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Social Leader Forum on Youth Employability
Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The Social Leader Forum on Youth Employability 2015 focus on improving employability of young people, brain drain, labor migration and the development of innovative approaches to adress these challenges by civil society together with public institutions and social business. Youth unemployment, brain drain, labor migration and the exclusion of disadvantage youth are one of the major challenges that many countries in Europe (even in Germany in case of young people with migration background for instance) and especially in the Caucasus region are facing, especially in rural regions. At the same time, stakeholders from different sectors act often isolated and do not combine their competences and strategies in order to effect-fully target these challenges or lack tools of innovative approaches. The Forum offers 24 young professionals dealing with this issues from Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey, a unique communication, learning and exchange platform on topics of social innovations and cross-sectoral collaboration concerning the issue of employability, social entrepreneurship and social innovation. This includes questions of special trainings for youth (vocational trainings, skill-trainings, exchange with practitioners, youth entrepreneurship trainings) reaching disadvantage youth groups and be aware of their specific needs and challenges, prevent brain drain, dealing with the social challenges of labor migration, etc. The Social Leader Forum 2015 consist of two meetings in Georgia and Turkey. In the meetings, we will use several different methods to facilitate the exchange on best practice and development of new approaches, like discussions with experts, simulation games, workshops and field visits to other relevant organisations, instiutions and programs. Furthermore, the participants will team-up for conducting in-between the meetings cross-border and/or cross-sector study visits. The visits will provide the participants with practical insights into daily work of the organizations and , addressing the issues of employability and related fields in an innovative and/or entrepreneurial way. By taking a close look at the operational challenges being faced by the local actors, the participants get a better understanding of the daily work of change agents on the ground, strengthen their expertise and take inspiration for their own professions. With the combined experiences from all participating countries enriched by inputs and discussions with experts, new ways of tackling these issues should be discussed, evaluated and transfered. We see our participants, who are all working already on that matter as multpliers, who take back the made experiences to their local working environemnt and share within their organisations and instiutions to improve their apporaches. The partners will also play a crucial role here to disseminate the results among their peers in the respective countries. The publishing of the results and developed approaches will reach then further interested groups and professionals. We want to promote by this interdisciplinary, cross-sector and cross-border dialogue and sharing of best practice of how to develop key competences for young people, (social) entrepreneurship skills and to improve the employability of young people with innovative approaches.

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