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Motivation key to get marginalised youths into education

Apr 15, 2015 Measures aimed at helping young people into jobs and education should support the youths’ own inner motivation. To do that you need to realise that young, marginalised people are very different from each other, says a Danish youth researcher and author of a new book on motivation.
Iceland’s Starfatorgið: 50 percent found jobs or started studying tema

Iceland’s Starfatorgið: 50 percent found jobs or started studying

Apr 15, 2015 The financial crisis was tough on young Icelanders. Many were unemployed for so long that they no longer qualified for unemployment benefit, only welfare money. Between 2012 and 2014 they were sent to Starfatorgið (‘the labour exchange’). Over half of the young people participating in Starfatorgið got a job or started studying.
New concept at Sweden’s employment service gains young people’s trust tema

New concept at Sweden’s employment service gains young people’s trust

Apr 15, 2015 Good treatment and rapid measures targeted at the needs of young unemployed people, good coordination between municipalities and the public employment service — a proven way of achieving progress. The concept was developed in the project ‘Unga in’ and is carried forward in UNGKOMP.
A Nordic helping hand to marginalised youths Infocus

A Nordic helping hand to marginalised youths

Apr 15, 2015 A large group of youths are not in education, employment or training - so-called NEETs. There is increased focus across Europe on ways to prevent this group of young people from permanently falling outside of the labour market. The Nordic countries have good experiences with finding, motivating and preparing these youths for work.
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A Nordic helping hand to marginalised youths

Apr 15, 2015 A large group of youths are not in education, employment or training - so-called NEETs. There is increased focus across Europe on ways to prevent this group of young people from permanently falling outside of the labour market. The Nordic countries have good experiences with finding, motivating and preparing these youths for work, and many of these experiences were discussed at a Copenhagen conference on fighting youth unemployment on 25 March 2015. In this month’s Focus we look at how successful the Nordic measures have been.
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The importance of gender equality in religious societies

Mar 06, 2015 The really big symbolic changes sometimes happen without people noticing. The church in three of the five Nordic countries now has a woman as its highest leader. Compared to the rest of the world, this is where the Nordic region is now top when it comes to gender equality.
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The Nordic region became a bit more equal this year

Mar 06, 2015 Never before has there been more gender equality in the Nordic countries when it comes to positions of power within politics and working life, according to the Nordic Labour Market’s barometer.
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The latecomer in gender equality is waking up

Mar 06, 2015 Gender equality in Denmark has been falling behind the rest of the Nordic countries, both when it comes to female boardroom representation and paternity leave, but now things are moving forward.
Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir: The Bishop who is spring cleaning the church interview
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Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir: The Bishop who is spring cleaning the church

Mar 06, 2015 Bishop Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir has been sitting in her office in Laugavegur in Reykjavik city centre preparing the Sunday’s sermon in peace and quiet. Now she is sat facing me, answering my questions quietly and to the point. The first question goes straight to the point; what is it like being a bishop?
Faith, gender and the Nordic region Infocus

Faith, gender and the Nordic region

Mar 05, 2015 Magdalena Andersson and Margot Wallström in Sweden’s feminist government lift the country’s position in this year’s gender equality barometer. We focus on the clergy, Danish boardrooms and Sweden’s drive for critical innovation with women in the lead.
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