EU4Youth phase III - Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship
Project type: Indirect management programme
Years: 2021-2025
Budget: 15,120,000 EUR (14,400,000 EUR – EU contribution, 720,000,00 EUR – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania contribution).
Leader: CPMA
CPMA role: CPMA, as a lead implementer, is resposible for the three main pillars of the action: development of specific skills for activation of youth in partner countries (Component 1), building institutional set-up and structures for youth employment policy implementation (Component 2), and strengthening understanding of European policies and governance among youth in partner countries (Component 3).
Project purpose: To foster active participation of youth in both democratic life and in the labour markets of the beneficiary countries, with a focus on disadvantaged youth, thus contributing to sustainable and smart growth, social cohesion, economic and societal resilience to respond to war-generated impacts and reduction of inequalities in EaP societies.
Specific objectives:
To foster young people’s digital skills, skills needed for green transition, along-side entrepreneurial and career management skills;
To strengthen resilience and build capacities to respond to impacts generated by Russia’s war against Ukraine;
To develop cross-sector partnerships between public, private and non-governmental institutions in the area of employability and career development for youth, in particular disadvantaged;
To build structural capacities of key institutions for mapping, outreach, preparation and offers in view of employment, continued education, apprenticeships or traineeship (piloting of EaP Youth Guarantee – type schemes);
To strengthen understanding of European politics and governance among EaP youth.