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AGENDA OF THE SEMINAR ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 4
MONDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 2019 – CHAIR OF THE DAY ANTONIO ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
PARTICIPANTS ARRIVAL & LUNCH............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5 YOUTH@WORK STRUCTURE (WHERE DO THEY BELONG). .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5
ROLE OF NATIONAL/REGIONAL CONSULTATIVE GROUPS ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
PART 1: ROLE OF NCGS/RCGS................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6 PART 2: SMALL GROUPS MADE UP FROM TABLES PARTICIPANTS WERE SITTING AROUND AND THEY THEN DISCUSSED: ........................................................................................................................................................ 6
Question 1 – In one sentence explain the role of the NCG/RCG....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Question 2 - How do you see the NCG/RCG connection to other elements of the structure? (Steering group, PoT) ............................................................................................................................... 1 Question 3 - What actions/activities can you take to utilize the potential of the NCGs/RCGs.......................................................................................................................................................................... 1
PART 3: CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1
ENTRECOMP WORKSHOP .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
1. INTRODUCTION - WHAT IS ENTRECOMP? .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 2. REFLECTING ON SELF: ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2 3. REFLECTING ON WORK/PURPOSE: VALUE CREATION MAPPING – PARTICIPANTS WERE CHALLENGED WITH THE QUESTION: THROUGH YOUR WORK, DO YOU APPLY THESE COMPETENCES IN YOUR
SPECIFIC ISSUE/FIELD/SECTOR? HOW DO YOU DO THIS? ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 4. CO-CREATING VALUE WITH ENTRECOMP ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 5. OUTCOMES, SHARING & CLOSING REMARKS (15’) .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
SUMMARY OF THE DAY ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
NETWORKING EVENING AT IKON GALLERY ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
TUESDAY 19TH NOVEMBER 2019 – CHAIR OF THE DAY CLAIR ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
YOUTH@WORK OVERVIEW & SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Question 1 posed: In your opinion what is the unique selling point of youth@work ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Question 2: What is the secret ingredient you would add to Y@W? ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
PARALLEL SESSIONS - ROUND 1 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 6 Workshop 1: Refugees Empower Skills Together – Yves Leveque (France) .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Workshop 2: European Volunteer Inclusion Programme (EUROVIP) – Victor Pilven (France) ....................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Workshop 3: ACTION PLAN FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT 2019-2021 Maria-Nair Gutiérrez Arnao (Spain) ........................................................................................................................................... 10
PARALLEL SESSIONS - ROUND 2 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12
Workshop 4: Developing Entrepreneurial Abilities Laboratory – Konstantinos Stergiou (Greece) ............................................................................................................................................................ 12 Workshop 5: Future Ready – Ann Davidson (Scotland) .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 14
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Workshop 6: This-Ability – Vicky Holbeck (UK) ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 17
COUNTRY GROUP REFECTION ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19
WEDNESDAY 20TH NOVEMBER 2019 – CHAIR OF THE DAY ANTONIO ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
YOUTH@WORK OVERVIEW OF FUTURE PLANS ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 21 ACTION PLANS & COMMITMENTS TOWARDS THE 2020 OBJECTIVES OF THE YOUTH@WORK NETWORK ............................................................................................................................................................................. 22 EVALUATION – DEBRIEF & WRAP UP ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
Observations and conclusions when comparing the Baseline survey and End line survey. ............................................................................................................................................................................. 24 PARTICIPANT COMMENTS ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 25 FACILITATOR COMMENTS: ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26
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Agenda of the Seminar
Monday 18th November Chair: Antonio
Tuesday 19th November Chair: Clair
Wednesday 20th November Chair: Antonio
Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
9.30 Introduction to the day Energiser 10.00 Youth@Work Overview - Raluca 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Parallel Practice Sharing Sessions
9.30 Introduction to the day 10.00 Overview of the Future plans and recommendations from the Youth@Work partnership Raluca 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Personal Action Plans & commitments towards the 2020 objectives of the Youth@Work network Disseminate, participate, develop concept 12.45 – Evaluation & Official closure
13h – 14.30h Lunch 13h – 14.30h Lunch 13.00 – 14.30h Lunch
Networking NCG roles Entrecomp workshop
14.30 Parallel Practice Sharing Sessions 16.00 Coffee 16.30 Country group refection Short plenary
Departure
Day ends 18.00 Dinner 19h Day ends 18.00h Dinner 19h
Networking Reception German Market (optional)
Monday 18th November 2019 – Chair of the Day Antonio Participants Arrival & Lunch
14.30 - Welcome, Introduction & overview of the timetable from Sara Southam UK NA, introducing the facilitators, objectives and agenda – objectives and agenda can also be done after this session – as intro to the “Role of the NCGs” Sara eloquently introduced the purpose and need for this event, welcomed participants to Birmingham and gave the context for the event as a foundation for Raluca’s introduction to the Youth@Work Strategic Partnership. Sara touched on Brexit and the commitment of the National Agency to drive this (and other opportunities) forward with full commitment until any Government change necessitates the UKNA is involved in a different way. Following this there were three short ice-breakers which got participants laughing and certainly broke the ice. Creating a “business cards” wall where everyone pinned their card on a wall and that will stay there during all times. To enable participants to explore the profile of people present and target a person they want to talk more. Participants made a line in an alphabetical order from the first letter of their name” and following this made a line according to the first letter of their astro sign
Finally participants placed themselves in 2 groups identifying where they came from Eastern / Western countries in order to show a ‘live mapping’ 15.30 - Baseline Survey Baseline survey was offered using Survey Monkey to benchmark participants’ knowledge, skills and attitudes at the start of the seminar, particularly against the seminar objectives in order to support end line correlations and comparison
Youth@Work structure (where do they belong).
