Through the YENESIS project, the partners aim to address the challenge of unemployment in not in education, employment, or training (NEET) professionals in islands of beneficiary states. The main objective of the project is to reduce unemployment of the target group (TG) by creating green jobs in islands, in the 4 areas of energy efficiency, renewables, sustainable tourism, and mobility. The project will work with participants of the TG in an elaborate process to equip and prepare them for employment in green jobs. It will include an educational programme on business innovation and the 4 thematic areas, a mobility scheme, a mentoring scheme and a final stage, where participants will work on projects (eg. from local energy plans) offered by local, regional and national authorities for 6 months. The direct TG of the project are NEET young professionals (25-29 y.o.). The end beneficiaries cover a much larger group that includes human resource development agencies, productivity centres, business support organisations, and educational institutes amongst others. End beneficiaries are also the younger generation who will be able to use the project’s outcomes (educational courses, guides, newly created jobs) to avoid becoming NEET in the first place. The specific focus on islands stems from their common particularities: they are constrained by their geography, resources, and economies of scale, and suffer from seasonal unemployment. The EU Commission’s Declaration on Clean Energy for EU Islands stresses the need for cooperation and action in these regions. The benefits will, thus, be of transnational nature due to the exchange of know-how and business ideas. The success of the project will be measured using employment, economic and sustainability indicators. YENESIS will work on building capacity at both local and transnational level to ensure the sustainability of the project past its end date, like stakeholder support for replicating the project, and an exchange platform.