"A highly important and timely edited collection on a topic of remarkable and growing significance... Well-theorised and featuring empirical examples from a range of countries and contexts, this book is thoroughly recommended for students and scholars interested in the field of the European governance of lifelong learning."

Chapter 1. An instruments approach to European governance in education; Marcella Milana and Gosia Klatt.- PART I. European governance and policy coordination.- Chapter 2. Education and training 2020; Gosia Klatt and Marcella Milana.- Chapter 3. The renewed European agenda on adult learning; Marcella Milana and Gosia Klatt.- Chapter 4. The European youth strategy; Gosia Klatt.- Chapter 5. The European semester: How does it work? Why does it matter?; Marcella Milana.- Chapter 6. Benchmarking, taxonomies and indicators for evaluating Europe's lifelong learning systems; Gosia Klatt.- Chapter 7. The upskilling pathway; Sharon Clancy, Ivana Studená and Sandra Vatrella.- PART II. Youth guarantee and its domestic adaptation.- Chapter 8. Introduction to the European youth guarantee; Sandra Vatrella and Marcella Milana.- Chapter 9. The Estonian rejoinder to youth guarantee; Marti Taru.- Chapter 10. The Slovakian rejoinder to youth guarantee; Ivana Studená and Zuzana Polacková.- Chapter11. The Bulgarian rejoinder to youth guarantee; Radostina Angelova and Pepka Boyadijeva.- Chapter 12. The Spanish rejoinder to youth guarantee; Concepción Maiztegui-Oñate; Elena Tuparevska and Alvaro Moro.- Chapter 13. The Italian rejoinder to youth guarantee; Francesca Rapaná and Sandra Vatrella.- Chapter 14. The Austrian response to youth guarantee; Günter Hefler and Eva Steinheimer.- Chapter 15. The Belgian response to youth guarantee; Heidi Knipprath and Jolien De Norre.- Chapter 16. The Danish response to youth guarantee; Palle Rasmussen and Tilde Mette Juul.- Chapter 17. The response of the United Kingdom (England and Scotland) to youth guarantee; Sharon Clancy, John Holford and Ellen Boeren.- Chapter 18. Youth guarantee and welfare state regimes: cross-countries considerations; Marcella Milana and Sandra Vatrella.- Chapter 19. Conclusion: The influence on European governance on adult education markets.