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Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a International
Meeting called “Employability United” which will take place in 18th until
25th January 2015 in Strasbourg (European Youth Center), France.
We, Y-SRN, are a group of young people and adults coming from a
different background and with different professional profiles who are willing
to work together towards improvement of access to social rights for young
people. One of the priorities for our working plan 2014 – 2016 is to support
the employment of young people across Europe, and to create a long term
partnership between different stakeholders in order to support young people in
gaining autonomy and accessing employment.
Being
aware that youth employment and autonomy matters to everybody, we decided to
make a step forward and invite young people, youth workers, local authorities
and business sector representatives at “the same table” to join efforts and
establish partnerships needed to support access to employment and autonomy of
young people in Europe, their inclusion in societies and active participation
as responsible citizens.
Aim and objectives
Aim: To promote and support
access to employment and autonomy for young people by training and networking
among young people, youth organizations/youth workers, local authorities and
business sector representatives.
Objectives:
To familiarize
participants with the specific aspects of gaining autonomy for young people;
To discuss and share
attitudes, knowledge and experience related to employment and employment trends
in Europe affecting young people;
To familiarize
participants with practices, policies and systems that support access to
employment for young people in different local realities;
To discuss and reflect on knowledge, skills and support measures that youth
workers, local authorities, business sector representatives need to be
competent in, so as to support young people in gaining autonomy and accessing
employment;
We
are looking for 3 participants with the following profile:
Young people
18 – 30 with little or
no experience in international activities who have never been to European Youth
Centre;
Highly motivated;
To have a good
understanding of and to be able to work in English;
Social Entrepreneurs, freelancers, employed, unemployed and others.
Local authority’s representatives
Highly motivated;
To have a good
understanding of and to be able to work in English;
Knowledge and experience
on access to social rights for young people with accent on access to employment
and employment related issues;
Working in sectors related to youth issues or employment.
Business sector
representatives
Highly motivated;
To have a good understanding of and to be able to work in
English;
Working in structured company with min. 5 employees;
Involved in decision making
process in the company.
This event will
bring together 40 participants from 10 European countries. The
event will be held in English.
There are 3 vacancies (1 per profile) available and
participants should have minimum 18 years old.
The European Youth Foundation will cover 100% of the
accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel
costs for the participants. There will be a participation fee of 80 Eur. per
participant.
All the interested people should fill the application form below. The
application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee
Application deadline: 25th November 2014
Application form here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2ih0dub4f6e7ly7/6MkR-cKjsT
