From September until November 2020, the organisation “Team 42” organised research on the needs of young people in Leskovac. They wanted young people to ask themselves and to actively participate in the life of the city.

While the countries in the region are considering how to protect the health condition of their citizens, the burning problem of today is the departure of young people, but also their unemployment. The corona virus pandemic has brought great losses in terms of the economy, imports and exports of raw materials but also slowed down the world in all spheres. This is very worrying, because it is evident that the coronary virus pandemic will leave long-term consequences and lead to major global challenges.

The social economy has gotten expanding strategy consideration in ongoing many years, especially with the respect to its commitment to business. Much has been expounded on the expected function of the social economy as an answer for joblessness. It has been assessed that social economy associations (SEOs) comprehensively characterized as co-agents, mutual, affiliations and establishments, together record for 6.5% of total work in the European Union (Monzon and Chavez, 2012). Anyway later strategy consideration has all the more barely centered around the part of SEOs in work coordination for helpless gatherings, (for example, the drawn out jobless, or those with physical or emotional well-being issues). At the same time, little is thought about working conditions inside SEOs, especially for these defenseless people. 

From 18 to 20 September 2019 the partnership between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the field of youth organized a symposium “The future of young people’s political participation: questions, challenges and opportunities”.