The Junta de Andalucia is allocating €2,598 euros to the Second Integrated Plan for Youth, to be known as Plan Gyga, to improve the opportunities for training and emancipation of young people in the region.
The two major programmes involve housing and employment, the main obstacles preventing young people from leaving the parental home. Andalucia has the highest youth community in Spain with over 2.4 million.
The rate of emancipation in Andalucia is 43%, therefore the Junta is allocating 81% of the funds for housing and employment. The total fund is to cover the period to 2014.
Plan Gyga includes such things as an €11,000 grant for young people starting up their own business, between €3,000 and €4,750 in grants for the hiring of young people, grants for the unemployed to enable them to start training and various housing benefits, such as 40% rent subsidies, preferential house purchase agreements and reduced property taxes.
The Plan is designed to cover young people between the ages of 18 years and 29 years.