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/DCPP76W
Role of National/Regional Consultative Groups Part 1: Role of NCGs/RCGs Raluca explains the infographic and the organizational structure of the Y@W partnership. Raluca introduced the basics of Youth@Work, allowing people to consider where they place themselves and how the different Youth@Work structures can work together
Part 2: Small groups made up from tables participants were sitting around and they then discussed:
Question 1 – In one sentence explain the role of the NCG/RCG Feedback from Question 1
o Give focus & purpose to the partnership & be a satellite innovation hub
o To influence and inform by sharing good practice, knowledge & experience in the field of youth entrepreneurship and employability
o Promote strategic partnership at a local and regional level inside their professional environment in order to meet their own objectives and connect with decision making
o Identify which target groups should be empowered by the partnership o Developing tools for the partnership to use and seek o Support and providing consultancy in a cross sectoral setting o Creating a bridge between the opportunities that exist to aid
dissemination of the partnership o Create a common strategy for youth within the field of employability
& entrepreneurship
Question 2 - How do you see the NCG/RCG connection to other elements of the structure? (Steering group, PoT) Feedback from Question 2
o To inspire trainers (tools & Types of training) o To provide feedback and guidelines for activities o Important role of dissemination and sharing o To provide other structures with innovative ideas through meetings
and potentially study visits to inspire as to how innovative activities are being delivered.
o Advising and influencing the steering group o Helping the POT to prepare methods and content of training
o For POT – help to identify training and development opportunities we would like to see rolled out
o NAs to be more innovative and aware of what is going on outside of Erasmus+
o NCR/RCG members come from grass roots and also European strategy – so could offer expertise at different levels for example to the steering group but also express needs to trainers
Question 3 - What actions/activities can you take to utilize the potential of the NCGs/RCGs Feedback from Question 3
o Take into consideration the expertise of each member in relation to different target groups
o Networking through organising different social events to expand the network.
o Setting up a resource centre to provide information o Start the conversation with people from different sectors to
understand the reality to get the full picture. o Knowledge Management – how do we share through this network?
o Connecting with what else is out there – it is complicated to understand what is happening with other activities
o Identify potential synergies and disseminate knowledge o Sharing expertise and understanding make up consider some themed
groups which cross nations (topical working groups) o Moving around within national groups to see what’s happening locally
regionally o Multiplying – within the network
The activity offered opportunity for fruitful discussion and participants had a great deal to share -meaning this session slightly over-ran.
Part 3: Conclusions Raluca shared the importance of gaining feedback from participants and we need the main players around the table to reach our aims and get conclusions. Raluca explained the importance of all players being here. Raluca explained the difference between Regional and National Consultative Groups: National – from one country Regional – SALTO neighbouring partner regions Raluca then presented the NA vision for setting up these groups and described in a round up how individuals can contribute to the success of the Y@W Partnership.
Antonio closed the session explaining the importance of each and every participant in forming this process and taking the network forward. Following this informative session we moved into a coffee break where networking and discussion continued.
Entrecomp Workshop Using the workshop format inspired by EntreComp participants were taken through the following workshop: Ruth introduced herself, her credibility as an ‘expert’ and about ‘Being Enterprising
1. Introduction - What is EntreComp? - What does 'Being Entrepreneurial’ mean to you? Participants in group came up with buzz words, and sentences which to them described, the word entrepreneurial or enterprising
2. Reflecting on Self: - Which EntreComp-related skills and attitudes do you have? How do you use them in your daily life?”, by checking the EntreComp flower – participants has
access to two documents on the table: EntreComp: The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework EntreComp into Action Ruth took us through a very inspiring presentation where we were introduced to a female entrepreneur – whose enterprise was drug dealing. She described how taking this girl through the process of acknowledging her entrepreneurial character and skills these assets could with support be channelled into an equally enterprising but legal initiative and the end of her story is she now owns and runs a coffee shop.
3. Reflecting on Work/Purpose: Value Creation Mapping – participants were challenged with the question: Through your work, do you apply these competences in your specific issue/field/sector? How do you do this? Noteworthy points: Participants shared feedback on how they apply entrepreneurial attitude and development of skills in their setting: If people want to start a business/build a team it is not necessary to have all these qualities in one person – it can be across a team
4. Co-creating Value with EntreComp - Participants were charged with the task of choosing a table by their primary interest in creating (social, financial, cultural, mixed) value. Participants discussed current initiatives and projects they have or would like to have
5. Outcomes, Sharing & Closing Remarks (15’) - Debriefing from the groups, and closing the session with comments on the contributions and follow-up information on how to engage further and develop the ideas with EntreComp.
