High rate of unemployment is the biggest challenge for youth in EU countries and Turkey. The main reason for unemployments in youth( 21.4% in EU countries and 18.4% in Turkey) is low competence, unschooled, inability to follow developments in specific sectors. The significant challenge for increasing youth employability is to support them in the effort of achieving new competencies to become more competitive on the labor market, as well as designing new‚ youth tailored’ activities, characterized by high adaptability, and new working skills and sustainability in the sector. By the help of innovative, smart, free of charge, easy to use, accesible, user friendly learning materials we should improve the competence of youth people to increase employability. Bakery represents a major component of food production and it is one of the potential sector for youth employees in Turkey and also majority of young people working in this sector are primary school graduates. The project will be a response to the problem of young people in Turkey, partner countries lacking professional skills and knowledge in bakery sector, which leads to them fitting in the present labour market. The Project is in accordance with the horizontal priority “Achievement of relevant and high quality skills and competences” supporting individuals in acquiring and developing key competences in order to foster employability, socio-educational and professional development. The Project also will contribute to promote self confidence and "social inclusion " of target group, in particular through innovative integrated approaches by rising awareness of youth in bakery production, by integrating non-educated youth to social activities of the projects and by inclusive training activities (pilot training of youth) The Project will also support the development of social, intercultural competences enhance the access, participation and learning performance of disadvantaged learners (non educated youth). Objectives of the project; -To provide opportunity to youth who quit school early or poorly educated, through free, innovative training materials about bakery sector to increase young people’s employability -To promote integration of young people in the labour market, - To encourage employers to transfer knowledge, skills and experience from experienced staff to those who need their knowledge – new (young) employees - To prepare youth workers to professional life - To develop innovative approaches (methodologies, tools and practices) for personal and professional development of the youth workers to prepare flexible, smart training materials so that they can easily access and utilize. The project consortium has six partners from three countries. The project will be coordinated by BESAŞ Ar-Ge Center. BESAŞ Ar-Ge is a research and development center where scientific product development works are carried out. It can produce all types of bakery products with its infrastructure, and it provides practical training oopurtunities to youth. The other core partners are: - Central Research Institute of Food and Feed Control (CRIFFC, Turkey) - Ministry of Food Agriculture and livestock/ General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies (GDAR) - Bursa Directorate of Provincial Food Agriculture and Livestock(Turkey), - The National Institute of Research & Development for Food Bioresources (IBA Bucharest, Romania), - Center of Food and Fermantation Technologies (TFTAK, Estonia), The short-time impact of Project; to prepare young employees and young employee candidates to business life by flexible, smart, free of charge, user friendly, easy to access, articulate training materials. -It will help to reach incomprehensible, complex legislations, informations and new technologies easily. So young uneducated people can easily develop their competences in bakery sector. -The expected long term outcomes will be the decline in the unemployed young population as the employment rate of the young population increases in the bakery sector in the participating countries. And more qualified workers will be employed in bakery sector.
High rate of unemployment is the biggest challenge for youth in EU countries and Turkey. The main reason for unemployment in youth( 21.4% in EU countries and 18.4% in Turkey) is low competence, high cost of education and training, lack of motivation and inability to follow developments in specific sectors. The significant challenge for increasing youth employability is to support them in the effort of achieving new competencies to become more competitive on the labor market, as well as designing new‚ youth tailored’ activities, characterized by high adaptability, and new working skills and sustainability in the sector. By the help of innovative, smart, free of charge, easy to use, accesible, user friendly learning materials we should improve the competence of youth people to increase employability. Bakery represents a major component of food production and it is one of the potential sector for youth employees. Unfortunately majority of young people working in this sector are primary school graduates in Turkey and lack of professional experience is very common among in this sector. The project is a response to the problem of young people in Turkey and partner countries lacking professional skills and knowledge in bakery sector, which leads to them fitting in the present labour market. Objectives of the project are; -To provide opportunity to youth who quit school early or poorly educated, through free, innovative training materials about bakery sector to increase young people’s employability -To promote integration of young people in the labour market, - To encourage employers to transfer knowledge, skills and experience from experienced staff to those who need their knowledge – new (young) employees - To prepare youth workers to professional life - To develop innovative approaches (methodologies, tools and practices) for personal and professional development of the youth workers to prepare flexible, smart training materials so that they can easily access and utilize. The project consortium has six partners from three countries. The project was coordinated by BESAŞ which has a R&D center where scientific product development works are carried out. The other core partners are: - Central Research Institute of Food and Feed Control (CRIFFC, Turkey) - Ministry of Food Agriculture and livestock/ General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies (GDAR) - Bursa Directorate of Provincial Food Agriculture and Livestock(Turkey), - The National Institute of Research & Development for Food Bioresources (IBA Bucharest, Romania), - Center of Food and Fermantation Technologies (TFTAK, Estonia), The consortium aimed to solve the problem of young people especially 18-26 age in Turkey and partner countries lacking professional skills and knowledge in bakery sector, which leads difficulty to them fitting into the present labour market. Within the scope of the project; -4 handbook (Best bread production, Sensory Assesment, Hygiene and Sanitation, EU and Turkey Legislation)", 2 reports(Evaluation of Need Assesment Survey of Each Country and European Union Situation Survey and Impact Analysis Report) and a Curriculum were prepared in four languages. -A website, smartphone application and e learning module were prepared which the target group could access and use for free. -The outputs prepared in the scope of the project in four languages have loaded to the project website. -All training materials, questions and answers and videos via e learning module placed in website. -All trainig materials were used in the preparation of the smart phone application. The youth can easily reach training materials via smart phones. During the project in order to increase awareness of project and to be able to disseminate project results different training activities were performed; joint staff training events, interm trainings and pilot training. 2 Joint Staff Training (Romania, Estonia), 3 trainee training (BESAŞ, GYKMAE), Erasmus Days (BESAŞ), Pilot Training (BESAŞ-R & D), and a Workshop were organised. Local municipalities and authorities supported all project activities, trainings, meetings, conferences. With the participation of mayor, governor and executives at the meetings, our project took part in the written and visual press and the results of the project reached to a wider audience. The fact that the project website prepared in the scope of the project in four languages have made this website available throughout Europe. Similarly, the mobile phone application, which has been prepared in four languages, is available in Europe and internationally. Within the scope of the project, the contents of the training materials and handbooks prepared taking into consideration the production and analysis standards in international standards. In this respect, the project outputs will reach European and even international beneficiaries in the long term.