Establishing a Social Innovation Hub in Plovdiv Municipality

The project’s aim is the sustainable integration of 150 young people aged 15-29 who are not engaged in employment, education, or training ("NEETs") on the territory of the Plovdiv Municipality. The implementation of the project will increase the capacity of the partners - Plovdiv Municipality and BD Center Ltd. (Poland). It will promote transnational cooperation through research and transfer of social innovations, exchange of experience and good practices for sustainable integration of the target group in the labor market. For this purpose a Social Innovation Hub will be established in Plovdiv, where innovative practices for working with the target group will be developed, adapted and validated. The project will introduce innovative practices and ones already proven successful in the EU to counteract the factors that form the group of "NEETs" youth such as: working directly with people in the group; providing consultancy services of an educational, social and employment nature; attracting all stakeholders (educational institutions, labor agencies, employers, public organizations, NGOs, etc.) in order to create a common public service, which will be implemented at the Plovdiv Municipality in the form of a "Social Innovation Hub"). This will allow the testing of the planned model by creating a structure targeted at delivering “single-kiosk” services. Services will be individualized taking into account the person's personal profile, the specific needs and attitude of the person towards engaging in training or employment, providing tools in response to the reasons for the categorization of the person in the NEETs group. The implementation of the project will help to create better quality employment and increase employment rates, reduce poverty and promote the social inclusion of the vulnerable group of young people who are not engaged in employment, education, or training. The project directly contributes to the modernization of public policies.

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