1. Mladiinfo Team
Project Name: Matching Point Initiative
Team members:
Tamara Miletic
Ana Despotovska
Milan Zálešák
Country: Macedonia

2. Who are we?
- The web portal www.mladiinfo.eu was launched in
2008, thereby starting the initiative “Your link to free
education”.
- Target group: youth in CEE, Europe and later even
worldwide.
- Being aware that the major obstacle is
finance, Mladiinfo team places free education at the
core of its activities and serves as a hub for all
scholarships, fellowships, traineeships, volunteering
positions
- The Mladiinfo Team consists of 15-20 young people
from all over Europe performing daily tasks.
- More than 145,000 people from over 230 countries
visit the portal monthly and more than 100 young
people communicate online with our team each month
and use the information we provide.

3. Locating the problems
Mladiinfo was encouraged to take initiative due to:
 No information flow
 No access to quality education and other non formal education
opportunities
 Gap between skills provided by education and skills required by
market
 Youth with high-quality education but without the opportunity to
practice their education and to gain experience
 Growing youth unemployment due to lack of job positions
 Young people depend of state social funds and their parents.
Experience through the years shows us that a huge number of
educated young people with proper qualifications and skills, who have
never had the chance to practice their acquired knowledge and get
experience, are out of work for at least a year.
The real problem: lack of job positions at the labor market for the
educated and skilled young people
Our target group: educated and skilled young people with or without
experience

4. What could be a possible solution for young people not to
depend of the state social funds or their parents and at the
same time the communities worldwide to benefit from
educated youth?
Introducing the Mladiinfo Matching Point Initiative!
Starting a specialized program for promotion of “paid”
volunteering positions and traineeships. As a platform which
offers service and available opportunities for youth (with
145.000 visitors per month), Mladiinfo can be the matching
point where jobless young people can find PAID
opportunities to “work” as volunteers or trainees for a
period of 12 months for public good and will gain experience.

5. How can The Matching Point Initiative be realized?
 Mladiinfo cooperates with 15-20 BIG diverse non governmental
organizations and companies especially those working in the
developing countries.
 Collaboration agreements that these organizations &
companies will engage young people will be concluded via
Mladiinfo for those young people who have obtained good
quality education and have skills but do not have work
experience.
 These young people can “work” as volunteers or trainees in the
countries of the developing world. (example:
teachers, graduates of medicine, agriculture, forestry, ecology
students)
 The engagements will last 12 months and will cover the basic
needs for the selected volunteers and interns (board, lodging
and accommodation)

6. Why this initiative will work?
 There are many unemployed educated and skilled young people
worldwide who depend on the state social funds or their parents.
 They want to practice their acquired knowledge and skills but there
are no posts available on the labor market in their countries in order to
gain experience – which is one step forward to being competitive on
the market.
 There are many non governmental organizations who work in the
developing countries and are constantly in need of volunteers or
trainees who want to “donate" their time, skills and knowledge for the
public good and communities, but also gain valuable experience. The
programs always offer covered accommodation and food.
 Mladiinfo Matching Point initiative will be a place where the
organizations will publish their calls and where youth will find the
available positions.

7. Year 1 Year 5
300 2000
jobs, internships, opportunities jobs, internships, opportunities
offered offered
100 educated young people 500 educated young people
engaged in volunteering affected through the Matching
through the Matching Point Point Initiative
Initiative

8.  Trainees and volunteers will not depends on state social funds or their
parents for a period of 12 months
 They will have the chance to put their education, skills and knowledge
into practice
 Communities in the developing world countries will benefit from this
educated and skilled youth
 On the other hand, young people will upgrade their CVs with
international experience that will make them more competitive on the
job market in their countries.
 Organizations that will engage these young people will have young
and energetic workers with fresh ideas
 The unemployment rate will be stagnant or will decrease
 Organizations may offer volunteers and interns a permanent
employment
 Interns and volunteers may get an idea for starting their own business
or to start their own non government organization