World Youth Skills Day

Are we also building an inhospitable
world for young people?

World Youth Skills Day was established by the UN Assembly in 2014 to celebrate the importance of empowering young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship and to draw international attention to the urgency of bridging the gap between education and the labour market. This year could be an opportunity for serious reflection on the fragility of this day’s message: more skills = more chance of a decent job? In fact, this ‘change of epoch’ that leaves everyone a little lost, leads young people, ever more lucidly, to ask themselves a precise question:

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BUT WHAT FUTURE?

The impact of the current crises confronts young people with the need for constant adjustments to their professional background at the risk of sudden attrition. Today, many young people, frustrated in their aspirations, are asking themselves whether and how to stay in the world of work: with the pandemic, they have discovered the value of time and are asking questions about the meaning of life, not just work, as we had already pointed out to some extent with the 2020 and 2021 Days.