Young Active Methods

Young Active Methods: The project

beti — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:17:06 +0000

YOUNG ACTIVE METHODS

It is a Project financed under the European Commission´s policy “management of decentralized actions via National Agencies” and the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency.

The Programme Implementation is Life Long Learning Programme (LLP). This programme supports learning opportunities from childhood to old age in every single life situation. The LLP is composed of 4 sectoral sub-programmes.

The Young Active Methods project is included in Leonardo da Vinci subprograme: Vocational Education and Training (LdV) sub-programme. LdV sub-programme is a community programme to promote cooperation in vocational education and training.

The aim of Leonardo da Vinci Multilateral Projects “Transfer of Innovation” is to improve the quality and attractiveness of the European VET system by adapting and integrating innovative content or results from previous LdV Projects, or from other innovative projects into public and/or private vocational training systems and companies at the national, local, regional, or sectorial levels.

Youth unemployment in Europe

beti — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:02:34 +0000

Young people are the present and the future of Europe and a rich source of dynamism in our societies.
The path from childhood to independent adulthood is lined with a number of crucial milestones and decisions, such as leaving the parental home to study or to work, moving in with a partner, getting married and having children.
In most European countries, compulsory schooling ends between the ages of 15 and 17, but it is usual to remain in education thereafter. Although participation rates in education tend to decline in all countries after the end of compulsory education, they remain above 80 % in most European countries one year after the theoretical age at which compulsory schooling ends, especially for women.
At EU level, the number of young men and women in uppersecondary education is fairly similar, but girls generally outnumbered boys in general programmes, whereas the opposite is true in vocational programmes. This gender gap is also reflected in tertiary education: women were usually more numerous than men in the first stage of tertiary education (ISCED level 5) and especially in certain fields of education (education, humanities and arts).
Leaving formal education (either school or university) is a crossroad in life requiring young people to decide either to enter the labour market or to be inactive. The path to the labour market can be straightforward (from formal education directly to full-time permanent employment or to inactivity) or more fragmented (combining schooling with part-time work and/or seeking work or alternating inactivity and work and/or seeking work).
The Statistical Office of European Commission (Eurostat) gives an insight view into latest data concerning the unemployment of young people in Europe. In February 2010, the youth unemployment rate (unemployed persons from 15 to 24 years) added up to 20,0% in the Euro area and 20,6% in the EU27, which started to increase since the start of the economic and financial crisis. Comparing the numbers with the data of March 2009, amounting to 19,0% and 18,9% respectively, it becomes obvious that the numbers increased by approximately 1 to 2 %. According to the numbers of February 2010, the lowest rate of unemployment within the young generation was observed in the Netherlands (7,3%), while the highest rate was found in Spain (40,7%). As a result, young workers are one of the main victims of the economic downturn.

Youth at risk of social exclusion – ICT

beti — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:37:45 +0000

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SUMMARY

admin — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:14:41 +0000

According to data stated in EUROSTAT, in October 2009, the rate of youthful unemployment (smaller than 25 years), was 20´6% in the Euro area and 20´7% in the UE27. Unemployment in the young people is the double that the one in adults in Europe, this is one of the main causes of poverty and social exclusion.
The European Pact by Youth insists on the positive role that young people can and must carry out to fulfill the objectives of Lisbon. These objectives only can be reached if young people are properly equipped with knowledge, abilities and skills, through a high quality in education and formation.
This is the reason for which this project sets out to approach the difficulty of labour insertion and the great deficiency of work opportunities for young people at European level, as a serious problem for European economy and socio-professional development of its citizens.
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In the euro-zone, the unemployment rate has reached 10.0% in 2009; in the EU-27, such rate is 9.6%. “This has been – Eurostat confirms – the highest figure since 1998 in the euro-zone and since 2000 in the whole Union.” The overall number of unemployed people has exceeded 23 million Thus, while one year before the number of unemployed people was 18 million. As to young people up to 25 years of age, the unemployment rate has risen to 21.4% in the EU-27, with high rates Particularly in Spain, Islenadia, Italy, Bulagaria and Sweden, among others.
In order to Ensure that the target groups will be involved and reached while / Beyond the project, we still make contacts with respective persons, vocational schools and respective trainers and present them our ideas of the Project. We hope that we will get support of vocational schools and get some letters of intend / letters of support from them.
Thus, we offer a tool to shine directly on the proposals dei White Paper “A New Impetus for European Youth”, youth policy was recognized as a field and member-states then Decided to adopt political priorities on specific issues such as youth participation and information, volunteering and better knowledge.
As for any “Open Method of Coordination” (WTO) member-states agreed upon common objectives for each priority: identify – including at local and regional level – existing knowledge in further priority areas of interest to the youth field such as autonomy, non -formal learning, the fight against discrimination, education & training, employment, entrepreneurship, creativity, transition from education to employment, social inclusion.-Ensure quality, comparability and relevance of knowledge in the youth field by using appropriate methods and tools.-Facilitate and Promote exchange, dialogue and networks To ensure visibility of knowledge in the youth field and anticipate future needs.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:08:20 +0000

We are going to develop a job search active system that provides effective tools for training monitors and tutors. An innovating formation will be given, and it will enable young people looking for their first job in social, behavioural and attitudinal abilities, enhancing them in: -Development of their personal skills,-Increase of their motivation,-Orientation to new job opportunities,-Effective use of NTIC,-Development of new social abilities.
This system is a tool that will help to develop better abilities and skills for monitors and tutors. Providing a training system consisting of group dynamics to promote positive knowledge, abilities and attitudes towards the job active search in a participative way according to Assessment and Training in the Key Skills for Long Life Learning. The final objective of the project is to provide attitudes, abilities and skills that facilitate the job active search in those young people who have not still got their first job.
Specific objectives:
1. To develop capacities and skills of education and vocational training (EVT) tutors. 2. To offer the monitors and tutors effective and up-to-date tools so that the intervention with unemployed young people according to new technologies and market work needs at present. 3. To motivate young people from different areas from the European Union in job active search. 4. To encourage initiative and business spirit. 5. To help to increase social skills and personal resources.
6. To provide different techniques to help to overcome the prejudices of unemployed young people before work. 7. To provide resources to secure an access equality (between women and men) to labour market. 8. To make possible the fact that young people can have a better access to the acquisition or maintenance of a quality paid work. 9. To transfer new additional systems to job insertion that reinforce young people’s aptitudes and qualities.