AgriSkills

The AgriSkills project intends to develop and improve the level of key competences and skills of young adults with precarious conditions from rural areas have, with the purpose of developing their own business. The project is focusing on unemployed people but also on inmates together with the educators from penitentiary, taking into consideration the fact that for reintegration a great source can be the agriculture skills.

The main objectives of AgriSkills project are:

• To raise the employability level of young adults from rural and remote areas;
• To bridge the gap between the labor market needs and the lack of knowledge and competences of youths;
• To help keeping the young adult rural population employed and to prevent migration to big cities;
• To improve the living conditions of young adults by offering guidance and support to the target group in developing their own;
• To transfer not only agricultural skills to young adults with precarious conditions, but also ICT skills, foreign language;
• To increase occupancy rate of labor, providing jobs for unemployed young adults of the rural communities;
• To offer reintegration support for the young inmates in society and in labor market.

Further details abuot the Agriskills project you can find here http://agri-skills.eu/