We are soon starting with the second cycle of the youth unEmployment project!
In the last 4 years the project has been providing tools to pursue the dream jobs and preparing young people to the face the challenging job market, which can be found under https://prezi.com/iwtgb05iuxio/youth-unemployment-project-aegee-europe/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

We aim to raise employability of young people. We intend to make YOUth more adaptable to the changing demands of the labour market. We want to smoothen the transition to the adulthood.
To become a part of the youth unemployment project, please fill in the form http://goo.gl/forms/cZhvSqECxT .

“The past cannot be changed the future is yet in our power” Mary Pickford.

While the skills mismatch is already a overpowering problem, it is necessary to recognize that the market demand will not swift towards humanities anytime soon, if any. As of now, despite the fact that the levels of youth unemployment are skyrocketing, millions of jobs in Europe remain unfilled and the head-hunters have a tough nut to crack when it comes to finding graduates who match the market requests

The reality is changing and facing it requires long-term actions. While for previous generations the focus on science-related subjects was only required in case of opting for engineering or medical degree, now this knowledge is becoming a requirement. Times where the use of and the applicability of humanities in the job market is appreciated seems to have disappear, raising a question if the number of STEM students and graduates will be sufficient to meet the needs of future industries.

To face the situation the governments across Europe have started encouraging students to take up the science degrees by providing the best students with scholarships and benefits that are not applicable for the humanities learners.

Yet, low level of science intake is not the only problem that needs to be faced. The gender gap is widespread and certain subjects are dominated by men, increasing the pay gap.

The theme is particularly debatable in the United Kingdom. Recognizing the milieu, British government is planning to introduce postgraduate financing but stated that postgraduate loans may be limited to students in STEM fields. The rationale of the new policy is simple- the system of repayment the current undergraduate loan is based on graduates repaying a fixed percentage of their earnings between £15,000 and £21,000. As many graduates do not obtain sufficient funds once they have graduated, they are not obliged to pay off the loan which gets cancelled after 20 years.

One of the ways approaches that are being implemented is the Your Life campaign which aims to increase the number of graduates taking physics and maths at the A-level and ‘help to dispel the myths around STEM subjects’ that often discourage students to take up this career.

The campaign has set the following objectives

–          To raise awareness of the career opportunities offered by science and math degrees,

–          To present positive role models

–          To create mentoring programmes and cooperation programmes with businesses

How about you country? Share with us what is being done on local / national / regional level? What is the level of the skills mismatch problem in your community? Do you recognize it as a big problem?

after four years of activity, Youth UnEmployment project team is looking for a new Project Manager. The new Project Manager will work in the framework of a new cycle of the project and developing the new Strategic Plan 2014-2017.

The Youth UnEmployment project is the AEGEE-Europe project which aims at increasing youth employability.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Increase the recognition of voluntary work as work experience.
2. Increase the recognition of Non-Formal education as an important skill at work.
3. Empower young people to effectively use their skills and preferences to get into employment.
4. Empower young people to set up enterprises.
5. Raise awareness about employment opportunities.

We are looking for someone:

-motivated
-passionate for youth work
-experienced in youth unemployment thematic field
-willing to work in a multicultural team
-with good leadership skills
-with good networking skills

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

•  Lead the planning and implementation of project
•  Assemble and coordinate project staff
•  Manage project budget
•  Manage project human resources
•  Plan and schedule project timelines
•  Provide direction and support to project team
•  Quality assurance
•  Monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders
•  Project evaluations and assessment of results

If you are interested in, please fill in this form and we will contact you.

Deadline: 29.11.2014 23:59 CET

Please attach your CV too and send it to yue@aegee.org.

ESE Manager

Francesca is finishing her master degree in Statistics at the University of Padova (Italy).
She did an Erasmus and an internship in Leuven (BE), won an Erasmus Placement in Lyon and now she’s an intern in a social business dealing with Microcredits all around Italy. She values a lot self development so she did many youth in action projects and european trainings such as Entrepreunership European School 2012 and Leadership Summer School in Sofia 2013.

She started her AEGEE career at 18 before starting either university, with a Summer University, but became active in 2011 when she was elected president of her local, AEGEE-Padova. She didn’t stop only to the local level. Infact she took some charges in european projects too for example in the Identity Team who updated AEGEE vision and mission. In Agora Zaragoza she was elected Project Manager of SUCT 2013-2014 and in 2014 she took the charge of Project Manager of the third edition of Entrepreunership European School 2015.

She loves innovations, travelling and social business. She think that with Microcredits the rate of unemplyment people can definitely change so she’s working hard to make it works!

PR Manager

Ania is an active, driven and ambitious person characterised by a truly cross disciplinary and global attitude who is eager to be exposed to different cultures and aims to have a truly international experience.

Ania graduated from MA in Development Studies, Economic Integration and Institutions from Valencia University. This course triggered and developed her interest in global issues such as active participation, youth unemployment, governance, entrepreneurship. Recently Now Ania started a PhD in economic development at Northumbria University where she investigates the entrepreneurial governance and mobilization of private Interests in the pursuit of public goals.

Ania has a profound knowledge and understanding of EU youth and inclusion policies that has been attained via her participation in various international projects and trainings that were aimed at promoting the inclusive youth policy, and democratic participation of youth in society, quality internships, non-formal education and youth entrepreneurship. Ania has been invited to take part in the opening panel at the European Youth Event 2014 in Strasbourg, Let’s build Europe together-How can ideas today become jobs tomorrow? which truly changed her life.

Apart from that Ania is an anti-corruption activist who fights for equality, transparency and accountability. She is keen on sports and writes about football for an online magazine which shows football from female perspective.

