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On the Move Next Stop Labour Market
A project implemented within the framework of
the European Initiative Equal
PENELOPE STATHAKOPOULOS Psychologist Career
Counselor D.P. President
The Project is co-funded by the European Social
Fund (75) and the Hellenic Ministry of
Employment and Social Protection (25).
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What is the project On the Move

• It addresses young people dropping out of
  secondary education without qualifications
• The project experimenting with new methods and
  practices friendly to young people, aims at
  enabling youngsters to manage their life and
  career integrate into the labor market.

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Partners of the D.P.

• IEKEP (coordinator)
• Vocational Training S.A
• Pedagogical Institute
• The institute of Adults Vocational Training-
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• The Pedagogical department of the University of
  Thrace
• The Panellenic Organization Elliniki Estia
  (NGO)
• TR?? Consulting S.A.
• Central Union of Municipalities and Communities
  of Greece - ?.?.D.?.?
• The Organization of Public Transportations of
  Athens - ??S?
• INTERACT Training ?.?.

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• CAREER GUIDANCE STRUCTURES
• The provision of high quality career guidance
  services giving emphasis, among other things, to
  the combat of gender stereotypes
• Existing guidance structures are reinforced in
  order to provide guidance services to young drop
  outs.
• They are located
• 3 structures in Athens
• 1 structure in Thrace-Alexandroupolis

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Services Provided to young people

• 1. CAREER GUIDANCE
• Individual career guidance assisted by a
  specially designed computer programme
• Information about occupations as well as
  training and labor market opportunities

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Services Provided to young people

• The outcomes of Career Guidance
• Re-integration in to the education system
• Integration into the project s provisions
  (empowerment workshops, training e.t.c
• Referral to other support or training structures
  

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Services Provided to young people

• 2. Mobile Unit of Career Guidance
• The development and functioning of a mobile unit
  of Information and Career guidance
• A fully equipped bus on which career advisors
  provide information and career guidance to young
  drop outs
• Given that our country consists of small and
  isolated communities this Unit can prove to be a
  very important tool.

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Services Provided to young people

• 3. EMPOWERMENT WORKSHOPS
• The equipment of youngsters with social and basic
  skills through the experimentation with new
  empowerment practices
• Content of the workshops
• Oral and written communication
• Every day life and arithmetic
• Computer skills
• Assignment of projects
• Career management
• Equal opportunities Assertiveness
• Procedure
• Choice, flexibility, active learning

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Services Provided to young people

• 4. TRAINING PROGRAMMES
• The equipment of young people with vocational
  skills, promoting, at the same time equal
  opportunities between genders
• Training Content
• Logistics
• Cooking (2 programmes)
• Office tasks with the use of computers
• Waiters

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Services Provided to young people

• 5. ACQUIRING WORK EXPERIENCE
• The acquisition of work experience as well as
  vocational skills
• Content
• Information and sensitization of enterprises in
  order to provide employment opportunities
• Work placement of 80 youngsters for two months
  on the basis of the matching of their wishes and
  interests with employment opportunities
• Supporting young people during their internship
  in the enterprises

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MAIN ACTIONS OF THE PROJECT

• 6. JOB PLACEMENT
• Purpose
• Placing youngsters to jobs on the basis of the
  matching of their wishes and interests with
  employment opportunities
• Implementation
• Sensitizing enterprises in order to offer
  employment opportunities
• Supporting/guiding young people in order to have
  a soft transition to the labor market
• Negotiating with companies who had offered
  internship to young people

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Services Provided to young people

• 7. The Contribution of Volunteers
• The whole project was enriched by the
  participation of young volunteers who belonged to
  the same age group with the young drop outs. They
  were trained and supervised by experts in order
  to be able to communicate effectively with the
  target group. Their tasks consisted of
• supporting and encouraging the young drop outs
  (peer counseling)
• acting as role models for the young drop outs
• providing, through the Committee of Young People,
  feedback to the pilot group with respect to the
  projects course and the young drop outs needs
• sensitizing the local community

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Results

• Provision of career guidance to 494 young drop
  outs
• 54 young drop outs participated in 4 empowerment
  workshops in Attica and Thrace
• 98 young drop outs attended training programmes
• 71 young drop outs have been placed in companies
  within the context of Acquiring Work Experience
• The Mobile Unit of Career Guidance visited 14
  local communities

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RESULTS

• At the Level of Local Community
• Information about the services and the
  opportunities provided for the benefit of young
  drop outs
• Social Services and Guidance Centres
• Educational community
• Employment Structures
• Local Enterprises Network
• Initiatives taken for coping with the problem of
  dropping out of school, for empowering young
  people and integrate them into the labor market.

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