CECOA

Aim

The project’s main aims are to develop an innovative methodology, drawing on existing best practices in partners’ countries, to pilot it in Portugal, Italy and Spain, and to analyse the outputs, outcomes and impacts of these pilots a local and regional level.

Project target groups are young people who are NEET aged 18 to 29 years old but also all the professionals and institutions that form the ecosystem required for the social inclusion of NEETs.

The project expects to achieve an impact at micro level (young people in a NEET situation); at a meso level (professionals working for and with young people in a NEET situation); and a macro level (the ecosystem of organisations that are part of the NEET issue, at local/regional and national level).

At European and international level, the consortium expects to contribute to increased inclusion and equity concerning NEETs interventions; decreased levels of young people in poverty and reduced skills shortages.

Specific aims

To identify the state of the art and good practices of social inclusion (using work based learning strategies) targeted at young people in partners’ countries;
To design, conceive and develop a model of intervention relevant to the countries of the partnership;
To conduct a pilot application of the methodology at local level in PT, ES and IT;
To promote awareness meetings in the context of the project to exchange experiences and identify best practices already in place;
To validate the model through a local multi-stakeholder approach and to evaluate the impact of this experience/model;
To reinforce and match the role of different local/regional stakeholders to find the best means of optimization, and increase the networking capacity, with a view to enhance NEETs social inclusion and employability;
To disseminate and explore the project results among relevant beneficiaries and ensure their sustainability at a practice level through the training of professionals and at the institutional level, influencing policies and changing the culture of services provided.

Partnership

Promoter:

CECOA - Centro de Formação Profissional para o Comércio e Afins (Portugal)

Website: www.cecoa.pt

Contact: Vanda Vieira

Partners:

ISOB GmbH (Germany)

Website: www.isob-regensburg.de/

Contact: Alexander Krauß

Fundacion Ronsel (Spain)

Website: www.fundacionronsel.org

Contact: Luis García Deber