Project Description

About The Project

The Fair Youth Label – FYLL (2024-1-IT03-KA210-YOU-000246569) Erasmus+ Project, works on youth employability in two contextual manners, on the one hand by offering activities and skills to young people, and on the other by aiming to raise awareness of the local business fabric. FYLL focuses on the analysis of current policies, the search for innovative solutions through the active participation of young people in public life, and concrete practice to implement changes. During the scheduled workshops of the Project, young people will be directly involved in the creation of a label (Fair Youth Labor Label) certifying a fair and responsible labor supply, opening up spaces for debate regarding the importance of active involvement in combating irregular labor.

Key Focus Areas

1. Increasing awareness of workers’ rights among young people

2. Promoting a socially responsible business culture.

3. Recognizing and promoting businesses committed to fair labor practices.

Project Description

The project’s target group consists of young people from towns of Italy, Greece and Bulgaria. The target group is between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, exposed to a particularly disadvantaged labor supply in several respects. These young people include precarious and seasonal workers, those in underpaid jobs, young job seekers with low skills, NEETs, those working illegally and/or in exploitative conditions, and young people with non-contracted work. Particular attention will be paid to those groups exposed to marginality caused by working conditions and their economic level.

A second target audience includes entrepreneurs in these areas, who are committed to participating in the project, with the aim of increasing awareness of their role in society and the promotion of a fair and sustainable working environment, as well as the dissemination of a fairer business culture to change the working landscape in which they operate. Together with young people, they will articulate an intergenerational dialogue, through which they will bring out their needs and demands, generating an interesting and shared learning space in order to improve working conditions and the widespread representation of the world of work.

Project Activities

The FYLL project will include several key phases:

1. Recruitment Phase: selection of interested young people and entrepreneurs;

2. Training Phase: workshops on work culture, the value of business within the community, and workers’ rights, which will be held from February to April 2025;

3. International Workshop: an international meeting in May 2025 in Cellole (Italy), where Italian, Bulgarian, and Greek participants will collaborate on creating the FYLL label

The project is designed to work on two fronts, that of young people and that of entrepreneurs, who will not only be involved in potentially ineffective training days, but who will have the opportunity, through real dialogue with young workers, to exchange ideas, opinions, and mutual needs regarding labor and rights issues.

They will also be stimulated to address cross-cutting issues aimed at rekindling motivation and regaining mutual trust through sharing their perspectives, experiences and aspirations. The idea of creating a label that can support the cause of the project and indicate the business realities of the territories that recognize these values and to which these values are acknowledged, is a way of guaranteeing continuity to the project, making it lasting and stable, beyond the opportunity to reproduce it in other territories, in other communities that experience the same dynamics.

The label will be a means of guaranteeing to consumers in the target municipalities the recognition of entrepreneurs who have embraced, at least in part, a logic of progressive improvement, the values we have affirmed in the project, as well as becoming a support in finding answers to their own community demands. It will also be a way of rewarding entrepreneurial activities for the work they have done, for the purpose of improving the welfare of the community, young people and their personal and professional growth.