16. against this background to support the New Skills Agenda for Europe;

17. provide vocational training and skills development opportunities to young people which are geared to the needs of industry and which, by way of generally recognized formal qualifications, form one of the most important prerequisites for workplace success;

18. strengthen the contacts between schools, universities and business in order to make sure that university education and vocational education and training are closely and concretely oriented towards labour market and to identify as well as to prevent labour market mismatches;

19. build on success of the CBSS EuroFaculty programme as an example of long-term project-based cooperation in higher education and science for the benefit of the people of the Baltic Sea Region and to explore the possible steps forward for this programme;

20. foster the further development and upgrade of skills (basic and specialized) and employability through establishment of a right for lifelong learning;

21. improve transparency and comparability of qualifications, and thereby to further develop the mutual recognition of formal qualifications;

22. facilitate anticipating labour markets’ skills needs;

23. explore the need for a Northern Dimension Partnership for Labour Market and Education to further develop education and labour market in the Baltic Sea Region;

24. support business and education cooperation for a sustainable economic area in the Baltic Sea Region, especially a systematic exchange of expertise in the labour market and education sectors;

25. strengthen the cooperation between social associations, the social partners and governmental organisations in a social dialogue;

26. support research and standardization within cyber security, with focus on maritime context and applications and to foster data governance in order to enable a fair and fertile environment for new data driven services that will capitalize our regions technology excellence and trigger high skill job creation;

27. implement the Baltic Sea Region as a leading learning region;

28. call for more intensified “bottom-up” collaboration and networking in order to pursue development and synergies in specific areas of science, research, innovation and clusters collaboration;

29. facilitate continuous dialogue and collaboration in science, research, innovation and higher education using existing political and regional formats and initiatives; Regarding Employment Opportunities, Labour Mobility and Youth Unemployment, to