Summary of the day Day 1 was summarised very briefly and the workshops for tomorrow had a 30 second slot to introduce what they would be offering so participants could choose their preferred workshops.
Networking Evening at IKON Gallery A wonderful inspiring evening in a lovely venue with two optional tours of the gallery. Fumie from the UKNA joined the team and it was very positive to have her involvement networking with participants. We were treated to two inspiring speeches; offered by Ana Amona, UK EuroPeer and Trevor Keogh, Momentum World Participants really enjoyed this evening and gave very positive feedback to the team. It was a great opportunity to network and the informal discussions continued much longer than we feel they would have had the evening taken place in the hotel. The presentation ended with Antonio sharing some personal insight into the supportive network Erasmus+ and networks such as Youth@Work can offer and the huge impact they can have on individuals. A wonderful night and end to day one – a big congratulation to the team for organising this.
Tuesday 19th November 2019 – Chair of the Day Clair Following an energiser where we woke up facial expressions, limbs and reflexes, Clair introduced the plan and sessions for the rest of the day. Renata’s pictorial memory of yesterday was shared with the group and participants were reminded of the workshops again through Renata’s graphic representation. We walked through the day and evening timetable
Youth@Work Overview & summary of recommendations
Raluca set the scene of why the strategic partnership was created, it’s aims and history to date and recommendations resulting from activities to date in order to bring participants on to the same page.
Raluca took participants into a deeper look at Youth@Work Strategic Partnership:
o Participating NAs o Objectives o Target Groups o History of how we came to such a cross sectoral partnership 2018 - 2019 o Imminent future, final Youth Entrepreneurship seminar 2019 o Research – study: Employability revisited o Priorities o The website was presented by Aytac o Raluca invited questions following her presentation o Clarity on youth was sought: this was clarified as 18-30 years o A 1 minute video for each activity was requested o Who pays trainers was asked and this was clarified that for National Agency
events the NAs pay trainers but the trainer pool accessible to all is for information for organisations to search for trainers should they wish to.
Question 1 posed: In your opinion what is the unique selling point of youth@work
o Provides a holstic approach to the learning process o Offers expertise through the pool of trainers o Youthwork – focussing on the young generation enhance systems
trying to build strategic activities for young people. o Openness and collaboration – Y@W is capturing the momentum o Being cross sectoral allows us to discover new synergies and different
non-typical collaborative partnerships o Issue – consider it difficult to reach employers other than at a local
level o Value of the integrated approach – Employability & Entrepreneurship o The learning opportunity and collaboration is really strong o Policy makers and practitioners working together can lead to change
Question 2: What is the secret ingredient you would add to Y@W? o Better Connection to employers o Use these great tools we have created in the ‘wider world’ o Better communication tools to be able to simply communicate
message o Prior step to be able to include young people with fewer opportunities o Go Global – to widen these activities to include for example India &
USA to further learn from practices o To hear more from young people who have benefitted from the
progamme o Young people at the centre of what we are doing o Webinars – and digitising our offers would be a way to engage more
youths o We are already in a high level of youth work – do we need to increase
duration of activities and involvement with young people so we can focus more on attitudes
The plenary session then broke for coffee, which was taken downstairs in order that the team could rearrange the room and break the area into three separate work spaces. Following Coffee participants moved straight into the three parallel workshops:
Parallel Sessions - Round 1 Workshop 1: Refugees Empower Skills Together – Yves Leveque (France) Scribe: Antonio
Yves started with different get to know games that they used in the work with the refugees. Asking how are you? And with the possible answers: good, bad, so so, participants moved chairs. Than having the same question/answer on native language of the refugees. Than Yves continued asking questions like: Who has already written projects in E+ / Who has taken part of participant? / Who has been an associate partner? He shared that the difficulty in writing an international project is to agree between partners – because of different practices, signing the mandates without reading, unexpected situations and dropping off. Especially on sensitive topic such as the Refugees. He shared that it is better to start with KA1 and than make a KA2 with the partners you are on the same page. After this intro, he presented the project with the Refugees. They had a refugee that cooked Syrian food and trying to make a living out of it, the Tunisian makes tattoos, Brazilian is giving yoga sessions, and the Slovenian is making wallets. They were held training for creating a social business plan for selling self-made articles. One output of the project (lasts until January 2021) is: Compendium of best practices of working with refugees and integrating them in the labour market.
After the presentation the participants were ask to share idea on what kind of activities they can do in the GREEN ECONOMY area? With the help of mindmap Yves was taking notes and making the mindmap – which you can find below. Issues that were raised: Linguistic issues – how to manage if the don’t speak English or French – one approach can be to use “older” refugees group who already accommodated and know the language. Ideas for green activities:
o Grow organic food, o Cooking of their traditional food, different type of cooking and food
culture, emerging trend with young people – o Upcycling of goods – second hand resources to be used creatively and
give them second life. This is possibility of donating clothes to them to make a second life and sell them
o Including them in construction sector – energy efficiency – façade
workers, rooftop instalators of solar panels, the vocational workers are very much in demand (Green jobs in energy sector)
o Including refugees in building youth / social centres and afterwards using them
o Their needs were stressed and their mental state – after a trauma – are they ready to work – and to pay attention to the psychological preparations and the relief of trauma
o Engagement in the waste sector – food waste – donation to vulnerable groups – waste picking and transport of selected waste – was shared that in Jordanese refugee camp – they pick the waste and they
support themselves and the life in the camp UK 1: Mindmap is a great way to capture ideas, and can be used to come back to something that has been talked earlier
In the end of the session, participants shared different practices of working in non-formal education, such as the world café method, the talking stick, way of council, sociocratic circle etc.
