Minister of Labor and Social Policy Spiro Ristovski promoted Saturday the Youth Employment Action Plan 2015, aimed at improving institutional efficiency at the labor market and stimulating youth employment through private sector development.

The plan, targeting youth aged 15-29, stipulates that about 1,000 young people with secondary or university education are involved in internship programmes over a period of three months, training of 500 youth in start-up business, testing of all elementary school graduates for the purpose of their timely career guidance, as well as pilot-testing in several secondary schools.

Minister of Education and Science Pance Kralev said curricula and quotas for the economy's purposes are adapted in order to improve the youth employment conditions.

The Action Plan, implemented over a period of three years, is funded by EUR 27 million from the Budget and EU Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA).