Fostering sustainable cross-border cooperation for a more effective support of youth career guidance

Summary

Project acronym: UNITY

Project ID: ROHU00041

Project start date: 2024-12-30

Project end date: 2025-12-29

Project status: ongoing

Relevant linked projects:

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 198 765.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 159 012.00

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 80.00%

Co-financing sources:

• ERDF: Amount, EUR 159 012.00. Co-financing rate, 80.00%.

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Deliverables:

Contribution to wider strategies and policies:

• TerritorialAgenda2030 The present project through its activities contributes to Territorial AGENDA 2030, to the Goals 4 “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” and Goal 8 “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all”. The project aim is to improve the career orientation support for the middle and high (vocational) school students in the cross-border area, by increasing the trust and collaboration initiatives between the labor market stakeholders. In the long term, the final beneficiaries of the project will be the students, young people, who by improving the process of supporting career guidance, will have increased chances to choose the right profession and obtain the desired job, having the possibility of mobility and access to jobs from the cross-border area. Due to the launched cross-border and cross-sectorial (schools-companies) collaboration of the career guidance stakeholders, the future generation of work force will have the possibilities to get an image of a wider labor market, becoming aware of their possibilities, with wider horizons in terms of searching and accessing for job offers and in the same time the chances of getting closer the youth skills of those required by the employers will be higher. Thus, the project will contribute to the following goals of AGENDA 2030: 4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship; and 8.5 By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value.
• EUStrategyDanubeRegion The project considers the Danube Strategy’ provisions, mainly from the perspective of the need for better education, employment and prosperity of all citizens of the Region. The project tackles issues approached by the Strategy, targeting investment in people, prioritizing knowledge and inclusion.
• The project contributes to the objectives of the EUSDR Priority Area 9 „Investing in People and Skills“ that is focusing on policies and actions in the fields of education and training, labor market and marginalized communities. The activities of the project contributes to the Action 1 “Labour Market and Social Policies” of the EUSDR Priority Area 9, that says: By intensifying the cooperation between labour market stakeholders’ reforms will be enhanced. The focus will be on active labour market policies, common peer learning/peer counselling in the Danube Region, skills mismatch, labour market information systems, vocational re-education and re-training, dual education as a measure of active labour market policies, transition from school to work. The project fosters the collaboration between the labor market stakeholders of the two target counties, in order to ensure a more effective career guidance of the students and to reduce the existing skills mismatch between those provided by the young job seekers and those needed by the employers. All the activities undertaken by the project are aimed at increasing the trust between these stakeholders, at encouraging their collaboration in order to support and make the entire transition process from school to work of the young generation easier and more efficient. Stimulating the building up of a mutual trust between the cross-border stakeholders, the area of the labor market accessible to young people is widened, thus increasing their integration possibilities as workforce.
• Other
• This project through its objectives and activities that involve the cross-border stakeholders of the labor market, contributes to the recommendation of the EC, regarding the recovery of economy and labour market following Covid-19 crisis (including by mapping labour market exchanges, reinforcing labour active measures and ensuring a closer relevance of education and vocational training to skills required in the cross-border labour market, promoting high value-added clusters and cross-border value chains, as well as supporting the recovery of tourism and culture as drivers for the socio-economic development of the PA, hardly affected by the Covid-19 crisis). COVID 19 has greatly affected the labor market and implicitly the employment of young people. One of the conclusions of the extensive research study and Strategy developed through the ROHU 385 project, HEY! during and after the COVID 19 period, it was for the planning and organization of further initiatives to take into account the reactions of young people and the observations of employment counselors in order to replicate the support at the level of other groups with similar needs, or to further develop new ways of support, with the aim of entering and/or maintaining the labor market, especially in the new context affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The present project is in line with the Strategy developed by AGES and OVE within the previous ROHU project, as well as with the CE recommendations regarding the recovery of economy and labor market following Covid-19 crisis
• Other The project through its activities contributes to the Satu Mare County’s Strategy 2021-2030, Direction of action 4.3: Consolidation of a dynamic and attractive education, adapted to the requirements of the labor market, a vector of intelligent development, Action 4.3.3. Harmonization of educational services with the development needs of students and with the requirements of the labor market, due to the fact that career orientation should be educational services provided by the education institutions in collaboration with the other stakeholders (NGOs, companies). The present project fosters these collaborations of which aim is to create the frame of efficient career guidance of middle and high school students.

Programme Common Output Indicator:

• RCO 081 - Participations in joint actions across borders, Measurement unit:
  
• RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
  
• RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:
  

Programme Common Result Indicator:

• RCR 084 - Organisations cooperating across borders after project completion, Measurement unit:
  
• RCR 085 - Participations in joint actions across borders after project completion, Measurement unit:
  
• RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:
  

Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSDR