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Come on Youth, Let's Intern !

2019-2-TR01-KA105-0787412019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: TR|LT|PL|ES|IT|CZ · Grant: €23,997
Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemploymentOvercoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) - basic skills

Objectives

Following the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, the rate of youth unemployment increased year by year and became a problem all over the world, especially in Europe. Eurostat's (Eurostat), the youth unemployment rate in 2018, according to data sharing; 15.9 percent in the EU and 17.7 percent in the Eurozone. According to July 2018 data; Germany has the lowest youth unemployment rate in the EU with 6.1 percent, followed by Czech and Poland. The highest rates of youth unemployment are Greece (May 2018), Spain (33.4 percent) and Italy (30.8 percent). Official data on the youth unemployment covering the 15-24 age group in Turkey reached 26.7% in January 2019, we see that broke the record for the last 10 years. According to the survey of Internship.com, which works focused on American-based jobs and internships; In 2015, 69% of the companies with 100 or more employees were offered job offers to their trainees and they did not make any purchases outside the management position. Again in the same site with more than 300 employers, employees, and trainees; The chances of being hired by the company you work with internship are stated as 7 out of 10. As seen in the data, youth unemployment rates, especially in our country and Europe, have reached record levels and are increasing day by day. In order to contribute to the solution of the problem of youth and skills shortage, which we have mentioned above, as Youthina, and to contribute to its solution, we have decided to implement the ‘'Come on Youth Let's Intern!'’ project. In this context, the aim of our project is; The aim of this course is to enable students to gain internship awareness in national/international areas in order to improve their vocational and skills competencies and thus to increase employment rates. For this purpose, we will also support the National Development Goals of our country. In this context, the specific objectives of our project are: - To establish an online international web portal where internship opportunities are published in order to gain motivation and speed in finding an internship. - To provide awareness of internship among young people and to take steps to facilitate their employability. - To provide the opportunity to do internships for national and international youth together in a limited role/model and create a peer learning process - Providing the transfer of experience and experience to the decision makers and donors of the companies - To promote, especially to young people, to develop their self-development opportunities of internships, Erasmus+ Internship especially - Key competence and soft skill development to gain awareness - To provide solutions for skill mismatch by providing sustainable support in directing the internship and finding the right job. - CV preparation, interviewing techniques, making presentations - Establishing permanent behavioral change in young people about intercultural learning, learning to learn, active participation and inclusion - To gain the feeling of European Citizenship by providing international integration and learning environment. -Contribute to the visibility Turkey National Agency for Erasmus + Program, the European Commission and the EU Presidency and to increase the dissemination among young people Our project; will contribute to youth employment problem which is among 2023 Development Goals of our country. Our project also includes; The key competencies and core skills of the European Commission have been developed in accordance with the priorities of youth unemployment and overcoming the incompatibility of skills. These priorities are among the targets of our project.

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