RIGA January 2010 MY GENERATION Workshop Report THEME: COORDINATION

RIGAJanuary 2010

MY GENERATION

Workshop Report

THEME: COORDINATION

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


Community schools

Community schools

World WorthLiving

World WorthLiving

Competence centres, guidance,

C-stick..


C-stick..

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


and structures

EventsArenas

Platforms

EventsArenas

PlatformsEventsArenas

Platforms

EventsArenas

Platforms

LANDSCAPE AND COORDINATION

Informal” Life based learning

MainstreamFormal, certified knowledge

OUTREACHOUTREACH

TRANSFORMING EDUCATIONTRANSFORMING EDUCATION



Community schools

Community schools

World WorthLiving

World WorthLiving


C-stick..


C-stick..





Street GamesStreet Games


and structures


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



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


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)


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)


Step 5: Return to own tree/ forest-Add everything you discovered on your trip to your tree/forest


6) Hike in the MG-mind-landscape-Discovery journey: pick one wonderful thing you discover in the 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…)

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RIGA January 2010 MY GENERATION Workshop Report THEME: COORDINATION