Workshop 2: European Volunteer Inclusion Programme (EUROVIP) – Victor Pilven (France) https://www.eurovip-erasmusplus.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Portfolio-for-Volunteering-experiences-%E2%80%93-Based-on-the-ProfilPASS-UK.pdf Scribe: Sonia
Victor took participants through an informative look into a partnership project and a competence development/ acknowledgement process: ProfilPASS. The focus of his presentation was around Companies fighting against inclusion, discrimination and poverty. Field of activities:
a) Employment b) Education & Culture c) Fragilities
Target groups: a) Volunteers b) Organisation hosting volunteers c) Recruiters d) Policy making volunteers
Common work between 5 organisations of the EUROVIP consortium. Approach of tool – ProfilPASS- supporting volunteers in taking a step back on their experience and knowledge gained and skills – through the principle of self-evaluation. A final certification is delivered at the end of the process.
Achievements: - Design portfolio, training of 59 organisations welcoming volunteers, Portfolio is based on ProfilPASS – self-evaluation approach. 3 step approach: 1) Description of missions and activities 2) Assessment of competences 3) Definition of the professional project Others: Practical guide for recruiters, bridge gap between the business sections & volunteers, encourage good practices and raise awareness among stakeholders and a European best practices handbook. Impact for tomorrow - Improve support to volunteers and valorise informal and non formal learning methods. - Shift recruitment methodology What is the understanding of competences in the tool?
3 level of competences: - Level A – I can do it with help - Level B – I can do it alone - Level C – I can do it alone and in any context Reviewing competences: a) List your competences and mark the ones you use the most b) organise them through areas of competences c) An overview Objectives & Next steps – building on your experience, build your professional project, formalise a roadmap. A) Formulating your goal (e.g. training, jobs) B) Face your competences and project (what competecnes should I develop to reach my goal) Group exercise notes: Form a group of 2 – Interview each other on experience you had (volunteering or other) and test the portfolio
methodology. - List activites realised - Analyse competences gained - Evaluate it Ideas from delegates: - Asking what volunteer can now do - What skills they’ve picked up and whether they can now teach someone else - Asking what level they are working at - Putting gained skills into practice - Asking how confident they are putting it into practice - Good tool picking up skills and showing recruiters (good source of motivation) - Good value of the portfolio – supporting organisations can use this as preparation for volunteer - Formulates a structure for the volunteers
Workshop 3: ACTION PLAN FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT 2019-2021 Maria-Nair Gutiérrez Arnao (Spain) W3 info and scribe: Olivia
Workshop points This action plan is an initiative of the Spanish Youth Service What usually happens is young people move straight from education to employment but this is not always the case. This is why training and development opportunities outside of Public Employment Services are so important Young people are the most valuable human capital a modern society possesses. They are its engine of change, its present and its future Spain: In favour of young people having opportunities abroad, take advantage of Erasmus+, improving employability services, and international programmes. 43% of young people were unemployed in Spain as a result of the recession between 2007-2014, now it is 33%, there has been an improvement because the government were committed to developing this however there is still a struggle Objectives: Framework for employment and dignified work, gain own qualification and labour market insertion, increase qualifications and employability, provide assistance from PES, reduce gender wage gap, tackle loss of hope at lack of job opportunities, provide assistance for vulnerable groups Goals: Reduce youth unemployment rate to 25.5%, increase activity rate to 73.5%, reduce gender wage gap by 20%, 15% more permanent contracts per year, and to train 43% of registered youth unemployed in language, digital skills, mathematics and public sectors. Actions (Axes): Guidance, Training, Employment Opportunities, Equal Opportunities in access to employment, Entrepreneurship, and Improve institutional framework
Group ideas How have you collaborated so far with Public Employment Services? Work in an NGO Private employment agencies Gave NEETs (Young People not in Education, Employment or Training) opportunity to develop in placements but Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will not let this happen because of employment laws Positive experiences Volunteer Labour Corps – supports young people within the competitive education and labour markets. Collaborates with PES positively. Attempted to change young people’s experiences and took advantage of training provided by PES Local level: operates work or training placements to encourage and inspire young people to become entrepreneurial. Measuring outcome is difficult because of DWP constraints – if helped by their budget, the outcomes are owned by the DWP Western Balkans: employment services employ people from trade unions, businesses, policy makers but nobody from youth sector.
