Day 2 - Getting to know eachother and action plans...

hey hey,
don't forget that the zapping poverty floor will be available until the end of the project, thus don't forget to collect all the information available about your peers :) anyway, we're proud of us - everyone has a wall, we have a floor.
Also, we would like to thank Irina to introducing us to the topic of action plans and the stake holders' roles in producing action plans!
By the way, you can check Transparency International website's:
http://www.transparency.org/

First day's impressions

Good morning, good morning,
We hope you slept well the last night and now ready for the second day's activities. It seems that we started to get to know eachother and now we're ready to discover even more. We must confess that the red crocodile name game was a trick to offer you the chance to practice the names during the night ;) - Bugra, Sena, Ezgi and Radina (try to remember it correctly). Also, can we have the results of the fusball championship?...
See you at 10 in the working room and if you have questions, don't forget to ask your Romanian team leader or someone from the team.
Enjoy the joy!

Project's programme

Zapping Poverty
September 20-27 Bucharest, Romania
Day 1
Monday
Sept 20 Day 2
Tuesday
Sept 21 Day 3
Wednesday
Sept 22 Day 4
Thursday
Sept 23 Day 5
Friday
Sept 24 Day 6
Saturday
Sept 25 Day 7
Sunday
Sept 26 Day 8
Monday
Sept 27
Breakfast 9.00 – 9.30
10.00 – 12.30
Arrivals  10.00 – 12.30
Getting to know eachother games
Communication games
Programmes’ presentation
Expectations and fears 10.00 – 12.30
Youth in the Move
Youth Un/Employment in the Participant Countries 10.00 – 12.30
Trade Union Simulation
10.00 – 12.30
Youth Action Plan
Conference 10.00 – 12.30
A Mosque in the Sleepyville Simulation 10.00 – 12.30
‘Mission Impossible’
Follow up Session
Future projects 10.00 – 12.30
Evaluation session
Lunch 12.30 – 13.00
15.00 – 18.00
Arrivals  15.00 – 18.00
Youth in Action Presentation
Transparency International session 15.00 – 18.00
Youth Employment Action Plan (1) 15.00 – 18.00
Youth Action Plan (2) 15.00 – 18.00
City Game
‘Zap youth unemployment’ 15.00 – 18.00
Zapping Poverty Newsletter
(groups’ articles) 15.00 – 18.00
Dissemination Plan – newsletter, action plan, short movie 15.00 – 18.00
Dinner 18.30 – 19.00
Welcome evening Intercultural evening AS IMST
Students’ night Groups’ 1, 2
Night Groups’ 3,4
Night Groups’ 5
And RO team’s night Farwell party Departures 

Our Estonian's promoter's link :)

http://www.euro26.ee/www/index.php

Youth in Action official Clip

EU Youth Strategy - Employment Field

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-policies/doc1691_en.htm

Employment and Entrepreneurship
Having a professional occupation, in the form of a job, as self-employed or running one's own business is of great importance to many young people to achieve independence. Yet, since the start of the economic crisis mid-2008, more than 20% of young people are unemployed.
The urgency to tackle youth unemployment is recognised in the European cooperation framework. In the Council Resolution on the European Cooperation Framework of 27 November 2009, Member States agreed to make employment the overall thematic priority for the next 18 months (January 2010 - June 2011) .
Support to young people in the field of employment
This means that the tools under the European cooperation framework, including e.g. dedicated events, knowledge, common learning, will be geared towards finding solutions to unemployment. Youth employment is also the first topic for discussion in the context of the Structured Dialogue between public governments and agencies and youth organisations at EU level and within the Member States. Furthermore, efforts will be made to ensure a youth dimension in EU policy-making overall as regards employment issues, for example the EU 2020 strategy.

Whilst bringing the work forward, the EU Member States and the European Commission will take action to:

■Integrate concerns of young people in employment strategies
■Invest in theprovision of skills for those jobs in demand on the labour market.
■Develop career guidance and counselling services.
■Promote possibilities for young people to work and to follow training abroad, including by lowering barriers to free movement across the EU
■Promote quality traineeships to increase young people's chances on the labour market.
■Improve childcare and promote sharing of responsibilities between partners in reconciliation between professional and private life.
■Support young people’s entrepreneurship e.g. via targeted education, access to funds, mentoring and support networks and structures in favour of youth entrepreneurship

Youth in Action

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/news/news1807_en.htm


Youth in Action programmeYouth in Action
Mobilising the potential of young Europeans
On 15 November 2006, the European Parliament and the Council adopted Decision No 1719/2006 /EC, which establishes the Youth in Action programme for the period 2007 to 2013. This document is the legal basis of the Programme for its entire duration.

Youth in Action is the EU Programme for young people aged 15-28 (in some cases 13-30). It aims to inspire a sense of active citizenship, solidarity and tolerance among young Europeans and to involve them in shaping the Union's future.

Youth in Action is a programme for all! It promotes mobility within and beyond the EU borders, non-formal learning and intercultural dialogue, and encourages the inclusion of all young people, regardless of their educational, social and cultural background.

Youth in Action is the successor of the YOUTH Programme (2000-2006). Building on the experience of the previous programmes for youth, Youth in Action is the result of a large consultation with the different stakeholders in the youth field and aims to respond to the evolutions and needs of young people at European level.

