NEET U Re-mobilizing experienced and resourceful seniors as NEET brokers to help young people change depressed NEET situations Erasmus Project

Project Title

NEET U
Re-mobilizing experienced and resourceful seniors as NEET brokers to help young people change depressed NEET situations

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The NEET U project combines two of the most important social and educational challenges in 21st century Europe – re-activating the overwhelming social and educational potential of the increasing number of experienced seniors in society to help counter the dramatic increase in depressed social situations among young people – with the mission to generate social and educational value from the dynamic interaction between these two “out of economy” population groups.
NEET youth situations across Europe is approaching dramatic proportions and neither public authorities nor private stakeholders seem able to mobilize the needed resources to efficiently counter this situation and to offer NEET youth the long-term capacity building they really need.
Therefore available, qualified, yet unexploited resources in the communities must be activated and mobilized to contribute to finding ways out of those depressed social situations.
NEET U is born out of this mission, prepared through several successful European initiatives identifying the unexplored potentials of bringing together experienced seniors and NEET youth.
The NEET U consortium brings together 9 partners from 7 European countries, including practice partners, knowledge partners, a special social innovation partners and an experienced quality partner. The project is coordinated by Pistes Solidaires from France.
Every practice partner was able to develop workshops with the Seniors to prepare them to work with NEETs, an audience with specific needs. The NEETs who took part in the project were able to advance in their personal project and to find solutions to their problems.
The Seniors were able to develop their skills not only in developing the guidance of the NEETS but also technical skills thanks to their work on the portfolios or through the production of videos. This work was allowed especially by the two learning activities set in United Kingdom and Spain.
The partners took ownership of the project methodology and gave the opportunity to their participants not only to develop their skills and competences but also to to re-learn what they could bring to their communities. The Seniors and the NEETs could regain their self-assurance. 114 NEETs were reached through the project and 54 of them were able to attend at least some of the activities with the Seniors. More than 120 Seniors were reached could have a major role in the social change process. Two policy papers present the results of the project and recommendations for the policy makers.
Various european projects were born from NEET U : a project initiated in 2016, another one applied for during the Erasmus + project call in February 2018 in France and a thrid one in preparation for 2019.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 227524,79 Eur

Project Coordinator

PISTES SOLIDAIRES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• CENTRO STUDI CITTA DI FOLIGNO ASSOCIAZIONE
• Working with Europe/Treballant amb Europa Associació
• Fondazione Risorsa Donna
• FUNDACIO PIA AUTONOMA INSTITUT PERE TARRES D EDUCACIO EN L ESPLAI – FUNDACION PEDRO TARRES DE EDUCACION EN EL TIEMPO
• UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER
• ASOCIATIA DE CONSULTANTA SI CONSILIERE ECONOMICO-SOCIALA OLTENIA
• TARTU ULIKOOL