ESF-SI-2023-SKILLS-01-0046

PRODIGY PROmoting Digital and Green skills for Youth aims to promote the upskilling and reskilling of 240 NEETs in Italy, Greece and Bulgaria in order to facilitate their job inclusion and active participation in the civic life. The project is the European scale up of DIG4ALL Social Innovation Practice funded by the Italian Fondo per la Repubblica Digitale. The practice promotes a methodology that, through an educative approach, one to one follow up and the reinforcement of multi-stakeholders social networks, foster the upskilling of vulnerable NEETs with digital, green and professionalizing competences in order to facilitate their job inclusion. PRODIGY target are 240 NEETs in Catanzaro, Reggio Calabria, Naples, Palermo, Thessaloniki, Blagoevgrad, Gotse Delchev with low, medium and high education. Furthermore, the action provides a special focus on vulnerable NEETs: Roma, migrants and youth with disabilities. The DIG4ALL training package is updated with target areas needs and with a focus on green skills. The training paths available in Italian, Greek and Bulgarian are: digital basic and advanced, social media marketer, web designer, data analysts, understanding self-assessing and presenting green competences in the new job market and sustainability manager. FMD and the associate partner Università di Roma Tre validate the training with ESCO certification. PRODIGY fosters business companies’ involvement in each target areas by creating the Cluster of Companies for Youth Social Values; in Italy ADECCO leads the action.

Expected results:

• 30,000 youth are acknowledged of the PRODIGY practice through the awareness campaign, 240 NEETs are involved in the action, they sign an educative pact in which their career goals and personal ambitions are pursued.  
• PRODIGY final step promotes job inclusion of NEETs in the job active search with the 120 traineeships contracts signed and 240 interviews held. 

Funding: 535,669.00 Eur

Social innovation scale-up 

The PRODIGY project represents a scaled social innovation, serving as a European-wide expansion of the DIG4ALL Social Innovation Practice, which was initially funded by the Italian Fondo per la Repubblica Digitale. This scale-up aims to replicate DIG4ALL’s successful methodology—combining an educative approach, one-to-one follow-up, and the reinforcement of multi-stakeholder social networks—to foster digital and professional upskilling among vulnerable NEETs, ultimately facilitating their job inclusion across a broader European context.