Our association has a long-term experience in accompanying young NEETs and people with fewer opportunities in the educational and job market orientation pathway, offering high quality tutoring and support during their job and learning mobility abroad.
Along with hosting, we have been coordinating an ESF+/ALMA project Y(m)ES (ESF-SI-2022-ALMA-01-0023) that recently came to the end. The project involved 24 young NEETs in a professional mobility experience abroad, preceded by a pre-departure training period and a follow-up period that both took place in Italy. 20 of them are currently engaged in a job or a study or training pathway, having thus emerged from the NEET situation. Throughout the project phase, we were responsible for overall coordination, coordination of the network of local and international partners, selection, preparation, support and accompaniment of participants, follow-up, management of dissemination and communication activities, administrative management. Again thanks to the ALMA program and formerly TLN mobility, since 2016 we have been welcoming 12 groups of young people from other European countries, mainly from Spain, for an international internship experience in Trento. Our role in these projects is mainly as follows: search for host companies, finding accommodation, accompanying and monitoring participants, managing activities and cultural trips, crisis management.
We are looking for partner organisations across Europe that are implementing the ALMA initiative and are interested in developing long-term cooperation in the fields of social inclusion, education, training, and mobility for NEETs, unemployed young people, and adults facing barriers to employment. In particular, we are seeking organisations willing to send participants to Trentino (Northern Italy) for training and mobility experiences within the framework of the ALMA initiative.
We are also interested in cooperating on the design and implementation of innovative education and training pathways, integrating non-formal learning, career guidance, employability skills, and personalised support to facilitate labour market inclusion.
Beyond ALMA, we are keen to establish partnerships for the development of European projects under the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), particularly in the areas of vocational education and training (VET), adult education, youth inclusion, social innovation, skills development, work-based learning, international mobility, and the exchange of good practices.