Abstract
This article aims at approaching the phenomenon of Young people Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEETs) using the empirical data from an action against unemployment in the region of Thessaly in Greece. The main purpose of the study was to examine the attitudes and perceptions of NEETs on important issues related to employment, training, entrepreneurship, as well as their main decisions and perspectives regarding their future. This approach tries to shape a multidimensional proposal which is linked to the core peculiarities of the region of Thessaly by highlighting the transition from “specialized individual action plans” to “structured social interventions”. In conclusion, it attempts to promote a structured and applicable policy framework, shedding light on the dimensions of a crucial social issue such as NEETs promoting the drastic role of structured interventions on local and regional level.
Highlights
The phenomenon of Young people Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEETs) that has appeared in Greece but throughout Europe (Eurofound 2012, 2014, 2016), confirms the structural crisis that Western societies are going through for many years (Kyridis, & Fotopoulos, 2016)
In recent years in Greece (Papadakis, Kyridis & Papargyris 2015), a tough program of economic austerity with many “violent” fiscal adjustments was imposed resulting into more negative consequences, especially for those who were under the pressure of extremely negative circumstances. This period of fiscal consolidation has undoubtedly led to a dramatic decline of living standards for thousands of people proving a significant impact on society. It drove hundreds of thousands of overqualified young people abroad while degrading the value and symbolic status of diplomas of other young people who continued to struggle with the pathogeny of unemployment, professional and social exclusion, respectively
The project was addressed to redundant workers of the Supermarket Larissa SA and was co-funded by the European Globalization Adjustment Fund (EGF) and Public Investment Program
Summary
The phenomenon of Young people Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEETs) that has appeared in Greece but throughout Europe (Eurofound 2012, 2014, 2016), confirms the structural crisis that Western societies are going through for many years (Kyridis, & Fotopoulos, 2016) It reflects the wide level of social, economic, educational, and cultural inequalities, underlying the urgent need for a well-structured intervention, especially for those who are socially vulnerable and drastically affected by the consequences of educational and social exclusion. In recent years in Greece (Papadakis, Kyridis & Papargyris 2015), a tough program of economic austerity with many “violent” fiscal adjustments was imposed resulting into more negative consequences, especially for those who were under the pressure of extremely negative circumstances This period of fiscal consolidation has undoubtedly led to a dramatic decline of living standards for thousands of people proving a significant impact on society. This study attempts to offer a structured and applicable policy framework using the research facts which link the coordinates of a broader social issue with the necessary interventions on the level of local and regional conditions and particularities
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