MERCURY

The last period has been particularly challenging: the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and economic recession. Naturally, these events had only exacerbated the trauma that young people have experienced in the past. However, many young people do not disclose trauma or seek help due to multiple systemic barriers, such as personal financial limitations and a lack of service availability. Although there are many entrepreneurship and employability programmes, they focus on hard skills such as business plan development, management, communication, etc. Consequently, even if young people have the right idea, knowledge and skills, they are not able to overcome their psychological fears and doubts to make the first step to realise them. Thereby, the partnership of the MERCURY project has the following objectives

- To better understand trauma relation to young people’s entrepreneurship and emploability potential in Poland, Lithuania, Hungary and Serbia.

- To develop an innovative methodological guide, tool-kit, and recommendations based on post-traumatic growth theory, drama therapy, and digital tools to better equip youth workers to work in an innovative and inclusive work manner,

- To support vulnerable young people move beyond traumatic life events and increase their wellbeing, employability and entrepreneurial skills,

- To contribute to the development of youth workers' competences in supporting young people who have experienced trauma,

- To contribute to a more innovative, active and well-functioning youth work system across Europe