KICK-OFF CONFERENCE:
Rural NEETs transition to the labour market: The role of Public Employment Services
Grande Auditório
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Cidade Universitária de Lisboa - Av. das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisboa, Portugal
program
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5th April 2022
* All hours in WEST (Lisbon time zone)
10:00-10:30 | Opening
ceremony
10.30-11.30 | Why
should rural NEETs matter to both research and society?
Moderator: Ana Sofia Ribeiro | ICS – University of Lisbon
(Portugal)
Francisco Simões | Iscte – Coordinator of the Tr@ck-IN
project (Portugal): Rural NEETs: What do we know so far?
Elena Marta | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore -
Cocoordinator of the Tr@ck-IN project (Italy): Tr@ck-IN project: Reaching to a
model of Public Employment Services support effectiveness in tracking rural
NEETs
11.30-11:50 | Coffee-break
11.50-13.00 | How
can employment services become more effective in supporting young people?
Moderator: Maria Manuel Vieira | ICS – University of Lisbon
(Portugal)
Massimilano Mascherini | Eurofound: Youth employment trends
in the aftermath of COVID-19
Shane Niall O’Higgins | International Labor Organization:
Young Rural NEETs: Trends and challenges
13:00-14:30 | Lunch
14.30-15.45 | Programs and policies targeting rural NEETs: An overview powered by the Rural NEET Youth Network
Moderator: Vladislava Lendzhova
Claudia Petrescu | Quality of Life Research Institute
(Romania): Youth Guarantee Programme - lessons learned from the 2014-2020
implementation period
Paul Flynn | NUI Galway- Ireland: The role of youth voice in
shaping educational policy and actions that target youth NEETs
Stefan Bojnec | University of Primorska - Slovenia: NEETs
policies: A comparison of member and nonmember EU countries (Slovenia and
Moldova) with a focus on hidden NEET.
Emre Erdogan | Istanbul Bilgi University - Turkey NEET Rural-Urban Ecosystems: The Role of
Urban Social Innovation Diffusion in Supporting Sustainable Rural Pathways to
Education, Employment, and Training.
15.45-16.00 | Coffee-break
16.00-17.00 | Round-table:
Is digitalization needed to improve rural NEETs training and employment
prospects?
Moderator: Òscar Prieto-Flores | University of Girona
(Spain)
François Dumora | International Labour Organization
Luís Nunes | Iscte
17.00-17.30Concluding
remarks
Miriam Rosa | Iscte (Portugal)
Ricardo Rodrigues | Iscte (Portugal)
* All hours in WEST (Lisbon time zone)
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