The recent economic developments have exacerbated the problems of the working life and the smooth integration of young people in the labour market. The traditional unemployment is increasing rapidly, while the phenomena of underemployment and sub employment are expanding very fast. At the same time, the questions of low wages, insecurity of employment, labour rights, discrimination against young workers and the qualifications of young people, are factors that create a difficult reality for the young jobseekers.
«The integration of young people in the labour market» training and networking project will take place in Agia Napa, Cyprus, from Friday 22nd to Monday 25th of June 2012. Forty four participants from eleven student organizations over eleven different countries – Cyprus, Spain, Malta, Portugal, France, Serbia, FYROM, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Israel -, will participate in the project, in an effort to raise public awareness, to positive mobilize the young people and to activate in a positive manner the decision makers in relation with these issues.
The project will be organized in order to provide a platform for discussion and exchange of good practices around the chosen theme, to improve participants’ competences, knowledge, skills and attitudes and to strengthen and widen the network between the participant organizations. In order to address the different needs of the participants, the desired outcomes, and to achieve active participation of the participants, non-formal activities and methods will be applied during the project, such as roundtables, workshops, group work and presentations.
The future that the new generation deserves will never happen if young people themselves stay passive spectators. The future that the new generation deserves will be born through collective assertion and mass participation. It will be born through the creativity, the vision and the energy of young people themselves who believe that the new generation should not be a lost generation.
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