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Guiding at-risk youth through learning to work
Lessons from across Europe

Acknowledgements

This report is a team effort and reflects the contributions of all those working on
the project. Particular mention should be made of Cedefop project manager Mr
Mika Launikari who was responsible for initiating and supervising the study and
of Mrs Pat Irving and Mrs Anne-Mari Nevala of GHK Consulting Ltd who drafted
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this report and undertook the research on which it is based ( ), together with their
research team.
Cedefop also wishes to thank Mr Helmut Zelloth and Mr Gérard Mayen of the
European Training Foundation (ETF), for their work on the case studies from the
three candidate countries (Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
Turkey) included in the report.
Thanks are extended to the many contributors who gave their valuable
support to this study (Annex 1).
Finally, thanks are due to Mrs Christine Nychas for her technical support in
preparing this publication.
This publication provided valuable input and inspiration for debates at the
Cedefop peer-learning event on Guiding at risk youth through learning to work
(Thessaloniki, November 2009). Further, this report is part of Cedefop’s scientific
contribution to the Spanish EU Presidency conference in Zaragoza in May 2010.

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( ) The work was carried out under Cedefop’s service contract No 2008-
0170/AO/ECVL/MILA/Guidance-youth-education-to-work-transitions/013/08.

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