Public employment services to support rural NEETs

The project aims to: • broaden knowledge of the effects of employment initiatives targeting rural NEETs, by creating a cross-country model of how policies influence PES tracking deliverance; • enlarge the capacity of evaluating effects of employment initiatives for NEETs in rural areas, by validating impact assessment protocols for the most replicable programs of on-the-ground PES tracking support types, considering overall and specific groups of NEETs. • increase transnational use of impact studies among policymakers and researchers, by supporting their participation in developing/incorporating evidence-based impact methods for PES tracking evaluation. The project addresses the Fund call vision by focusing on rural NEETs. These youths are ignored by research, hard to engage with, and challenged by multiple structural risk factors. It will concentrate on their vulnerabilities in the short-term by establishing a baseline for PES support types’ effectiveness in their employability indicators and, in the long-run, by establishing an evaluation framework for effective PES tracking development. The project is based on a sound multidisciplinary, theoretical, and methodological approach, concentrating on Baltic, South, and South-eastern States with diverse rural NEET rates and different degrees of PES digitalization, adding meaningful variability to comparative analyses. The outputs will be streamed into a working group dedicated to PES impact evaluation tracking to tie in with a parallel initiative, the Rural NEET Youth Observatory, by 2024.

Project symbol

RER/21/02/EFT

Admin unit

EMPLAB

Start date

01/10/2021

End date

29/02/2024

Total allocation

104525

Total expenditure

Status

Active

104239

Development Partners

EEA and Norway Grants

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Outcome 3: Full and productive employment for just transitions