Author: TRASSIERRA

Education

The European Union pursues ambitious objectives for 2020
• The proportion of 15 years old young people with a low performance in reading, maths and science must be under 15 %;
• School dropout rates must be reduced to 10 %;
• At least 40 % of young adults must finish higher education.

20 % our of the Europeans are low qualified, this complicates their access to the work market and their full participation in society.

Alarming figures: deficit in qualifications
Young unemployment rat is over 20 % in the EU and even over 50 % in some member states. However, the global crisis is not the only cause for unemployment. The shortage of qualifications and low educational levels also contribute to it.

Do you know…?
Illiteracy not only limits a person’s life but also produces huge costs for society. Only in developed countries, the cost of this illiteracy ascends to more than €500 000 million every year..

Approximately 20 % of young people in EU do not reach the minimum levels of key competences in readning, maths and science. Six millions of young people drop out the educational and training system after having finished only the first cycle of secondary education or even without finishing it.

Four member states our of the EU(Estonia, Finland, Poland and the Netherlands) are among the countries that have achieved best results, with a rate of students with a low performance in maths under the reference value of 15 % established by the EU.

Percentage of youngsters among 15 and 24 años who
don’t study or work.

ERASMUS +

Countries that receive more Erasmus students. Main destinies.

Since 1987 more than 3 millions of university students have taken advantage of the Erasmus grants. With Erasmus+, the EU has significantly increased the finance. The programme objective is to help more than four million people between 2014 and 2020. Cooperation opportunities among educational institutions and between the educational and labour fields also rise considerably.
Between 2014 and 2020 approximately four million of people and 125 000 institutions will be directly benefited from Erasmus+ .