Stand Up, Get Up, Act!

With the training Stand Up, Get Up, Act! we promoted the importance of focusing on the challenges of unemployed youth and projects that aim to focus on promoting the mobility within different programmes and active participation of unemployed youth in the EU. The training took place in Brežice, Slovenia from September 6th to 14th 2013.

The training has been managed by international trainer’s team. The training course was centred on the thematic of increasing the competence of youth leaders and other actors in the field when addressing youth’s needs in transition from education to employment. During the training youth workers tried out different methods, which they would be later able to convey to youth they work with. Among others: visualization of desired work area, design of a personal portfolio consisting of CV, motivation letter, personal PR design, completed profile on LinkedIn and personal introduction for job interview process use.

The training emphasised the employment of youth within the European labour market; in this context participant  acquired knowledge on different European employment databases and got the chance to get further information on the topic from a Eures counsellor. They got acquainted with different specificities of European labour markets. A special emphasise has been given to employment of youth of other European nationalities in Slovenia.

The goal of the training was to increase competencies of youth workers in counselling and assistance to young people, who were entering or re-entering the job market and to empower them to take active approach in it.