NO NEETs

Despite the general improvement in economic data compared to 2013, there are still signs in europe that can only be of continuing concern in the area of youth distress and social inclusion of the younger generations. The phenomenon of youth unemployment has taken on an unprecedented economic and social relevance in Europe over the past 60 years, so much so that it has been placed very high on the political agenda of the European Union. Particular attention is paid to young neets, i.e. 15-29 year olds who are not working and are not participating in an educational, training or apprenticeship course. Although heterogeneous, the so-called 'neet generation' consists of more than 50 per cent inactive young people. The transition from this state to those of social exclusion, economic deprivation and permanent or long-term marginalisation is judged by observers of social phenomena to be easy, if not self-evident. In order to address this issue, it is necessary to identify, test and validate strategies and tools capable of restoring confidence in these young people, towards institutions, the labour market and themselves, enabling them to intercept training processes as the main tool for overcoming their condition. Once these young people have been reactivated and restarted on suitable learning and re-training paths for the essential skills for life and work, in which there is a strong focus on overcoming extracurricular methodologies or simple insertion in a work context, they can also successfully benefit from the ordinary paths of the youth guarantee (which would otherwise be inaccessible).

A first objective of the project is consequently the shared definition of strategies and tools:

1) for reactivation;

2) once this condition has matured, for the concrete access to training tools, geared not only to the re-appropriation of professional skills but also for life and active citizenship.

To this end, it seems essential to activate a strategic partnership with significant partners from countries in which reactivation and re-motivation/training tools and methodologically and content-oriented training for individuals who are victims of demotivation have already been experimented and have shown elements of usefulness (to be exploited) but also of criticality (appropriately to be avoided). A second objective of the project remains that of enabling the production of awareness and learning in favour of the stakeholders of the training and labour systems in order to allow the shared definition of what the approaches to be adopted should be, what are the guidelines to be followed for the reduction of the phenomenon. The results achieved will be concretely valorised at the level of individual systems and at the European level in full harmony with the indications of Europe 2020.