Good practice Imported

REbirth on the interNET [REviver na Rede] - Online platform to help the unemployed use social networks for active job search

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 54% 72/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

The project's mission is to provide guidance for the unemployed to use social networks in order to build an advantageous online presence, improving their employability. The main goal is to support the unemployed to take advantage of the potential of digital social networks to imp

50,000+

People engaged (from initial pilot sample)

REbirth on the interNET [REviver na Rede] - Online platform to help the unemployed use social networks for active job search

Details

Maturity: Scaling
Promoter: Universidade Aberta — website
Type: Policy
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Unemployed and those facing social problems
People reached: 6428
People targeted: 2957
Period: 2015-01-01
Region (NUTS): PT17
Keywords: unemployed, social networks, online presence, employability, digital

Context

REbirth on the interNET guides unemployed people in Portugal's Autonomous Region of Madeira to use Facebook for job search, online presence and social capital building, run out of the Open University's e-learning pedagogy programme with Polos Emprego (Instituto de emprego Funchal).

Results

The project began with a pilot sample of 1,000 people and was progressively extended; the various online spaces now involve more than 50,000 people in the region.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes ESF+ — European Social Fund Plus

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Data sources

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MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
Information source — accessed 2026-06-14

Attachments

Quality score: 72/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 54% in this catalogue (799 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level3/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach1/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

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