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Youth Can Do It !
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

“Unemployment levels are alarmingly high, concealing many different realities and causes that often run deep”- Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, June 2013;Youth unemployment is considered by many to be one of the most pressing issues facing European governments, and is high on the agenda of EU leaders.According to recent statistics the average EU28 youth unemployment rate (age 15-24) is equal to 23.4% with significant heterogeneity across European countries which has been further strengthened after the economic downturn leading some advanced economies to reach the highest levels of youth unemployment ever recorded -SOURCE:EENEE Analytical Report No. 22 prepared for the European Commission; There are many reasons behind the problem of youth unemployment, for example: lack of particular skills, wrong educational system, mismatches between education and needs in labor market, lack of self confidence, lack of self esteem, and of course structural lack of working places.Young people are more likely to be unemployed than adults. In this context the proposed project aimed to enhance youth workers’ skills on promoting the employability of young people and organizing effective non-formal activities. The general aim of this project was to provide a space for youth workers, youth leaders to understand better the background and causes of long term unemployment of young people exploring the youth work activities by exploring and inventing new tools on positive thinking, empowering job seekers and fighting against social exclusion in local and transnational level. The main objectives of the project were : O1-to train the youth leaders and youth workers as resource persons in developing the competencies to increase the youth employment O 2-to create partnership and to develop resources in order to facilitate the young integration on the labour market O 3-to promote intra and intersectorial cooperation as way to increase youth employment; O 4- to promote cultural diversity in a European context; The main activity of the project was the training course for youth workers ,wich will be hosted by Euroeduas Association from Romania,Petrosani those principal aims are to help the young people to integrate into society and to facilitate the rapid integration of them in the local labor market; Within the training have been actively involved youth leaders and youth workers from 10 partner organisations from 9 countries in wich the rate of youth unemployment is high and very high : Romania,Bulgaria,Ukraine,Greece,Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,Italy , Turkey,Spain and Portugal; The activities from the training course included non formal methods and development of specialized and practical information on the project theme in sessions in wich the role of education in overcoming unemployment, complementarities among formal, non formal education, strengthening the cooperation between NGO sector and other relevant actors on the labour market for youth employment, developing the partner organisations’ capacity and others.The organisers learnt from the experience, and developed their own awareness of the impact of youth work and non-formal learning on youth employability and opportunities for success on the job market; Using non-formal techniques,44 youth workers have got positive skills, competences and relevant experience, about how to facilitate the integration of the youth peoples into the labour market;The project give as well the possibilty for the people with fewer opportunity to take part in the activities; The training had a positive impact on developing the participants’ personal, social and professional competences and on developing the organisational capacity of the partners;At the end of the course, the participants developed strategies of inclusion of young people on labor market,developing own check lists and procedures for the most essential steps in next projects; On the long term the project"Youth Can Do It" has impact in developing the capacity and cooperation among the organization at European level to develop useful resources to increase the youth integration on the labour market;

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