YounGO
Start date: Feb 1, 2016,
End date: Jun 30, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
European youth faces the challenge of employability. Some 4.7 million young Europeans are unemployed according to the latest Eurostat estimates that at the last publication June 30, 2015, the countries with the highest youth unemployment rate are: Spain (53.2%), Greece (52.4%), Croatia (45.5%), Italy (42.7%), Cyprus (36%) and Portugal (34.7%). The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned of the dangerous mix of high unemployment, increased inactivity and precarious work facing youth in developed countries.The complex socio-economic reality makes access to the labor market of young people and hinders their quality of life and their families, reducing their welfare, and conditioning their personal and social development. The situation of European economic crisis particularly affects young people in their transition from the education system to the, according to the World Youth Report of the United Nations (2012) labor market.One of the objectives set by the EU 2020 strategy is to generate more and better levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion. Is to secure employment for 75% of people between 24 and 64; it also wants to ensure the investment of 3% of GDP in the EU in R & D and innovation.Moreover, in this situation the European framework poses "Other instruments for employment growth" tools as recognizing entrepreneurship as strategies for improving access to self-employment for young people. "Investment in growth" is also cited as one of the proposals is to foster the "INNOVATIVE INSTRUMENTS".Since the official proposal of European Cooperation in the field of youth is looking to invest in this area, and train young people through their empowerment and potential to contribute to social development; also it is given prominence to promote innovative ideas and exchange of best practices; promote non-formal learning as support for innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.The main motivation for wanting to make the association YOUNGO project is to promote and implement creative initiatives and youth-led projects that promote employment and self-employment, while generating added value and benefit from your nearest social environment from the acquisition of new skills and employability skills.REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIC TO RESPOND TO THE PROJECT• Generate ideas from the creativity that positively affect youth closer reality.• Promoting employment and self-employment through the creation, promotion and implementation of initiatives and creative projects.• Training young people in a creative methodology to enable them to replicate and apply this training in their countries of origin.• Develop new partnerships with young people and entities involved in the change.• Generate greater social impact multiplying assets change.• Facilitate the sharing of concerns, desires and proposals of different entities to social changes that favor the social and labor integration of European youth• develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young people through facilitation methodologies that generate empathy, solidarity and cooperation• To give visibility to the social capabilities of entities related to the youth sector, encouraging their creativity, skills and providing opportunities for debate and to create positive change• Zoom ICTs as key tools in the processes of social change.