SYMPATIC Project Kickoff!

This week in Marsailles we officially kicked off one our latest projects: SYMPATIC!

SYMPATIC supports young adults returning from an international mobility by training job coaches and building a network of companies prepared to value their newly gained competences.

The situation of youth employment (young people under 30) remains alarming. Many countries in Europe have very high rates of youth unemployment. This group has an uncertain future, with a difficult insertion in the labor market, although many of them have higher education and master degrees. In addition, working conditions are precarious: little stability, temporary contracts, poor family reconciliation and low wages. In a context where access to work has become tough, the race to employability contains a lot of obstacles and difficulties, there are many candidates and a lot of competitiveness.

The development of the SYMPATIC project at transnational level is composed of a diversity of partners with different but complementary expertise. The consortium has experience in the transnational mobility of young people (volunteering or VET), and will work on the creation of a reliable network with companies in the tourism sector. These companies will be the other key actors in the development of the project since they will provide guidance and follow-up to the young people in their mobility to develop soft and hard competencies for employment.

 Objectives:

• Create a link between companies that recruit on a regular basis (i.e tourism sectors: guides, drivers, information centres, accommodation, catering / restaurant industry, selling, seasonal jobs) and young people looking for a job.
• Draw a panorama of the job market (needs and demands) and job vacancies in the sectors
• Train employers to be tutors of young people
• Facilitate the integration of young people in the labour market at the national and international levels
• Train social workers as job coaches
• Enable young people to be trained during a mobility and return with the necessary competences to integrate into the labour market