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Youth Unemployment in European Islands: Tackling the Challenge through Sustainable Development

The social challenge of youth unemployment is enlarged on islands. The youth on islands face additional obstacles since they are constrained by geography, resources, economies of scale, and suffer from seasonal unemployment. The focus of this paper is to present the results of a study that was conducted in eight (8) European insular regions in the fields of renewable energy sources (RES), energy efficiency, sustainable tourism and sustainable mobility. The aim is to identify the future green market needs and the prerequisites of green jobs, as well as defining the solution that will tackle the NEETs (not in education, employment, or training) unemployment problem. Information, data and statistics were retrieved from national, European and international reports and through the use of equestionnaires to obtain the relevant stakeholders’ opinion on green growth and NEETs issues. The results of the analysis are discussed in relation with the long-term strategy on green growth and policy measures currently in place at a regional, national and European level. This study revealed that the main routes for tackling the challenge of NEETs are the formulation of the appropriate policy framework for encouraging green growth, the cultivation of public environmental awareness through suitable educational programmes and the preparation of younger generations with appropriate knowledge, training, and skills to avoid becoming NEETs in the first place.

green job, green skills, NEET, European islands, youth employment, sustainability

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