"""Employing Innovative tools for raising YOUTH organizations’ CAPacity and youth carrier development"""

Reducing youth unemployment is a priority of the European cohesion policy, the European Social Fund, Youth Employment Initiative and the European Regional Development Fund. According to ILO (2019) “working poverty, poor job quality and persistent labour market inequalities remain concerns” for Europe. The organisation alarms that globally, 21.2 per cent of young people were not in employment, education or training (NEET) in 2018. Progress during the past ten years has been negligible: in 2008, the NEET rate was 22 per cent. Among young people (aged 15–24), the decline in labour force participation has been even more pronounced, largely owing to extended education and an associated postponement of labour market entry. Youth employment rates closely relate to the general environment, namely legal-political, economic, socio-cultural and educational systems of a country – e.g. labour market regulations; mismatch between youth skills and aspirations and labour market demand and realities; constraints on self-employment and entrepreneurship development.YOUthCAP aims at successful model integration between youth’ associations, institutions, business and other value-chain actors to support higher employability and skill development of young people. The partnership is based on mutual economic, social and training benefits and empowers the participants to function as competent integrated system for the sustainable improvement of livelihoods of young people, considering both the local characteristics and the EU cohesion in progress. Our ambition is to support the occupational adaptation and professional development of youth through career guidance and capacity building of new sector-driven knowledge and skills.Given volatile markets and the unstable economic underpinnings, a focus on innovation and management is relevant. E-platform for Youth Career Guidance and Employability based on the transnational cooperation is a well-designed pathway from school to work that will help youth organizations to improve their performance and young people to find their professional realization. The consortium has the ambition to support the occupational adaptation and professional development of youth and to achieve it through career guidance and capacity development of new sector-driven knowledge and skills in various private public sectors. We will produce extensive studies and analysis on the deficits and the barriers to youth employment and achievement of the European policy priorities in this field. The dynamic network of partners and stakeholders in youth cooperation, higher education, public administration, business and civil society guarantees the synergy of the structural elements for building youth capacity.