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The handbook is part of UfM’s activities in the area of Higher Education and Research contributing to
the Global Development Agenda, particularly to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals
4, 8, 9, and 17, by bringing together experts and practitioners from public authorities, social partners
and civil society organisations, to discuss, assess and disseminate experience and good practices
covering the priorities set forth in the side event on the employment of Mediterranean university
graduates during the 4th UfM Ministerial Conference on Employment and Labour:

25% Youth 1 Supporting decent job creation and entrepreneurship

2
Mobilising public and private stakeholders to create partnerships and synergies
unemployment

Scope of
in the Mediterr anean 1 3 Building inclusive labour markets to integrate potentially vulnerable and disadvantaged groups
the Handbook 4 Investing in quality education systems and training, skills and employability in a changing world

5 Increasing regional stakeholders’ visibility on existing policy instruments that can be implemented
by university and research centres in order to increase employability of their students and
32% researchers, while fostering innovation in the regions

Young women 6 Encouraging policymakers to invest into systematically collecting data about higher education
graduates and their employability. Unfortunately, for several Southern and Eastern Mediterranean
higher education institutions, research of enterprises countries, there is little reliable recent data. Yet, data, and especially data of good quality, are
his handbook targets decision makers in
young researchers with a special focus on the
in the Southern and
essential for national governments and institutions to accurately plan, fund and evaluate
employability-innovation nexus.
Eastern Mediterr anean ar e
70-100%
Tinstitutes, policymakers and the business in the Southern development activities
It raises awareness of initiatives already in place
sector as well as intermediary institutions (e.g. Mediterr anean consider
employer associations, innovation centres, with discussion of lessons learned and concrete
skill gaps
unemployed
more
clusters). It provides an overview of opportunities, suggestions for how these can be adapted and
likely
tools, instruments, recommendations, and best- implemented to generate future career prospects
to be
than
practice examples promoting the employability for their graduates and young researchers
young men1
through innovation and employability aspects.
of highly trained higher education graduates and a major constraint for hiring2 25% Youth
unemployment
in the Mediterr anean 1
The scope of the Handbook is to directly support achieving of Sustainable Development Goals 4, 8, 9, and 17
Higher
EducationGraduates
in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean experience
higher unemployment 32%

than those with basic educ ation 1 Young women

in the Southern and of enterprises
Eastern Mediterr anean ar e
25% 70-100% Mediterr anean consider
in the Southern
Youth
unemployment
more
likely unemployed skill gaps
to be
in the Mediterr anean 1 than a major constraint for hiring2
young men1

32% Higher
EducationGraduates

in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean experience
Young women higher unemployment

in the Southern and of enterprises than those with basic educ ation 1
Eastern Mediterr anean ar e
70-100% Mediterr anean consider
in the Southern

more skill gaps
likely unemployed
to be
than a major constraint for hiring2
young men1

Higher
EducationGraduates

in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean experience
higher unemployment

than those with basic educ ation 1