The “NEETs in NEED” proposal intends to plan and develop specific innovative actions to prevent and reduce the unemployment rate among NEETs (18-30 years old) through the realization of research, training and evaluation activities focused on life skills and competences.The objectives of the project are:• to foster the cooperation, exchange of knowledge and capacity development in the field of NEETs unemployment and education between partner countries; • to create and reinforce synergies between public institutions and private organizations that work with young people, education institutes and representatives of business and labour market. • to create new tools and methods that promote the acquisition and improvement of new competences of youth workers, trainers and educators in their daily work with NEETs. • to support and facilitate NEETs integration in the labour market, either as employees or as entrepreneurs;• to empower NEETs´ potential and autonomy to contribute to a sustainable development of society and to European values and goals;• to promote entrepreneurship, employment, education and volunteering opportunities with regions outside of Europe;Coherently with the objectives above mentioned, the project expected results are:- the transfer of non-formal education methodologies and tools useful for working with NEETs´ competences and motivation in order to combat the unemployment, education and training drop-out phenomenon;- the experimentation of guidance and mentoring systems with the help of EVS, as a practical entrepreneurship experience;- the experimentation of trainings for youth workers;- the development of models of intervention in working with NEETs;- the creation a network and of a virtual place for resources for those youth organization, institutions working with these young people.The project activities will be developed in 8 partner countries: 4 European (Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal) and 4 non-EU countries (Philippines, India, Ecuador and Mexico).With this proposal we intend to directly involve 8 youth workers in "Partnership Building and Social Enterprise Integration to Youth Mobility Programs" Seminar, 18 NEETs in EVS activities, at least 200 NEETs in workshops and territorial activities, 16 youth workers, trainers and educators from partner countries in "NEETs in NEEd" training activities, 4 youth workers in Job-Shadowing activitities. We expect to spread the results of this project to more than 15.000 youth workers, educators, trainers, business representatives, politicians.
The “NEETs in NEED” proposal planed and developed specific innovative actions to prevent and reduce the unemployment rate among NEETs (18-30 years old) through the realization of research, training and evaluation activities focused on life skills and competences. The objectives of the project were: • to foster the cooperation, exchange of knowledge and capacity development in the field of NEETs unemployment and education between partner countries; • to create and reinforce synergies between public institutions and private organizations that work with young people, education institutes and representatives of business and labour market. • to create new tools and methods that promote the acquisition and improvement of new competences of youth workers, trainers and educators in their daily work with NEETs. • to support and facilitate NEETs integration in the labour market, either as employees or as entrepreneurs; • to empower NEETs´ potential and autonomy to contribute to a sustainable development of society and to European values and goals; • to promote entrepreneurship, employment, education and volunteering opportunities with regions outside of Europe; Coherently with the objectives above mentioned, the results achieved are: - the transfer of non-formal education methodologies and tools useful for working with NEETs´ competences and motivation in order to combat the unemployment, education and training drop-out phenomenon; - the experimentation of guidance and mentoring systems with the help of EVS, as a practical entrepreneurship experience; - the experimentation of trainings for youth workers; - the development of models of intervention in working with NEETs; - the creation a network and of a virtual place for resources for those youth organization, institutions working with these young people. The project activities have been developed in 8 partner countries: 4 European (Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal) and 4 non-EU countries (Philippines, India, Ecuador and Mexico). With this proposal we directly involved 8 youth workers in "Partnership Building and Social Enterprise Integration to Youth Mobility Programs" Seminar that took place in Philippines, 18 young NEETs in EVS activities in partner countries, 200 young NEETs in workshops and territorial activities, 16 youth workers, trainers and educators from partner countries in "NEETs in NEEd" training activities, 4 youth workers in Job-Shadowing activitities in Philippines, Ecuador, Mexico and India. Public entities, social enterprises, politicians, young NEETs and youth workers collaborated during 19 months. More information of the project and it´s results can be found on www.neetsinneed.org. The initial budget of the project was 163.575,00 Euros and the EC co-financed the project with an amount of 150.000,00 Euros.