With a total budget of 885 million euros for seven years (2007-2013), the Programme supports a large variety of activities for young people and youth workers through five Actions.



Youth in Action in figures

■Duration: 2007-2013
■Budget: 885 million euros for seven years
■Geographic reach: EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey, the EU neighbours (Eastern Europe and Caucasus, the Mediterranean region, South-East Europe) and other partner countries in the world
■Age brackets: 15-28 (in some cases 13-30)

AS IMST - The Host Association

Check out our profile and we can also give more details about our projects ;)

http://www.asimst.ro/

Youth in on the Move

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/news/news1807_en.htm

Youth on the Move - strengthening support to Europe's young people
Five million young Europeans are looking for a job. Many of them will miss opportunities because they lack the right qualifications or experience. Today, the European Commission launches Youth on the Move, a new flagship initiative aimed at helping these young people to gain the knowledge, skills and experience they need to make their first job a reality.
Part of the EU's new Europe 2020 strategy, Youth on the Move proposes 28 key actions aimed at making education and training more relevant to young people's needs and encouraging more of them to take advantage of EU grants to study or train in another country. This will increase young people's employability and access to the labour market.

Androulla Vassiliou, the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, said: "The measures we are presenting today are aimed at raising the quality of education and training in Europe so that our young people are properly equipped for today's job market. We want to reduce the number of early school leavers and increase the share of young people in tertiary education so that they reach their full potential. The EU needs even more young people who are highly skilled, knowledgeable and innovative if it is to prosper in the future."

László Andor, the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, said: "Finding a job is what millions of young Europeans are most concerned about. Youth on the Move will create new momentum at EU and national level to improve support for young people so that they can find a job, make a living and pursue their own plans."



It's time to act…
At present, too many young people leave school early and too few enter higher education, which jeopardises Europe's future skills base.

Youth on the Move will be instrumental in achieving the Europe 2020 headline targets of reducing the share of early school leavers from 15% to 10% and increasing the share of young people with tertiary education or equivalent from 31% to at least 40% by 2020. Youth on the Move actions will also help Member States reach the headline EU target for 75% employment over the next ten years by helping to ensure that young people have the right skills for the jobs of tomorrow. Commission studies show that 35% of new jobs will require high-level qualifications by 2020 and that 50% will require medium-level qualifications.

The economic and financial crisis has made it harder for young Europeans to enter the labour market. The number of young people looking for a job has increased from 4 to 5 million since the onset of the financial turmoil, with EU youth unemployment now at nearly 21%.

These challenges call for concerted action and robust policy coordination to identify action at EU level and in Member States. The Commission will support Member States in designing policies to support those most at risk of unemployment, to do more to encourage young entrepreneurs and to address legal and administrative obstacles to learning and working mobility.

Independent studies show that more than 40% of employers attach importance to the experience gained from study and work abroad, which not only enables young people to improve their language abilities but also to acquire other skills that are highly valued. The Commission already has a long tradition of supporting mobility through the grants it provides from Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig and Marie Curie.

Youth on the Move aims to extend opportunities for learning mobility to all young people in Europe by 2020. The Commission will today launch a public consultation on the future of its mobility programmes for post 2013.

Zapping Poverty September 20-27- 2010, Bucharest, Romania

Zapping Poverty is a youth exchange having as topic the youth unemployment and youth employability, producing direct effects on the youth’s poverty and social exclusion. For 8 days, 35 youngsters from 7 countries will work together, in an intercultural setting, producing the Youth Employment Action Plan, analyzing the actual situation with the youth unemployment and coming with proposals for the stakeholders, for the Universities, for the private sector and for their peers to tackle the unemployment situation. Through the experiential workshops, through the simulation and role playing games and through the group working on the Youth Action Plan, the youngsters’ mutual support, their solidarity and their understanding will be fully challenged. Also, we want to bring awareness on the youth’s group about the global movement against poverty and social exclusion, promoting the 2010’s priorities – as the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. At the end of the 8 days, the 35 participants will come with a consistent and coherent document that will reflect their perspective on the youth unemployment and its actual status but also with practical solutions for different stakeholders to tackle this problem. The action plan will then be shared with their peers, through the dissemination and multiplication plan.
Integrating also YiA’s objectives and its permanent and annual priorities, Zapping Poverty has the following priority objectives:
1. Promoting the active youth participation and offering to 35 youngsters from 7 countries the opportunity to discuss about the youth unemployment
2. Empowering youth to come with their own practical proposals to for youth unemployment through the Youth Action Plan on Unemployment
3. Encouraging the cultural exchange and having a great impact on the participants’ intercultural learning and intercultural dialogue
4. Promoting the cooperation in the youth field and developing new cooperation plans and follow up projects
5. Promoting the 2010’s priorities and the 2011 priorities – promoting volunteering and the benefits that can be conducted through volunteering
6. Promoting Youth in Action and its opportunities
7. Promoting the non-formal education and its recognition – through the skills and competencies development and providing the participants with the Youthpass
8. Coming with a consistent and coherent document, at the end of the exchange, the Action Plan and disseminating it to the stakeholders to whom these proposals are addressed.
Creating a network of active youngsters and active promoters who will continue working on youth unemployment also disseminating the Youth Action plan in their networks and communities.