mEntoring prograMme for young People at risk for Labour fOrce entrY Erasmus Project

Project Title

mEntoring prograMme for young People at risk for Labour fOrce entrY

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 : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Youth unemployment has been shown to have lifelong effects on income and employment stability, because affected young people start out with weaker early-career credentials, and show lower confidence and resilience in dealing with labour market opportunities and setbacks over the course of their working lives. The world of work has become an increasingly difficult environment, especially for young people. Youth unemployment in the EU is persistently higher than for other age groups. It becomes a much more serious issue when we are talking about young people who come from groups at risk. They are facing increasingly more obstacles when it comes to entering the labour market. Young people with fewer opportunities, NEETS, economically disadvantaged people, and young migrants are expected to demonstrate strong employability skills in order to get and keep a job. The problem is there are not many options available for these where they can receive career guidance advice, acquire new skills and competences, prepare for the labour market, so that they can be qualified and competitive enough.

The partner consortium of EMPLOY project proposal brings together a University, Career guidance centre, 2 Research centres, and 2 youth organisations in a concerted effort to develop collaborative online mentoring hub, where young people can find advice, mentoring, and peer learning that will help them in improving their employability skills with the aim to enter the labour market and reach successful professional realisation. The EMPLOY mentoring e-Hub will contribute to promotion of open and innovative practices in the digital environment, empowering young people at risk to successfully prepare for the labour market and in this way reducing the youth unemployment in the EU in a long-term aspect.

Our main objectives in reaching EMPLOY’s overall aim are:
– Design and develop an online multilingual mentoring e-Hub;
– Elaborate Skills and Competences Handbook;
– Organise a 4-day Joint Staff Training to prepare 12 youth workers for piloting the e-Hub;
– Deliver a blended mobility to 24 young people at risk;
– Promote the online mentoring hub across youth and youth workers’ communities in 6 partner countries and across Europe;
– Put forward Policy toolkit to policy- and decision-makers and other key stakeholders in enhancing integration of young people at risk into the labour market.

The EMPLOY mentoring e-Hub will bear the following innovative features:

1. The e-Hub is innovative in its purpose by the fact that young people can use it in order to improve their employability skills in a wide and diverse forum, and moreover they can search for, collect ideas and ultimately find the best solutions to various issues, which arise in the dynamic labour market environment of today’s world.

2. The digital aspect makes it easy for young people to communicate on the go. This enables them to find advice quickly, efficiently and without having to pay an expert, while still getting high-quality and diverse responses and opinions, in many cases probably with a more broad and useful outlook, or with more experience in the specific field than an expert may provide.

3. The multidisciplinary combination will act as a way to gather youth mentors from various fields, broadening the scope and the capabilities of the EMPLOY mentoring e-Hub, and giving its users a richer and more useful experience.

The main impact dimensions can be summarised as follows:
– Youth workers in the field of providing mentoring and career guidance will improve their awareness on the issues faced by young unemployed people and benefits of online connectivity and networking, while also enhancing their motivation to help such young people, especially when they come from groups at risk.
– NEETS will benefit from online space for social networking, mentorship, and skills development, which will help them in the process of successful integration into the labour market;
– Young with fewer opportunities will receive support regarding specialised trainings, career guidance advice and mentorship from people that understand their challenges and struggles regarding finding and keeping an appropriate job position;
– Economically disadvantaged young people will mentoring support how to identify and pursue available jobs or to find and use the most relevant training resources that will contribute to their professional development and realisation;
– Young migrants and refugees will receive special training, mentoring and support, providing them with information and advice about: their labour rights and responsibilities; opportunities for skills development and job-focus training.
– Other stakeholders – youth training providers, career guidance platforms, mentoring communities – will improve their prospects for cooperation with peer organisations from different countries and sectors, as well as with a vaster number of organisations, which can help them in their activities.

Project Website

http://employprogramme.eu/index.php?

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 113331,58 Eur

Project Coordinator

HIGHER INSTITUTE OF INSURANCE AND FINANCE & Country: BG

Project Partners

• EMINA Pályaorientációs Alapítvány
• PRAVO I INTERNET FOUNDATION
• TDM 2000
• CELJSKI MLADINSKI CENTER, JAVNI ZAVOD ZA MLADINSKO KULTURO, IZOBRAZEVANJE, INFORMIRANJE IN SPORT
• YASAR UNIVERSITESI