Get started with Drop’pin@EURES and publish youth opportunities in minutes : Drop’pin@EURES manual for organisations.
Date: 2017-11-08
Institutions: Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Subjects: EU employment policy, Internet, education policy, entrepreneurship, financial aid, labour market, language, student mobility, user guide, vocational training, youth employment, youth policy

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Get started with Drop’pin@EURES 
and  publish  youth  opportunities  in  minutes.

Drop’pin@EURES manual for organisations

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.    Introduction     4

2.    How to sign up     4

3.    Publishing opportunities     5

4.    A word about quality…     7

6.    Need help from us?     8

7.    Opportunities for organisations to raise their profile on Drop’pin@EURES     9

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Introduction

So you’ve decided to join Drop’pin@EURES and help young Europeans improve their employability. 

Great! Now how can you make it happen? Simple. These are the next steps to take to go live 

on Drop’pin@EURES. 

If you are still interested in finding out more about Drop’pin@EURES and how it can benefit your organisation 
you can contact us with any queries at  info@droppin.eu.  

How to sign up

Registering on EURES as an Employer is a two-step process. Simply  visit the registration page,  enter 
your contact details and create your username and password. You will also be asked to confirm that 

you agree with the EURES Privacy Statement and Specific Conditions by ticking the box.

You will then have to activate your account (you will receive an activation token) and login. Through the 

‘Create a company’ option in ‘My profile’ you will have to provide some information about your company that 

will both help us to verify your data and act as a short bio on your company’s profile page. Do not forget 
to tick the ‘My company is interested in proposing Training opportunities to youngsters and jobseekers’ 
box. You will then be asked to confirm that you agree with the EURES policy and specific conditions and 

specify the type of opportunities you wish to publish and your motivation. If your company is already 

registered, you can join the existing company account rather than creating a new company profile. Your 

user account can be linked to the existing company’s profile by the account owner. 

Once you’ve completed these steps, you will receive a notification confirming that we have received your 
registration request. We will then review and process it within three working days. 

Once your registration has been approved, you will receive an email confirming that your account was 

validated and prompting you to activate it.

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Publishing opportunities

Youth opportunities published on Drop’pin@EURES vary from apprenticeships, traineeships 

and training to mobility support, language training, e-Learning, volunteering, events, coaching/

mentoring and financial and entrepreneurship support. There are three ways in which you can 

publish your opportunities on Drop’pin@EURES:

Manually 
This simple process is best suited to those organisations that have a fairly small number of opportunities 

to offer. It requires that you enter details of the opportunity you’re offering manually.  

There are four sections in the opportunity creation page.

The first one is about the opportunity itself and asks that you fill in essential information about it:

• What is it?
• What is its start and end date?
• What is the last application date? (You can set the opportunity to be automatically unpublished on a 

specified date)

• What will the young person be expected to do?
• What are the requirements for applying? E.g. what education level and language skills must the young 

person have?

• Where is the opportunity located?

The second section is about how to apply:

• Where can applicants find out more about the opportunity?
• How should they apply?
• Where should they apply?

The third section is about specific requirements:

• What are the requirements for applying? E.g. what education level and language skills must the young 

person have?

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The fourth section is about the opportunity location:

• In which country?
• In which address?

Once you’ve completed this process, you can save your opportunity and submit it for validation by hitting 

the “submit for validation” button. Your opportunity will be then reviewed by us before being made live.

Best suited to: Organisations with fewer opportunities who would like to have complete control 
over what opportunities are published, when, and how.

API

Perhaps you have dozens of opportunities on offer and, therefore, would not have the time to manually 

upload them yourself? Then the API is for you.  

If you routinely publish your opportunities on your organisation’s website, our application-programming 

interface, or API for short, will do the hard work for you, automatically syncing content from your website’s 

pages and publishing it on Drop’pin@EURES directly.

An API enables companies to write directly into the database of Drop’pin@EURES (“push”). This solution 

provides a high level of quality, control, and flexibility but requires a small development effort on the 

organisation’s side. 

• It allows you to make bulk uploads of opportunities by writing directly into the database of Drop’pin@

EURES (“push”)

• It requires one-time integration activities by the organisationn
• The API gives you 100% of control of format, data mapping, timing, fields, etc.
• It is the most precise and state of the art way of integrating systems together, which ensures the 

highest quality and stability level

• Offers can be displayed on Drop’pin@EURES as coming from your organisation, or on behalf of the 

different organisations providing the offers. 

