Resources

Sindbad is a 12-month mentoring programme that builds strong relationships between young people from different backgrounds, strengthening mentors’ leadership skills, and offering structured, reflective support to mentees. It focuses on the critical transition from lower secondary education to apprenticeships or further schooling and intervenes at an early stage to prevent dropouts and subsequent unemployment.

A platform that includes all available learning opportunities within Lisbon, providing participants with access to a comprehensive range of educational experiences. Each opportunity is linked to corresponding microcredentials, which are awarded upon completion. Participants can store and manage these microcredentials in a badge wallet, showcasing their achievements and skills. 

DigitHer empowers young women to launch digital careers by addressing barriers to employment and boosting confidence through targeted training and mentorship. By creating a supportive, female-focused learning environment, the initiative helps bridge the gender gap in tech.

Tech Your Future equips NEETs across Italy with the skills and support to launch careers in high-demand digital professions, offering inclusive training and personalised job placement. By connecting talent with opportunity, the project opens pathways for youth to thrive in the ever-evolving tech sector.

Generation empowers NEET youth through targeted mobilisation, skill-based assessment and selection, and tailored mentorship, equipping them with skills to build meaningful careers and foster economic mobility. Generation creates pathways to an inclusive workforce, ensuring resilient, career-ready young professionals.

Back on Track aims to (re)integrate young NEETs (not in employment, education, or training) in rural areas into general and vocational education as well as the labour market. The goal is to improve their basic skills and resilience, while strengthening their digital competences, to enable sustainable employment and personal development. 

CREUS provided a new approach focusing on learning in ‘unconventional spaces’ to support the transversal skills of disadvantaged and unemployed young people (aged 16–24 years) to foster access to initial VET and labour markets.

Acceder, the training and employment programme of the Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG), aims to promote access of Roma population to the labour market, particularly through salaried employment, as a gateway to social inclusion. 

The main objective of Giovanisì is to foster the transition process of young people towards autonomy, thanks to a system of opportunities structured in seven areas: internships, housing, civil service, doing business, work, study, training and Giovanisì+ (participation, culture, legality, social issues and sport).

While the numbers of young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEETs) are still staggering, it is not always easy to find an effective solution to reverse this trend.The NEETs for NEETs project seeks to respond to this issue together with youth affected by such problems, rather than once again providing the answers from a top-down perspective. In this regard, the project aims to improve and co-create together with NEETs sustainable and inclusive methods to empower young NEETs and improve their conditions.

Young people aged 18-25 who are early leavers, unemployed and/or at risk of exclusion. Young people from disadvantaged urban areas are a priority target group.

In Italy, ‘Crafts Square’ offers young people, unemployed young people and adults with an alternative educational offer with a good balance between practical and theoretical courses. The environment created by the ‘Craft Square’ aims to ensure learners feel understood, supported and valued.