Danube Region Strategy – Stakeholders’ conference

YOUNG PEOPLE IN TIMES OF CRISIS: BUILDING RESPONSIVE EDUCATION, TRAINING AND LABOUR MARKET SYSTEMS IN THE DANUBE REGION

Date: Thursday, 9 June 2022, 9:00-16:30 CET
Venue: Flemings Conference Hotel (Neubaugürtel 26-28, 1070 Vienna) – Vienna, Austria and online

Format: International conference in a hybrid format on challenges and future priorities with respect to effective education, training and labour market policies and related projects to support young people in the Danube Region in the context of the war in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Participants were invited to attend in person in Vienna or follow the conference online.

The conference was hosted by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Labour and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, with co-funding from the European Regional Development Fund.

Programme

Practical information

PRESENTATIONS

Keynotes

• Mario Steiner, Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna (IHS): “Impact of the Pandemic on Education, Employment and Equity – Making Sure Young People Are Not Left Behind” 
• Maryna Tverdostup, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw): “Education and Labour Market Systems in Times of Crisis – Early Findings Regarding Young People in the Danube Region”

Panel Discussion

• Verlee Miranda, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Working Group 1

• Gabriela Sonnleitner, magdas HOTEL: A social business for people with a refugee background
• Sergiy Bogdanov, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (UKMA): Building Responsive Education: Safe Space Programme

Working Group 2

• Stephan Waba, Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research: Digitisation at school
• Margit Helene Meister, Office of the Lower Austrian Government: Green Jobs for YOU

Working Group 3

• Stefaan Hermans, DG EAC: Covid-19 early findings
• Lyuben Georgiev, Re-Act: Danube Youth Network
• Sabine Koch, Workshops and Cultural Centre (WUK): Work Assistance

Working Group 4

• Milisav Milinković, Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization (EHO): With and for Roma in the Danube Region
• Tamara Muhič, Research and Educational Centre Mansion Rakičan (RIS Dvorec Rakičan): DREAM ROAD (Danube REgion for improved Access and eMpowerment of ROmA Development)
• Vera Messing, Central European University (CEU): Bridge to Business