| In many European capitals it is especially young people
who are affected by the insufficiency of options for advancement in educational
and job domains. They are thus deprived of future opportunities. Children
and young people coming from migrant families suffer most from this. There
is a lack of training places and jobs for young people. Youth unemployment
is comparatively high. Poor neighbourhoods are spreading. Outbound migration
to the periphery and inbound migration are just as much on the increase
as social segregation and exclusion. Children and young people of socially
disadvantaged people are adversely affected both in their mental and in
their physical development.
European trade unions are called upon to design strategies to counter
these trends. We believe that Europe's youth needs education and employment.
What must an educational system be like to offer special promotion
to the socially disadvantaged rather than picking them out? To what extent
need schools, welfare offices and youth authorities co-operate in order
to produce positive effects? What kind of programmes and experience are
available in the training of the disadvantaged? To what extent are such
programmes supported by social welfare and youth promotion institutions?
What kind of demands should we raise in fighting youth unemployment?
What experience has been made with regard to the different schemes to
fight youth unemployment?
These are the topics we should primarily discuss at a meeting of the
trade union federations from European capitals supported by the European
Commission.
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Berlin(Bln)-Brandenburg(Bbg) |
respective Capital |
| 1. Size of
population |
| of which under 18 |
1.056.000 (1999) |
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| of which under 25 |
1.563.000 (1999) |
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| Share in population |
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| under 18 |
Bbg 18,5 % Bln 16,9 % |
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| under 25 |
Bbg 27,3 % Bln 25,1 % |
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| 2. Number
of nursery school (Kita) places |
Number
of nursery school (Kita) places |
Bbg 134.525 (2000)
Bln 146.006 (1999) |
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| extent to which demand is met |
Bbg Kita – 6 years93,3 %
Bln ~ 65,8 % |
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| 3. School
of general education (Pupils according to qualification levels) |
| School leavers without university entrance
qualification |
Bbg 27.506 (99/00)
Bln 24.423 (99/00) |
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| School leavers with university entrance
qualification |
Bbg 11.577 (99/00)
Bln 11.171 (99/00) |
|
| no final school examination |
Bbg 3.348 (99/00) = 8,6 %
Bln 4.612 (99/00) = 12,3 % |
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| of which children of migrants (only Berlin) |
1.217 (26,4 % of all migrant school leavers)
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| 4. Share
of children of migrants in the various types of schools (only Berlin) |
| Share of children of migrants in the
various types of schools (only Berlin) |
55.757 von 388.888 = 14,3 % (2000) |
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| 5. Job-preparatory
measures in respect of young people with unsatisfactory or no vocational
training degrees |
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Bbg 4.705
Bln 10.705 (99/00) |
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| 6. Young
people in newly established vocational training schemes |
| undergoing dual training |
Bln 23.382* (2000)
Bbg 21.851 (2000)
Total: 45.233 (2000) |
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| undergoing school-based training |
Bln 10.263
Bbg 3.147
Total: 13.410 |
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| solely undergoing company-based training |
- |
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| other types of training |
Bln 3.716
Bbg 5.647
Total: 8.846 |
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*beginning of training usually 1st September. |
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| 7. Number
of unemployed young people under the age of 25 (absolute figures) |
| absolute figures (ratio) |
52.841 (16,6 %) June 2000 |
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| Women |
19.684 June 2000 |
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| Men |
33.157 June 2000 |
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| Migrants |
5.018 June 2000 |
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| Skilled |
20.437 June 2000 |
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| Unskilled |
32.414 June 2000 |
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| 8. Other
information of interest to the conference |
