Internships and Apprenticeships in Europe: A Call for Change

On 14 December the European Youth Forum (EYF), in cooperation with MEPs, various civil society and youth organisations, issued a call for action to tackle youth unemployment, by launching the European Quality Charter on Internships and Apprenticeships. With the support of the OECD a conference was organised. The EYF recently also published the results of ‘Interns Revealed’, a pan-European survey, which gathered close to 4 000 responses. The survey looks into the lives of interns across Europe, and explains why the last generation seems to be the ‘intern generation’.