The document discusses factors contributing to youth unemployment in Romania, such as EU inflation targets prioritized over unemployment, jobs lost during the financial crisis, lack of government programs, and more. It proposes establishing a mandatory student NGO fee of 5 Euros per student per year to provide funding for NGO projects improving career perspectives. A mentorship program is also suggested to connect students directly with companies to help workforce placement. The outcomes would include engaging 100 students per university to develop the program, with the potential to reach 30,000 graduating students annually.

1. Contribute to your future
By Romaniacs
Madalina Licu
Vladimir Deliu
Marius-Iosef Stoian
Romania
Academia de Studii Economice
Bucuresti

2. Several factors have led to the development of youth
unemployment in Romania (political, sociological and economic)
There are several factors which led to the current situation of
youth unemployment:
• NAIRU approach of the European Union
(Inflation targets are more important
than unemployment targets)
• Financial crisis cut a lot of jobs (most
important in the production and
construction sector)
• Lack of serious successful governmental
programs to support youth employment
and job creation
• Lack of entrepreneurial mindset (starting
to develop, slowly)

3. Several factors have led to the development of youth
unemployment in Romania (political, sociological and economic)
• Political instability -> lack of
confidence from foreign
investors who could otherwise
create new ventures
• High levels of employee
contributions paid by the
companies (social security,
health insurance, etc.)
• Vocational schools were
removed from the curriculum
• Worker unions have lost a lot of
bargaining power during the
last years

4. Non-governmental organizations are a bridge between students
and companies and they develop projects to improve career
perspectives of the students
• Examples of successful projects organized by
student NGOs
Start me up

5. Non-governmental organizations are a bridge between students
and companies and they develop projects to improve
career perspectives of the students
How do NGOs improve the society?
• by offering the opportunity to practice the theoretical
information received in school and university
• by introducing students into the business environment
• by getting students get more involved in the economy
• networking
• social entrepreneurship

6. The main problem is that in Romania these Non-governmental
Organizations usually lack the funding
• In order to develop such projects some
considerable investments are needed, this being
the most difficult aspect of implementing a project
with a return to students
• Our idea is to create a system which will become
mandatory for all Romanian students, a so-called
NGO fee which would be paid at the beginning of
each year by all students in order to receive their
StudentID
• This way more and more students would be aware
of the activity of student NGOs, would invest in
their future and will make a considerable
contribution to the development of the society
• This fee would be something like 5 Euros, the
equivalent of a lunch, 4 beers, a movie
ticket or one and ½ pack of cigarettes

7. A serious mentorship program could help shape careers and
paths in life. It could be the missing key in workforce placement.
• A mentorship program
not only would help
students get in touch
with their possible
career path but also
would get them closer
to companies which will
recruit them in a more
efficient and practical
way as soon as a job
opportunity appears

8. A serious mentorship program could help shape careers and
paths in life. It could be the missing key in workforce placement.
• The system implementation
would consist of motivating
some employees to
volunteer
• Students being in the senior
years of highschool would
get in touch with
companies which will help
them choose a faculty and
slowly build their future
• Faculty students will also
benefit from the same
program, but with more
duties

9. What would be the outcome?
• Time invested by our team:
– 20 hours/week/member
• How many young unemployed people will you reach:
– Considering that there are approximately 300 000
students, out of which approximately 30 000 would be
graduating, it means that these would be eligible to get
employed if they took part of the program
• How many young people will you engage:
- We will choose for this around 100 students from the main
NGO`s from each university in Romania to develop the program

10. Thank you for your attention!