Are you a person with fewer opportunities?
The European youth programmes have always wanted to be inclusive of ALL young people, also (and especially!) those at the margins of society. Many efforts are undertaken to offer international mobility to these disadvantaged young people – or ‘young people with fewer opportunities’ (YPFO) as they are referred to.
Approximately one out of four participants in the Erasmus+ or ESC programme had fewer opportunities, according to European Commission statistics.
Young people with fewer opportunities’ are defined in the Erasmus+ programme guide as those young people who are at a disadvantage compared to their peers because they face one or more of the seven exclusion factors: disability, health problems, educational difficulties, cultural differences, economic obstacles, social obstacles or geographic obstacles. These factors can pose barriers to young people’s inclusion in society (e.g. education, labour market, housing, health, community).