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In current ageing society with low fertility rates the population moves to the cities and large urban areas. According to WHO [1], it is expected that 70% of population in 2050 will be urban. The size of population in small towns and rural areas is shrinking and this trend is supposed to continue. Fall in population size brings along other consequences, such as downsize of business and social, health and other public services. All these processes may be particularly problematic for elderly people inhabiting lowly ...

Youth unemployment has been recognised by the EC as one of the most serious issues to be tackled in the upcoming programming period [1] for its extremely high levels across the EU-28 resulting in 5.4 million jobless Europeans aged bellow 25. The number of young people that are not employed, not in education and not in training (NEETs) is even higher, i.e. 7.5 million in age between 15 and 24. Two key risk factors have been identified for becoming a NEET – disadvantage and disengagement [2]. These occur more ofte...