Science Diplomacy is emerging as a useful tool to build bridges and strengthen relations. The CEI aims at enhancing science education in its region as a contribution to the consolidation of the European Research Area (ERA). In order to increase employability, special attention will be paid to the life-long learning concept and to the implementation of EU educational and employment policies in non-EU CEI Member States. Education and training will also address groups at risk of exclusion to integrate them into the labour market, while focusing on youth unemployment as a growing problem the CEI region is facing.