President Juncker announced in his State of the Union Address before the European Parliament the idea of a European Solidarity Corps which should be launched by end of 2016 with the first 100,000 young Europeans taking part in its activities by 2020.

We are pleased to invite you to a strategic dialogue meeting on the Solidarity Corps, with a particular emphasis on its professional strand.

The objective will be to gather your views around the following dimensions:

• Solidarity-related activities
• The Corps from a young person’s perspective
• The Corps from an employer/organisation’s perspective
• Ensuring labour market integration after a Corps placement.