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YOU(TH) POWER FOR EMPLOYMENT

2019-2-CY02-KA105-0016352019Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: CY|EL|PL|LV|ES|IT · Grant: €24,039
Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemploymentNew innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training coursesKey Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) - basic skills

Objectives

The main aim of the project YOU(TH) POWER FOR EMPLOYMENT is to discover, develop and strengthen the soft skills as a tool to reduce youth unemployment and how to enter the labor market more effectively and efficiently. Why Soft Skills? Because soft skills, defined as personal attributes you need to succeed in the workplace and related to how you work with others, are linked to the 8 Key Competences defined by the E+ program. The project based on non-formal education methods will highlight the importance of the 8-Key Competences empowering young people to develop and improve their soft skills to become more competitive in the labour market and to encourage them towards their own initiatives.YOU(TH)POWER FOR EMPLOYMENT aims to help young people to understand and define what are soft skills in general as well as observe, discover and improve their own skills to fight the unemployment locally and globally.The main objectives of the project are: -to analyze, discuss the main issues/events in EU and how they affect (increase or decrease) the risk of youth unemployment; define causes and possible solutions towards positive youth employment; -To improve the most important soft skills that most employers are looking for: Communication Skills, Critical thinking, Leadership, Positive Attitude, Teamwork, Work Ethics, self development, creativity -To empower youth with skills that can practically be used to find a job or create their own job -To promote the European job experiences letting participants discover what EU is doing to face youth unemployment (ie. visit at Eures office) -To empower young people to become new European entrepreneurs; trough study visit to local social entrepreneurship and startup -to encourage cooperation between organisations/ participants with new tools/methods dealing with topics: soft skills and youth unemployment in rural/ remote areas -To improve active participation and active citizenship at local, regional, national, European and global level (among young people with fewer opportunities) -to promote E+mobility opportunities and equip participants with the basic knowledge and experience to organize future E+ projects on various topics: youth opportunities locally/globally, youth unemployment, improvement of soft skills, key competences, intercultural dialogue; And many more (please visit the first section of this project application)

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