Follow-us - NEETs as Social Media Managers for SMEs

​Follow-us is an Erasmus+ project which aims at using the existing digital and personal skills of NEETs to inspire, motivate and re-integrate them with innovative training tools, service and methods to develop their skills as Social Media managers and connect them to SMEs who need their services”. 

 The Problems to be tackled

  • A high and increasing rate of NEETs in Europe (17,1% Eurostat 2020)
  • Skill gap in European SMEs, and not effectively using Social Media(EC, 2020) 
  • Socio-inclusion centres, lack capacity, time or resources to attend NEETs needs. 

The Specific Goals 

  • Connecting and educating NEETs through a motivational training programme of Social Media.
  • Upskilling social workers in becoming Social Media Trainers.
  • Designing - The Follow-us Platform - where NEETS will be contacted by SMEs.
  • Providing SMEs with a tool that will function as a Social Media department.

Project Results

The Follow-us Project will develop 3 interconnected Project Results

The Follow-us Training Programme for NEETs

The Follow-us Training Programme for NEETs is an innovative full educational plan aimed at training, motivating, and re-activating NEETs by using Social Media as core content. This unprecedented programme of 125 hours will be tailor-made for the projects’ target groups and will enable them to become Community Managers who offer their services to Small and Medium enterprises.

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The Trainer UpSkill Course

This online course based on the NEETs Programme, will train and educate Socio Inclusion workers in a new and effective manner to become knowledgeable and successful trainers of the Follow-us Training programme for NEETs. 
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The Follow-us Platform ​

The Follow-us Platform will be a Web and Mobile Platform, that will allow, on the one hand, SMEs to request free social media services in form of one-off jobs, and on the other hand, young people to offer these services by applying what they have learned in "The Follow-us Programme for NEETs", with the objective to obtain a Community Manager certificate after successfully completing 10 one-off jobs.

The partnership

The Follow-us partner consortium brings together eight partner organisations from Spain, Germany, Romania and Poland. All partners are well experienced in working on Erasmus+ and other education related projects

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