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Youth Employment through Self-knowledge

2020-2-ES02-KA105-0155582020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: ES|TR|HR|BG|IT|RS|MK · Grant: €8,113
Health and wellbeingYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Social entrepreneurship / social innovation

Objectives

The project "Youth employment through self-knowledge" arises in the context of the rise of the Covid-19 pandemic, in which there was already some concern and anticipation for the social and economic crisis linked to the said health crisis. Currently, the youth unemployment rate in Spain is 29.6%, and despite the fact that it has fallen by 37.65% in the last year, it has been leading the list of youth unemployment in EU countries for months. Once again, it is evident that the socioeconomic crisis linked to Covid-19 is emerging among young people. The YES project (Youth Employment through Self-Knowledge) is a mobility project for young people and youth workers, whose main goal was to use the methodology of non-formal education and self-knowledge to empower young people, resulting in learning in entrepreneurship and other tools that favour and facilitate their access to the labour market. In this way, it will try to propose a new methodology to promote the active role of youth, while working on employment issues, youth reality, and professional goals, based on the needs and realities of each young person. The main activity of the project has been the realisation of an online training course with young participants and youth professionals from different European countries. For all this, the project has been based on walking a path together with the participants in which they themselves were in charge of exploring their realities, their passions and their goals, and how to make of all this their own plan to build their professional future. . This empowerment of young people through self-knowledge has been linked to the analysis of their reality and the reality that surrounds them, working and raising awareness of values ​​such as respect, freedom, democracy or equality, as defended in the Article 2 of the EU Treaty. The objectives of the project and its evolution have been the following: -Create a long-term collaboration network between international youth organizations in the field of mental health, youth employment and entrepreneurship -Develop skills in young people in terms of self-knowledge and entrepreneurship and provide them with resources that help them have access to quality employment -Generate awareness and knowledge of the reality of each young person, in the dimension of their motivations and abilities, but also in that of the social reality that surrounds them -Use non-formal education methods to develop skills in entrepreneurship from the perspective of self-knowledge -Facilitate opportunities for young people at risk of exclusion or with fewer resources through their empowerment and tools for self-knowledge, employment and entrepreneurship.

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