One day before the official start of the EFOTT student festival there will be a special show to launch the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice’s two-year youth project ‘New Generation Plus’. The primary objective of the project is to help young people in formulating plans for the future and to prepare them for a smooth entry into the labour market.
New Generation Plus, which starts officially on the day before the EFOTT festival, is a priority project primarily aimed at young people in full-time education who are between the ages of twelve and twenty. Young people entering or soon to enter adulthood are still finding their feet, and need to act independently in an ever wider range of areas, but they do not have enough reference points to enable them to formulate a vision for their future. Dr. Péter Mihalovics, ministerial commissioner for coordination of the Programme for the Future of the New Generation, summed up the goals of the project thus: ‘We are offering young people in full-time education a multi-dimensional support programme which will provide them with the right information, realistic life options and orientation for making their career decisions, and will prepare them for smooth entry into the labour market; in the long run this can also significantly contribute to reductions in youth unemployment.’
The commissioner said that there are many parallels between the missions of EFOTT and New Generation Plus, so the festival is a perfect opportunity to introduce the project to a wider public. In order to make the programme truly accessible to young people, admission to EFOTT will be free on the festival’s pre-launch day to all students in full-time education aged between twelve and twenty. According to Dr. Mihalovics, easy access and recreational opportunities which create value were important in the planning stages of New Generation Plus, so these will be characteristics of the project throughout its two-year duration.
The programme for the pre-launch day – which has been named ‘Generational Sound System’ – will be a true feast of music, with leading performers from successive generations taking part in a symbolic generational relay event. Contrasting acts will include the winners of a 1965 television talent show (Ki mit tud?) and its 2012 counterpart (Megasztár), with alternative rock from different decades represented by KFT and Ivan and the Parazol.
(Ministry of Public Administration and Justice)
