There are workplaces in Moldova, say specialists in education and human resources. The initiators of the Youth@work Project, which is an online social game showing how unemployment can be combated, awarded by 10,000 lei to four teams of the 29 participating, IPN reports.
The game is aimed at solving the problem of unemployment among the young people and forms part of a series of regional initiatives by which the UN, together with other participants in the project, are looking for innovative solutions. The initiative is promoted by the UN and EU delegations and by the National Young Council of Moldova.
The game’s platform hosted 1,214 participants from 97 settlements. Twenty-nine teams of young people interacted with other members of the game, including employers, specialists in education and human resources. The interaction was designed to show the real causes of unemployment in Moldova, Doru Curosu, chairman of the National Young Council, said in the award ceremony.
Attending the event, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sport Sergiu Stanciu said that there are sufficient workplaces in Moldova, but some of the young people use clichés and prefer to say that they are unable to assert themselves in the country and thus go abroad. “By this game we identified modern policies adjusted to the current situation. They will help us to initiate other activities to promote the human resources in the country,” he stated.
“It was fantastic to follow this game,” said UN Resident Coordinator in Moldova Nicola Harrington Buhay. “This shows that the young people in Moldova are capable and should believe more in their success.”
It was established that 43.66% of the participants in this projects consider that the local authorities are inefficient in the process of reducing the jobless rate, while 55% said they personally or the members of their family faced unemployment problems. 56% of the participants said they prefer to remain in Moldova, 19% said they want to go to the EU, 16% - to the EU, while 3% - to other destinations.
Danielle Dowling Keulen, Deputy Head of Operations at the EU Delegation to Moldova, said the ideas suggested by this game can be put into practice by the authorities within youth development programs. “The European Union will subsidize the vocational education program with €25 million in order to adjust it to the labor market,” she stated.
The representatives of the UN and EU delegations also said that the Association Agreement will integrate Moldova into a market with about 500 million consumers and this will extend the opportunities on the labor market for young people.
