Youth Discussion

On Wednesday afternoom we had a little discussion about the youth of our countries, their problems and possible solutions.

In order to start, we created 5 groups with people from the five countries. Each group discussed for half an hour about this issue and exposed to the rest of the teams after this. The aim of mixed groups was for enfasize the differences and similarities betwen our countries in a more direct way, even though each group would share to the others their conclussions.

As expected all issues were related to the Educational System and employment. Although each country had their issues, we found similarities betwen them:

The main issue about education was that the universities are under the big influence of companies, which leads the education to be more focused on productivity than in knowledge. An issue that belong to all countries, but were more discussed by the Romanian and Polish participants, which also summarized their problems in education at college on the money control on Universities.

The Spaniards said that they need more practice at university, because they need to improve by themselves if they want to access to extra knowledge (practical and theorical).

In Hungary, they focused on the low economy support to education, which leads to a less motivation for teachers and students.

The second main issue we found was the big unemployment numbers on the youth that we have on our countries. However, the ones who found a job after graduation only can access to low salaries.

In order to improve the system, we discussed some options.

• Introduce more practical subjects at highschool so the students would have a better idea about what career to choose.
• Encourage people to choose a career which professionals are needed by the country they live by giving more help with the scholarships of those careers.