Objective(s)

The overall goal of the Programme is support to innovative approaches that contribute to resolving the issue of youth (15 to 30 years of age) employment or employability through local partnerships of civil society organizations and the private sector. The innovative approaches should contribute to the achievement of one or several specific objectives

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Key Activities

- Support job creation (e.g. through support to youth entrepreneurship, improved access to information, education, business advisory services and mentorship);
- Increase youth employability, mobility and flexibility (e.g. working/professional apprenticeships in small or medium-sized enterprises, youth organizations and civil society organizations, and opportunities for the development of generic, and/or transferable skills);
- Contribute to entrepreneurial learning for youth through formal and non-formal education;
- Increase the employability of young women and men facing additional barriers when entering the labour market (e.g. youth without qualifications, young Roma, youth with disabilities, youth leaving the institutional care system and other vulnerable groups of the population covered by various strategic documents)

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Target groups

youth

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Results/Impact

The Programme covered 200 young participants in 2017, 61% of them female, The pilot phase of the Programme (2016) covered 106 young participants in 2017, 53.8% of them female. During 2017 a total of 200 young people have completed entrepreneurship training and/or professional apprenticeships, while just over two thirds had access to business advisory services and mentorship