Goals–Rationale The situation of employment of Young People in Europe is very poor, especially for those who are "nowhere" (NEETs). On the other hand, actions, initiatives, innovative practices arise on the field that are motivating and putting people on the move. It is important to foster such actions, propagate them towards different actors and territories, and built upon them, for another step forward. The "core mottos" of NetMe-In are: * Professional Social Networks and Digital Professional Identity Management are key to access job market; * Informal and less formal knowledge building enables to improves filed actors' Web 2.0 literacy and sets the grounds for self-esteem, confidence, trust, and commitment; * Building Accompaniment Networks in Territories and Europe with all field actors is compelling to better accompany Young People in their "Journey to Work". Background NetMe-In is inspired by the outcomes of AcroJump (LLLP-LDV 2012-2014), and the reflections of a Task Force settled by the Rhône-Alpes Region, the French Agency and FREREF on "Rethinking the links between Education, Training and Companies"; it is also rooted in more than ten years of experience in the accompaniment of publics at risk. Several recent surveys show how the use Professional Social Networks deeply impacts the recruitment processes, thus encouraging NetMe-In to take a further step froward. Target Audiences & Stakeholders Our target audiences comprise: * Young People at risk, NEETs, former NEETs; specific needs targeted: rebuilding self-esteem and trust; valuing successful experiences; valuing their Web 2.0 literacy into managing a "professional" digital identity and getting a better access to Job market; * Field Actors of the Accompaniment: teachers, trainers,people in guidance, inclusion, insertion, access to employment, etc.; specific needs targeted: improving literacy in Web 2.0 and PSNs, use of DPI and job search on the Internet; encourage working in networks with other structures of a different nature (e.g. public-private, local-international); * Actors of the Economic World: recruiters, Interim Agencies, entrepreneurship developers, social economy, etc.; specific needs targeted: getting more confident in Web 2.0 based PSNs in recruitment processes; being more involved in the pre-recruitment accompaniment process; considering NEETs with a more benevolent stance in regards for their positive experiences. The stakeholders include: Territorial Institutions: Regional bodies for Education, Employment, Youth care; the Regional economic developers; members of the economic eco-systems fostering a better access to Job Market for the young NEETs; decision and policy makers at local, regional, national and European levels acting to enable the relevant policies and systems and their improvement. Consortium The consortium comprises a "Kernel" of partners who already share the spirit and philosophy of NetMe-In: FREREF, UBS, FUEIB, Sophia R&I and CEIS, and new partners: the Stichting Dutch Foundation of Innovation Welfare 2 Work, the Bogazici University LifeLong learning Centre, the Croatian Company Cistoca and the Technica Skola Karlovac. Outcomes NetMe-In global outcomes are to: * Build Local Accompaniment Networks (LANs), and associated them into a global European Accompaniment Network (EAN); * Develop Knowledge Building Caps (KBCs), i.e. attractive on-line learning modules, to develop Web 2.0 literacy of filed actors for a more efficient management of Digital Professional Identity (DPI) and use of Professional Social Networks (PSNs); * Issue Lessons Learnt and Recommendations. Activities NetMe-In Targets and Stakeholders are implied from the start info field actions: * NetMe-In Days gathering all actors to exchange experience, reflect upon improvements in the use of PSNs, management of DPI, and building of Accompaniment Networks; * Meetings of LANs and EAN (real and virtual); * Pilot Actions to trial the KBCs with all field actors including Young People and NEETs; * Learning Mobility, enabling partners to acquire more knowledge about the areas of interest in NetMe-In, enhance practices and start building the EAN; * Final Conference, opportunity to share NetMe-In outcomes with a broader audience and prepare follow-up actions. Value creation and sustainability NetMe-in partners use the word "implication": implication results into a shared process to produce common value. People are committed on both side, the ones who "imply" and the ones who are "implied". NetMe-In main value creation process lies into implying all our target audiences, stakeholders, partner territories, into developing and appropriating innovative practices in accompanying young people in difficulties and NEETs into a better "Journey to Work"; and into fostering, supporting and sustaining actors to share these new creative approaches across Europe. All NetMe-In productions, based on Web 2.0 open sources techniques and tools are available freely.
The employment situation for young people in Europe remains very worrying, especially for young NEETs. Many initiatives exist and it is important that the actors involved in these actions can exchange, meet and work together for better integration into the labor market. The NetMe-In project guideline is organized around 3 elements: -Professional Social Networks (PSN) and the management of one's own digital professional identity are keys to entering the labor market. -Acquisition of knowledge informally or non-formally allows to become familiar with the new opportunities of web 2.0 and builds self-confidence and commitment. -Building support networks in the territories and in Europe with all the actors in the field is essential to better support young people in their "Pathway to employment". NetMe-In is a continuation of the European project AcroJump which had already initiated the work on the valorisation of the informal experiences for low-skilled young people on social networks. This public was one of the "targets" of NetMe-in, as well as the actors of the accompaniment (teachers, trainers, actors of the orientation, the access to employment ...) and the actors of the economic world (recruiters, actors of the social economy, ...) With a consortium of 10 partners from 6 different countries (France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and Croatia: FREREF, University of South Brittany, the International Network of Cités des Métiers, FUEIB, Sophia R&I, CEIS, Stichting Dutch Foundation of Innovation Welfare 2 Work, Bogazici University Llifelong Learning Center, Cistoca and Technica Skola School in Karlovac). The project had the following objectives: -The construction of local accompaniment networks (LAN), which were then combined to create a European network (e-CoPAc) -The development of Knowledge Building Caps (KBC) in the form of an online module to acquire knowledge and know-how on the management of one’s digital identity, job seeking, the construction of his network professional… -the publication of lessons learned and recommendations from the project. These objectives have been fully achieved. First, the project partners mobilized the actors from the 3 target audiences on their territory during NetMe-In days to sensitize them to the project's approach and invite them to share their experiences. 263 people participated in these events organized by the field partners, symbolizing the capacity of the project members to mobilize local actors. Some of these NetMe-In days participants were then asked to participate in the local support networks who continued the exchange of practices and began to work on the production of contents based on their experiences. 174 people have participated throughout Europe in these LAN. The content developed took the form of KBC: articulation of "microcapsules" (testimonials, interviews, case studies ...) in more or less elaborate training scenarios. These KBCs covered various topics such as "PSN for recruitment", "PSN as a tool for successful career", "Accompaniment for the accompaniment process around the use of PSN and Digital Professional Identity »... 10 KBCs were foreseen in the application, and 13 were issued at the end of the project, based on 36 microcaps. These KBCs have taken different forms: comics, videos, board games, ... but all the resources are available online on the project website: http://netmein.eu/ or on the youtube channel of the project: https://goo.gl/gK8Umh These KBCs were then tested during pilot actions by the partners on their territory: 1120 people had the opportunity to test the contents developed during the project, allowing the collection of their opinions and comments. Another aspect of NetMe-In has been the creation of a European Community of Practice for Accompaniment (e-CoPAc), a European emanation of the local networks. The members of this community gathered during two mobilities and set goals and action plans for the future. Many sustainability actions are already underway, evidencing of the sustainability of the developed content. One of these is the city of Modena, which has integrated the results of the project into the training catalog offered to schools in the city, UBS which has integrated some KBC into courses for their students or the DFIW2W which is continuing the development of content with new partners in Scotland as part of a new Erasmus + project.