SALM - Skills and Labour Market to Raise Youth Employment

Aim

The aim of the SALM project is to contribute to the development of innovative approaches and specific instruments for the reduction of the youth unemployment rate equipping people with the right skills for employment which is considered crucial for the employment target and a better social inclusion of the 2020 Strategy, and for the effective participation in Lifelong Learning.

Specific aims

• To deepen the knowledge of policies and practices to raise youth employment in partner countries;
• To develop a comparative analysis at sectoral level (senior tourism and social services) of policies and practices to support the reduction of the unemployed young people in partner countries;
• To identify the effectiveness (through focus group and case studies) of the different measures (good practices) adopted to fight the mismatches in competences in both sectors, the key success factors and a battery of benchmarking indicators;
• To built tool kits (for young people, employers and job counsellors) to improve the young people competences and employability as well as self employment and entrepreneurship;
• To carry out case studies concerning the young people showing a big gap between education competences and labour market competences; and to compare partner countries approaches in fighting skill mismatches as well as their impact in youth participation of lifelong learning initiatives;
• To strengthen the role of different stakeholders in order to find new approaches to solve the mismatches problems;
• To carry out a pilot project in the field of training in three partner countries including the most significant key success factors from the partner's countries practices;
• To develop a model incorporating the success factors necessary for the training activities in order to assure the adequate competences of young people to the labour market;
• To promote workshops/meetings in the context of the project to exchange experiences, identify best practices and promote the project follow up;
• To disseminate, at national level in each partner country, at institutional and operational level, the project results among the main stakeholders (private and public) namely social partners and organizations with responsibilities in Employment and VET; and at transnational level through participation in meetings and in adequate websites namely of European institutions and networks such as CEDEFOP, REFERNET, EURYDICE.

Partnership

Promoter:

Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Centro de Estudos dos Povos e Culturas de Expressão Portuguesa
Website: http://www.ucp.pt
Contacts: Roberto Carneiro , Fernando Chau , Cândida Soares  and José Sousa Fialho 

Partners:

CECOA - Centro de Formação Profissional para o Comércio e Afins (Portugal)
Website: www.cecoa.pt
Contact: Vanda Vieira 

Institute of Tourism Studies (Malta)
Website: www.its.edu.mt
Contact: Rosetta Thornhill 

Glasgow Caledonian University (United Kingdom)
Website: http://www.gcu.ac.uk
Contact: Mark Anderson 

ISOB Institut fuer sozialwissenschaftliche Beratung GmbH (Germany)
Website: http://www.isob-regensburg.net/
Contact: Alexander Krauss 

Fundation Ronsel (Spain)
Website: www.fundacionronsel.org
Contact: Rafa Vázquez 

SC Global Development Commercium SRL (Romania)
Website: www.globalcommercium.com
Contacts: Cristina Mereuta  and Mariana Bucalet 

SC Labour Market Strategies Consulting SRL (Romania)
Website: www.lmsconsulting.ro
Contact: Roxana Weiss Anton 

Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy)
Website: www.unifi.it/mdswitch.html
Contact: Francesca Torlone 

Products/Results

• Reports on the measures, programmes and policies in each partner country
• Case Studies and Focus Groups Reports - Tourism Senior and Social Services - and a Model Building
• Good practices: examples of employment for young people in Tourism Senior and Social Services
• Toolkits for young people, for employers and for employment counsellors
• Pilot project - including outcome indicators in order to compare the results in terms of the impact in mismatches and youth unemployment rates
• Project website: www.salm-project.com

Duration
December 2012 - November 2014

Framework
Lifelong Learning Programme
Multilateral Projects - Development of Innovation

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. 


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