Yo-Wo - September 2023

This week we are in Újszilvás, Hongrie🇭🇺, for the fourth meeting of the Yo-Wo Cities Network project (Young Workforce - Youth and Gender Equality for Europe`s Welfare) as part of the European CERV (Citizenship, Equality, Rights and Values) programme. We will be sharing our experiences and good practice in youth projects, this time focusing on the green economy; European policies to combat the effects of Covid-19, and its effect on the social exclusion of young people at local level; how socio-economic changes and the crisis affect young people; we will be studying, and exchanging good practice on, projects carried out with young people in the project's partner municipalities; and we will have sessions on activities linked to the development processes of European policies linked to the training and professional integration of young people.

The project partners are the municipality of La Pobla Llarga (Spain), the Bulgarian Youth Association (Bulgaria), CARDET (Cyprus), the Velenje Youth Centre (Slovenia), the municipality of Rhenen (Netherlands), the municipality of Ujszilvas (Hungary), the Autokreakja Foundation (Poland) and the Association Jean Monnet (France), represented by Alberto Lorente Saiz and his vice-president.

Miguel Ángel Martín Ramos, and Brussels delegate for the Yuste Foundation (Spain/Belgium), as a strategic partner of the Jean Monnet Association.
The project, led by the town council of La Pobla Llarga (Spain), aims to raise awareness and reflect on youth employment in Europe and gender disparities.

Second working day in Újszilvás, Hungría🇭🇺, of the fourth meeting of the Yo-Wo Cities Network project (Young Workforce - Youth and Gender Equality for Europe`s Welfare) as part of the European CESR (Citizenship, Equality, Rights and Values) programme. Today's programme was devoted to sharing best practice on initiatives to tackle the impact of Covid on youth unemployment and gender equality, debating European decision-making processes and policies relating to youth and equality, and creating an infographic showing the main results of the project so that they can be easily transferred to other territories and municipalities.

Yesterday, we also visited some of the projects presented during the morning session, examples of integrating young people into the labour market and promoting gender equality, such as Ferzol, one of Hungary's largest metalworking plants, which is chaired and managed by a woman.

in a traditionally male sector, with more than 30 % women in qualified technical positions, and with specific training programmes aimed at young people, to integrate them into the sector in the absence of formal or vocational training.