YEES – Building local capacities for Youth Employability and Entrepreneurial Skills Erasmus Project

Project Title

YEES – Building local capacities for Youth Employability and Entrepreneurial Skills

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building for youth in neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Youth unemployment has been a problem in Europe for a long time, but it took a particularly bad development with the economic crisis following the credit crunch of 2008.Even though economic observers claim economic recovery for large parts of Europe, the unemployment rates of young people are still double as high as those of the general population standing in November 2019 at 6,3% (EU28, total) respectively at 14,3 (EU28, youth). These leaves more than 3.200.000 young people without employment in the EU28. In Bosnia-Hercegovina and Montenegro, the unemployment rate of young people stands at 46% (BiH) and 26% (MNE) respectively in 2018.This being said, it is evident that youth employment is of high societal relevance and manifest one of the key challenges for young people. The EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 also highlights the importance of youth employment by formulating with the 7th European Youth Goal “Quality Employment for All” a separate goal on youth employment.In this context, civil society organisations play a crucial role to support the integration of young people into the labour market by using various educational and informational support measures. Accordong to the research “What Works in Soft Skills Development for Youth Employment?” (Youth Employment Funders Group, 2017) two aspects are key here:- Build coherence around Soft Skills (including a focussing on core skills while taking a holistic view)- Catalyse essential partnerships (including creating education and training partnerships with businesses, and developing linkages between CSOs, businesses and educational institutions)Accordingly, the 22-months project “YEES – Building local capacities for Youth Employability and Entrepreneurial Skills” aims to build sustainable capacities for youth employability and entrepreneurial skill development in BiH and MNE for local youth stakeholders by pursuing the following objectives:- To increase the competences of youth workers to foster young peoples` employment opportunities through educational and informational programmes including on entrepreneurship education- To strengthen cross-sectoral cooperation between CSOs, municipal youth structures and the private sector for raising youth employability and entrepreneurial soft skill development among young people- To enhance the availability and accessibility of educational resources and lifelong learning opportunities on youth employability and entrepreneurial soft skill developmentIn essence, the project intends to contribute to- fostering cooperation and exchanges in the field of youth between Programme Countries and Partner Countries from the Western Balkans- improving the quality and recognition of youth work and non-formal learning in the Western Balkans and enhance synergies and cooperation with the labour market and public sector- fostering the development, testing and launching of educational and informational programmes of non-formal learning on youth employability

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149402,2 Eur

Project Coordinator

UDRUZENJE ZA KULTURU, PODRSKU I EDUKACIJU GRADANA OKEAN & Country: BA

Project Partners

• FUNDACJA MODE – MOVE AND DEVELOP FOUNDATION
• EN KINT EGYESULET A BEKEERT ES FEJLODESERT
• ZDRUZENIE MLADYCH MADARSKYCH PODNIKATELOV NA SLOVENSKU OZ
• KREATIVNA GRADJANSKA INICIJATIVA