YEES - Youth Empowerment and Employability Strengthening

Project gathers 6 organizations from 3 programme and 2 partner countries and relevant stakeholders, supports opportunities and creates conditions for young people to learn, increase competencies, experience exchanges, cooperation, cultural and civic action in EU context. It develops and strengthens personal, social and civic competencies, critical thinking and creativity, enhances employability and engagement. Partnership shares best practices, skills and competencies gained through non-formal learning. Youth empowerment is encouraging them to take charge of their lives. Youth face diverse challenges: accessing human and social rights, social exclusion and discrimination, employment difficulties, etc. Working and involving youth in actions, building skills and activation brings benefits in transition and early adulthood, providing an environment to gain self-confidence, and learn in a non-formal way. Project equips youth, and PwD with; key personal, professional and entrepreneurial competences and skills, increased capacities of youth workers and organizations working with youth to train youth and improving employability through applying non-formal learning mechanisms. It brings together different sectors to contribute to increasing youth potentials and engagement in decision-making processes, employability and practice to become active citizens. Project objective: contribute to strengthening skills and competencies of youth workers, young people and vulnerable groups to increase youth employability and involvement in democratic life. Results: increased knowledge and employability, gained experiences in job searching through inter-sector cooperation, increased interest to participate in democratic and decision making processes, gained insight and experience exchange on youth involvement, created non formal learning mechanisms for increasing youth employability; and increased youth knowledge through non-formal learning mechanisms.