Fight to make education and training accessible to everyone 

This includes the promotion of gender equality through education. Therefore public, secular, high-quality education, starting from the earliest age, should be guaranteed for free for every child, adolescent and adult in Europe. Trends to privatise education cannot be a viable option for inclusive education nor be funded by public money. To achieve true social justice, we cannot allow financial means, social situation, ethnic or religious background, disabilities or other forms of discrimination to determine the type of education a child or young person receives. Additionally, gender cannot be such a factor. We must counteract gender stereotyping from an early age through the educational promotion of gender equality and ensure that young women and men can aspire to and have equal educational and career opportunities. 

Inequality in our societies has a direct impact on access to higher-level studies and students’ mobility opportunities. There are many cases of young people who do not have the means to À nish their studies, attend universities or travel abroad to study. To solve this problem, our European Youth Plan calls for increasing financing, access and scope of the successful Erasmus+ programme to a larger number of university students, high school students and students in vocational training. Our aim is to