Tuesday 10 September 2013

The Event


On Monday evening we headed down to Innsbruck to participate in an event about youth unemployment and to meet youth/social workers from thirteen different countries. There were also some VIPs like the Director of the AK (Arbeiterkammer), the Prime minister from Tyrol and two regional ministers. The event started with a short movie about a young lady who participated in an earlier project called “Rueckenwind”. After that we listened to some speeches from the regional ministers, the Director of the AK, and a youth worker named “Petra Klein” who made a speech about “What is Inclusion TV”. In my opinion the speeches were very political but we found out about some important information and statistics such as: 


  1.  In July 2013, the youth unemployment rate was 23.4% in Europe.
  2. The lowest rate of youth unemployment was observed in Germany (7.7%), Austria (8.7%) and Malta (10.6%)
  3. The highest rates were observed in Greece (62.9%), Spain (56.1%) and Croatia (55.4%)


It’s a shame that I couldn’t get an interview with one of the VIPs because they have a lot of knowledge about this topic and it would have been a pleasure to speak to them. All the speeches where held in German. But there was a professional translator who translated everything for people who couldn’t speak German. During the event two participants named Isabella and Josephine of Inclusion TV hosted together with Leo and Sven and Katharina filmed a lot of the event. After the speeches we had an awesome meal. Now came the time to learn more about the social workers. The reporting Team (Karolina, James and Deniz) interviewed some of the people and took pictures of everyone who came. The event was a good chance to get connections to other countries and in my opinion it was a great night.

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    1. Toller Text Deniz! Wir alle haben Respect vor eurer Arbeit. Wir verfolgen gespannt eure Aktivitäten! Weiter so!
      Grüße an Sylvia Zimmermann und Sandra Reith.
      Cheers! aus dem LK MYK

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