In Hungary there are two main challenges to young people's participation in education and training which are related to the European Council Resolution, adopted by the Education Council of the European Union in 2021, and sets new targets to be achieved in education and training by 2030:

• reduce the rate of school and training dropouts to below 9%, and
• the proportion of 25-34 year olds with tertiary education should be at least 45%.

To increase the proportion of those who have a higher or equivalent qualification, in 2013, the Hungarian Government modified the Act CCIV of 2011 on National Higher Education (2011. évi CCIV. törvény a nemzeti felsőoktatásról) and abolished the system of higher education quotas. In addition, there are further changes in progress regarding the entrance examination at higher education institutions from 2024. (For more information see sub-chapter 6.1 General context.)

To reduce the proportion of early school leavers from the current 12,4% to 10%, in 2016, the Hungarian Government set up a 'Medium-term strategy against leaving school without qualifications' ('A végzettség nélküli iskolaelhagyás elleni középtávú stratégia') to tackle early school leaving and to increase employment, for which the cross-sectoral cooperation (education, training, employment, health care, law enforcement and social policy) is important. One of the main goals of the current Public Education Strategy 2021 - 2030 (Köznevelési stratégia 2021 - 2030) is also reducing early school leaving. [For more information, see sub-chapter 6.3 Preventing early leaving from education and training (ELET).]