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Mr Lari Pitkä-Kangas

Deputy Major, Urban Ecology and Consumer Affairs

City of Malmö, Sweden

Young People From Exclusion to Inclusion Examples from the URBACT Programme

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• The URBACT project – Community based

• Five Success criteria

• Examples from Malmö, Sweden

• Checklist

• Outcomes

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• LEAD PARTNER City of Malmo, Sweden

• Partner Cities• City of Gijón,Spain• City of Göteborg, Sweden• City of Helsinki, Finland• City of Copenhagen, Denmark• City of Aarhus, Denmark• City of Gera, Germany• Municipality of Velenje, Slovenia

• Expert Cities from the new member states

• City of Tallinn, Estonia• City of Ukmerge, Lithuania• City of Lomza, Poland• Municipality of Strovolos,

Cyprus

• 12 partner Cities in 10 countries

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Five Success criteria

The production of the five success criteria should be regarded as the most important result of the network

• Empowerment• Strenghten social relations• Structural changes of schools• Co-operation with local society• Renewing the view on knowledge

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1 Empowerment

Practices should strengthen the ability of young people to act themselves, to think independently

and to stand up for their rights

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2 Strengthen social relations

Social relations need to be strengthened in order to favour learning and the social

inclusion of young people

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3 Structural changes of schools

Structural changes of schools should tackle the structural causes of exclusion in order to

prevent pupils from opting out.

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4 Co-operation with local society

Barriers of different kinds appear as a border between the social exclusion of society taking

place in cities, particularly in schools

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5 Renewing the view on knowledge

A new view of knowledge emphasis creative relationship to knowledge, enabling young people

to solve problems criticise and take stands. This is a path to learning for sustainability.

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Examples from Malmö, Sweden

THE BREWERY:Educational program Skating park

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Examples from Malmö 2

NORMALIZE BILINGUALISM

A workshop with teachers with other mother tongue than Swedish allowed the pupils to express themselves and their whole personality

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Results from URBACT

• A final report as scientific analysis of the network

and its results by the head researcher: Mr Mikael Stigendal

• Operational guidelines addressed to practitioners,

politicians and decision makers

• A case study report documenting the case studies

using the template of URBACT Capitalisation

working group.

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Checklist

1. What is the problem?

2. What does the context mean?

3. Who and what do the objectives and aims favour?

4. What kind of partnership does the project rely on?

5. How does the project build on potentials and participation of

young people?

6. Has the project managed to result in structural changes?

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Find out more

Operational Guidelines – 12 languages

Download free from:

www.malmo.se/urbact

www.urbact.eu

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Muchas Gracias!

Thank You for your attention!

Lari Pitkä-Kangas

Welcome to Malmö!