Promoted by our German Y.E.S. member Stiftung ev.Jugendhilfe St. Johannis Bernburg (Stejh) in collaboration with the Y.E.S. Forum and partners from Finland (city council of Oulu), Italy (OIKOS/Lucca and CSCS/Pistoia), Spain (IMFE/Granada) and Sweden (IDEUM/Arvidsjaur), it is envisaged to increase the labour market opportunities of disadvantaged young people by transnational mobility. Furthermore, unemployed young adults are to be given the possibility to expand their job-related experiences and to acquire professional skills in other EU countries.
The aim of this ESF funded project, which starts in November 2009 and ends in 2012, is to allow about 120 young people between the ages of 18 and 25 to go abroad for training purposes. Target groups are disadvantaged young people in transition from school to training, who are
- without school leaving certificates,
- unemployed or
- supported by qualification schemes from job centres.
The young people will acquire basic knowledge in one of the following fields:
- catering and bakery
- gardening, landscape gardening
- mechanics
- electrical engineering
- media and communication
- IT, computers and other.
The young people will participate in a 3-month preparation before going abroad in groups of 10 to 12 young people who are accompanied by a social worker.
The German federal IdA scheme supports the sending of young people and, thus, is not a reciprocal exchange programme. But the programme fosters experts meetings for practitioners. The project promoter plans to organise these meetings in such a way, that they are reaching a wider audience and other interested parties can participates.
In November 2009 the first two groups of German young people went for a four weeks training to Sweden and Finland.
Throughout 2010, groups of 10-12 young people followed them and spent a month abroad in Spain and Italy as well as, again, Sweden.
In 2011, groups will go to Finland, Sweden and Spain, before the project will come to its conclusion.
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