Reinventing the Ecology of Engagement to Promote Empowerment and Employment of Young People

– a European Dimension

Robert ArnkilArnkil Dialogues

’Times They Are a-Changin’’

Experiences: MY Generation at Workhttp://urbact.eu/en/projects/active-inclusion/my-generation-at-work/homepage

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Rotterdam, Antwerp, Birmingham, Braga, Glasgow, Gothenburg, Gdansk, Maribor, Riga, Warsaw, Valencia, Tampere, Turin,

Thessaloniki

Other European Experiences

Salto publication URBAN SOLUTIONS – tapping the talents of Urban YouthEddy Adams & Robert Arnkilhttps://www.salto-youth.net/downloads/4-17-2683/UrbanSolutions.pdf

Supporting Urban Youth Through Social Innovation: Stronger TogetherEddy Adams and Robert Arnkil Dialogues

http://urbact.eu/fileadmin/general_library/19765_Urbact_WS3_YOUTH_low_Final.pdf

Reinventing the Ecology of Engagement – to empower young people and prepare for working life

1)What’s the problem?2)What are your experiences and ideas? – ’Buzz

tables’3)What are the solutions? – European experiences4)What are the conclusions for us?

Before:

You went to education, got your diploma…

And the work was waiting for you…

Now: a huge GAP has opened between education and the world of work…

Education is disconnected from the changed world of work – and the world!

There is seriousdrop out andde-motivation

The world of work has changed

Finding and sustaining employment has become precarious

1.BasicEducation

7 – 16 years

2.Vocatio-nal edu &

Uni16 – 30years

3. Services for

employment and

integration

4. Voluntary activities

and projects

5. Business, and

Entrepre-neurs

Buzz tables: Key ideas how to reinvent the ’stage’ (Basic Education etc..) and its

connections to empower young people better, and prepare for working life

Elect one in table to present the key ideas with a short pitch

Transition of young people to independence, citizenship and work

The New Ecology of Engagement

The traditional way

• Waiting for the job to land on you

New Ecology of Employment

The new ecology

• Creating the job, enterprising, ’carving it out’, forming networks, connecting to workplaces

The traditional way

• They are outside – and a problem

The Role of Young People

The new ecology

• They are inside and a resource of cocreation

The traditional way

• Formal, degrees, certificates – often disconnected to the world of work

The new Ecology of Skills Knowledge and Learning

The new ecology

• Learning everywhere and building also on non-formal skills

The traditional way

• Partners apart from each other, working in ’silos’

The New Ecology of Cooperation

The new ecology

• Broakers, go-betweens, coaches, role-models

Reinventing the Ecology of Engagement

Education opens up to communities, non-formal learning and the world of work – and the world!

Brokerage for second chances

Building bridges, spaces and brokerage for engagement

Providing connections and coaching to work and self-employment

Building Enterprising Skills and Attitudes – weather you aim at a salaried career,

or becoming self-employed or an entrepreneur

Building skills, gaining experience and forming networks – everywhere

Building Enterprising skills and attitudes – everywhere – by everybody

Building enterprising skills and attitudes in education and communities

Brokerage for second chances

Building bridges, spaces and brokerage enterprising skills and attitudes

Developing and using enterprising skills and attitudes in working life

Some Key Messages for ReinventionTo Promote the Young People Cause

• Need for strong civic leadership• Incubation of active citizenship, genuine participation and

democracy• Taking a fresh new look at your activities with outside and citizens

eyes (”unusual suspects”, ’walking in citizens moccasins’)• Need for risk takers for social innovation • Need for brokers, relationship builders and moderators with street

credibility• Visible presence of young people in designing, delivery and

evaluation of services – real cocreation• Importance of third party organisations, NGOs and employers

Good Practices are already everywhere….

Enterprising Curriculum/Tampere

Co-operatives duringEducation

Pop-up-PestYouth Comptence Centres/ Antwerp

’IZI-solutions’/Rotterdam

Governance: Youth Councils, Youth Jurys, Youth Mayors,’A Day in Politics’, Employment Partnerships and Guarantees

Jugend Street, GrazFlashgiovani, Bologna

Kapocs – outreach, Budapest

Street games, Birmingham

Young business incubators

Summer Cafe work experience/Tampere

Youth city guides, Berlin

Rookie Republic(coaching by businessmen)

Reinventing Career Guidance, Riga

Teacher, Young & Business co-training/Gdansk

Space for creative connection/ Valencia

Co-operatives,Team Entrepreneurship

’UNCOLLEGE GAP YEAR’: ’Hacking your education’ (Dale Stephens, USA

Thank you!