RIGAJanuary 2010
MY GENERATION
Workshop Report
THEME: COORDINATION
The My Generation project has been co-financed by the European Regional Development Funds, through the URBACT II Operational Programme.
Activities and actors concerning youth are now fragmented
Of particular interest for MY GENERATION are actors and activities concerning outreach and education and
transition to employment
”Defragmentation = better coordination = better connectedness of activities and actors concerning the
young as a resourse of cities
Better coordination (= new/better connectedness) is a key outcome of MG in all cities
Coordination
What is a better level of coordination?
Knowing and trusting each other better – who, what aspirations, what needs
being connected in a positive waylistening and respecting each other,
being positively curious
being resources for each other
engaging in joint action and co-creation
Towards better coordination
BEING CONNECTED BETTER – UNDERSTANDING NEEDS AND ASPIRATIONS > NEW CONNECTIONS (Local support group) > ACTION THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE >CONTRIBUTING TO BUILDING SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS THAT GENERATE TRUST > BETTER COORDINATION Local action plan)
PRACTICAL ACTION, REAL PARTICIPATION
-THE YOUNG-THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES, VOLUNTEERS, FAMILIES, PARENTS…-THE EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY-THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY-THE PUBIC OFFICIALS-OTHERS…
EACH CITY HAS ITS OWN PARTICULAR FOCUS AND EMPHASIS (OUTREACH, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT and different combinations of these)
Each city has particular challenges concerning the coordination of actors and activities
Each city has a particular ”landscape” and activities in Outreach, Education and Transition to Employment
Nobody has a perfect coverage of good practices across the whole landscape
We are learning good practices from each other (and beyond) in order to cover the landscape better
Getting better integration across the activities in the landscape = coordination
The Local Action Plan identifies where activities should be improved and how to reach better coordination
The landscape depicts three key areas for good practices and transformations in active inclusion:
(1) Outreach practices which means methods to reach and empower those who are difficult to reach, i.e. methods of FIRST CONTACTS to engage people ”in the streets” or in their homes, and the messages and ideas to transform prevailing practice and structures
(2) Educational and capability building practices, i.e. methods to build further on the first contacts, to enhance capabilities, health and motivation and the messages and ideas to transform prevailing practice and structures
(3) Transition to employment practices, i.e. different methods to further active transitions and connections to working life and employment and the messages and ideas to transform prevailing practice and structures
Establishing an integrated whole = coordination
Lanscape and themes
MY GENERATION LANDSCAPE AND EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE
Informal” Life based learning
MainstreamFormal, certified knowledge
OUTREACHOUTREACH
TRANSFORMING EDUCATIONTRANSFORMING EDUCATION
TRANSITION TO WORKING LIFE
TRANSITION TO WORKING LIFE
Community schools
Community schools
World WorthLiving
World WorthLiving
Competence centres, guidance,
C-stick..
Competence centres, guidance,
C-stick..
Work practice, Incubators)
Work practice, Incubators)
From ”puzzlement”From ”puzzlement” via mediation and co-creation……
via mediation and co-creation…… …to self reliance…to self reliance
Street GamesStreet Games
Transforming practices
and structures
Transforming practices
and structures
EventsArenas
Platforms
EventsArenas
PlatformsEventsArenas
Platforms
EventsArenas
Platforms
LANDSCAPE AND COORDINATION
Informal” Life based learning
MainstreamFormal, certified knowledge
OUTREACHOUTREACH
TRANSFORMING EDUCATIONTRANSFORMING EDUCATION
TRANSITION TO WORKING LIFE
TRANSITION TO WORKING LIFE
Community schools
Community schools
World WorthLiving
World WorthLiving
Competence centres, guidance,
C-stick..
Competence centres, guidance,
C-stick..
Work practice, Incubators)
Work practice, Incubators)
From ”puzzlement”From ”puzzlement” via mediation and co-creation……
via mediation and co-creation…… …to self reliance…to self reliance
Street GamesStreet Games
Transforming practices
and structures
Transforming practices
and structures
EventsArenas
Platforms
EventsArenas
PlatformsEventsArenas
Platforms
EventsArenas
Platforms
COORDINATION
COORDINATION
LOCAL ACTION PLAN CONTRIBUTES TO COORDINATION
”Building blocks” for coordination and co-creation
Looking at the Landscape, we can see that we already have many things in place, or developing, either via MG activities, or, more precisely, supported by MG activities
These activities form a kind of continuum, working towards an Ideal Model of a Repertoire of Good Practices/Service products under an Integrated Youth Policy in a city. This would mean that the city has at its disposal a good coverage of good practices/service products and actors to execute them. The tasks in Riga are to identify what we have, what can we build on and what is missing and what to do about that.
