"FACLIA" - Association for Children and Youth launches a new project for the socio-economic empowerment of youth in Moldova
- Created on 02 September 2015
640 young people from medium specialized education institutions in Moldova will develop key competences for a more accessible labour market integration, 20 young people will learn how to improve their entrepreneurial potential and about 15000 young people and employers will acknowledge the importance of socio-economic rights of young people. All these results will be achieved through the implementation of the new project "Socio-Economic empowerment of youth".
The Association for Children and Youth "FACLIA" is implementing a project dedicated to young people and their socio-economic empowerment. For a year and a half, July 2015 to December 2016, the project "Socio-economic empowerment of youth" will help improve the socio-economic situation of young people in Moldova through the development of transversal competences and personal marketing, entrepreneurial skills, as well as through awareness raising activities targeted to both young people and employers.
"Socio-economic empowerment of youth" is implemented by the Association for Children and Youth "FACLIA" in partnership with the National Confederation of Trade Unions, with the financial support of the Ministry of Youth and Sport of the Republic of Moldova within the Grants Programme for 2015 and the Foundation CNV Internationaal, the Netherlands (from the CNV Vakmensen funds).
Thus, the students from Moldova will be able to participate in the activities organized by the Job Finding Club, beginning with September this year.
The Job Finding Club will facilitate young people's transition from education to work and will focus on techniques for finding a job, personal marketing and developing key skills to affirm on the labour market, such as: effective communication, cooperation, flexibility, customer orientation, efficiency and independence, problem solving, planning and organization, lifelong learning, proactive approach, stress resistance, using and exploring information. The Job Finding Clubs will be coordinated by 20 facilitators (psychologists, civic education teachers, youth workers) trained within the project.
The project includes training and coaching activities for the development of entrepreneurial skills for 20 motivated young people. Topics such as: the company and the economic environment, entrepreneurship and innovation, business marketing and management, finance and accounting, communication and negotiation, the legal framework, business plan development, etc. will be addressed throughout these activities.
An important role in the project play the awareness raising campaigns targeting young people on promoting the skills needed on the labour market, and informing the potential employers on the benefits they can bring to the young companies. By the end of 2016, a mobile team of volunteers aims to raise awareness of about 15000 young people and employers through informational materials, educational theatre, and various public presentations.
The project "Socio-economic empowerment of youth" will help achieve the objectives of the Social and Economic Agenda for YOUth developed by ROST - the Network of Organizations encouraging the promotion and observance of the socio-economic rights of young people in Moldova. The Social and Economic Agenda for YOUth is a position paper on intensifying the mobilization processes related to social and economic stakeholders (ministries, trade unions, public authorities, employers, institutions specializing in education and employment) for their involvement in securing the rights and socio-economic guarantees of young people and solving current problems the youth are facing.
You can find more details on the project here.
