Filling the GAPS (Graduate and Apprenticeship Placement Scheme)

Closed

GAPS aims to enhance and improve employment within the 2 Seas area by developing new skills and strategies for young people. The project gathers together 3 local authorities - Brighton and Hove, Medway and Rotterdam, each facing rising youth unemployment rates. Young people in these areas risk suffering from long-term unemployment and social exclusion. Of particular note for employers across the 2 Seas area is the absence of soft/life skills in many of the young people they recruit. The GAPS project activities will achieve the following aims through: - Closer dialogue with employers to develop innovative new strategies that address employers’ skills needs and inspire confidence for employers to engage with young people. - Cross-border work placements of up to three months, which include language training, promoting the value of such an exercise to both young people and employers. - Creation of a web portal that will host and facilitate GAPS project activities, during and after its lifetime, acting as an on-line recruitment resource to advertise work placements and job opportunities.

Medium