New schemes for thousands of unemployed are being planned for the coming period under the Ministry of Labor's Enhanced Youth Guarantee Action Plan.
In particular, it includes actions and programs to facilitate the employment integration of the young unemployed 15 – 29 years, concerning either the creation of subsidized jobs in companies (with a subsidy of salary and/or non-salary costs) or in combined training and/or retraining based on the knowledge and skills that are in demand by specific sectors and in promoting employment or gaining work experience in companies in the same sectors.
These programs and actions combine learning specialized in the data and needs of specific sectors of the economy and professions, and gaining practical work experience from businesses in the same industries, and in this way they achieve the connection of the training of the participants in specific skills and their certification and the application of the knowledge in business environments.
The youth (unemployed and jobseekers) will be referred for participation in specific programs based on the personalized approach process, of diagnosing their needs, the counseling and guidance from the labor advisers of the D.YPA.A., while the outputs of the Labor Market Needs Diagnosis Mechanism will also be taken into account regarding needs by geographical area, industry/sector and/or profession. The new actions that will start running in the 2023 is:
1. Training program for the unemployed in Tourism
Training program with certification for seasonal unemployed in the tourism sector, in thematic modules of tourism and catering of total duration 50-150 hours.
Open type program, until the budget is exhausted 5.000.000 euro for unemployed up to 29 years.
2. Program
Training in advanced digital skills (advanced digital skills) Certified training program, duration 100-250 hours, with the aim of upgrading the digital skills of the unemployed, graduates of at least secondary education in subjects of high demand in the labor market. Open type program, until the budget is exhausted 40.000.000 euros for unemployed young people up to 29 years.
3. Training program for the unemployed in collaboration with chambers, state agencies. The aim of the program is to acquire and upgrade horizontal and green skills, with certification, to promote the budget 20.000.000 € for unemployed up to 29 years.
4. Work experience acquisition program for graduates of professional education, Secondary and tertiary education in companies and positions related to the subject of their studies. Alumni and business pairing actions, skills certification by third parties and 100% grant of the acquisition of work experience of total duration 6 months. budget 130.000.000 euro for young people up to 29 years, graduates of secondary and tertiary education.
5. Acquiring work experience for young people with disabilities Actions: (a) consulting, (b) carrying out a career day per business cluster, (c) training and certification, and (d) gaining professional experience 6 months in businesses in the tourism sectors, constructions, ICT, retail, manufacturing industry, logistics, export trade, e-commerce, for 5.000 young people with disabilities. Budget 20.000.000 euros for 5.000 Young people with disabilities, to 29 years.
6. Work experience acquisition program for young unemployed people 18-29 years. Consulting and gaining professional experience for 6 months, with an emphasis on cutting-edge sectors and high-demand industries.
Open type program, until the budget is exhausted 72.000.000 for unemployed up to 29 years.
7. Integrated work integration and reintegration program for vulnerable unemployed groups. Specialized consulting actions, rapid training, certification and acquisition of work experience of total duration 12 budget months 17.550.000 € for unemployed up to 29 years from vulnerable social groups.
8.Implementation of programs to combat unemployment in regions – pockets of high unemployment. Rapid retraining and reskilling in sectors with growth potential with subsidized employment of 8 months duration and a grant of 80% of salary and non-salary budget costs 80.000.000 euros for unemployed up to 29 years from areas with high unemployment.
Source: dikaiologitika.gr