luni, 11 octombrie 2010

Action Plan Zapping Poverty

Action Plan “Zapping Poverty”


Bucharest – 26th September 2010
Introduction
Today we are experiencing a complicated situation in Europe - the unemployment rates are extremely high everywhere and the expected economic growth at the same time very slow. During “Zappying Poverty” – Action 1.1. Youth in Action bringing together 35 youngsters from 7 countries, we have been debating over youth unemployment in participant countries and we came to the idea that the effects of the global financial crisis are increasing the vulnerability of the group we are representing. In the EU the youth unemployment rate is over 21%, even though the new Europe 2020, the Renewed Social Agenda and Lisbon strategy should definetly make the situation better. However, the new Youth European Strategy launched in 2009 was considering youth as a resource, but the practical measures have been inacted.
In this Action Plan we are analyzing the inefficiencies and problems connected to youth employment in Europe and accordingly giving solutions and proposals to make the situation better. While implementing this work, we take into account different stakeholders' interests: European Union, local and national authorities, employers' and employees', education institutions and also youngsters'.
General problems what we have to deal with when talking about youth unemployment:
• Inefficient qualifications and experience in the labor market.
• Instability of the labour market.
• Unawareness and uncertainty about future economic situation.
• Taking advantage of the employees.
• Inequality in salaries of public and private sector.
• Black economy.
• Lack of general enthusiasm and motivation.



European Union stakeholders
European Union has already undertaken a variety of measures to reduce unemployment among young people, however we are proposing new ideas to deal with the situation.
Proposals:
• Identical European scholarship for excellent marks in all EU countries. The scholarships nowadays granted only in certain European Countries for excellent academic performance should be equally distributed to all member-states’ students.
• Offering EU training in EU institutions. One of the best internships provided by the EU so far has been the training programme in its own institutions. – European Comission, EU Parliament, Council etc. Unfortunately, this practice is no more available. We insist on its restart.
• Organizing free language and practical courses for young people.
• Giving more support to NGOs – covering daily expenses to encourage more creativity. Members of NGO are those youngsters who profoundly involve themselves in the problematical issues of the society. Apart from the fact that they are doing volunteery job, we think that it would be good if EU supports their daily actions financially by covering the expenses that they face in their ordinary work.
• Support the states to create some social jobs for unqualified people or people from the minorities, such as subsidize “Clean Europe” long-term project. Our idea is to launch an eco-friendly long-term project that is called “Clean Europe”. It involves actions like cleaning the streets, gardening, rennovation of parks etc. that would both benefit the local society and provide people with jobs. The workforce has to be preferably recruited among discriminated people.
• Advertise more international offer database such as EURES.



Local and national stakeholders
Local and national authorities have a strong knowledge of current situation and can deeply manage both problems and solution. Also they can manage the interaction of other players and guide them to a good integration with the local background.
Proposals:
• Help for starting a company:
• lower taxes for start-up company makes easier to cope with initial expense,
• lower cost of money for start-up to be able to buy all the equipment they need,
• strong statistical data about local market and local trends,
• trainings to entrepreneurs to get knowledge about the start-up process,
• supervisors to guide the start-up company in a correct path,
• easy registration,
• networking between start-ups,
• promotion both locally and nationwide to allow a new company to reach enougth customers,
• a start-up company can get better taxes if later will teach to other younger how to start-up a company.
• Help for finding a job:
• courses to build up and improve skills,
• social jobs to cover some critical period or region,
• internship to allow a wise integration between the business world and the post-educational world,
• skills conversion to migrate unneeded skills towards similar skill that have a wider market,
• managing a global CV database between different region to best match local needing with external skills and facilitate skill exchange between regions.
• Creating economical zones (the zones have a very special economical treatment and are used to kick-start a virtuos cycle for fixing the economical situation of a region):
• agreement between government and company for factory building,
• starting governative activities in depressed zones.
• Fighting against black economy by making the tax systems more efficient – will provide more financial resources for government – more possibilities to support entrepreneurship and creation of new jobs.

Employers
This section will solve the problems from an employers' but also employees' perspective. It will be pointing out how to solve unemployment according to this particular stakeholders' environment.
Proposals:
• Training programs and promoting vocational training – important in order to retrain.
employees for the jobs that are needed to be done in the new economic situation.
• Agencies to protect employees’ rights – more efficient control to provide more confidence to employees life-expectations.
• Reforming public policies – more equality in salaries in public and private sector.
• State provided free informative conferences for employers about business environment and opportunities.
• National projects about practical placements during and after university studies – will provide more working experience and opportunities for young people to get a job in the future.

Education
When talking about youth unemployment, we can't forget that a central role is played by the educational system, which has to provide youngsters with the best background to face the challenges of tomorrow.
Proposals:
• The creation of Job Offices in the high schools helps the scholars to meet the demand of employers, who will be able to consult teachers. Orientators and psychologists will guarantee the best matching between the parts.
• Regular internships are made compulsory. The internship fields vary a lot, involving the most humble works. Beside all the educational aspects, with this measure we try to beat the lack of enthusiasm which transforms the most of the students into passive subjects.
• A diary of these internship experiences is created, and made compulsory for each student. The diary enumerates the skills learnt by the student, and helps him/her to create and update his complete CV.
• The creation of a subject named “Career debates” stimulates every student to discuss about the experiences made during the internships. The teacher acts as a facilitator, helping to point out common aspects and problems related to the work world.
• Intensification of the internships by the universities enables a better career cooperation Proposal.

Youngsters
Often young educated people do unqualified job because of the lack of interest or experience in their own profession. In this paragraph we are giving proposals from yourngsters’ point of view in order to make their situation better.
Proposals:
• Investing more money in creating new training courses and provide places for internship – in order to have the chance of practising skills.
• Promoting themselves better and making more contacts for the future.
• Providing young unemployed people a small amout of money.
• Orientation during high school - using the services of conciliation centres.
• “Shadow jobs” - following professionals in their working hours in order to understand the real nature of their work (a week or a month depending on the profession).
• Being a member of non-profit organisations - gaining work, social and cultural experience.
• Improving skills in every step - learning foreign languages and volunteering in international groups.

Conclusion
After considering all the proposals we are coming out with, it is our truth belief that when taking into account the measures described, the situation of youth employment could be improved.

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