Government initiatives in the UK are usually outsourced to other training providers Positive and Negatives related to each of the Actions (Axes) Guidance: Good idea for youth peers to provide guidance as they have first-hand experience. Found that there is little guidance in schools surrounding employability and that this needs to be improved Training: Very ambitious. Training to overcome barriers is important. Found that specific training needs were not focused on and that it was more general Equal Opportunities in Access to Employment: Thought that tax incentives may be the best idea for those with fewer opportunities so they can access training with ease
How to link Y@W resources to Youth Unemployment Services No EntreComp equivalent in schools and this should be embedded into the education system Alumni and peer to peer learning. Young entrepreuners should present to students very soon after their experiences so they are a similar age and can see examples of what is available to them and what they can achieve Huge cultural change programme in process Role models and mentors will address challenges Introduce tax incentives for those with fewer opportunities so they are able to attend training and development sessions Inivte organisations to innovate their own practices within different sectors with low employment rates for young people; agriculture, retail, etc.
Parallel Sessions - Round 2 Workshop 4: Developing Entrepreneurial Abilities Laboratory – Konstantinos Stergiou (Greece) Scribe: Antonio
Konstantinos started with an ice-breaker to get the participants going and energized. He than talked about his background and how he travelled abroad for the first time when he was 22, due to an Erasmus+ program. He than introduced his reasons why he started his Association (Active Youth of Florina - www.oenef.eu) in 2010 with an idea to provide international youth mobility opportunities for the young people in his region (Western Macedonia in Greece).
He than presented the DEAL project and the first starting point was to provide LIFE skills to pupils from primary schools – 6 times in 6 weeks – supported by the British Council. The project than evolved and introduced new skills – developing social entrepreneurs – to high school students, 15-18 years, to VET
schools – and after to university students as well – series of 6 workshops in 6 weeks. Today, the focus of the DEAL project is to provide these topical workshops and enable the students not to search for a job, but to create a job for themselves. The topical workshops that are provided with the project are:
1 Mapping our community 2. What is social entrepreneurship 3. Setting up my own social enterprise
4. What makes a successful businessman 5. From planning to success 6. Closing event “alternative entrepreneurship”
The more detailed PDF guide for the workshops can be found on www.britishcouncil.gr if you search “social entrepreneurs”. Now, the project has evolved into having 1 seminar (5 days) and 1 training (6 days) where the students (18+) go from idea to a business plan - that is presented in the Erasmus+ young entrepreneurs program with aim to provide funding for their social business ideas.
After his presentation, the participants were ask to share ideas and different approaches that might add value to the project and also to share good examples of social entrepreneurship in their countries. The polish representative shared that in Poland the social service support (funding) is provided by the Municipalities and they support local social entrepreneurs. The UK representative asked an open question “How do you get in young people’s mind the concepts of risk and reward? How to
make them understand that loan is a good thing and is not borrowing, but its investing. And not to rely on grants all the time”. The participant from Bosnia shared that young people’s business are supported from the municipalities, but the obstacle is that the municipality are very flexible for giving the money, and don’t care much about the impact, no monitoring, or tracking what is happening with the money. By using www.slido.com the facilitator asked
the participants to share if they would like to join the DEAL project and 7 out of 10 answered “yes”.
Workshop 5: Future Ready – Ann Davidson (Scotland) Scribe: Sonia
Why was future ready developed?
It helps students have confidence in what they want to learn. Providing Young people with foresight skills, to choose what they want to do in the future.
The idea is getting young people ready in advance for the future – turn uncertainty to inspiration, creativity and resilience.
Choosing a future destination to create a framework eg. No poverty, good jobs & economic growth.
1) Pick one aspect of healthcare and discuss what it will look like in ten years time.
2) Draw on things you have read or seen on social media or heard about from lecturers or articles you have read.
3) Think about how people will be diagnosed or how they will receive treatment or the future of a hospital ward or how the healthcare need of the elderly will be met or the mental wellbeing of people.
Examples of delegates: More people being looked after in a home. Watches telling you about your general health
You have information/knowledge so you can make bold bets of what the future may be.
Toolkit 1: Big shifts – Good health & wellbeing
To research the future – lack of info on health – info from GP & public health
What have we come from to where we are in the present day.
What aspects? Examples from delegates in discussions :
• Mental health wasn’t spoken about 20 years ago. Progression and now common to talk about and seek advice. There are more mental health institutions to help
those with mental health problem. Finding new ways of dealing with mental health at an earlier stage.
• Diabetic people: Couldn’t drink certain drinks, but would just drink them anyway. Would have a dose of insulin where doctor was in charge. Now have devices to measure insulin levels and blood sugars, which will prevent people for eating and drinking what is bad for them. The technology is in now charge with devices measuring levels of blood sugar.
The purpose of this exercise is to anticipate what will be next in the future of health & well being.
Toolkit 2: Social & technical drivers – The drivers and impact
- New eco systems and devices being developed
Toolkit 3: Signals
An event or innovation that is out there in margins that can indicate how these drivers and impacts are starting to shape a landscape. They have the potential to disrupt the status quo. And makes you think about the future? IS it solving one problem or creating another e.g. A robot living with an elderly person
which assists them and reports back to carers on their progress. It helps the elderly with tasks but it creates the problem of them feeling lonely – with less human contact.
