“Social Inclusion, Youth Employment and Poverty Reduction - ""Skills on Demand""

Project facts

Project promoter:
Athens Development & Destination Management Agency(GR)
Project Number:
GR-LOCALDEV-0003
Status:
In implementation
Initial project cost:
€2,468,000

Description

The project will promote the employment of vulnerable unemployed residents of the City of Athens through awareness raising, training and certification, individualized psychosocial and employability support and job placement. The main objective of the project is increased employment among recently unemployed people: The project will include, inter alia, the following main activities:
  • creating a labor market needs assessment on which the development of training curriculum will be based on;
  • engaging with local businesses for the establishment of a Network of local businesses with identified skills needs;
  • selecting vulnerable unemployed residents of the City of Athens that will benefit of the services. They will be selected using transparent procedures and with due respect to the principles of equal treatment and non-discrimination;
  • offering certified trainings and psychosocial and employability support to vulnerable unemployed people. The design of the training methodology, the development of the training curriculums, as well as the delivery of the training activities will be assigned to selected academic/educational/training entities that present concrete and solid experience;
  • developing of an information management system in order to facilitate the monitoring of the different
  • project activities and outputs and to support sustainability as the system will be maintained after the
  • project end in order to build on the results of the project;
  • facilitate the matching of trained and certified unemployed people with hiring businesses

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