09:30-10:00

Opening session

Carla Moleiro // Lead partner representative, Iscte, Portugal

Gian Luca Bombarda // Youth Employment Fund Diretor

Francisco Simões // Track-IN project PI, Iscte, Portugal

10.00-11.00

The future of youth employment in European rural areas Keynote speakers’ presentations

Gialis Stelios // University of Aegean, Greece | Youth unemployment in the peripheries of Europe

Stephanie Steinmetz // University of Lausanne | Intersectional vulnerability in youth unemployment: The case for female and migrant NEETs

11.00-11:30 Coffee-break

11.30-12.30

The role of Public Employment Services in supporting rural NEETs: Informing policies, practices and PES impact

Roundtable & Highlights Summary

Claudia Petrescu // Institute of Quality of Life, Romania

Sofia Ribeiro // Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Antonella Rocca // Parthenope University of Naples, Italy

Critical friend comment: Ruta Braziene, University of Vilnius, Lithuania

12:30-13:15 Lunch

13.15-14.00

Good practices targeting rural NEETs

Pitch presentation

Spain // Ignacio Rosales Zabal, Diputación Provincial de Granada

Lithuania // Brigita Elona Blavaščiūnienė, Advisor, PES Lithuania

Portugal // Belmiro Luís, Coordinator of the Project NEETmaker at Instituto Pedro Nunes

Track-IN Manuals of Best Practices and Impact Assessment

Tatiana Ferreira // Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, Portugal

Vladislava Lendzhova // Southwest University “Neofit Rilski”, Bulgaria

14.00-15.00

Moving Public Employment Services forward: Impacts of digitalisation and the future of work in rural areas

Roundtable

Yasmin Salem // European Commission – DG EMPL

Sara Ramos // Coordinator of Youth Guarantee Program, Portugal

Olav Kersen // Youth policy at the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund, Estonia

Eva Esposito // Responsible for Care and Support Services for young people in Catalonia, Spain

Critical friend comment: Òscar Prieto-Flores // University of Girona, Spain

15.00-15.30 Coffee-break

15.30-16.30

Active labour market policies and youth employment in European peripheries: An overview of the Track-IN special issue

Presentation

Elena Marta // Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano and Brescia, Italy

Niall O’Higgins // International Labour Organization

Ruggero Cefalo // University of Vienna, Austria

16.30-17.00
Keep on Track-IN: The European Rural Youth Observatory Concluding remarks
Concluding remarks
Francisco Simões // Track-IN project PI, Iscte, Portugal