Working with signals: TASK FOR DELEGATES
“We have compiled a signal pack for you to work with today that relates to our chosen framework.
They are all tangible and actual innovations or data points
In your groups, use the cards that are designed to provoke you. How does the given card make you think about the future?”
Engaging with the signal pack: Use them to prompt your thinking
If you like them – why? If you don’t like them – why?
What sense do they give you about the future?
Who is at the heart of them and what is this innovation enabling a person to do? |This someone can be an individual or an organisation. Look for the user
experience
Future Ready: Using our building blocks
Vision, Agility & Clarity: Action, Conclusion, Foresight.
Designing and creating the future: If we look at the future, we can design things that matter – based on the possible scenarios.
Step 1: Creating a Future Customer Persona
Look at a compelling scenario and then look for compelling signals
Step 2: Add details e.g. Age
Step 3: Digging deep
Step 4: Look for impacts
Step 5: Tell a Story
Step 6: Unexpected possibilities – are the scenarios accepting some of the challenges
Designing artefacts of the future: Thinking about your intended future user – What innovation do you want to showcase that is needed to inform a present day audience. Refer back to your future facing challenges – how do we solve the problem of..?
Taking ownership of the future in present – Could you get ahead of the curve?
It’s important to generate new ideas and prepare in the present for what is to come in the future. E.g. What skills will you need to develop? Put yourself in a
scenario and figure out what skills you will need for this scenario.
‘The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed’ – William Gibson.
Fit for future is a sustainable initiative designed to help students develop a level of fitness – certain competencies to allow you to perform in a certain way. It
will be getting students to recognise how they are performing.
Workshop 6: This-Ability – Vicky Holbeck (UK)
Workshop notes o Lottery funded programme which began in 2019 and will end in 2022. Community Fund
o Aimed at working with young people with disabilities or a long-term health condition and getting
them into sustainable employment. The programme also supports employers as well as young people
o Objectives for young people are to obtain an employability passport and gain employment, this is
achieved over a 6-month period
o Offers young people holistic support and skills workshops
o People’s Awareness of Disability Discrimination (PADD): Want to change employers’ perspectives of
taking on a person with a disability or condition
o Making our Business Yours (MOBY): Bespoke mentoring package available to employers who recruit
individuals from the This-Ability project who have a disability, learning difficulty, or long-term health/mental
health condition into sustainable employment
o This-Ability Mentor: Offers holistic support, supports development of life skills such as self-
confidence or aspirations, and work on their core capabilities
o Core Capabilities: Reliability, Openness, Motivation, Self-Esteem, Resilience, Awareness of the Labour
Market
o Work with the Confederation of British Industry’s (CBI) seven employability skills.
o Sector-specific programme: A participant is referred to as a Training Provider; they will gain a formal programme of training which incorporates CBI skills to ensure
they complete the employability passport and are ready for the next stage of the programme
o Employability Passport: Very similar to the EntreComp framework. It is much like a CV in that it shows core capabilities and CBI skills as well as the young person’s
interests, skills, work experience and previous education. Some young people will have a Platinum Section which details their employment. These passports can be
used at interviews to show tangible outputs of their training and work
o Reasonable adjustments are looked into for all young people; this can include large print materials for those with visual issues, or an ergonomic chair for somebody
with a bank condition
o Employment Mentor: Run activities to continue momentum after training and support participants
o Disability Confident is a UK Government initiative that shows employers how to commit to recruiting, retaining and developing disabled people. People with
disabilities or long-term health conditions can see which employers have attained this certification before they approach them for employment opportunities
o Young people have created a board game called ‘Jobbled’ based on Monopoly. The game relates to a different need or disability, the aim is for you to gain
employment after tackling many different issues along the way
Group ideas
• In other countries, e.g Spain, there are targets for disability
employment. In the UK there is no quota assigned by the government
but the disability gap is being improved
How would you approach working with young people with a disability or long-term health condition to achieve core capabilities?
• Develop their expectations of the labour market
• Curb any unrealistically high aspirations
• Ensure that they are realistic and that they know what they can and
should work towards
• Raise aspirations
• Test a young person’s reliability during the course of the programme
• Set different activities with varying degrees of difficulty and range
which test a young person’s confidence and ability
Following a short coffee break at 16.00 again downstairs so we could revert the room back to one space
Country group refection
Rather than sharing participants impressions in plenary, participants returned into country groups in order to share their different findings (from different participants having been present in different sharing sessions). This was an opportunity to discuss transferability and relevance of the shared methodologies in their local or national contexts to widen and embed knowledge and also create the foundations for tomorrow’s personal action plans. The first session was a discussion around the different workshops participants in the group had attended. This was not fed back. In the second half of the reflection, participants were asked to take 30 minutes to discuss the transferability of the methodologies or initiatives they heard about in to a local context a national/regional context within your NCG/RCG Feedback on what participants felt were transferrable: Partners for Erasmus+ projects In Spain there is governmental discussions around introducing an additional year into education for young people to undertake an entrepreneurial year following their VET studies. It was suggested through this they could > identifying social needs > solution design > possible application for an Erasmus+ project > put into action Vocational counselling in order to identify; strengths, likes/dislikes, labour market needs, how the future could look > leading to a decision of a possible future employment area > then access training to develop the skills needed in this employment field
Increase co-operation between public and private sector actors with regard to the Action Plan for Youth Employment Participants shared common problems and common target areas > youth unemployment > High immigration rates > Academic Inflation – it was suggested that using the Action Plan for Youth Employment (presented by Spain) could be transferrable to other international contexts and shared with regional & national government as a plan that has worked in Spain Participants were inspired by ‘foreign examples of good practice’ which could be implemented in their local context such as the This – Ability project. These could also be shared on a national basis. Accumulation of foreign decision making in one public policy – helping to underline strengths and weakness in own national models Recognition methods which can be shared across nations A better level of dissemination to structures outside our own individual networks and shared dissemination methods to get the message outside the Youth@Work
partnership. There was a positive feeling at the end of the day and many participants joined the optional visit to the Birmingham German Market.
