The Youth Employability Program

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Open calls for Business plan

Balkan Children & Youth Foundation has announced a Open Calls for young persons from Serbia and Macedonia who have possible ideas to start their own successful and sustainable business.

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The Youth Employability Program - Serbia

With the support from Stiftung Schüler Helfen Leben and in cooperation with City Municipality Novi Beograd, BCYF is launching Youth Employability Programme in Serbia. Programme will start with supporting young people in finding proper job internships in companies and institutions and gain adequate employment based on this experience. BCYF
is planning to support various trainings and youth business plans creation during 2009 in Serbia. Open calls for young people and companies/institutions interested to participate in this programme will be announced before the end of the year.

 

 

The Youth Employability Program - Macedonia

The new phase of “Youth Employability Project for European Macedonia” has started under the auspices of Clinton Global Initiative www.clintonclobalinitiative.org  initiated by Mr. Vlado Dimovski, PhD, Full Professor at Economic Faculty in Ljubljana and BCYF and supported by large corporate donor Mr.Sandi Cesko President and CEO of Studio Moderna – www.studio-moderna.com. Project’s objective is to equip 3 300 young people with employability skills to expand their options for gainful employment and likelihoods. In addition aims to encourage collaboration among business people, government and educators throughout Macedonia and region. The project will focus on enhancing possibilities of employment for 2,000 young people age 18-30 in Macedonia. This goal will be achieved mainly through the activities in the field of recognition of non-formal education (with engagement of relevant governmental bodies, business sector, NGOs and academic institutions), employability programs implemented in cooperation with grass-roots youth NGOs, job shadowing/internship implemented in cooperation with business sector and cross-border exchanges.

Report 2007

New applications for the Youth Employability Programme in Macedonia available.

advertisements for the applications:

Open call-companies MKD

Open call-interns MKD

applications:

Application for company's

Application for interns

 

all applications should be sent to kristjan@balkanyouth.org

 

 

Youth Employability Grants - Macedonia and Kosovo

Selection Committees for grant awards were organized on 23. and 24th June 2008 in Skopje. Out of 22 applications for the projects in  Macedonia 4 were awarded grants in this round:

MESA - "Samovrabotuvanje na mladi luge za odrzuvanje na PC oprema"
Cvet - "Handicrafts"
Ekovita - "Ruralen Inkubator"
Rinitolerante - "VRABOTUVANJE po pat na obuka"

 

Out of 10 applications for projects in Kosovo 3 were awarded grants:

KOS - "Youth and Students Strenghten Throughout the Job"
KYN - "Today's Youth Are Tomorrow's Leaders"
VKBIK - "Youth and Business"

 

 

The Youth Employability Program - Kosovo

 

Balkan Children & Youth Foundation has announced an Open Call for young persons from Kosovo who have possible ideas to start their own successful and sustainable business.

Download the Business Plan

 

all applications and other supporting documentation should be sent to ajkuna@balkanyouth.org

latest 1st of March 2009

 

Launch of the Youth Employability Programme in Kosovo

Official launch of the programme in Kosovo took place in Hotel Grand in Prishtina on 6th June 2008. More than 50 guests from Kosovo and Macedonia were present and 3 largest TV stations covered the event.
Launch was organised in cooperation and with the support of local Studio Moderna office. Besides BCYF and Studio Moderna representatives, one of the keynote speakers was Erion Veliaj, BCYF Board member who presented BCYF and supported this initiative.

In response to the strikingly high youth unemployment rate in Kosovo, Balkan Children and Youth Foundation creates a strong change and improve the quality of life of young people in Kosovo by offering adequate programme that will make an impact on the society and reduce the unemployment of youth.

In order to complete this work, the program is seeking to expand to the region. Kosovo was a logical choice having in mind the highest rate of unemployment in the region and the fact that it is the close neighbour in Macedonia where this programme and the presence of Studio Moderna branch in Kosovo.
       Having the similar aims as the programme in Macedonia, the programme for Kosovo would be slightly different than the first pilot Macedonian programme, based on some lessons learnt in Macedonia and other countries in the region where BCYF implements different programmes on youth employment and entrepreneurship. The programme in Kosovo is intended to start end of September 2007, beginning of October, with 3 main components:

1. Matching young interns with companies and institutions for the internship length up to 3 months

2. Providing grants for the training providers for implementing employability trainings 

3. Providing small start-up loans for youth initiated and led businesses, and training young people how to develop their business ideas

It is also planned to organize at least 2 Business Leaders Forums in order to inform and motivate business leaders to support this programme and employment of youth and act as mentors in the small-loans programme.

For more information please contact:

ajkuna@balkanyouth.org
kristina@balkanyouth.org

 

 

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