Discouragement

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Factors increasing the possibility of young people becoming NEETs include low motivation and aspiration, lack of confidence, sense of fatalism, and low self-esteem. They may also become voluntary NEETs since motivation is often identified as one of the key risk factors of inactivity. This share of youth is more likely to come from a privileged background and remain briefly outside the labour market or education and training in order to try out jobs and educational courses.

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Good practices
Good practice
400+Future
400+Zukunft

400+Future is a low threshold programme that targets young NEETs to support them to re-engage in education and training activities. The programme offers individualised support and practical experience in a variety of vocational fields as well as the opportunity to attain a lower secondary education certificate.

Germany
Good practice
Integrated Network for Young People in the Province of Vicenza
Rete Integrata per i Giovani del Vicentino

In Italy, one of the main difficulties of the Youth Guarantee Programme in the course of the first phase was to reach and engage the most discouraged NEETs from social backgrounds characterised by high levels of poverty that affected their ability to enter and remain within training and education courses, to gain work experience and to find out about the possibilities offered by the Programme.

Germany
Italy
Portugal
Spain
United Kingdom
Good practice
PLAY YOUR SKILLS
Mobile Gaming App for Identification and documentation of Skills and Competences for disadvantaged young NEETs

Getting NEETs back on track by the "VET-ification" of gaming to encourage them to take part in Vocational Education and Training (VET) or at least get in touch with VET.

Austria
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Portugal
Spain
Good practice
Transnational Employment YOUTHShare Centre- Greek Branch
Διακρατικό Κέντρο Απασχόλησης YOUTHShare, Ελληνικό Παράρτημα

The Transnational Employment Branch of YOUTHShare in Greece adopts, adapts and elaborates on the new practices for work inclusion based on Ripples in the Water Methodology from Norway -NHO- Confederation of Norwegian Enterprises). Based on this methodology, the YOUTHShare employment Centre and its staff aims through a person-centred and empower-focused approach at matching effectively the jobseeker with a potential employer.

Cyprus
Greece
Italy
Spain
Good practice
Comprehensive pathways for the integration of young people

Programme for young people implemented by the cooperative "Jovent" offering comprehensive pathways of guidance, training, social inclusion and labour market insertion.

Spain
Good practice
EPIDE (Etablissement Public d’Insertion dans l’emploi)

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.

France
Good practice
Go Remote
Unlocking the potential of remote job opportunities

Go Remote is an initiative designed to reduce youth unemployment by offering training, mentoring, and employment opportunities in remote and hybrid jobs. 

Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Finland
Iceland
Latvia
Tools
Tools
Aim-Learn-Master-Achieve (ALMA) tool - European Commission’s active inclusion initiative for integrating disadvantaged young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs) through mobility

ALMA (Aim-Learn-Master-Achieve) is an active inclusion initiative to empower the most vulnerable young people (18- to 29-year-olds) who are not in education, employment or training (NEETs). 

EU level
Tools
Encouraging preventive approaches to support young people not in employment, education or training: A checklist
This 15-page checklist offers a practical guide considering key questions when designing and implementing prevention projects for young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs).
EU level
Publications
Publications
European Commission: Sustainable activation of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs)
Practitioner's toolkit

This toolkit is intended to assist you in designing and implementing your approach to activate people not in employment, education and training (NEETs). The toolkit provides concrete guidance and tools for PES to assess the NEET challenge and set priorities; draft and implement an Action Plan; and develop new tools, measures and competences from scratch.

EU level
Publications
Lifelong Learning Programme: Preventing and contrasting the NEET phenomenon
How to work with NEETs - A Toolkit for local administrations

At EU level NEETs (Not in Employment Education or Training) are considered one of the most problematic groups in the context of youth unemployment. The aim of the NET not NEET project was to enhance networking and co-operation amongst public and private actors.

EU level
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