The article traces recent reforms addressing the main school-to-work transition tools (in particular apprenticeships, traineeships, alternation schemes) trying to suggest possible research and reform developments that are more in line with the renewed centrality of the territorial dimension and a truly "participatory" governance of the labour market, in order to build the conditions of the "employability" of young people, without losing sight of the territorial and institutional constraints.
Keywords: Apprenticeship, Traineeship, Alternation Schemes, Territory, Multi-level Governance
Jel Code: I250, J480