Europe and Unemployment: BULGARIA

Target group of the project "Youth unemployment and social integration " are young people under 25, with priority given to young people in disadvantaged social and economic situation. The theme of the project encompasses the knowledge of the level of unemployment among young people in EU and our country in particular.

        Partners are youth organizations from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria.The places in Bulgaria where the activities are about to be held are Veliko Tarnovo  and  Pleven. The exchange duration is 8 days. The number of the active participants in the project is 30. In some of the activities there will also be included young people from an orphanage. The aim of the project is to attract participants-youth leaders and young people from various non-governmental European organizations, which in the course of the project will get familiar with the problems of youth unemployment and will discuss the opportunities for its limitation.This aim will be attained by the means of individual and group presentations; ice breaking games; work meetings with local government representatives, вusiness, students,volunteers ; round table discussions, cultural events; issuing of magazine showing the development and main profits of the project ; making a Facebook page of the exchange ;analyzing of the exchange  activites .

       Working methods for realization of these activities are: formal and non-formal communication, interaction and exchange of knowledge and practices, non-formal education,work in mixed groups ,combination of practical and theoretical activities for upbringing of new skills in the participants.