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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...