The European project „EYE:
educated, young and employed” was created following the necessity of the young
people to get employed and the motivation of the youth leaders and youth
workers from the European community in general and partner communities particularly
to contribute to increasing the level of youth employment.
The main activity of the project
was the training course „EYE: educated, young and employed”. Within the
training were actively involved youth leaders and youth workers from the
partner organisations from Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Turkey, Great Britain.
The activities included non
formal methods and development of specialized and practical information on the
project themes in sessions on the role of education in overcoming unemployment,
complementarities among formal, non formal education and VET, competences
development and their recognition, strengthening the cooperation between NGO
sector and other relevant actors on the labour market for youth employment,
developing the partner organisations’ capacity and others.
Within the training were applied
methods such as mind mapping, role play, workshops, world cafe, brainstorming,
creation of a motivational video Why to
employ young people?.
The training had a positive
impact on developing the participants’ personal, social and professional
competences and on developing the organisational capacity of the partners.
Within the project were developed
useful resources for the participants and their organisations especially and
unemployed youth generally such as training kit, portfolio of resources for
youth employment (how to make a CV, motivation letter, interview, and others),
motivational video to promote the youth employment.
On long term the project have
impact in developing the capacity and cooperation among organizations at
European level to develop useful resources to increase the youth integration on
the labour market.
Why this project –
situation at European level:
• More than 5.5 million young people
are unemployed in the EU-28 area today.
• This represents an unemployment rate
of 23.4% (24.0% in the euro area). More than one in five young Europeans on the
labour market cannot find a job;
7.5 million young Europeans between 15
and 24 are not employed, not in education and not in training (NEETs).
• In the last four years, the overall
employment rates for young people fell three times as much as for adults.
§ Youth unemployment rate is more than
twice as high as the adult one – 23.3 % against 9.3 % in the fourth
quarter of 2012.
§ The chances for a young
unemployed person of finding a job are low – only 29.7 % of
those aged 15-24 and unemployed in 2010 found a job in 2011.
§ When young people do work, their jobs
tend to be less stable – in 2012, 42.0 % of young employees were
working on a temporary contract (four times as much as adults) and 32.0 %
part-time (nearly twice the adults’ rate).
§ Early leavers from education and training are a high-risk group – 55.5% of them
are not employed and within this group about 70% want to work.
§ Resignation is
an increasing concern – 12.6 % of inactive youth wanted to work but were not
searching for employment in the third quarter of 2012.
§ In 2011, 12.9% of young people were neither
in employment nor in education or training (NEETs).
§ There are significant skills
mismatches on Europe's labour market.
§ Despite the crisis, there are over 2
million unfilled vacancies in the EU.
Key actions from
EU
§ Communication: Working together for Europe's young
people – A call to action on youth
unemployment (2013) to
accelerate the implementation of the Youth Guarantee and
the investment in young people, and develop EU-level tools to help EU countries
and firms recruit young people.
§ Youth Employment Initiative (2013) reinforces and accelerates
measures outlined in the Youth Employment Package.
It aims to support particularly young people not in education, employment or
training in regions with a youth unemployment rate above 25 %.
§ Youth on the
Move is a comprehensive package of policy initiatives on education and
employment for young people in Europe
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