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Next-UP member Lara Maestripieri contributed to El Pais article
Last week, El País, Spain’s leading newspaper, published an article in its Education section on the opportunities and challenges of combining higher education with paid work. Lara Maestripieri, sociologist of work and PI of the Spanish unit in NEXT-UP, contributed to the piece by sharing insights from her research on young people’s education-to-work transitions. The…
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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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Active labour market policies (ALMP) are an important instrument in the toolbox of modern welfare states, yet comparative research typically relies on aggregate spending measures that obscure how resources are distributed across target groups. This paper addresses this limitation by developing a new method to disaggregate ALMP expenditure by age group (15–24 and 25+) and…
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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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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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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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Last week, El País, Spain’s leading newspaper, published an article in its Education section on the opportunities and challenges of combining higher education with paid work. Lara Maestripieri, sociologist of work and PI of the Spanish unit in NEXT-UP, contributed to the piece by sharing insights from her research on young people’s education-to-work transitions. The…
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How much do European governments spend on active labour market policies (ALMP) to support young people’s transition from school and into employment? So far, there was no comparable data to answer this question and research interested in measuring policy effort to support unemployed young people had to rely on qualitative indicators (e.g. Tosun, Unt &…
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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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For years we have tried to improve youth employment by ‘fixing’ young people with more workshops, more micro-credentials, and more bootcamps. Yet many early careers still get stuck. The real problem isn’t a lack of effort or talent. It’s that the system young people enter is not joined up. The move from education to work…
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In January, the kick-off meeting of our promising international project “next-up” took place in Tampere, Finland. The event was a complete success, both on a human and professional level. The project consortium, which consisted of several partners from different European countries, had met in a relaxed and professional atmosphere, which laid the foundation for successful…