Wednesday 20th November 2019 – Chair of the Day Antonio
Following breakfast Antonio supported our waking up with three short energisers: Baby Shark; Social Media energiser and Bohemian Rhapsody Karaoke
YOUTH@Work overview of future plans Raluca presented the future of the Strategic Partnership:
o 2020 Focuses o preparing for the new Erasmus programme o research practice and policy making o measuring impact of Youth@Work o investing in our POT/NCGs & RCGs
o Partner Region focus o Raluca then introduced us to the 2020 and beyond plans
(demonstrated visually on the following page) – participants were very enthusiastic and there were a number of questions around how participants can get involved.
Following coffee break
Action Plans & commitments towards the 2020 objectives of the Youth@Work network The aim of this session was to make participants think about their commitments as European Network to 2020, and beyond, further more, their National priorities and lastly their personal commitment.
Antonio introduced and gave participants some input on the present and future realities: 1. Climate change and its influence on the labor market - The green future of jobs, sustainability and environmental entrepreneurship The “Greening with jobs” report of ILO (International Labor Organization) was presented shortly and the projections for job losses and job creation were discussed. Measures in the production and use of energy, will lead to job losses of around 6 million as well as the creation of some 24 million jobs. The net increase of approximately 18 million jobs across the world will be the result of the adoption of sustainable practices, including changes in the energy mix, the projected growth in the use of electric vehicles, and increases in energy efficiency in existing and future buildings. The link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA_kquBTAcg Discussion ensured on this subject around the expansion in the youth sector in this area, there is a passion in young people around sustainability and green issues. Various country representatives mentioned the importance of education around climate change in schools and how in certain countries this is becoming obligatory. Greening of the economy needs to be linked to education, new occupations such as energy efficiency jobs and jobs in the circular economy, and they are not yet supported by strong environmental and climate change education. The agricultural sector as the biggest employer (employing around 1 billion people) needs attention and adaptation strategies, pre-qualification programs and other social measures needs to be taken.
Discussion continued around the support people and organisations in this room could contribute to eco-literacy. We established we are in a very important period as to what we can deliver. And a “greening” of trainers and youth workers is important, in sense of capacity building of the youth community to transfer this knowledge and awareness of climate change with non-formal education methods and throughout the Erasmus+ community. Climate change will inevitably produce climate ‘refugees’ and we need to be ready to include these new profile of refugees into our systems. Climate change and its consequences increases the importance of social inclusion and working with vulnerable groups. The participants expressed satisfaction that one of the Y@W priorities is sustainable development, environmental protection and eco-literacy.
Second topic that was introduced as input to the discussion was Automation and Jobs
o Algorithms o Artificial intelligence o Big data o Machine learning
A video was shown from Canada about Automation entering white collar jobs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbrfQaHsC6U The participants shared their feelings about this topic and said that it is not that present in the media, as example, climate change, and that is definitely important to have it in mind when discussing policies and actions. The robots and artificial intelligence will replace milions jobs in the years to come, and not only low-qualified. To spice the discussion even more, a short video of Yuval Noah Harari (historian and futurist) then spoke about digital disruption and the rise of automation revolution of the future of the labor market, and the emerging “useless class”. The link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMDlfNWM1fA The participants were then asked the question: What do you think should be top 3 topical priorities of Y@W partnership as a European network? Ethics was very much stressed, that is important in order not to lose ourselves as human beings. The topic of ethics was stressed by all discussion groups. Other topics / priorities that were mentioned were: Enhance youthwork around ethical approach to what they do Competencies of the future Social exclusion fighting against inequalities Social entrepreneurship Transversal approach to achieve this The values and ethics of the project – even with the technological impact on jobs, it’s humans who decide how far this goes The European values which are common
The participants were then asked “Having in mind 2020 Y@W activities / events, Which activity you would like to get involved? The 2020 timeline of events and topics was shown on the screen (image below) and each participant wrote in their notebooks the events they are interested in and they would like to support or take part in. Before the last question, which was about their personal commitment, a short inspirational video of Steve Jobs was shown in order to encourage participants to think out of the box and take bold and courageous steps in influencing and changing (link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjy9JPvWrEI The questions that the participants finished the session with, was: What is the first thing I commit to do when I am back home? It was a personal reflection and with these questions the session was closed.
