The European Commission launched a call to action to companies, governments, educators, social partners, employment service providers and civil society to "turn the tide". Young Europeans should have the tools to enter digital careers or to create jobs as entrepreneurs. In particular, the Commission will collect pledges on new jobs, internships, training places, start-up funding, free online university courses and more.

The European Commission called on companies, governments, educators, social partners, employment service providers and civil society to do a massive effort to "turn the tide". According to the Commission, young Europeans should have the tools to enter digital careers or to create jobs as entrepreneurs. The Commission therefore seeks active collaboration in areas like industry-led training, assisting labour mobility, certifying skills, improving school and university curricula, raising awareness, and creating an entrepreneur friendly environment for start-ups. Recently, the European Union also launched "Destination Europe", a pole for attraction of research and innovation through.

Among the actions proposed, the Commission suggests to promote the training vouchers on a European scale. The Commission based this recommendation in successful German and Spanish cases. They implemented voucher based training models which provided jobs for 60-70% of the 20,000 participants. Other key elements will include mobility assistance. Such assistance is likely to range from English language learning support to facilitating mobility for unemployed persons and standardised certification of skills, via a transformed eCompetence Framework available in all 23 official languages of the EU.

The Commission is also launching Startup Europe, a single platform for tools and programmes supporting people wanting to set up and grow web start-ups in Europe, in recognition of the job creation potential of web start-ups.