PEDAL Consulting organizes a weekend training in Slovak city of Ružomberok January 24-25 2020. The training is focused on youth activation, involvement, empowerment and also employment, accompanied by evaluation assessing the success of these processes. If you are an organisation from Ružomberok area working with youth and are interested in the training, please contact PEDAL…
The overall unemployment rate decreased to 4,94 percent in October 2019. Expressed in absolute numbers, the total number of jobseekers was 136,192. However, according to the statistics data from Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, the unemployment rate was significantly higher in case of two specific target groups; namely in case of youth…
On the occasion of International Youth Day 2019, the Federal Statistical Office announced that the number of unemployed between 15 and 24 years in 2018 has fallen to a record since the reunification of Germany. The unemployment rate among young job starters was 6.2 percent. The unemployment rate thus follows the declining trend of…
As we wrote in earlier articles one of the biggest problems of transition from education to work is the significant share of young people, who are no longer in education or training, but they also do not have a paid job. So-called NEETs are usually counted in the population aged 15-24. In Poland such age…
Before 2010 the problem of unemployed or otherwise workless youth who are no longer in education or training had been partially addressed in several initiatives on the European level, but the NEET category had not been used. The program Youth on the Move enacted in 2010 was the first European Union policy which used the…
December 4, 2019 at the headquarters of the Foundation in Support of Local Democracy in Warsaw, the first of a series of YOUTH IMPACT project meetings was held. It was attended by representatives of organizations that run projects to support youth employment and entrepreneurship. During the meeting, FRDL representatives dr Sławomir Nałęcz and Ewa Pintera…
When it comes to youth at the labour market, the most important indicators were usually the employment and unemployment rate. In the first decade of 2000s, it became clear that these rates do not capture the situation of all young people. While many young people aged 15–24 (or 15–29) are still students or trainees, there…
Youth Impact is taking part in analysing the status of youth employment challenges and youth employment policies in the 15+3 beneficiary countries. The event is part of the First annual thematic seminar of Active Youth projects in Brussels (25-26/11/2019) funded by the EEA and Norway Grants.
Despite the public education system in Slovakia being questioned for almost two decades, no substantial reform of either primary, secondary or tertiary education has happened. With the arrival of a number of major automotive companies into the country (Volkswagen, PSA Peugeot Citroën, KIA, Land Rover), Slovakia became the biggest car producer in the world per…
As part of the Youth Impact project, FIAP welcomed its Czech, Polish and Slovenian partners in October at the New Work Lab in Gelsenkirchen. The aim of the project is to enable organizations – dedicated to reducing youth unemployment – to evaluate the effectiveness of their measures and make appropriate adjustments to improve them. As…