Our long-term economic health and ability to address social and environmental problems is based on our ability to innovate. Young adults possess a variety of innovator traits, ranging from creativity to a willingness to challenge the status quo, which offer a valuable source of untapped potential. There is research that suggests that our innovation potential begins to decline…
For governments and policy makers, COVID-19 is a chance to address the existing problems for younger European workers as youth unemployment looks set to peak. Europeans in their teens and twenties might be at minimal risk from COVID-19 itself, but they are at risk of significant financial impacts as the true economic fallout of the…
There are gender gaps in the youth employment rates across Europe. The gender gaps are especially significant for youth NEETs rates in age cohort 25-29. It seems young women in almost all European countries are more vulnerable to job losses and they tend to face worse employment conditions than men. Young women are more likely…
Unemployment of young people (15-24) in Europe is on average on it’s decline. However, the decline is much slower than expected, especially when compared to the overall growth of employment rates in Europe after the financial crisis around 2008. Therefore, we are no longer able to explain the youth (un)employment rates solely by common economic…
Today, young people are facing a global challenge in the area of underemployment. People over the age of 60 are experiencing the serious health consequences of COVID-19. However, as the new coronavirus is spreading through companies and markets, according to the World Health Organization, young people, who account for about a quarter of the world’s…
How does the education attainment level influences the possibility of becoming NEET? In this article we will analyse NEET rates by educational attainment in four Youth Impact project partners’ countries (Czechia, Germany, Poland, Slovakia) and compare the results with the European Union average. “Across the OECD, upper secondary education is generally considered the minimum educational…
Since the beginning of March 2020 an outbreak of COVID-19 has changed people’s life, at least temporarily, in most of the EU countries. While the older Europeans found their health and life directly endangered by the coronavirus, the millions of young ones cannot make their livings due to the necessary epidemic lockdown of places where…
YOUTH IMPACT Report YOUTH IMPACT project presents the Report on Existing Evaluation Standards and Practices of YEEA’s (Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Actions) in Poland, Slovakia and Czechia. The aim of the YOUTH IMPACT project is to improve the impact evaluation capacity of YEEA’s implementers and to increase the capacity of research in the field of impact evaluation. …
There are several groups of youth facing serious challenges in their transition from education to work phase of their lives. One of these groups are women. As for the average in the 28 countries of the European Union the 2016 Eurofound’s report “Exploring the diversity of NEETs” described “there is a great imbalance in the…
February 7, 2020, the second meeting of Polish organizations taking part in the YOUTH IMPACT project took place in the office Foundation in Support of Local Democracy in Warsaw. It was attended by representatives of organizations, which run projects supporting youth employment and entrepreneurship. During the meeting, FRDL representatives dr Monika Bartosiewicz and dr Sławomir Nałęcz presented to the…