In a context where too many young people leave school prematurely, the project "MedNC: a network for the successful integration of young NEETs" aims at strengthening the key skills and social inclusion of these early school leavers, thanks to the identification and implementation of innovative, replicable and result-oriented initiatives and methods , as well as good exchanges between VET staff. This strategic partnership is part of the MedNC network that brings together actors working for the socio-professional integration of young NEETs in the Euro-Mediterranean area. This partnership is made up of six innovative French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese organizations, which have shown their ability to reconcile early school leavers with vocational training. The purpose of this project is to share and promote the successful experiences through a process of training and exchange of good practices at Euro-Mediterranean level. In the long term, the expected impacts are the social inclusion and the improvement of the employability of the low-skilled and / or disadvantaged early school leavers, but also the reinforcement of the cooperation between these organizations and the territorial and national institutions, who can then incorporate those good practices into their education policy. In addition, by relying on more competent local employees, companies will be able to improve quality and productivity. Concretely, the means used to achieve these objectives will be: * The exchange of good practices and trainings during 5 conferences and transnational meetings organized by and for the members of this partnership and the MedNC network; * The creation and diffusion of a mapping listing the best practices related to the socio-professional insertion of the young NEETs in the countries of this strategic partnership; * The improvement of the quality, reliability and transmission of information and communication between the members of the Mediterranean New Chance network; and the presentation of reliable and quality information related to early school leavers who benefitted from the project. The partners will use an open and empirical methodology, as they will rely on relevant and effective practices and innovations based on field experiences in contact with young NEETs in the Euro-Mediterranean area. The cross-fertilization of experiences will lead to qualitative, open-access and intuitive capitalization and communication tools and a mapping. This methodology will enable all Euro-Mediterranean actors to improve their daily work with young early school leavers.
In a context where too many young people leave school prematurely, the project "Mediterranean New Chance network : a network for the successful integration of young NEETs" strengthened the key skills and social inclusion of these early school leavers, thanks to the identification and sharing of innovative, replicable and result-oriented initiatives and methods , as well as good exchanges between VET staff. This 18-months strategic partnership (September 2018 – February 2020) was part of the Mediterranean New Chance network that brings together actors working for the socio-professional integration of young NEETs in the Euro-Mediterranean area. This partnership was made up of six French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese organizations, which have shown their ability to help the integration of early school leavers with vocational training. This project enabled to share and promote their successful experiences through a process of trainings and exchange of good practices at the Euro-Mediterranean level. On the long term, the impacts are the social inclusion of more low-skilled or early school leavers, but also the reinforcement of the cooperation between these organizations and the territorial and national institutions, who can then incorporate those good practices into their education policy. Concretely, the partners used the following means and tools: * Exchange of good practices and trainings during 5 conferences and transnational meetings organized by and for the members of this partnership and the Mediterranean New Chance network * Creation and diffusion of 2 guides of good practices, including 1 platform of podcasts, presenting the best practices related to the socio-professional insertion of the young NEETs in the countries of this strategic partnership and of the Mediterranean New Chance network. Those tools are open-access and intuitive. *Creation and diffusion of 1 literacy review that gives concretes context data and presents the challenges of NEETs integration in the Mediterranean region * Improvement of the quality, reliability and transmission of information and communication between the members of the Mediterranean New Chance network; and the presentation of reliable and quality information related to early school leavers who benefitted from the project. *Advocacy actions that enabled the Mediterranean New Chance network to be recognized at the Summit of the two Shores in 2019.