Youth@Work Fair - Tools for Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship

The Youth@Work Fair - “Tools for Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship” is designed as an interactive event, providing a space for exchanging educational tools and methods that support youth economic participation, with special attention to social inclusion. Throughout the event, participants will have the chance to share tools and methods of their own making or learn from fellow youth workers, trainers, educators, and other professionals supporting youth employability and entrepreneurship.

Aim and Objectives:

The Youth@Work Fair - “Tools for Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship” aims to contribute towards cross-sectoral collaboration and dissemination of know-how for the support of social inclusion of young people through employability and entrepreneurship related activities

To reach this aim, the event will:

• Gather and build upon the expertise and instruments used for youth economic empowerment by youth work, education, and employment sector professionals for mutual learning and exploring possible synergies,  
• Facilitate sharing and collecting expertise and instruments for an effective empowerment of youth economic participation, 
• Create bridges between the youth work, education, and employment sector representatives supporting the social inclusion of young people,
• Create a compilation of tools and methods presented at the event for wider dissemination and impact. 

To maximise the exchange and learning between participants, this Youth@Work event will be a combination of interactive and practice/tool-sharing sessions, inspirational keynote speeches, tool market, and study visits.

It is ideal if all participants come to the event ready to share their tool(s) and methods focusing on supporting the social inclusion of young people related to employability and entrepreneurship.

Please note that you will be asked to make a workshop proposal in the application form. It will be an option, not an obligation. In case you are selected to participate in this event, and your workshop proposal is chosen to be integrated into the programme, a fee will be provided,  as well as online preparation by the organisers.

Profile of participants:

• Youth workers, trainers, and other youth practitioners, 
• Educators, career guidance professionals from VET, HEI, and schools working with employability and entrepreneurship topics,
• Employment sector professionals,
• Other relevant professionals.

Applicants will be selected according to the following criteria:

• Relevance of their profile and motivation to participate in the event,
• Ability to communicate in English,
• Interest in both learning and contributing to the content of the event,
• Motivation and the possibility to use the results of this activity in their work,
• Willingness to run a workshop on (a) tool(s), and/or to present a tool at the Tool Marketplace,
• Experience in developing a tool or method for youth.

Youth@Work Partnership

This event is part of the Youth@Work Partnership on Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship of Erasmus+ National Agencies. Youth@Work is the alliance of the Erasmus+/European Solidarity Corps National Agencies of Italy (the leading NA), Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland, Republic of North Macedonia, Spain, and Türkiye, as well as of the SALTO-YOUTH Eastern Europe and Caucasus (Poland), SALTO-YOUTH South East Europe (Slovenia) and SALTO-YOUTH Training and Cooperation (Germany) Resource Centres. It has been running since January 2018. For more information about Youth@Work, please visit our website - www.youthatworkpartnership.org and social media channels.

Safety and accessibility

The venue of the event and the activities are accessible to everyone, the evening programmes are optional. In this event, the NAs and the Organisers follow the principles of a safe space. We strive to ensure that everyone is met as their own self and that no one has to fear discrimination or harassment. We expect the participants to respect the same principle.

The event is inclusive and accessible to all. If one needs to bring a personal assistant or a guide dog, or if one needs an accessible room, sign language interpretation, tele loop, or other kind of support, please inform the organisers.

For the organisers to support everyone’s participation, a question about accessibility needs is included in the application form. This does not have any influence on your application’s eligibility. For any questions or concerns regarding accessibility, please contact the organisers.