3.2. Partners' goals

3.2. Partners' goals

The interviews were conducted in order to investigate some aspects emerging from the MOVE Beyond project. First of all, we were interested in acknowledging the activities carried out by our partners with the target population (young people between 16 and 27 years old at drop-out and social exclusion risk). We interviewed each project partner, and when possible,more than one representative for each organisation. Despite the different characteristics of the partner organisations, they have multiple similarities concerning goals, main objective and mission. The analysis brought out four main goals mentioned by the partners:

Facilitating the transition to the labour market:

—We work with unemployed people, peoplewho hasproblems to enter the labour market and most of them they have not such a high educational level, they had multilevel problems. — With our courses we prepare for the job market and first of all we give them linguistic competences (how to write a proper cv, recommendation letter).

Social inclusion:

—The goal is to bring people to be active in society, also people who can't work because of their disabilities, they mustdo social activities, to be part of our society.

Facing educational poverty:

— We develop projects in places that are at risk of educational poverty because they are far from the places of production and promotion of culture or lifelong learning. —We start projects aimed at supporting the study and contrasting educational poverty. — Our goal? Let no one get lost, start meaningful paths that awaken young people from a situation that until then seemed absolutely doomed to failure.

Guidance and support:

— Very often there's no need for guidance or counselling, but sometimes they need more support… help to understand what should be done in the near future…You are here, you want to improve yourself, you want to find your way to the labour market and what we try to find out is what are your capacities and competences, so that you havea better chance to enter the labour market. — We offer counselling, guidance, help for having their own apartment… guidance and counselling. The red thread that connects the organisations involved in the MOVE Beyond project crosses the transition path from education to the labour market. Social and educational inclusion are starting points for a smooth transition,and the organisations involved in the project experiment with different strategies in order to face the weakest transitions. Contacts with the target population take place in a differentiated manner according to the characteristics of the organisations.

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