Lost Millennials

Lost and Found: Reimagining of Europe's Employment Policies
2023-11-28 09:30 - 15:30 (Europe/Brussels)
Evaluation of policy initiatives tackling 25+ NEETs unemployment
Lost Millennials cordially invites you to our upcoming conference, which is a part of our series of events. This conference will take place in Brussels, Belgium, at The Hotel (Bd de Waterloo 38, 1000) on November 28, 2023, from 09:30 to 15:30 CET.
In the ever-evolving landscape of Europe’s employment policies, it’s crucial to address the challenges faced by 25+ NEETs. This event is dedicated to discussing the effectiveness of policy strategies, including gender perspectives, migration, and rural-urban disparities. We aim to bring together policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to delve deep into these critical issues.
Key Highlights:

Policy Discussions: Engage in meaningful dialogues about the challenges faced by 25+ NEETs.
Insights and Evaluations: Understand the results from evaluating initiatives targeting 25+ NEETs.
Networking: Connect with experts and stakeholders in the field of youth employment.

Agenda:

For more details, please see our Facebook event page.
Don’t miss your chance to participate! Register now to secure your place at the event.
Please note that by registering for this event, you provide consent for receiving information on the subsequent events of the Lost Millennials project’s event series and occasional news related to the project’s research results.
Any personal data provided in the registration form will be handled in line with the Privacy Policy of the Project’s Data Controller, HÉTFA. If you’d like to decline the opportunity to receive information on upcoming events and news on our research activities, please send an email to lm.leadpartner@hetfa.hu

The Lost Millennials project is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment.

Lost Millennials Event Series #4 | Bridging the Skills Gap: Strategies for Upskilling and Reskilling NEETs
2023-06-08 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online
The Lost Millennials project invites you to the 4th-panel discussion of the Lost Millennials events series on June 8 from 11:00 – 13:00 CET.
The current job market is constantly evolving, and it can be challenging for young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) to acquire the skills in high demand among employers. This event aims to explore strategies for upskilling and reskilling NEETs to help them gain new skills and enter the labour market.
Through this event, we will identify in-demand skills and explore innovative approaches to training and education, including online learning, micro-credentialing, apprenticeships, and experiential learning. We will also recognize the importance of soft skills and explore ways to support NEETs in developing these skills, which are often critical for success in the workplace.
Addressing the gap between the skills that NEETs possess and the skills that employers require will be a key focus, and we will explore ways to match the skills of NEETs to job opportunities through career counselling, job matching services, and job placement programs. Additionally, we will recognize that many NEETs face significant barriers to upskilling and reskilling and explore ways to address these barriers through targeted support services such as mentoring, coaching, and counselling.
Finally, we will recognize the importance of digital skills in the modern workplace and explore ways to provide training and education in digital skills to young people, especially those who are out of employment or in education and training. Join us in this event as we discuss strategies to bridge the skills gap and create opportunities for NEETs to succeed in the labour market.

Presenters:

Maria Grigoriadou: Upskilling and Integrating Neets into the Labor Market: The Greek Public Employment Service Case | Public Employment Service (DYPA), Greece
Eleni Bletsa: YES! To the Leverage of NEETs’ Skills: Lessons Learnt Through the Outreach and Implementation Methodology of YES! And the Way Forward | Development Agency of Karditsa (ANKA), Greece
Cathrine Fredriksen: Individual Placement and Support as a Model of Supporting People Experiencing Mental Illness to Gain and Maintain Employment | Nord Universitet, Norway
Sævar Ari Finnbogason: Artificial Intelligence and Neets From the Educators’ Perspective | Bifröst University, Iceland
Bjarki Þór Grönfeldt Gunnarsson: TBC

Moderator: Athina Psariai
For more details, please see our Facebook event page.
Don’t miss your chance to participate! Register now to secure your place at the event.
Please note that by registering for this event, you provide consent for receiving information on the subsequent events of the Lost Millennials project’s event series and occasional news related to the project’s research results.
Any personal data provided in the registration form will be handled in line with the Privacy Policy of the Project’s Data Controller, HÉTFA. If you’d like to decline the opportunity to receive information on upcoming events and news on our research activities, please send an email to lm.leadpartner@hetfa.hu
The Lost Millennials project is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment.

