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Growing Levels of Employability/Entrepreneurship in Agriculture for NEETs

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2014-1-IT01-KA202-002448
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training Funder Contribution: 295,656 EUR

Growing Levels of Employability/Entrepreneurship in Agriculture for NEETs

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Context/background of the project. There are currently 14 million young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) in Europe, costing an a huge amount in economic loss to society, and increasingly threatening the future of an entire generation. The GLEAN project addresses NEETs and disadvantaged people through a training programme in agriculture. Agricultural sector in facts has a huge potential for employability, and previous experiences highlight the added value of agriculture work for disadvantaged people, particularly through social farming. GLEAN therefore has designed, developed and implemented, a training programme based on learning on the job in agricultural field, addressed to disadvantaged young people, such as NEETs and long-term unemployed young people.Objectives. Identification and analysis of the most innovative social practices in agriculture in the Mediterranean and EU countries. Definition and implementation of a training program improving the skills of unemployed former agricultural students and of NEET in severe discomfort (by immigration, socio-economic situations, and / or with disabilities). Definition of the learning materials and the architecture of learning related to social and technical skills in agriculture combining the latter with territorial needs in agriculture. Realization of a training course to about 50 people (minimum 15 per Country) with innovative teaching methods providing direct work experience and implementing social skills and mutual support. Through the realization of the above objectives. Identification of the methodological guidelines for the transferability and exploitment of the educational program at a EU level. Set up of a website for detecting the innovative practices identified and downloading teaching materials.Number and profile of participating organisations. The six partners from 3 European Countries, Spain, Italy and Greece, have worked in a complementary way in order to achieve the project results. In fact, three partners, one per Country, are deeply involved in training and agriculture, one – the lead partner – is experienced in disadvantaged people inclusion, another – Militos – is specialized in communication and online tools and the last one, Melius, has got a wide experience in guidance and in EU projects. This has allowed to keep high the quality of all products, also through a mutual review and support.Description of undertaken main activities. As planned in the proposal, the consortium has first analysed the existing practices at a EU level, and created an online database. The IO1 results have allowed the partners to structure the NEEP frame (IO2) in an innovative way, including all the relevant topics and customizing the programme for each trainees group. The draft NEEP has been validated through focus groups at a national level, then presented in workshops to all the involved stakeholders. Materials have been developed in each partner Country, shared and validated (IO3); as already told during the monitoring visit held by the Italian NA, the delay in the first months has been afforded and recovered by parallelizing some activities. This is the reason why IO3 activities have gone on also during IO4 ones. IO4 has started with the creation and validation of selection criteria and of the training agreement; after a period devoted to the selection, the courses have started (Nov-Dec 2015) in the three Countries and have continued till the end of August 2016. In the meanwhile, from July the draft of the IO5 Guidelines has been done, and enriched during the two project last months of activities, till the final version of end of August. The IO6 has started at the very beginning of the project and is still working, as the website, database and NEEP course will be made available to the public for the next years.Results and impact attained. An update state of play of the available programmes, learning units or practices fostering employability and entrepreneurship skills of NEET and disadvantaged young people; the NEET Programme (NEEP), a transversal learning programme aimed at fostering acquisition of technical and soft skills in an European perspective; 3 learning pathways activated in 3 countries in Europe; guidelines and recommendations for the adoption of the programme by further Institutions; activation of employment opportunities for the trainees; this is not available yet, as the three months planned after the end of the project exceed the reporting deadline; at the moment, about 30% have got a job opportunity.Longer-term benefits. The relevant results achieved through the project can be transferred both in other sectors and Countries. I. E. what has been made with agriculture could be made also for crafts or arts, which arefurther sectors with inclusion opportunities and personal development characteristics. Identified soft skills and related materials are transversal and can be used in many inclusive training programmes.

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