On December 7th, the Cooperation Fund Foundation, as the leader of the Partnership for Supporting Youth, established in 2016 as part of the project “Recommendations for Increasing the Scope and Relevance of Professional Activation of Young People in the Mazowieckie Voivodeship,” participated in the conference “Activation of Young People Far from the Labor Market – Good Practices and Recommendations.” The conference was organized by the POLPROM Foundation for the Promotion of Social Initiatives, with funding from the Technical Assistance Operational Programme. A key part of the conference was a debate on the Recommendations for the Activation of Young People. On December 7th, the Cooperation Fund Foundation, as the leader of the Partnership for Supporting Youth, established in 2016 as part of the project “Recommendations for Increasing the Scope and Relevance of Professional Activation of Young People in the Mazovian Voivodeship,” participated in the conference “Activation of Young People Far from the Labor Market – Good Practices and Recommendations.” The conference was organized by the POLPROM Foundation for the Promotion of Social Initiatives, with funding from the Technical Assistance Operational Programme.
A key part of the conference was a debate on the Recommendations for the Activation of Young People. The debate was moderated by Agnieszka Luck, head of the Educational Projects Department at the Cooperation Fund Foundation and coordinator of the “Recommendations…” project. Representatives from four provincial partnerships (Silesia, Małopolska, Świętokrzyskie, and Mazovia) and representatives from district labor offices participated.
The debate addressed issues and topics that emerged during the partnerships’ work, which proved convergent in many respects, such as the need for inter-ministerial cooperation for the effective activation of NEETs – labor market institutions, educational institutions, and social welfare institutions. They also discussed the proposed topics for partnerships from public and private employment services, as well as possible sources of funding for the partnerships’ work. This last issue is particularly important for the established partnerships to function efficiently and effectively.
During the conference, representatives of the Youth Support Partnership invited new institutions to join the Mazovian partnership, which we hope will expand the Partnership for Youth Support in the near future.
