Employment
Job insecurity, barriers to entering the workforce, professions undergoing profound change, a loss of purpose and deteriorating working conditions… The world of work is changing rapidly, reshaping career paths and deepening inequalities. As employees’ expectations evolve and new needs emerge, how can we build a more inclusive and fulfilling world of work that gives everyone the opportunity to find their place?
Why add leadership training to your already overbooked calendar?
You’re busy at work, aiming for a promotion; home life is full on, with young kids and a partner as busy as you are, and yet someone suggests you follow a training course on top of all the rest! They must be crazy!
Unemployment rate in the European Union, August 2026
In Europe, more than one in seven young workers is looking for a job
Behind this rate, there are 13.6 million unemployed in the EU, with a rate climbing to 15.4% among those under 25. This level has remained stable over the month, but shows a slight increase over the year: the rate was 6.0% in August 2025.
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Why Do We Need Role Models for Fair Education?
For 20 years, Chancenwerk has been supporting children and young people on their educational journey. Tutoring by and for students and a dedicated digital learning platform have been established by Chancenwerk.
Why is Digital Matchmaking Necessary in Job Searching?
Socialbee is a digital platform that connects talents with refugee or migration experiences to companies across Germany.
Why Reinvent the Status of Independents in the Face of Precarity?
Dany El Oubari is the co-founder and CEO of INCOM, a solution that allows VTC drivers to benefit from the status of salaried entrepreneurs.
Why Do We Need Homeless People as City Guides?
Clemens Poldrack is a project manager at querstadtein. This organization offers city tours led by people who have experienced homelessness or have a refugee and migration background.
Why Talent Shouldn't Retire at 55
Elena Parras Durán is 42 years old, from Jaén, and is the founder and CEO of 55+. This platform connects people over 55 who are inactive in their professional lives with those who need their services. It has been active for almost eight years in Portugal and since last year in Spain.
Why is a social IT company more successful than others?
CEO Daniel Büchle leads afb social & Green IT, a social IT company. The non-profit GmbH refurbishes hardware for secondary and partially tertiary use.
Why Social Entrepreneurship Deserves Its Own World Cup?
Tomás Garnelo is 30 years old, from Galicia, and co-founder of Impact Social Cup, the largest social entrepreneurship competition in Spain, which in its latest edition gathered three thousand people at the Madrid Arena and distributed 100,000 euros in prizes.
Why does people-oriented work protect the planet?
Sebastian Klein, co-founder of the magazine Neue Narrative, believes that people-oriented work should take precedence over profit. This way, both workers and the planet are protected.
Innovation in Business: How to Put Engineers at the Heart of the Industrial Future?
Frédéric Arnoux is the co-founder and CEO of Stim. Stim helps business leaders regain an entrepreneurial spirit. It also assists creative teams in innovating and inventing the products of tomorrow.
Why Foster an Engaged Business Voice?
Octave Kleynjans is the Director of Development at Mouvement Impact France, an employers' organization that brings together 30,000 companies committed to social and environmental issues.
Can talent replace experience in the job market?
Idaira Quintero is the coordinator of Enreda, the labor insertion program of SIC4Change, active in Toledo and Gran Canaria.
Why Upcycling Can Also Be a Tool for Job Insertion
Toni Zamorano is the CEO and founder of Proyectos Extraordinarios, a social enterprise based in Valencia. The company creates jobs for women facing barriers to the labor market through textile workshops and material reuse projects.
Why Exoskeletons Can Improve Our Working Conditions?
Amélie Blondeaux is the co-founder of Japet Medical, a company developing solutions to combat musculoskeletal disorders and safeguard worker health.
Why Value Seasonal Jobs?
Laura Krasniqi is the co-founder of Ohmyseason, a platform dedicated to seasonal jobs with accommodation. Ohmyseason connects candidates with tourist establishments across France.
Why Relieve Parents' Daily Lives in the Workplace?
Marine Desandre is the co-founder of Les Parents Zens, which manages the largest network of private nurseries and also offers an app to meet parents' daily needs, as well as support for caregiver employees.
Why Good Communication is as Important as Knowing Accounting
Pilar Balet is the founder of La Mar de Gente Comunicación. This social enterprise brings together a team of communication, marketing, and design professionals. The team works exclusively with organizations that create social or environmental change.
Why is it important to rehabilitate manual trades?
Gabrielle Légeret is the General Director and founder of the association De l'or dans les mains, which aims to reintegrate manual practice in middle schools.
Why Support Careers Throughout Life?
Wassila Louisa Djellal is the founder of Les Infatigables, a start-up dedicated to the employability of seniors and intergenerational management.
Why add leadership training to your already overbooked calendar?
You’re busy at work, aiming for a promotion; home life is full on, with young kids and a partner as busy as you are, and yet someone suggests you follow a training course on top of all the rest! They must be crazy!
Why Reinstate Through Coffee?
Laurence Mainaud is the CEO of Change Please France, a coffee brand focused on social and professional reintegration for homeless individuals.
Why train tradespeople who are already qualified?
Because in our fast-changing climate, skills need to change too.
Why (Re)instilling Hope in Business Leaders?
Didier Moinereau is the president of the Groupement de prévention agréé, GPA Île-de-France, a system provided for in the commercial code that helps businesses prevent the risks of failure in a completely voluntary framework.
Why Harness Collective Intelligence?
Aminata N'Daye Massengo is a specialized educator, founder and CEO of So'Parks, created to engage with families and help them not remain stagnant.
Why Work Shouldn't Hurt
The Self Investigation is a collective working to transform work culture, especially in vocational professions, advocating for a healthier and more sustainable way of working.
Why Alleviate Work Hardship?
Pierre-André Foix is the director of Fox Innovation, which offers advancements in occupational health, at the intersection of traditional ergonomics and technological innovation. The idea is to democratize the exoskeleton.
Why Finding More Meaning in Your Work Matters
Sarah Cambot is the co-founder of Le Bol, a ceramics training platform.
Why Use Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Autonomy?
Amandine Oudart is the director of the association Entreprendre pour Apprendre for the Île-de-France region, an organization created in the 1960s that supports young people aged 9 to 25 in discovering the business world, bridging the gap between school and the professional world, and working from a young age on notions of educational orientation and professional integration.
Why Encourage Cooperation?
Julie Lacroix is the General Director of the association Alter'Actions, which offers a unique model of cooperation between young people, professionals, and actors in the social and solidarity economy to collectively contribute to a more supportive and sustainable society.
Why Businesses Have a Key Role in the Just Transition
Paul Montjotin is the General Delegate of Mouvess, the Movement of Ecological, Social and Solidarity Enterprises.
Why Cooperatives Can Be the Future of Sustainable Work
Ander Etxeberria is the Cooperative Outreach Director of Corporación Mondragón, the largest cooperative group in the world, made up of 92 cooperatives and over 70,000 worker-owners.
Why an insertion company can be a driver of the circular economy?
Alba Coma is the manager and promoter of Cartaes, a social insertion company based in Tàrrega that combines waste management with job creation for vulnerable individuals.
How Entrepreneurship Can Promote Equal Opportunities
Kalya Sampo is the head of the Les Idéateurs program, supported by the associations Créateurs Solidaires and Citoyens and IdéeAvenir.