Evaluation – debrief & wrap up
Participants completed a surveymonkey questionnaire which had two parts to it – firstly to revisit the baseline survey in order to investigate whether participants knowledge and opinions have increased or extended throughout the three days. The second part of this survey was an opportunity to evaluate the event. We then welcomed Fumie from the UKNA to officially close the Youth@Work Contact Making Seminar, she shared some of her passion around the subject Finally we had a 5 minute ‘smile closure’ to ensure participants walked away with a smile. This consisted of participants walking around a circle of inspiring quotes, placed upside down so they could not read the quote they were offered. Once in a circle, participants were offered the chance to give a one breath positive closing remark about the impact the CMS had on them. Before walking away they were invited to share their quote if they wanted.
Observations and conclusions when comparing the Baseline survey and End line survey.
1. Participants gained knowledge and understanding of the Youth@Work partnership.
This can be seen from the answers of the questions “How familiar do you feel with the Y@W partnership?” and the question “How aware do you now feel of the Youth@Work priorities”?. We can observe an increase in the participants’ knowledge about the Y@W partnership. The baseline survey had 40% of participants answering “well” and “very well” or “I could list most of them” and “I could list all of them”, whereas in the Endline survey these answers make up to 82%. Their increased understanding is very important as it was one of the objectives of this event.
2. Participants understand the role of Consultative groups
We can conclude this from the question “How well do you feel you understand the role of the National/Regional Consultative Groups (NCGs/RCGs) in the Youth@Work partnership?” where in the baseline survey we had 57% of the answers “I have little understanding” and the Endline survey, almost all of them (high 94%) answered either ”I have good understanding”, “I am very clear” and “I know exactly” about the roles of the consultative groups. This is important as it was one of the objectives of this event. Again in Q12 (baseline) and Q10 (end survey) we see an increased understanding, where almost 30% of participants raised a need for more information, this dropped to 5% by the end survey.
3. Increase awareness of good practices
One of our objectives was to increase awareness of good practice which is demonstrated in the comparable questions asking “How aware are you of good practices in the area of youth employability and entrepreneurship from your field of work in your own and other countries?” we saw a rise from 27% in the baseline survey to 65% in the end survey, clearly demonstrating this objective was achieves.
Participant Comments In the Feedback from participants there was great satisfaction demonstrated around the overall experience and the facilitation and team. Considering specific feedback, many participants commented on the sharing good practice workshops as a highlight as well as presentations, info graphics and networking opportunity. As well as the formal report feedback was received from team members during the event attesting to their contentment at the flow of the event and the way the sessions were delivered in bitesize presentations punctuated with active involvement of participants. Regarding the seminar logistics feedback was positive, three people commented that they would change the duration and also three people would change the structure of the programme – perhaps an oversight on our part was that we did not offer an opportunity to explain how they would change it! One participant did clarify this in the next question: We ended the day with a ‘one breath round up’ of positive comments – these same comments are reflected in the range of comments taken from the feedback questionnaire below:
“I would suggest to be a bit longer, at least one or two days longer in order we have opportunity to learn for bacground of everyone since we are going to work together for the future. And it is important as well since all of us came here with our expertise but is essential to talk about these expertise and create synergies in a cross sectorial dimension. The workshops from participants were great idea, and i would loved to follow all of them.” Again three people were not satisfied with the meals and the meeting space however 19 people responded between fine and excellent - again a shortcoming we did not request clarification on why there was dissatisfaction. One person gave negative feedback on the ICON gallery however 77% of participants said it was very good or excellent and a number of people added specific comments about this in their feedback. “The art gallery get together and Antonio's speech plus 2 speakers were mostly inspiring.” The seminar was great and very interesting. For now I have no suggestions. Hope to have more seminars like this and inspirational events :), no need for any specific improvements. The seminar was very inspiring and provided lot of food for thought, space for discussions and sharing useful information to be used in our future work. Thank You! Exceeded my expectations, looking forward to working closely with UK NCG and our international partners. Thank you youth@work for organizing always top qualitative events. Thank you Raluca for all your commitment, motivation and energy you transmit to all of us.
Facilitator Comments: Clair: There was an overriding positive feel throughout this event. Participants enjoyed the flow of the event and the team received much positive feedback commenting on the delivery and background team, the amount of input in comparison to discussion opportunities, and also the additional activities such as the first evening networking event. Personally I had a feeling at the start of the event that there was a little confusion about the role of people participating in the wider Youth@Work partnership, however as Raluca increased participants understanding a little more each day, there was a feeling that they fully understood how they could influence change, support the partnership and cascade the benefits and impact at national level. I feel the programme was perfect. Raluca’s input sandwiched between activities introduced by the facilitators was a perfect way to increase understanding and then embed this Y@W knowledge and finally move participants to a place where they are ready for action (demonstrated through the Action Plans). Antonio: I was very happy to see the gradual development of the group of participants, coming as individuals and leaving as a team. It was important for them to understand what their role is as consultative groups and I believe we achieved this. They got much more engaged in each session and their motivation was increasing. With the last sessions about 2020 and the future the commitment grew very strong. I believe we did a good job, congrats to all!
