georg.mildenberger
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Active Labour Market Policy Expenditure by Age and Gender. New data and its benefits
Leonard Geyer from our partner Europe Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research provided some new insights and an interesting methodology to rearrange data on Active Labour Market Policy Expenditure. You can download not only his paper but the data set he used, too. Here is the data used and the syntax for STATA to…
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Diverging Perceptions – challenges on the way to the labour markets four young people – Results of a structured literature review
Authors: Stanislav Stedronsky (UiS), Thomas Sattich (UiS), Dian Liu (UiS) In a nutshell Next-UP literature review shows three patterns that structure the transgression of young people from education to the labour markets. The review identified several persistent patterns emerging across the literature: In addition, educators and employers seem to share the same priorities. Both…
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EDU-LAB and NEXT-UP join forces and will have a panel at the upcoming CHER conference at Catania-Sicily
Exciting news! EDU-LAB and NEXT-UP join forces and have successfully proposed a panel for the upcoming CHER conference. The panel´s title is: Youth employability and labour market transitions: Insights from two Horizon Europe projects The panel brings together emerging findings from the Horizon Europe projects NEXT-UP and EDU-LAB. It will examine how structural changes in…
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“Hoog sisse”: Tallinn’s support program helping young people return to work and education
Across Europe, cities are experimenting with new ways to support young people who struggle to enter the labour market or continue their education. While some initiatives focus on providing first job opportunities, others concentrate on reaching young people who have already become disconnected from both school and employment. In Tallinn, the “Hoog sisse” (“Gain momentum”) program addresses this…
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Carrots, Sticks, or Sermons: Countries’ policies for Youth Employability?
Successful transition of young people to the labour market is one of the key objectives of post-secondary education. Given the importance, governmental (European and national) policies and programmes aim to enhance youth employability (Vossensteyn, et al., 2018). What is less clear is how countries are trying to do so. Governments have different policy instruments at…
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Trento Meeting in November
Welcome Early November, we had our 2nd Consortium Meeting. After the inspiring Kick Off at Tampere University in cold and snowy Finland this time we went to the north again -not of Europe, but the north of Italy. Trento welcomed us with clear weather and great food on the Wednesday evening. Day one The next…
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Second training for Interviewers at CSI – University of Heidelberg on the 17th of October 2025
In preparation of the upcoming interviews for the Next-UP project the UAB team visited CSI at University of Heidelberg. Lara and Victoria led the team at CSI through the procedures of the planned interviews. They presented not only the protocol in detail. The researchers discussed tricky questions of translating the protocol and sampling procedures. An…
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First training for interviewers at Tallinn University on 6th of October 2025
NEXT-UP project is very interested in perceptions of young people concerning education and training and their perspectives and expectations towards job markets. In WP2 the UAB team is leading an international collection of 125 longitudinal qualitative interviews. Partners will take the interviews following the same protocol. To insure consistency of the implementation of protocols and…