DISHA

“Building empowering Environment for youth Employability” (BEE) aims to foster youth employability by creating an empowering environment to enable young people to undergo a work-based learning period and to foster links between formal education, non-formal education and labour market. The project is promoting holistic approach and structured cross-sectorial cooperation for raising youth employability. The proposal supports priorities of Erasmus+ namely stating “in order to reduce youth unemployment [...] the wide range of transversal skills, which
are needed to raise young people’s achievement in education and training and to prepare them for modern social and working life, can be further developed through out-of-school activities, in non-formal and informal learning settings”.
The project will build capacity of youth organizations in supporting young people’s integration in the labour market throughout providing them with work-based mobility opportunities. This will be achieved by providing youth organizations with tools for bridging the sectors and create cross-sectorial networking in each partner country, that will be further interconnected on international level throughout Multi-stakeholders platform.
The specific objectives of the project are:

• to foster cooperation, exchange of knowledge and capacity development in the field of work-based learning mobility between the partner countries;

• set up environment for cross-sectorial cooperation for youth employability;

• to create and reinforce synergies between formal education sector, non-formal education and labour market and organization for apprenticeship;

• to provide youth organizations with guidance and tools for bridging the sectors and acting as intermediary in order to support boosting employability of young people;

• to create new tools and methods that promote work-based learning mobility as a complementary education path new work-based learning mobility opportunities for young people;

• to support and facilitate creation of cross-sectorial networking on global level thus set up space for creation of skills gap and increasing their economic competitiveness;

• to empower youths’ potential to be successfully integrated in the labour market and contribute to reducing the to promote supply of apprenticeship at the labour market and foster capacity of VET institutions.

The objectives will be reached throughout following activities:

• International seminar aiming to build capacity of youth NGOs for promoting holistic approach to foster youth employability;

• Awareness raising campaigns in 13 partner countries;

• Job-shadowing mobility in Italy with an aim to foster capacity of organizations in terms of creating the networking;

• Networking activities in each partner country;

• Study visits for gathering materials for the Manual on cross-sectorial cooperation;

• Creation of the manual;

• Final seminar in Philippines to share results and launch of Multi-stakeholders platform