As far as the youth unEmployment project is concerned Ania will be taking care of the PR aspects, helping to develop PR strategies and initiatives that improve public perception of project and manage the social media presence of the project.

“Your first EURES job” (YfEj) initiative provides support for foreign employment for young entrepreneurs.

Your first EURES job

What’s this?

Your First EURES job is a free of charge mobility scheme that helps young EU citizens to find job opportunities in other EU countries. This is part of the European Union ‘Europe 2020’ flagship initiative “Youth On The Move” and one of the key actions to address youth unemployment and boost youth labor mobility.

Who can participate in our program?

Jobseekers who are:

■ Between 18 and 30 years old.

■ EU citizens.

■ Legally residing in an EU country , and do not have a settlement permit in respect of the destination country.

What kind of support is given to you?

■ Financial support to cover the costs associated to attending face to face interviews.

■ Access to funds to cover your relocation to your new country of employment.

■ If located in a small or medium enterprise (SME), preparation courses for skill development and language proficiency.

If you are interested in finding a job abroad this is an opportunity you can’t miss. You just need to send us your CV, attend your interview and once you are selected, move to your new country. All covered with funds provided by the European Commission and Your First EURES Job.

Already found a job abroad? You can still apply to our funds. Just contact us to infoyfej@gigroup.com with the details of your new employment and we can grant you financial support to cover your relocation costs.

Sent us your CV to:

http://bit.ly/yfejcv

Like us on Facebook:

http://bit.ly/yfejfacebook

Subscribe to our Newsletter:

http://bit.ly/yfejnewsletter

Content manager

Mathieu has been a member of AEGEE-Brussels for 2 years and is now President of his local. He too part in the January meeting of the Youth Employment Project team, where the new objectives of the project were prepared before being presented at Agora Patra. Besides running the local and coordinating the board, he was very involved in the Y-Vote 2014 campaign and organized the closing convention of the project in Brussels together with AEGEE-Europe and the Y-Vote core team.

Mathieu achieved his Masters of European studies last August before starting a traineeship at the European Commission (DG Employment) and worked specifically the Youth Guarantee, the Quality Framework on Traineeships, and the less well-known European Alliance for Apprenticeships. After experiencing for a few months what he has worked on at the Commission (unemployment!), he is coordinator for a Belgian NGO sending and hosting volunteers in international projects.

Mathieu truely believes in non-formal education ways to learn, to gain confidence and trade off the beaten track left by higher education. He considers himself and most of active young leaders he met as learners on the ground who have developed their skills and identity through their own involvement instead of school benches.

The Nielsen Company is a global information and measurement company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence and mobile measurement. Nielsen has a presence in approximately 100 countries spread across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, North America and South America, employing around 40.000 people. Founded in 1923, Nielsen has pioneered market research and promotes continuous innovation.

Nielsen’s finance department is starting an important recruiting campaign, open to young graduates with economics and multicultural background. The open positions are internships (paid) with a minimum duration of 6 months.
The final objective is to offer these graduates the opportunity to join, after the internship, an important cross function formation program which only the best candidates will have access to, leading to definitive enrollment in the finance department.

So here the program at a glance :

– 6 months paid internships
– In finance department
– Serious possibilities of longer term employment
– Europe wide program, 2 countries to start, more to come

At the moment the countries and respective cities impacted by this project are:

– Netherlands (Amsterdam)
– Poland (Warsaw)

Please find the intership descriptions at the following links:

– for Warsaw: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7mWePsGHB4Nd2JNRE9hQ0twZzdNY1ZqelkwWUhRT2NOREJZ/edit?usp=sharing

– for Amsterdam: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7mWePsGHB4Ndmc1UjdYb3ZTR0YzOFI3WnlZYkZIdjU1bjZJ/edit?usp=sharing

If you are interested and you want to candidate please refer to the contacts mentioned in the job offers, moreover add also alberto.pantaleone@nielsen.com and yue@aegee.org (you will help us to evaluate the impact of the partnership).

Thanks

Looking forward to reading from you soon,

Best

YuE team

Maryia Anishchankava

ESE Las-Palmas officer

Maryia was born in Minsk, Belarus, where she got her first higher education in Intercultural Communications and Foreign Languages.
In 2009 she moved to Italy where she obtained her 2nd degree in International Commerce at the University of Verona.
In 2011 she won a scholarship and passed a semester at the University of Richmond, VA, USA, where while being an exchange student she worked as a tutor of Russian and Italian.
In 2013 together with a group of dedicated Belarusians Maryia co-founded an NGO – Global Belarusian Leaders (http://belarusianleaders.org/) which aims to promote Belarus and unite Belarusians all around the world.

In this same year her AEGEEan experience started. Together with Larisa Smajlagic (current president of AEGEE-Verona) Maryia aimed to restore AEGEE-Verona which now counts of 23 members.
Maryia is vice-presindent of AEGEE-Verona and now actively dedicates her time to promotion and development on the Antennae. She participates in Hang-outs, local meetings and European conferences.

Human Resources manager

Magdalena Kortas, born in Poland with Polish-Ukrainian origin and strong sense of European identity.

A student of International Economics with specialization in Management at University of Gdańsk. She loves to travel, meet new people and is interested in international relations, human development and intercultural communication.

As a member of AEGEE since 2012, she has taken part in many international conferences and events. On a local level she was also a board member and working group coordinator. She knows three languages: Polish, English and Spanish. Now she works for European Personnel Selection Office as a Career Ambassador and promotes opportunities and career paths in EU institutions.