IIE Blog: How Alcoa Foundation is Closing the Gap Between Manufacturing Jobs and Talent

Emil Levy, Program Manager of the Bulgarian Young Leaders Program at IIE, shares the initial results of the Alcoa Foundation’s Global Internships for Unemployed Youth program managed by IIE. The program seeks to reduce global unemployment through youth workforce development in the manufacturing sector. "Despite the challenges and obstacles manufacturers and youth face, paid internships in the field of manufacturing for unemployed and underemployed youth seems to be meeting a need for them and the marketplace," writes Levy.