Best suited to: Medium to large sized organisations with over 10 to 20 opportunities on offer 
at any given time.

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Scraping
For large organisations with more opportunities than you could possibly handle, there’s the Drop’pin@

EURES scraper.

With the scraper, the Drop’pin@EURES system crawls your organisation’s website and automatically im-

ports the offers to Drop’pin@EURES (“pull”). This does not require any development on the organisation 

side. With this solution:

• Drop’pin@EURES will crawl your organisation’s website and automatically import the offers that  

appear on your HTML pages (“pull”)

• The web scraper will be prepared by Drop’pin@EURES’s web developers
• Your organisation should keep Drop’pin@EURES informed of any change in the structure of its web 

pages, otherwise the scraper will return errors.

Best suited to: Large organisations with a stable and reliable website that offer 20+ opportunities 

at any given time.

A word about quality…

At Drop’pin@EURES, we strive to promote opportunities that are non-commercial, of high quality 
and are accessible to the widest range of young Europeans. 

In March 2014, the European Commission welcomed the adoption of The European Quality Framework 

for Traineeships, which ensures increased transparency with regard to traineeship conditions, for example, 

by requiring that traineeships to be based on a written agreement. The agreement should cover learning 

content (e.g. educational objectives, supervision) and working conditions (e.g. limited duration, working 

time, clear indication whether trainees will be paid or otherwise compensated and whether they will qualify 

for social security). As a Commission-run project, Drop’pin@EURES encourages all member organisations 

to aspire to the principles of The European Quality Framework for Traineeships.

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In addition, we recognise various independent third party certifications including The European Label for 

Quality Internships run by InternsGoPro, which was designed to identify and showcase the best internship 

programmes across Europe and the employers providing them.

If you’d like to find out more about Drop’pin@EURES’s quality standards, or are interested in ensuring 
your organisation’s traineeship programme reaches quality standards, email  info@droppin.eu. 

Need help from us?

The following resources are available should you need help on any aspect of Drop’pin@EURES:

Helpdesk
The Helpdesk is available to answer your questions and can help you in the following areas:

• To check the status of a registration request / a pending validation of an opportunity
• Any technical problems encountered
• To recover a lost username or password
• Help with adding more users to the organisation’s account
• Deal with any abusive behaviour

There are three ways you can reach the Helpdesk:

• By phone or Skype in English, German or French
• By email through  the contact form in all EU/EEA languages 
• By live chat in English, German or French, from 08:30 to 18:00 (CET).

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Opportunities for organisations to raise their profile on 
Drop’pin@EURES

Being a member of Drop’pin@EURES comes with many benefits. Not only will you be promoting 

your opportunities to young, educated Europeans who are mobile, motivated and multilingual, 

but you can also take advantage of the various editorial opportunities that Drop’pin@EURES 
offers registered organisations.

We have a range of content products through which you can get your message across and raise your 

organisation’s visibility:

The EURES News and Information Bureau (ENIB) news articles 
The ENIB news section is the hub for all inspirational content aimed at young people, organisations, 

education providers, the EURES network and many more. The blog hosts a range of content types, including 

feature articles, interviews / profiles and tips and advice, as well as videos and podcasts.

If you have essential advice for young people on any aspect of employability, then why not submit your 

pitch to the Drop’pin@EURES editor? You can either write the post yourself or be interviewed by a member 

of the Drop’pin@EURES editorial team, who’ll write up a piece about your organisation.

Email  editorial@droppin.eu  to pitch your organisational feature or idea.

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Newsletter
Every month, EURES publishes newsletters and distributes them to our database of registered members 

and those who have expressed an interest in the platform.

The newsletter feature Drop’pin@EURES articles on youth related topics, as well as on useful tips for 

applicants and businesses, mobility opportunities, information on European Job Days and much more. 

You can make the most of this medium to reach thousands of young people and hundreds of organisations 

with your message.

I’m interested! How do I tell my story? Email the Drop’pin@EURES editors at  editorial@droppin.eu   
with a brief summary of what you’d like to say and why and they will get back to you with a 

way forward.

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