Project leader: YES Forum EWIV
Nr. of the project: 2019-1-DE02-KA202-006136
Period: 01.11.2019 – 30.04.2022
Budget: 312.516,00 EUR.
Partners:
- INSTITOUTO EKPAIDEFTIKOU KAI EPAGGELMATIKOU
- Centro San Viator
- The Inclusion Network CIC
- ASOCIATIA NEVO PARUDIMOS
- PITEA KOMMUN
- Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Kath. Jugendsozialarbeit (BAG KJS)
CONTEXT:
Unemployment is a steady concern and a challenge across Europe for the past years. Even more so as a large number of people, especially young and from migrant background, can’t find a way to enter the job market. Through employment the cycle of social exclusion can be broken for EU and non-EU residents especially socially excluded youth, NEETs.
OBJECTIVES
The objective of the ItWorks! project is to develop a holistic approach towards employment and training of socially excluded youth, through:
- Interrelating the socially excluded youngsters themselves and professionals working with them and professionals working in companies responsible for internships;
- Analysing the needs of disadvantaged and unemployed youth;
- Providing capacity building to both groups of professionals;
- Providing a soft skill training and an “Assisted Training Scheme” for disadvantaged youth;
- Offering and coaching pilot internship placements;
- Developing guidelines and handbooks summarizing this new method, targeting diverse groups and being easy to adapt.
PRODUCTS AND ACTIVITIES
Four main products (Intellectual Outputs – IO) will be developed together with the consortium partners.
Before developing the Intellectual Outputs, the project partners carried out a State of the Art research. The State of the Art research will be conducted in each partner country and will form the basis of understanding the specificities of each country in the development of the material needed for professionals and young adults out of employment/ education. This will set a coherent context for the following intellectual outputs that consist in this project in relation to the European dimension.
The results of this research are publicized in two different summary documents: (i) State of the Art of Internships and VET activities for young people with difficults in the countries where the members of the consortium are based; and (ii) the activities developed by the members organisations to support the development of VET.

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