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Youth Employment Network for Energy Sustainability in ISlands - YENESIS

Cyprus Energy Agency ·Multi-country

€2.9m
Grant awarded
EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment
Programme
26 October 2018
Signed

About this project

<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="color: #212529">Islands suffer from high unemployment throughout the year, with a seasonal peak on non-tourist periods, especially amongst young people – this is what this project aims to tackle. We addresses the challenge of unemployment of <strong>NEETs between 25-29 years old</strong> in islands by creating green jobs in the areas of <strong>energy efficiency</strong>, <strong>renewable energy sources</strong>, <strong>sustainable tourism</strong> and <strong>sustainable mobility</strong>. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="color: #212529">Furthermore, embracing <strong>the Smart Islands Initiative</strong> and its principles of bottom-up approaches for innovation in islands, we put transnationality at the core of our project as it recognises the commonalities amongst islands around Europe and understands the potential of exchanging good practices, as well as joint endeavours.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><strong><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="color: #212529">The YENESIS online platform</span></span></strong><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="color: #212529"> that we have created contains good practices for youth employment shown through numerous success stories. The goal of the platform is to promote <strong>innovative practices for employment</strong> to the interested parties in order to adopt similar actions towards lowering youth unemployment. The platform is open to both NEETs themselves and investors or other stakeholders. Participants have the opportunity to share business opportunities, find partners, pitch their ideas, and collaborate. The platform will ensure the lasting effect of the project, attracting young professionals and entrepreneurs with similar interests and entrepreneurial ventures.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="color: #212529">As part of our project we have also developed the e-course consisting of the <strong>4 main thematic areas</strong> of the project. It’s available in <strong>7 languages</strong>: English, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Croatian, Estonian and Portuguese. </span></span></span></span></p>

Bilateral cooperation results

The donor project partner elevated the quality of the offeri to the target group. Their insights helped shaped the whole programme and the training on soft skills was a very crucial response to a gap we found during the project implementation. The study trips in the donor country was an unforgetable experience for both the participants and the partners from the beneficiary countries, inspiring many to start their own businesses and take on practices they hadn't considered before. Aside from the direct benefits, the bilateral collaboration led, also, to higher visibility (a journalist from the donor country visited Cyprus to report on the project). There is high interest for further collaboration so currently LP is at the stage of looking for other sources of funding to continue our work.

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