Desarrollo de programas de aterrizaje para el fomento de la contratación juvenil

Youth unemployment has become one of the main problems to be tackled in Europe. Although youth unemployment rates in EU countries in February 2020 (14.9%) improved compared to 2019 in the same month (15.5%), due to the COVID crisis it has increased again to the 17,1%. Moreover, they are still very high compared to the adults' unemployment rate according to the last figures released by European Union, 8,1% (March 2021). Taking these figures into account, FLY2WORK has addressed different needs: - Youngsters need to find jobs that enable them to have a fully independent adult life. - Youngsters and companies need to transform the adaptation period into a more effective process. - An opportunity to learn from each other instead of an unproductive needed period for both sides. - Social organisations need new tools that they could offer to companies to encourage them to hire youngsters and also to youngsters to help them to get their first opportunity. - Academia needs to offer their students those soft skills requested to have a good career. - Public Administrations and authorities need more practical tools that help them to stop this problem and change the trend.

Fly2Work aims at fostering youth employability by creating a methodology jointly with a set of tools and good practices that will help companies and, in general, all sorts of employers (social enterprises, foundations, associations, etc.) to design good onboarding plans adapted to their own needs. This way we want to contribute to the solution of the current situation by helping to create better jobs for youngsters in terms of quality, durability, and stability. Our specific objectives have been: - To improve youngsters' employability with a methodology ready to be implemented in every organisation in Europe willing to improve their processes of hiring young people, improving their employability. - To encourage employers to hire youngs by providing tools that help them to design good onboarding plans. - Help companies to retain talent. - Reduce the gap between the expectations of youngsters regarding work life and what it is in reality. - To involve public administrations at a more practical and "close to the reality" level.

The activities implemented were: - To Conduct field research to establish the state of the art of unemployment youth situation and to generate a practical and easy-to-use methodology for those organisations that wanted to do it themselves. - To establish a direct and practical way of working with local public authorities in the field of youth employment to better know their needs and to create a common space of dialogue for exchanging experiences and knowledge. - To Elaborate a practical boarding handbook based on our own methodological approach. - To create an online digital course in order to maximise the impact of the project and get the interest of relevan stakeholders.

Tangible outcomes have been: - PR1. Toolbox for identification of needs. - PR3. Handbook onboarding plans methodology, training materials, and KPIs. - PR4. Online digital Course with three modules. - Website. - 10 newsletters. - Posts in LinkedIn. - Research material (desk reseachs, employability analysis...) - Connections with other asociations. - Satisfactory results obtained from surveys. Other tangible outcomes include: - Best practices related to the experiences and the work done in each project result. - Communication materials: infographics, leaflets, website, press releases, news, etc. - Increase the number of youngsters hired in the partners' local areas. - 29 direct participants in PR3. - To reach out more than 300 direct impacts. Intangible outcomes include: - Participants' experiences and a better understanding of the other's point of view on the same problem. - Improved competencies not only by youngsters but also by employers, public administration, and stakeholders directly involved in the project. - Increased motivation and satisfaction in daily work by those youngsters participating directly in the project. - Sharing practical experiences and potential solutions among the most relevant stakeholders: youngs, employers, social organisations, and public administration. - Increased sensibilization by all participants about youth unemployment. - Positive synergies among the partners of the consortium.