Young Service Steward Program

Project facts

Lead project partner:
Progress Consult Danish-Hungarian Development Company(HU)
Project Number:
RF-YOUTH-0030
Status:
In implementation
Initial project cost:
€1,240,618
Beneficiary partners:
Catalan Association for Education
Training &Research(ES)
CENTER FOR PROMOTING LIFELONG LEARNING-CPIP(RO)
Gentis Foundation(ES)
Modus Foundation(HU)
Expertise partners:
Prios Kompetanse AS(NO)
Programme:
EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment

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Description

The Young Service Steward (YSS) focuses on two areas: 

  • Support to unemployed youth by a 360° competence upgrade in a blend of digital skills, life skills, counselling and employment in a flexible delivery system, and
  • Establishment of local employment agreements among the key stakeholder of PES/public/private activation to enforce the 360° competence upgrade. 

YSS aims to prevent the growing competence gap between activation programs and the digital and soft skills needs of the labour market and to mature employment within welfare and environmental services. With the 360° NEET competence upgrade we aim to widen the employment and vocational possibilities for the NEET group. The outputs of the program will come as tools to improve digital skills training, life skills training, counselling, mapping tool and an innovative Impact Prospect to show how the NEET youth can become a part of the solution, and not the problem of weak local communities. The target group is the unemployed youth of both genders with diverse challenges in 12 different locations in four countries, with a special focus on youth with social and mental challenges and long-term unemployment.

The project will reach out also to activation programs (EU-wide), which can benefit from tools, methods and cases developed within YSS. Tackling the challenge of high youth unemployment requires innovative solutions and shared values as we are facing the same global challenges. 

Information on the projects funded by the EEA and Norway Grants is provided by the Programme and Fund Operators in the Beneficiary States, who are responsible for the completeness and accuracy of this information.