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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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Científiques – Career paths into science
The Guinovarda Institute of Piera invited researchers Lara Maestripieri (Principal Investigator) and Victoria de Castro (PhD Student) from the NEXT-UP project at IGOP to participate in Científiques, an initiative promoted by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI), coordinated by the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), and developed in collaboration with the Department
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2nd NEXT-UP Living Lab Workshop: Emerging Insights on Youth Education–Employment Transitions [20.04]
We warmly invite young people, employers, policy makers, researchers and career advisers to participate in the online NEXT-UP Living Lab workshop, where we will share our research findings and engage stakeholders in a discussion on youth transitions from education to employment in post-covid era. Date: 20 April Time: 13:00–15:30 CET (14:00–16:30 Helsinki time) Registration to
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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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Practical Recommendations to Boost Graduate Employability Through Internships
In Finland, internships are a compulsory component of the majority of Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) degrees, forming a central bridge between academic study and professional practice. Because of this bridging role, the quality and accessibility of internships directly shape young people’s readiness for work — and, ultimately, their opportunities after graduation. While higher education
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Tampere Summer Job Voucher: a social innovation for youth employability
Across Europe, cities are looking for practical ways to help young people enter working life at a time when entry-level jobs are becoming scarcer and competition is increasing. Summer Job Voucher (Kesätyöseteli) is one such instrument available almost in every city in Finland: a subsidy that supports young people in accessing their first work experience
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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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Next-UP Living Lab kick-off
The Living Lab* kickoff on 3 November was a success, bringing together more than 40 participants from 10 countries: researchers, young people, employer representatives and policymakers. The program featured an overview of the Next-UP project and it’s Living Lab approach (WP6), the keynote by the president of Tampere Youth Council and hybrid-mode group discussions on
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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