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Baltic youth research(ers) up-graded: long term impact on youth field
Start date: Oct 26, 2016, End date: Oct 25, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

There could be many examples when proper attention and reacting to certain problem is given upon urgent and unpleasant situations (such as alcoholism problematic when father is killing two small children). It so called “firefighting” - the practice of dealing with problems as they arise rather than planning strategically to avoid them. It‘s so obvious that such practice is undesired, but still it is existing. Why? There are many reasons. But we would like to highlight such as: to pure cooperation between politicians – practitioners and researchers; capability to analyze data - wrong data interpretations can lead to bad decisions; different data is in a different hands (economical – Ministry of Finance; social – Ministry of Social Security and Labour; educational – Ministry of Education and science etc.) – national measures are planned only having part of important information, but not having full view of situation, sometimes using only useful information to take planned decisions, but not reflecting all spectrum of problem etc.Such firefighting is existing in many areas which affects youth. In this project we will tackle problematic of youth emigration: external and internal. In 2013 (Eurostat data), the relative share of national immigrants, in other words immigrants with the citizenship of the Member State to which they were migrating, within the total number of immigrants was highest in Romania (90 % of all immigrants), Lithuania (86 %), Portugal (69 %), Estonia, Poland (both 60 %), Latvia (58 %) and Slovakia (52 %).This topic is an issue for many areas of national policy: economic, labour affairs, education, social, geographical balance, foreign affairs and others. Dealing with emigration there are existing strategies, inter – institutional programs, many national and local working groups, activities etc. Plenty of actions are taken, but expected impact is not reached. Why it is so? Project team will search for that answers.Using youth researchers as a measure to reach cross – sectoral cooperation and openness of all areas in thematic of youth emigration:- Preparing common methodology to evaluate efficiency of implemented measures/ taken actions and analyzing certain measures (correspondence to the needs, satisfaction of target group; impact);- Involvement in planning new measures by participating in working groups;- Preparing or reviewing situation analyzes (clarification of existing data) of legal documents and giving feedback to politicians and practitioners (strategies, programs, etc.);- Preparing an external annual report of implemented national measures (focus – not blaming, but bringing up findings what is missing in order to meet the “burning” data).
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