TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR PROMOTING YOUTH EMPLOYMENT IN TURKEY OPERATION

Beneficiary: Turkish Employment Organisation (İŞKUR)

Project Start Date: 10/2011

Duration: 25 Months

Project Objectives and Results:

The overall objective of the project is to attract and retain more people in employment by promoting youth employment and decreasing unemployment rate of young people by assisting İŞKUR and related stakeholders through increasing employability and entrepreneurship of the young people and increasing matching services in the transition period from school to work.

The achieved results of the project are as follows:

Result 1: Increased level of entrepreneurship capacity of the young people in 15 growth centres.

Result 2: Development of a model on youth Entrepreneurship Support (YES) and pilot implementation of the model in 5 provinces

Result 3: Improved access to internship and on-the-job trainings by establishing networks between young people and workplaces/companies, which can provide internship and on-the-job trainings in eligible 12 NUTS II regions

Result 4: Preparation of action plans for youth employment for 5 growth centres to be used by the relevant institutions as roadmaps

Target Groups:

• Young unemployed people, who recently graduated from the university
• Young unemployed people, who are secondary school graduates
• Young unemployed people with lower educational attainment and early school leavers
• Young unemployed people, who are still at school
• Young women with lower educational attainment

Reference Number: EuropeAid/128451/D/SER/TR