Project partners are organizing 7 peer review sessions before and during Innovation Labs launching. Essentially these are thematic study visits that give possibility for exchanging experiences and discussion of local case studies by getting practical transnational realizations and models on youth skill development.

The Austrian partners of the NGS project, Nowa and Akzente successfully organized  the second peer review meeting with the participation of the Municipality of Maribor (Slovenia), the Municipality of Savski Venac (Serbia), the Intercommunity Development Association Cluj Metropolitan Area (Romania) and the Sofia Development Association (Bulgaria).

Participants get to know the local conditions and actualities in the 1st part of the workshop: particularly the public authority of Graz’s education concept and orientation. Besides this, organizers presented the „Case Study of Graz” about local youth.

During the 2nd part of the workshop the focus was on the connection between community and business. The presented good practices included for-profit innovative business ideas and community based enterprises as well.

The overall objective of the NGS project is to upgrade existing cooperation mechanisms between local municipalities as facilitators , organizations representing local youth, education sector and business sector to create innovative local support shames taking the form of INNOVATION LABS (and joined in a transnational network). This shaping learning program basically deliver new generation skills that are needed for navigating the changing world of work and support youth entrepreneurship and innovation. The Innovation Labs will reach out to young people (aged 15-29) in transition from education to the labour market, faced with major career decisions, who are motivated but inadequately skilled to turned their ideas into entrepreneurship and to come through in the fast-paced work environment from the very beginning.

The international peer review session – such this – is contributed to the project’s main goal: the aforementioned INNOVATION LAB initiative.