OPEN DAYS Brussels 10 -13 October

Developing Strategies for Youth Employment

TRANSFORMING LOCAL POLICIES- learning from Youth Policy Projects

Robert Arnkil, lead expert for My Generation Urbact II project

From target groups to co-creators

We need to move away from treating people as “target groups” and a source of problems > to having them as genuine partners and co-creators of solutions

Tapping Into Informal Learning

A New ’Ecology of Learning’ in needed, where informal – ’life based’ skills and formal learning are connected – and transformed

From ‘lecturing and planning’ to a new ecology of engagement

To have co-creation we need to transform our way of engagement. We need to use all forms of action, not only text and speech, but also movement, sound, music, informal skills – creating ‘learning spaces’ using all the senses

TransformingOutreach

TransformingOutreach

Transforming Education

Transforming Education Transforming

connection to employment

Transforming connection to employment

From disengagement..From disengagement.. ..via co-creation..…..via co-creation..… …to self reliance…to self reliance

2. Do we have good practice in outreach

and having local communities as co-

creators?

2. Do we have good practice in outreach

and having local communities as co-

creators?

5. Are we covering the transitions”?

5. Are we covering the transitions”?

4. Are we connected to the needs of working life and having business as

co-creator?

4. Are we connected to the needs of working life and having business as

co-creator?

3. Are we tapping also into informal skills of the people and having education as co-creator?

3. Are we tapping also into informal skills of the people and having education as co-creator?

1. Are we really co-creating with the

people?

1. Are we really co-creating with the

people?

6. Do we have follow-up to secure our

results?

6. Do we have follow-up to secure our

results?

7. Are we covering the whole cityscape?

7. Are we covering the whole cityscape?

From fragmentation to integration: A ’cityscape’ approach to policy development

Example: MY GENERATION CITYSCAPE