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"Up Youth's Alley"

2022-1-PL01-KA152-YOU-0000657462022Mobility of young peoplefinalized
Countries: PL|RS|BG|MK|CZ|RO · Grant: €28,863
Digital skills and competencesYouth employability

Objectives

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the measures taken to combat it, Europe has seen a sharp increase in the youth unemployment rate. When doing a research, this issue seemed to be one of the burning issues in Europe. After seven years of constant decline in youth unemployment (period 2012-2019), and due to the emergence of virus COVID-19, in 2020, there was a continuous monthly increase in this parameter. Because of COVID-19, forced digitalisation shocked many industries and the education system. Needs that employers had were a demanding set of skills that could meet the measures applied globally. One of the basic skills we identified were digital skills. However, not all young people had the need or access to practice them. Lack of these skills, through the investigation, we associated with higher unemployment rates, including youth unemployment. With this project, we wanted to reduce local unemployment levels and reduce unemployment in the local communities of partner organisations and follow the EU efforts mentioned above. Hence the general goal of this project: was to create an encouraging environment in which students can use elements of non-formal education for personal and professional development to increase their chances of integration into the labour market. Therefore, our project’s specific objectives were: 1. Formulating the theoretical framework will make it easier for 42 participants from six countries to define the causes of the complex integration of young people into the market work and raise awareness of the possible risks of complex integration. 2. Strengthening practical and digital skills, which will provide better inclusion in modern workflows for a group of 42 participants. 3. Process support self-reflections and evaluations of individual abilities and potentials necessary for market integration work through 4 sessions that will bring together 42 participants from six countries within two days. 4. Development of social, civic and multicultural competencies necessary both for sustainable integration into the labour market and for promoting the values of the European Union to 42 participants using non-formal methods. 5. Application of acquired skills and attitudes that 42 project participants will achieve by designing and implementing educational visual and video content that they will share with the general public through social networks.

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