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Youth Employment Rights

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2016-3-CY02-KA105-000918
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Learning Mobility of Individuals | Youth mobility Funder Contribution: 13,230 EUR

Youth Employment Rights

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"International Youth Exchange “Youth Employment Rights” took place in Oroklini, Cyprus between 13 - 21 May 2017 and bring together 30 young people from Cyprus, Armenia, Italy, Serbia, Spain and Ukraine. Often it happened to the management in companies, which prefer to promote inside employees for new open position instead of hiring new employee. When the companies decided to take a new youth employee, may happen the rights of the youth employee can be violated, and sometimes even without employee’s awareness. That led to breaking the connection between the companies and youth employees. After the violation of the youth employee’s rights, the person is demotivated and untruthful to their next employer, that can resolve in unstable communication, connection between the two sides. Many young people don’t know their labour and social rights when they apply for a first job, quit a job or got fired. Big percent are afraid of the future or even give up to continue study because they thought that a good job is “a now” job and after their first experience with the corporate world they are more confused and lost interesting in developing their own skills in future.We found program Youth Guarantee that is developing in Cyprus, Commission in country report for 2016 stressed: ""Youth unemployment is falling, but remains well above pre-crisis levels. At 32.6 % in September 2015, it is significantly above the EU average (20.1 %). The youth unemployment rate (15-24) is more than double the overall unemployment rate"". This statement lead us to Eurostat website where we found statistic for “Youth neither in employment nor in education and training (NEET) rate. On this stage we agreed, that our target group would be young people from this category. We set following objectives of the youth exchange:1. Raise knowledge and understanding about International Labour Standards on employment; discrimination, while applying to an open position or during the work. Occupational safety, health and social security among young people and how to react in case of abusing their rights.2. Support young people in personal development by acquisition of necessary competences (writing motivation letter, preparing CV, searching and applying for job, etc), which are needed to make smooth gradual transition to labour market, education or training.3. Raise awareness among young people about variety of opportunities for study, training and employment (support programmes, EVS, Erasmus for young entrepreneurs, etc).4. Enhance employability and improve career prospects of young people from the minority groups that are in highest risk of unemployment, not in training like romas and refugees. As well, as people coming from problematic families or orphanage.5. Promote non-formal education and Erasmus+ programme. Based on problems that we identified and experience of our partners, we create activities, which help us to reach our objectives. Methodology to carry out the project consisting of the non-formal methods- games, teambuildings, visual methods, competitions, role-plays, group work, peer-to-peer learning, discussion, presentations etc. The first level of observable impact was obviously on the 30 participants. The activities designed for this project meant to leave a significant mark on the participants’ lives. Developing of participants started even before actual activities and continue after; we expect that our project will create momentum for them, so they will continue developing themselves all their life. They will become an example, role models for hundreds or thousands other young people who don’t know about their labour rights, who don’t know what they want to do in their lives, don’t know how to apply to jobs, how to prepare interview etc. Thus, level of unemployment among NEET will slightly start to fall down."

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