In\nthe European Union, about 20% of young people leave the school\/ education\nsystem without qualifications and\/ or drop out of the system. Partner\ncountries, hit hard by the economic crisis, have faced a significant rise in\nthe number of youngsters who are unemployed or dropping out of school. To\nrespond to this growing problem, and in line with the Europe 2020 strategy for\na sustainable, smart and inclusive economy, we have set up the project \u201cY.S.\nALL – Youth Strategies Access to Labor Land\u201d. This strategic partnership\nproject for the exchange of good practices aimed and achieved the following\nobjectives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nTo share and pool our knowledge, our experiences and our reflections with our\npartners relating to social inclusion and support towards the employment of\nyoung people without qualifications, in order to broaden our educational\napproaches and re-qualify our teaching methods and tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nTo promote the transfer of practices between all participating countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nTo involve, throughout the project, local partners of the participating\ncountries to support and integrate young people without qualifications. This\ngoal has been more difficult to achieve due to the Covid-19 epidemic which has\nprompted economic actors to stop or reduce their professional activities. Their\ncommitment to this project has therefore been reduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nTo build and carry out surveys and interviews with youngsters without\nqualifications and local businesses whose trades are under strain (lack of\nlabor) to find out how they represent the personal and professional skills\nessential to obtain a job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– To create, from the results of the interviews, a repository of key skills essential to obtain a job (both from the point of view of the youth and the company employers) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nTo implement thematic workshops for young people to facilitate their\nprofessional integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– To create an online educational booklet to promote good educational practices resulting from the project<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nTo make visible and enhance the results of the project by collectively\norganizing a communication strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our\nproject targeted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nYoung people without qualifications who have benefited from our support for the\nformalization and recognition of their skills. Most of them participated in thematic workshops to increase\ntheir knowledge and capacities in topics facilitating their integration. (number\nreached: 101 beneficiaries).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nYouth workers, educators, experts in non-formal education, actors of\nprofessional integration, social workers, who participated in the development\nand benefit from the research, educational booklet to facilitate their\nsupport of young people towards employment by relying on non-formal education\nmethods. (number\naffected 31<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nThe local companies of each partner country who were asked to know their\nexpectations in terms of skills essential for a young person to obtain a\nposition. (number affected 27<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nresults of our project are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nData collection from interviews with the life stories of youngsters, interviews\nwith jobseeker, interviews with youth workers, social workers carried out following the\nfirst seminar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nThe implementation of three thematic workshops at the initiative of each\npartner and determined during the seminars, then set up with young targets of\neach partner community, entitled ” my vision of work ”, ” the professions\nhave- do they have a gender? \u201dand\u201c discrimination in hiring \u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nThe construction of a skills framework, based on the previous results\n(interviews and workshops). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nThe creation of the online educational booklet, also based on the previous\nresults. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\nThe implementation of two company employer workshops: “learning to use the\nrepository” and “knowing and using skills recognition tools”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– The implementation of 4 seminars involving partners and participants in the project to jointly prepare and follow the key stages of the project. During the seminars, we built the interview grids from our objectives. To ensure good coordination of our activities in our territories, at each seminar, we collectively tested a thematic workshop sequence. The goal is for the educators involved to experience the activity in order to better analyze it and adapt it to their context and to the tools created. During the seminars, partners shared their feedback on the setting up of thematic workshops and the assessment made by learners and trainers. From these data, we were able to complete and adapt the thematic workshops (interests, audiences, objectives, progress, risks, opportunities, variants, etc.) which fed the final booklet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n