Trust EuroMed Youth Seminar, Canary Island (Spain)

Deadline: 10 September, 2012
Open to: youth workers/ leaders/policy makers, project managers, young entrepreneurs, social workers etc coming from Youth in Action Program Countries & Mediterranean Partner Countries (Check HERE)
Venue:  4-9 November 2012 | Tenerife (Canary Island), Spain

Trust EuroMed Youth: #proactive #employment #future

French National Agency and Spanish National Agency (Spanish Institute for Youth -INJUVE- an Canary Government) in cooperation with SALTO Euro-Med Resource Centre are organizing the Trust EuroMed Youth Seminar. The seminar will focus on sefl-employability and social economy as broad concepts that cover different type of activities of youth organisations and international organisations which provide frameworks and grants for international work activities.
Trust EuroMed Youth: #proactive #employment #future will provide participants with new tools, methods to work and to develop projects within the EuroMed Youth IV programme and the Youth in Action Programme that foster the awareness of the importance to be active and proactive in building their own competencies within the labour market.
In fact, the employment is becoming in all the EuroMed area a big issue liked to the worldwide financial crisis, but also the “demographic bulge” in the Mediterranean countries and the global social incertitude.
The social situation of young people on both Mediterranean sides is really challenging one and need specific competencies for better analyse and understand the future perspective in the labour market and professional development.

The seminar will analyse the role of youth facing the economical changes with a specific focus:

1. European/international framework and employability: political situation, youth situation.
2. Intro about the EU situation employability and entrepreneurship.
3. Intro about the MEDA situation on employability and entrepreneurship
4. Regional Policy, Regional situation in Tenerife

Aims and objectives

The activity will provide participants the possibility to exchange their own experiences and good practises about self-employability and social economy. The NGOs and youth organisations will have possibility to compare and analyse their experiences about the support measures for the employability of young people. Participants will be provided the possibility to reinforce and build new partnerships able to develop national and international strategies. Therefore, this is a real opportunity especially for European and Mediterranean organizations to share and discuss about the role of youth in the society and in the economical life .

The specific objectives will be:

• To promote the exchange of good practices about employability between Mediterranean and E.U. countries
• To present the social situation of youth in Europe and Mediterranean countries
• To share about Youth Policy in the Euro Mediterranean Area linked to the topic of employability and seflemployability
• To offer good tools and practices in EuroMed
• To reinforce the cooperation between E.U. and Mediterranean countries in the frame of the youth field
• To establish and develop networking between the participating organisations

Eligibility

The seminar is open to youth workers, youth leaders, project managers, youth policy makers, as well as to representatives of entreprises, representatives of social economy, young entrepreneurs, social workers. Eligible are the candidates from the following countries:
Youth in Action Programme Countries: Member states of the EU + EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) + Croatia and Turkey
Mediterranean Partner Countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Syria and Tunisia.

Costs

This project is financed by the Youth in Action Programme. Please contact your NA to learn more about the financial details, and how to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses. If you come from a country other than Programme Countries, please contact the host NA for further information about the financial details.

Application

34 applicants will be chosen to participate in the seminar. You can apply on-line on the official website. Deadline for applying is 10 September, 2012. Date of participants’ selection is 17 September, 2012. The working language will be English.

For more information please see the official website.