My Generation at Work

Edited on 28/07/2025

01/05/2012 30/04/2015

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  • Action Planning Network
  • Education
  • Entrepreneurship and SMEs
  • Jobs and skills
  • Participation
  • Youth

Promoting employability of young people in a changing labour market, with special focus on enterprising skills and attitudes.

Summary

Introduction

My Generation at Work has been about what cities, with their partners, can do to promote the employability and employment of young people.


For a short introduction to our project, please watch our movies:

Partners

Lead Partner : Rotterdam - Netherlands
  • Antwerp - Belgium
  • Bari - Italy
  • Birmingham
  • Glasgow
  • Gdańsk - Poland
  • Gothenburg - Sweden
  • Patras - Greece
  • Riga - Latvia
  • Valencia - Spain
  • Tirgu-Mures - Romania
  • Warsaw - Poland

Timeline

Project launch
Project completed

Articles

  • Articles

    Can you transfer trust?

    For more than ten years, Com'ON, a youth participatory budgeting programme from Cluj-Napoca (Romania), has trusted young people with public resources, inviting them to propose ideas, vote for the

    Alin Sutea

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  • Articles
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    RECUP MASTERCLASS on Monitoring & Impact Evaluation: Measuring the Value of Culture

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    Fanni Kosztolányi

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  • Articles

    Final Hydro-Heritage Cities meeting: Getting ready to kick off

    The Network met for last time in Rome concluding its transfer journey and investment plans, while presented in public the future of Hydro-Heritage management. 

    Christos Giovanopoulos

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