A Guarantee System for Youth. “One Step Ahead” Through Regional Policies

This study examines a vast panorama of the policies on which depend the living and working conditions of young people. In particular, measures were examined that can be enacted on a re- gional level starting from the concrete experience of 6 Regional Governments in as many European countries. The book shows that a true “Youth Guarantee” must guarantee support for the complexity of the transitions that characterise the life of a young person and shows, furthermore, how this must be adapted to the different conditions in which the various segments of the young population live. The wealth and variety of concrete ex- periences offered by regional policies show how it is possible to activate pub- lic interventions that, if they have ade- quate ingredients, will be able to lessen the negative effects of the economic cri- sis and allow young people to take one step ahead at any time in their private and professional life