Government officials said that some measures aimed at solving these problems were already being implemented.Tin Kampl of the Youth Council of Slovenia stressed at the meeting in Ljubljana that the young were being faced with precarious forms of work and that they were being forced into self-employment.

He also noted that Slovenia is at the top in the EU in terms of the share of young people who live with their parents.

Kampl thus proposed that the state provide guarantees for housing loans for young people and provide tax incentives for purchasing or renting of apartments.

Klemen Ploštajner of the housing cooperative Zadrugator added that there were only 9,000 non-profit apartments in Slovenia, and noted that only 10% of applicants were successful in getting such apartments in annual calls for applications.

"This is why the state must secure more resources for housing construction, which must be stable and high enough," he said.

Andraž Šiler of the institute Ypsilon argued that the state should encourage computer programming, calling for computer programming to be included in the school curricula.

According to him, a better connection should be established between the economy and higher education, so that the "young work on some real problems already at faculties and don't come to the labour market intimidated".

Youth representatives also pointed to the problem of recognition of informal knowledge, which should be valued the same as formal knowledge.

The relevant ministers meanwhile pointed to measures that are already being implemented to address the listed problems, as well as to planned activities.

Prime Minister Miro Cerar said he had tasked a state secretary in his office to come up with an action plan of priority activities within two weeks based on all proposals presented by youth representatives today.

One of the priorities of the action plan should be creating new jobs for young people, Cerar said, adding that particular attention would be paid to precarious forms of work, which he sees as one of the most painful topics for the young.

According to Cerar, the government will work towards securing affordable rental apartments for young people, in particular by developing housing cooperatives.

When it comes to entrepreneurship, the government will secure a total of EUR 9m for measures encouraging entrepreneurship in primary schools, secondary schools and faculties, he added.

The government will earmark an additional EUR 3.6m for the creation of a network of educational laboratories, Cerar said, adding that the measure would promote creativity and innovativeness among the youth.

Ahead of the meeting, the ŠOS student organisation submitted an initiative to parliament for a bill that it says would tackle several systemic shortcomings and scrap austerity measures affecting students.

They now expect the speaker to set a 60-day time frame in which they need to collect 5,000 voter signatures to file the bill to parliamentary procedure.

They say the proposal is their response to the government not being open to discuss and tackle problems encountered by students on a daily basis.