Osonó Theatre in the Find Your Way social-educational project
The Find your way to the world of work project is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment.
We started our very first group activities in the Find your way to the world of work project, mentoring youth with difficulties, aiming to reduce early school leaving, helping unemployed young people to settle on the labor market and to reduce emigration in Mureș and Harghita county of Romania.
Besides mapping and involving young people in the project, the second pillar is to collaborate and build relationships with vocational training institutions and vocational schools, strengthen teachers’ pedagogical tools for the integration of disadvantaged students, promote school diversity and develop the students’ career guidance skills.
As a first step in achieving this aim, we have settled a partnership with the highly experienced Osonó Theater, certified as a Registered Talent Point and European Talent Point, to run the professional programs. Two members of the troupe, Fazakas Misi and Mucha Oszkár held workshops on theater education, self-awareness, personality development, communication, competence building and team building for youth and teachers from three cities in Romania.
The project provides students in and out of school with a wide range of support to successfully complete their studies, reintegrate into education, develop skills in the education and labor market, and become more aware and successful in learning and finding a job. The aim of the teachers’ training is to enable the institution’s staff to better educate, motivate and support disadvantaged students from the institution.
In today’s Romania, early school leaving and low labor market participation are above the EU average, with vulnerable groups most affected. According to Eurostat data for 2018, the early school leaving rate for people aged 18-24 in the EU is 10.6%, while in Romania the figure is much higher at 16.4%. 52% of these young people were successfully hired in the labor market, and according to research, 16% of the 48% of the unemployed would like to go to work as soon as possible, but 32% would not.
Although the EU average dropout rate for early school leavers was 1.3% between 2013 and 2018, this is not the case for Romania. It is also a noteworthy fact that – viewing the European Union countries (besides Malta and Spain) – in 2018 most children dropped out of school in Romania, a phenomenon that is especially noticeable in rural settlements.
Fazakas Misi, Osonó Theatre
The Find your way to the world of work project is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment.
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