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Empowering YOUth through Entrepreneurship!

Sep 21, 2021

Objective: Share knowledge about project results, raise awareness on the topic of NEETs and strategies for bringing economic opportunities to all groups of young Europeans, and disseminate best practice from JA network

Programme

12:00 Welcome and setting the scene: Ensuring more European youth have the means to succeed

• Árni Páll Árnason, Deputy Managing Director and Director of the Country and Bilateral Cooperation Department, Financial Mechanism Office, EEA Norway Grants (tbc)

o Strategic objectives of EEA Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment • Salvatore Nigro, CEO JA Europe

o Pathways to education, employment and entrepreneurship through JA’s programmes available to all young Europeans

• Isabel Benjumea, Member of the European Parliament
o Alignment of EU-level policies for the benefit of youth in the areas of Education;

Employment, social affairs and inclusion; and Internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SME’s.

12:15 Video gallery: 1 minute testimonials from young people from each country, speaking about the impact of the opportunity they got through this project

 

  • –  Spain
  • –  Romania
  • –  Italy
  • –  Bulgaria
 

12:30 Panel discussion moderated by Diana Filip, Deputy CEO JA Europe
Part I – Youth capacity building by Junior Achievement organisations: What recipe for success? Questions for panel discussion focusing on 2018-21 project:

  • –  What are the main achievements from the work over the past 3 years?
  • –  What was unexpectedly difficult?
  • –  How can we scale the best results from this project?
  • –  Where should the focus be in future initiatives?Speakers:

    Alice Dutu, Program Director and Deputy CEO JA Romania Lucia Zavala, CEO JA Spain
    Ingeborg Omdal Lykseth, Lyk-z
    Miriam Cresta, CEO JA Italy

    Milena Stoycheva, CEO JA Bulgaria

    13:15 Part II – Business engagement in creating opportunities for all young Europeans Speakers:

  • Policy maker’s perspective (tbc)
  • Emanuele Odazio, People & Culture Director Southern and Eastern Europe, ManpowerGroup
  • Lonneke Roza, Community Investment Programme Manager International, NN Group
  • María Lema ,Coordinator of the Employment and Training Center, in Asociación la Rueca,Spain
  • Alvaro Millán, youth representative, Founder of Tuso Star Up, Spain13:55 Final remarks by EEA Norway Grants & JA Europe: future outlook and prospects
  • Árni Páll Árnason, Deputy Managing Director and Director of the Country and Bilateral Cooperation Department, Financial Mechanism Office, EEA Norway Grants (tbc)
  • Salvatore Nigro, CEO JA Europe

14:00 End of event

 

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