Ready 4 Work

Ready 4 Work is a social innovation initiative aiming to establish volunteer mentoring as a new impactful form of learning to empower and upskill vulnerable youth during their transition to employment, whether from education or inactivity, increasing their employability and quality of life, complementing traditional employment interventions as vocational training or career guidance, establishing public and private partnerships to scale and sustain it, and enhancing community engagement, solidarity and helpfulness through volunteering.

This social innovation is based on Autoocupació’s successful mentoring program for young entrepreneurs, built from the Youth Business International experience, scaled across Catalonia and Spain through public and private partnerships and across Greece, Italy and Poland through the Young entrepreneurs succeed project funded by the EEA & Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment. This successful mentoring methodology will be adapted to vulnerable youth needs to engage with the labour market, piloted and assessed through a proper impact assessment framework and disseminated to promote its implementation in other regions and countries.

Project number ESF-SI-2023-SKILLS-01-0076