Representatives of Youth Social Rights Network (Ms. Biljana Vasilevska Trajkoska as trainer and Ms Maria Roidi as a representative of the Youth Social Rights Network and our partners/supporters the Municipality Neapoli – Sykies Greece) participated in the Tranzit Seminar on youth work and youth policy practices in support of young people’s transition to autonomy and work life that was held, in the European Youth Centre Budapest period 5-7 July 2016.
The seminar gathered 27 participants with different background (youth workers, researchers, local and national authorities, social entrepreneurs) and aimed to pool good practices in responding to the challenges faced by young people in their transition to autonomy through youth work and youth policy, with a particular focus on measures in the areas of employment, education and training, health care and social security, housing, information and counseling and to make proposals on how the Transit platform, the Enter recommendation and project could further support their work at local and national level.
During the 3 days spent together participants focused on:
The seminar gathered 27 participants with different background (youth workers, researchers, local and national authorities, social entrepreneurs) and aimed to pool good practices in responding to the challenges faced by young people in their transition to autonomy through youth work and youth policy, with a particular focus on measures in the areas of employment, education and training, health care and social security, housing, information and counseling and to make proposals on how the Transit platform, the Enter recommendation and project could further support their work at local and national level.
During the 3 days spent together participants focused on:
- sharing and learning from youth work and policy interventions at local and national level in response to challenges faced by young people in their transition with a particular focus on areas related to access to social rights;
- reflecting upon what makes an intervention a good practice and how to make these practices transferrable or adaptable in other contexts;
- familiarizing with the work of the Council of Europe on access to social rights and opportunities offered for supporting youth work and youth policies in this field
- identifying needs at national and regional level that the the Council of Europe should take into account when planning future work on social inclusion and young people’s transition to autonomy
- proposing ways in which the online platform can be further developed.
Check out the program of the meeting
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