NEETs in Action

Innovative model to identify and support young people

‘NEETs in Action’ is a European research project with the main focus on young people who are NEET. The project aims to develop an innovative model to identify and support young people who are NEET drawing on existing best practices in partners’ countries, pilot this intervention in Portugal, Italy and Spain and analyse the impact of the intervention.

The main objectives of the project are:

To identify the state of the art of current good practices of social inclusion and work-based learning strategies
To design and develop a model of intervention
To pilot the methodology at a local level in Portugal, Spain and Italy
To promote awareness meetings in the context of the project to exchange experiences
To validate the model through a multi-stakeholder approach
To evaluate the impact of this model
To reinforce and match the role of different stakeholders to find the best means of optimization, and increase the networking capacity, with a view to enhance NEETs’ social inclusion and employability
To disseminate and explore the project results among relevant beneficiaries and ensure their sustainability at a practice level through the training of professionals and at the institutional level, influencing policies and changing the culture of services provided.