youth
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5 May May 2016 1146 05 May 2016 Youth Speak Forum, change starts with the young
The Youth Speak Forum is AIESEC’s international event, now in its first edition in Italy. Organised by AIESEC Italia, it will take place at the Bocconi University of Milan on the 12th of May. The event main theme is education, the most urgent issue at global level according to young people, as shown by the results of the Youth Speak Survey, released by AIESEC in cooperation with the United Nations.
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4 May May 2016 1650 04 May 2016 Millennials at work: less bureaucracy wanted
Millennials are facing a tough time with regards to employment. In most regions - despite being more educated, richer, and better fed than the baby-boomer generation - they are twice as likely to be unemployed than their elders. According to the founder of the global youth think tank ThinkYoung, Andrea Gerosa, we need less bureaucracy and more highly skilled workers.
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25 April Apr 2016 1100 25 April 2016 How to achieve better results for the most marginalised
The decrease of public funding for NGOs and the increase of development and humanitarian challenges at the same time means complex challenges for civil society lie ahead. As part of a recent Awareness raising event in Brussels, CONCORD director Seamus Jefferson shared some recommendations on how to tackle the situation.
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19 April Apr 2016 1152 19 April 2016 Young Italians in Australia
A book, a research and the video-reportage “88 days”, promoted by Migrantes Foundation, analyse in detail young Italians' migration in Australia, a constantly increasing phenomenon. Today the book “Young Italians in Australia. From temporary to permanent journey”, written by Michele Grigoletti and Silvia Pianelli, will be presented in Rome. The research, carried out by Australia Solo Andata, an independent study group on the youth community in Australia, will be presented on the 21st of April in Bergamo and on the 23rd of April in Verona.
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15 April Apr 2016 1129 15 April 2016 The open source campaign that aims to build a more youth inclusive politics
Amongst young people in the EU, there is a growing belief that the formal structures presented as the only way to ‘do’ politics simply aren’t working. When parties trade power and voting doesn’t seem to change anything, for today's youth casting a ballot feels ineffective and disempowering. They feel that democracy has been reduced to a darkened, solitary polling booth once every five years, and that there is a lack of real opportunities to effect change. As a result, young people are opting out.
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14 April Apr 2016 0934 14 April 2016 Coexistence, Europe needs a new impulse
Join and give visibility to the initiatives organized by the committee of 'Together in Peace" meant to transcend our differences so we can say NO to terror and YES to building a culture of peaceful coexistence and cooperation.
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7 April Apr 2016 0830 07 April 2016 EU-Africa: A common future
Today, the African Union Commission and the European Commission hold their annual College-to-College meeting in Africa's political capital, Addis Ababa. On this occasion, the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, and the President of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, wrote an Op-Ed released to a pool of media, amongst which is Vita International.
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23 March Mar 2016 0950 23 March 2016 The propaganda designed for millennials
Nasser Weddady, radicalization prevention expert, explains to Vita International why Isis is so successful at radicalizing young Europeans and offering them a vision of a new world.
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16 March Mar 2016 1512 16 March 2016 The future for our youth lies in social protection
With demonstrations occurring all week across France against the government's new labour market proposals, SOLIDAR Secretary General Conny Reuter argues that job creation is hampered by blind austerity and the lack of social investment in education.
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24 February Feb 2016 1016 24 February 2016 It takes a Duo, a migrant and an elderly person, to find a job
The association Duo For a Job connects refugees with professionals over fifty who will support the new comers in their search for work. A relationship that and in the end, say the volunteers, you no longer know who supported whom.