Lost Millennials Event Series #3: Challenges of School to Work Transition
2023-01-31 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Paris) | Online
The transnational partnership of the Lost Millennials project invites you to the third-panel discussion of the Lost Millennials event series on January 31 from 11:00 – 13:00 CET.
The current event aims to focus on the challenges of school-to-work transition, initially in a holistic perspective, and then specifically, in the case of some particular segments of the 25-29-year-old population – such as the rural or the ethnic Roma population –, where the proportion of the NEETs is higher than at societal level.
Presenters:
– Gabriela Neagu: The School-to-Work Transition: A Cross-National Analysis (Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romania)
– Claudia Petrescu: Policies for NEETs’ Employment Across EU Countries (Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romania)
– Stefánia Toma: Gaps and Barriers to School-to-Work Transition in the Case of the Romanian Roma Youth (Romanian Institute For Research On National Minorities)
– Simona Lidia Sava- Nicoleta Iacobescu: School transition and young NEETs (West University of Timișoara, Romania)
Moderator: Balázs Telegdy
Please note that by registering for this event, you provide consent for receiving information on the subsequent events of the Lost Millennials project’s event series, as well as occasional news related to the research results of the project.
Any personal data provided in the registration form will be handled in line with the Privacy Policy of the Project’s Data Controller, HÉTFA.
If you’d like to decline the opportunity to receive information on upcoming events and news on our research activities, please send an email to lm.leadpartner@hetfa.hu.
Don’t miss your chance to participate! Register now to secure your place at the event.
For more details regarding the event, check out our Facebook event page.
The Lost Millennials project is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment.

Lost Millennials Event Series #2: Inclusive Activation
2022-10-25 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | Online
The transnational partnership of the Lost Millennials project invites you to the second panel discussion of the Lost Millennials event series.
The second Lost Millennials online event aims to present three approaches to NEET 25+ activation in the context of the social system of three different European countries.
During the event, there will be three topics of discussion:
Topic 1: Why NEETs for NEETs? How experience-based knowledge can improve social sustainability
Speaker: Jonas Abrahamsson (Sweden
Jonas is the project coordinator of the Erasmus+ funded project NEETs for NEETs, aiming at improving and upscaling adult education and work counselling activities for NEETs. He has many years of experience in working with marginalised youth through co-creation.
Topic 2: Useful learnings gathered on Pact Project for the Lost Millenials Project
Speakers: Maria Luisa Tamaríz and Margarita González (Spain)
Bio: Maria has worked since 1997 as a technical psychologist in Gerencia de Servicios Sociales (Public Body of Social Services in the Spanish region of Castilla y León), holding different positions: in a care team in the child protection section for nine years, and from then on as a technician in the Technical Directorate of Access to Social Services, coordinating various programs, such as volunteer programs, social emergency benefits, support service for families at risk of eviction, etc. Margarita graduated in Economics. She works in European projects and EU funds in Gerencia de Servicios Sociales de Castilla y León.
Topic 3: Upskilling the hard-to-reach. Shifting concepts and new approaches:
Speaker: Matthias Schulze-Boeing (Germany)
Bio: Matthias is a Senior Advisor and Project Manager for the City of Offenbach and a Lecturer at Fulda University of Applied Sciences. Before that, he worked for 15 years in the role of Head of the Department for Employment, Statistics, Social Planning and Integration Policies at the City of Offenbach. Under his leadership, a number of initiatives funded by the EaSI programme have been implemented, which can be categorised as social innovations.
Moderator: Zuzana Poláčková (Slovakia)

The event will be held via Zoom and streamed on Facebook. Registration is free of charge. More information is available on the Facebook event.
Register at the following link to participate in the event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z4dnl-wGTX-2deKi3AgBKw
The Lost Millennials project is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment.

Event Series #1: Targeting Lost Millennials: Evaluation Challenges and Good Practices
2022-03-23 14:00 - 16:00 UTC
The transnational partnership of the Lost Millennials project is inviting you to the first-panel discussion of the Lost Millennials event series on good practices and methodological challenges to the evaluation of initiatives and measures targeting young people, NEETs in particular.
The aim of this panel discussion is knowledge exchange and sharing of experience of experts and researchers in the field of youth (un)employment, employment initiatives, evidence-based design of active labor market measures and impact evaluation, as well as to identify critical methodological challenges in the field.
Speakers:

Miroslav Štefánik (Representative of Slovak Academy of Sciences, SK)
Celine Fere (World Bank)
Márton Csillag (Budapest Institute, HU)
Maciej Jakubowski (Evidence Institute Foundation, PL)

Moderated by: Tomasz Gajderowicz (Evidence Institute Foundation, PL)
Register at the following link to participate in the event: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_ly1pUSAnQr-QIA7bXAbV7w
The Lost Millennials project is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment.
