« Euro-Mediterranean Youths: from indignation to contribution »

1. Euro-Med Youth programmes a year after the Arab Springs French National Agency of the Youth in Action programme 7thFebruary 2012|Lyon

2. Building long term coalition among all stakeholders (including private sector) affecting youth social context • Why • To unite efforts of all stakeholders to develop relevant projects to support a better professional and social integration of youth. • How • Raising awareness among stakeholders (private sector) about the importance of such coalitions in terms of improving the public image of these entities as well as creating more competent human resources. For example: study visit for best practice model or partnership building activities within Euromed context « Euro-Mediterranean Youths: from indignation to contribution »

3. « Jeunesses euro-méditerranéennes : de l’indignation à l’engagement » • Supporting entrepreneurship initiatives among youth in the Euromed area • Why • The unemployment rate is high and still increasing • Unemployment is a destabilizing factor in the Euromed region that generates a vicious circle of social exclusion. • How • To implement capacity building programmes to enhance entrepreneurial competencies among youngsters, • To create an entrepreneurship-supportive environment social, political, legal and economic • Example: to use youth initiatives to facilitate the first step to build a company

4. « Jeunesses euro-méditerranéennes : de l’indignation à l’engagement » To adapt/reinforce a visible EuroMediterranean framework for non formal education that supports voluntarism and employability a. Why To make information more visible, accessible to youngsters and stakeholders. To reinforce the impact by highlighting and dissemination of best practices in civil society. To facilitate the evaluation of the impact of the projects on youth employability How To build a Euromed reference for quality criteria of non formal education activities To create or reinforce it by adapting national frameworks for non formal education.

5. « Euro-Mediterranean Youths: from indignation to contribution » • To ensure the sustainability of youth-oriented NGOs • Why • Sustainable NGOs are needed as they are aware of youngsters needs and have a better understanding at grassroots level. • NGOs sustainability depends on management skills and expertise • How • To provide capacity building programs aiming at empowering NGOs at all organizational, managerial, legal, and financial levels. • Bridging the gap labour market and NGOs by building partnerships.

6. « Euro-Mediterranean Youths: from indignation to contribution » • To promote the significance/recognition of competences acquired through non-formal education in Euromed • Why • Skills acquired through non-formal learning, if recognised and meaningful for the labour market, might enhance youth employability. • Life long learning is a continuum of learning acquired through formal, non-formal and informal education: non-formal and informal learning are particularly important for youngsters and NGO professionals in the acquisition of social, personal, organisational skills. • How • By expanding the use of Youthpass within Euromed program. • By promoting the significance of the Youthpass to all relevant stakeholders within Euromed region through creating common work spaces for youth workers, policy makers, teachers and researchers. • By addressing policy makers to adopt this tool as an official certificate of acquiring competencies for both youngsters and social workers.