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The current global financial-economic crisis that has encompassed almost every country in the world has proven to be disastrous for the weak economies throughout the globe. Macedonia, rated lately as one of the world's worst economies regarding its high unemployment, is not an exception and has therefore to undertake steps towards finding a resolution to this problem.

The everlasting transition and the challenges the youth is facing in the employment sphere are our main focus in this paper. The non-formal education is shown as a tool for reducing the transition obstacles. The good experience form Sweden is taken as a model of non-formal education and which has to do with new skills for the community such as learning of new languages beside the ones for local usage, IT skills and peaceful solution of disputes. The case of Macedonia is shown in this paper.