On 29-30th, November in Kosice, the kick off meeting of international partners working on the project initiated by the Carpathian Foundation-Hungary entiteled "JobNet" (EACEA EFC-529171-1-EN-2012-1-EFC-CSP) has been implemented succesfully. The "JobNet"'s main goal is to draw attention on youth joblessness and to provide up to date solutions applied successfully in the fight against youth unemployment across Europe.
During the event of the six participating countries (Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Germany, Slovakia) the young volunteers made their debut, got to know to each other and engaged in a joint co-operation and teamwork.
The trainers during the full-day training introduced the audio-visual research work what will be carried out in the young volunteer's countries in the next seven months.
The expert of this research program, Dr. Gergely Guszmann Phd., introduced the details of the research plan and with the assistant of the project manager led the participants into the methodology of the research.
The most popular event was the international cultural evening, whereby their traditional dishes and a variety of productions were presented to each other through the youngsters point of view.
About the project:
The main goal of the project is to highlight and promote innovative bottom-up solutions Europe-wide aimed at combating youth unemployment.
The main objective of the JobNet project is to build a transfrontier network of non- governmental organizations to identify, share, discuss and encourage initiatives successfully tackling youth unemployment in different European countries which can be deployed in other EU states as well. The project intends to involve unemployed youth as actives citizens following the principle: “Nothing about us, without us”.
In the frame of the project six civil organizations from Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Germany, Latvia and Slovakia closely cooperate with each other and all key actors to raise public awareness on importance of active citizenship, citizens’, civil organizations’ initiatives tackling youth unemployment.
The transfrontier network of wide stakeholders explores the background of the problem by conducting a comparative international audiovisual research in the respective countries.
At an international conference participants exchange information, knowledge on successfully applied practices handling youth unemployment, e.g. entrepreneurship, skill development, internships, guidance&mentoring, combating early school-leaving, youth banks and youth involvement, empowerment techniques.
The network will serve as a platform and resource-base to disseminate practices how to help young jobseekers to understand labour market, economic and job crisis, and methods of pioneering solutions to stimulate job growth and job seeking techniques.
The outcomes of the research and European will be debated on the closing conference, then will be published on DVD, a publication will be prepared containing best practices of these countries. These along with a commonly formulated recommendation will be sent to decision/policy makers of the respective countries and EU besides wide range dissemination to the public and actors affected by, interested in the increasing tendency of youth joblessness.
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