Neets (young people Not in Education, Employment or Training) is a distinctive social group which includes all the major characteristics of a contemporary social pathogeny. In Europe, only a few pieces of research have been carried out in order to determine the population and its characteristics which consist this social group. We tried to investigate the formation of Neets in Greece and to determine the characteristics of the persons who could be categorized as Neet. The percentage of Neets, as demonstrated by the findings of the survey "Barometer of Absents", is particularly high in Greece. The biographical rupture which a NEET has suffered and the vulnerability which he/she undergoes do not prevent him/her from redrawing his/her life orbit and from highlighting broader proposals to address social vulnerability and mitigate social inequalities. The quantitative mapping of NEETs based also on specific demographic characteristics, as well as the recording of the qualitative characteristics of an undoubtedly multi-parametric phenomenon are leading to the conclusion that in Greece is required a combined, multi-layered and targeted intervention that can re-integrate Neets. ISSN 1948-5468 2015 www.macrothink.org/jsr 45 Keywords: Education, employment, training, formal education Journal of Sociological Research IntroductionThe relatively newly constructed term Neets (young people not in education, employment or training) refers to the young people, who refrain from education, training and employment, i.e. they are absent from every major institutional care of the welfare State. Defining Neets in terms of the ages that includes, varies internationally. However the overriding definition in the EU refers to young people between 15-24 years old (see more about variations of the term in Papadakis (2013: 27). Most European countries use this definition and are based on Labour Force Survey data to measure the Neets (Eurofound 2012: 19-20). The Eurofound report identifies five main subgroups: the conventionally unemployed; the unavailable (i.e. young carers, the sick and disabled); the disengaged (including discouraged workers as well as other young people who are pursuing dangerous or asocial lifestyles); the opportunity-seekers; and the voluntary NEETs: "those young people who are travelling and those constructively engaged in other activities such as art, music and self-directed learning" (Eurofound, 2012:24). The more extended effort in order to define the term and the characteristics Neet has been made in the U.K. (see Furlong 2006;Yates and Payne 2006). It is worth noting that we have no national scale primary research in the EU, a situation that complicates the Neets phenomenon detection and the mapping of this socially vulnerable group"s characteristics and attitudes, even numerous efforts have been made in order to determine risk factors that lead young people to become Neets (Bynner and Parsons, 2002; Furlong and Biggart,1999;Schoon, 2007;Hill, 2003). Popham (2003:8) In the Neets population the majority...

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