1. Project Name: Youth have a handfull of work to do
Team: IRBO
Country: Montenegro
University of Montenegro, Faculty of Economics Podgorica

2. Experiencing the problem
Montenegro is a small country with a population of 625 266 people. According to
Statistical Office of Montenegro, MONSTAT, the number of youth (15-24 year) in
2011 census was 86 909 people, of which 40,1% is officially unemployed.
• In order to experience the youth unemployment,
in our country, we took several surveys and
discussion groups.
• Surveys were made for youth, and they were
taken by phone, Facebook and random testing on
the street. Following cities were included:
Podgorica, Nikšić, Budva and Pljevlja.
• Discussion groups meetings were run with the
aim of detailed, first person problem
expirience. Participants were student from
different faculties, ages between 18 and 24.
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3. RESULTS :
• Results of survays were astonishing:
• Only 19% of youth is working (full time/part time job or volunteering)
• Approximately about 77% of examinees are willing to work or volunteer during
studies, but only 38% of them were actively searching for job last three weeks.
• 49% of youth said that educational system does not provide adequate knowledge
nor practice during their education, required for their employment.
• When it comes to leaving the country and studing abroad, 76% of examinees belive
that they have better opportunities in life and work abroad, than in Montenegro,
and 68% of them are willing to take a risk, and go abroad.
• Concerned about the results, we organized several discussion
groups. The aim was to understand in more detail what is the reason
of youth not searching for the job, and reasons why didn’t they got
a job, when they applied for it.
• Most particularized problems were: underdevelopment, nepotism,
„experience-needed syndrom“, lack of knowlage needed for job
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4. After doing the survey and conducting discussion groups we tried to define the problem
of youth unemployment. Using cause-consequence analysis and meeting peers, finding
out more about their prejudices and perspectives regarded to find job, we discovered a
complex network of major and minor problems, which in synergy are creating still
unsolvable problem of today.
Increasing
population
Development Nepotism
of technology
Pension
erosion
Lack of
knowledge
Longer life
experience-
needed
syndrom Asymmetric
information
Cultural
background Undevelopmed
Crisis and third sector
recesions
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5. Exigency Solution
In order to find an appropriate solution, we explored existing
services for decreasing unemployment in Montenegro.
There were a lot of online sites and organisations for
connecting employers and potential employees, government
implementation of the plan for employment of trainees with
higher education, two business incubators in Podgorica and
Berane and increasing number of Non-government
organizations.
Although the existence of various organisations and
government efforts to employ youth, actions are usually
shorth term and the results are barely noticeable.
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6. Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno!!!
One for all, all for one!!!
Our solution is to establish an non profit organisation which
will connect all universities and vocational schools with
existing and future provision of courses and organisations
which are organising seminars and both of them with
companies, ventura capitals, business angels, business
incubators and government.
So we can all fight together and win against unemployment of
youth and unemoloyment in general, and develop our country.
Organisation will be developed in three phases, which will
have no explicit duration.
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7. First phase - Education
First phase is designed as educational phase. It will be two stage
model of educating Enterprises.
First stage will be to cooperate with existing organizations and
companies who hold seminars for companies. After introducing
our mission to companies we could start to educate and affect,
first of all, on small and medium Enterprises of southern region
to employ domestic workers over the summer season, and what
effects it will have.
Second stage will be compund of series of seminars which will
present the benefits of the business Internet presentations in
business, unemployment and its effects on long term in our
country etc.
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8. Second phase – Connecting dots
Second phase is main purpose of our organisation, and it will
start year after setting up first phase.
Companies that were willing to attend our seminar will be
offerd a prospect and detailed plan of collaboration of our
organisation with domestic universities and schools and
domestic and foreign capital investors.
The main object is to initiate development of northern region,
which includes: development of transport infrastructure, starting
up numerous different businesses in industrial, agricultural and
tourism sector.
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9. Third phase – Control
In addition to provide sustainable organisation, we will start
third phase, parallel with a second phase of developing our
organisation.
We will have an independent sector of our organisation which
task is to control, our organisation and established and existing
companies which are participating in the project.
How we could manage full control of the system, we would be
willing to be monitored by multiple domestic and foreign
organisations.
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10. Expetations
Results we came accross while conducting our analysis of the
current situation in the labor market in Montenegro and
expectations od montenegrin youth, we can expect that our
solution to this problem can make important progress towards
higher employment rates
In next two years, we are expecting a 20% raise in domestic
emplyment, especially during summer season in southern region
In next five years we plann to help recovering and developing
road infrastructure and industry in the northern region.
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