concerned that young people have fewer opportunities for upward social mobility than their parents It is thus vital to open up access to new opportunities that help build healthy and prosperous economies, where people of all backgrounds are able to flourish But for that, people need to be equipped with the right skills…