-“First degree” outreach practices, i.e. really reaching out, going out there (like street football)- “Second degree” outreach, building on first degree activation (like World Worth Living)- “Third degree” outreach, where a permanent practice is transformed to promote outreach and prevent drop-out) (like Community Schools) - Promoting multi actor connections, platforms and sharing information, i.e. all those practices and services, which connects actors in youth issues (mode 1: like counselling offices, one-stop shops, mode 2 : special events, fairs, happenings , mode 3: distributing information, c-stick- “First degree” of Connecting to working life (demand based education, using and promoting informal skills, business incubators in schools)- “Second degree of Connecting to working life (work practice, business visits, young entrepreneurs, apprenticeship…)
MY GENERATION LANDSCAPE
From ”puzzlement”From ”puzzlement” via mediation and co-creation……
via mediation and co-creation…… …to self reliance…to self reliance
TRANSFORMING OUTREACH
TRANSFORMING EDUCATION
TRANSFORMING TRANSITION TO WORKING LIFE
Formal, certified knowledge, skills and learning
Informal, ”life based” knowledge, skills and learning
. Promoting connections (, one-stop shops, conselling,
c-stick)
. Promoting connections (, one-stop shops, conselling,
c-stick)
2. Young entrepreneurs,
incubators, work practice
2. Young entrepreneurs,
incubators, work practice
1. Demand based education, promoting
informal skills,
1. Demand based education, promoting
informal skills,
3. Degree outreach: Community schools, drop out prevention
mobile team
3. Degree outreach: Community schools, drop out prevention
mobile team
2. Degree outreach: (World Worth Living2. Degree outreach: (World Worth Living
1.degree outreach: (street football)
1.degree outreach: (street football)
TRANSFORMING COORDINATIONTRANSFORMING COORDINATION
Making a Flourishing My Generation Local Action Plan – with the young, for the young
Step 1: Sketch a quick Mind map: What elements are needed to have a good MG Local Action Plan in 2011?
Our local Action Plan
Creative workshops for young
Secondary schools joining plan
Youth Chamber of Commerce involved
Good practice in drop out prevention
A Flourishing Youth Policy/ LAP/“Mind-Tree”/ Forest:
Where does it grow?
What are its roots?
What makes it flourish?
What is its trunk?
What branches?
What leaves?Fruits?, Flowers? Cones?
Where does it reach?
What is next to it?
What new plants are growing?
Living lab on urban youth strategy: Growing a Flourishing My Generation Local Action Plan Tree and Forest
Step 2: Draw a landscape and indicate where your Mind-Tree will grow
Living lab on urban youth strategy: Growing a Flourishing My Generation Local Action Plan Tree and Forest
Step 3: Draw a mind tree and small forest in your landscape-Draw and write-Identify 3 of your most wonderful plants, draw and write on paper -Take this with you when you rotate and give them as gifts for others (one/ forest)
Living lab on urban youth strategy: Growing a Flourishing My Generation Local Action Plan Tree and Forest
Step 4: Visits (rotations) to other trees/ forests-The “gardener” stays at the table-Rotate-Gardener explains briefly-Study the tree/forest, discuss-Give present, draw it in the landscape and explain, write down “greetings from XXX”-Take anything interesting with you from the tree/ forest (write it down for you)
Living lab on urban youth strategy: Growing a Flourishing My Generation Local Action Plan Tree and Forest
Step 5: Return to own tree/ forest-Add everything you discovered on your trip to your tree/forest
Living lab on urban youth strategy: Growing a Flourishing My Generation Local Action Plan Tree and Forest
6) Hike in the MG-mind-landscape-Discovery journey: pick one wonderful thing you discover in the forest
Living lab on urban youth strategy: Growing a Flourishing My Generation Local Action Plan Tree and Forest
7) Return to own landscape: everybody brings their discoveries and adds them to their landscape
OVERVIEW OF MY GENERATION CITY PRACTICES AND INTERESTS
GdanskSocial affairs & NGO, young really aboard, outreachPeer? Outreach and connecting
AntwerpIntegrated youth policy, drop out, informal learning Peer interest: entrepreneurship (V, G) community building (B, R) demand based edu (G)
PatrasMultifunctional LAP & LSG, counselling, one-stop shopPeer? Connecting
Tirgu-MuresCounselling, transition to working lifePeer?: connecting actors, transition to working life
PatrasMultifunctional LAP & LSG, counselling, one-stop shop
ValenciaYouth dept. + young entrepr. collaboration,Transition to working life, events, information and training, Peers: C-stick (A), Entrpre. In schools (G?)
RigaConsultative board and joint effort/ NGOs, cooperation platform, multifunctional LAPPeer: NEET/B, Mobile team (R)
WarsawEstablishing and helping youth council/ youth policy, Young really aboard, Peer: how to activate young
GothenburgIntegrated youth policy, platform, youth involvement, transition to working, informalPeer: strategies of youth potential, young entrepr (V), B&W (R), (A)
GlasgowOutreach, new connections, information
BirminghamOutreach under umbrella (Young people & crime) Clean and Safe, multiactor LAP,
RotterdamTransforming coordinationPeer: Antwerp, competence centres
MY GENERATION “joint-product families”
(1)Outreach: Outreach service product family (Birmingham, , Glasgow, Gdansk, Rotterdam, Warsaw…)
2) “Agoras”: Connecting actors and information service product family (Tirgu-Mures, Patras, Riga, Antwerp, Glasgow, Rotterdam, Birmingham…)
3) Transition to work product family: Connecting to working life service products (Valencia, Gothenburg, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Tirgu-Mures, Patras…)