Reducing unemployment and supporting young people to find a career are two fundamental national economic goals. This dual goal was also the focus of the “Youth Guarantee in the Central Hungarian Region” project which was implemented in the EU 2014-2020 programming period. By autumn the program reached nearly 10,000 young people. As a result of the 2008 crisis, by 2012 the number of young people in the European Union who were neither employed nor in