According to 2019 Eurostat data, at EU level, about 3.4 million young people are not employed, youth unemployment is 16.9%, almost double the unemployment rate for adults 9.3%. In addition to that, due to the pandemic context, according to the Eurofund’s Covid-19 survey in Romania, Hungary and Spain, more than 10% of young workers claimed to have lost their job for good, so the rates of young NEETs are far higher then in 2019. Sport’s contribution to the employability of young NEETs is a topic that hasn’t been investigated before in Romania and it’s a new topic also in the partner countries. Also, the resort ministries in the partner countries don’t have a specific public policy in this area. The NEETs NEED SPORT (NNS) project was developed by 4 organisations from Romania, Hungary, Spain and UK, with the support of associated partners from each country – Ministry of Youth and Sport in Romania, the John Wesley Theological College in Hungary, 25 social organisations and the administration DGAIA (Child Care Department) and DGJJ (Justice Department) in the region of Barcelona; local Council Southwark, Bucks New University and University of East London., the national, youth-led FRED Campaign UK Youth, and British Council Internationalism Alliance. The general objective of the project is to develop a set of training tools for youth workers/spot coaches in order to increase the employment of marginalized young people (NEETs) using the power of sport as a learning tool - through interactive, fun and attractive activities, thus allowing educational and development activities delivered efficiently to young people. The project will increase young people's soft skills, provide momentum for the employment environment and increase the employment rate. Our project aims to: 1. showcase of good practices related to the working methods of youth workers in their relation with marginalized young people, in the participant countries; 2. Invest in a sustainable transnational network of youth workers that have expertise in the coordination of employment programs based on sports, for marginalized young people in general, and NEETs in particular. 3. develop the skills of about 100 youth workers from the participant countries in employability programs based on sports, for young people with fewer opportunities (including NEETs) 4. foster the inclusion and employability of young people with fewer opportunities (including NEETs) in the partner countries by allowing cross-sectoral cooperation (reginal sports and youth directions – local youth centers – sport centers – Vocational Training Companies - employers). After the first drafts of the training materials are ready, we will implement the training tools during 4 NNS Short-term joint staff training events – 2 offline (in Hungary and Romania) and 2 online (Spain and UK). During the event in Romania we will also sketch together general Action Plans for NEETs in the participant countries. Our pilot employability programmes based on sport in the partner countries will impact a lot of stakeholders in the domain of training, sport, youth, employment: Sports / youth organizations; employment organizations that want to start sporting activities as a tool for employee involvement; national governments that can raise awareness of the potential of sport and employability programmes to various policy domains – employment, youth, education; public employment services; national sport organisations, national governing bodies for sport; European Youth organisations. The NNS project will involve about 100 youth workers in Learning, Teaching or Training activities, about 100 young NEETs in employability programs based on team sports, about 100 representatives of youth and sport organizations, employment organizations; national governments; public employment services; national sport organisations, national governing bodies for sport, that will be present at our multiplier events in Hungary, Spain, Romania and UK. We estimate that through our NNS Awareness Campaign Toolkit launch – seminar, the awareness events that each partner will create, the selection of participants to our training events and pilot employability program, and all our dissemination channels we will touch more than 5000 people.
The general objective of the project was to develop a set of training tools for youth workers/sport coaches for raining the employment of marginalized young people (NEETs) using the power of sport as a learning tool. The project also desired to increase young people's soft skills, provide momentum for the employment environment and increase the employment rate. Our project has aimed to: 1. showcase of good practices related to the working methods of youth workers in their relation with marginalized young people, in the participant countries; 2. Invest in a sustainable transnational network of youth workers that have expertise in the coordination of employment programs based on sports, for marginalized young people in general, and NEETs in particular. 3. develop the skills of about 100 youth workers from the participant countries in employability programs based on sports, for young people with fewer opportunities (including NEETs) 4. foster the inclusion and employability of young people with fewer opportunities (including NEETs) in the partner countries by allowing cross-sectoral cooperation (reginal sports and youth directions – local youth centers – sport centers – Vocational Training Companies - employers).
According to 2019 Eurostat data, at EU level, about 3.4 million young people are not employed, youth unemployment is 16.9%, almost double the unemployment rate for adults 9.3%. In addition to that, due to the pandemic context we just came out of, according to the Eurofund’s Covid-19 survey in Romania, Hungary and Spain, more than 10% of young workers claimed to have lost their job for good and young NEETs rates are far higher then in 2019. Sport’s contribution to the employability of young NEETs is a topic that hasn’t been investigated in Romania and a new topic also in the partner countries. More, the resort ministries in the partner countries don’t have a specific public policy in this area. The NNS project was developed by 4 organizations from Romania, Hungary, Spain and UK, with the support of associated partners from each country – Ministry of Youth and Sport in Romania, the John Wesley Theological College in Hungary, 25 social organizations and the administration DGAIA (Child Care Department) and DGJJ (Justice Department) in the region of Barcelona; local Council Southwark, Bucks New University and University of East London, the national, youth-led FRED Campaign UK Youth and British Council Internationalism Alliance.