How young people cope with trying to make a living

Situation

Young people's basic living situation

Expectations

How young people feel they have achieved and expect of the future

Emotions

How young people cope emotionally with making a living

Actions

How young people cope practically to make a living and what support they look for

Attitudes

Effect of the young people's work situation on their attitudes on society

We are exploring the following areas to understand this issue.

The survey is divided up into these above sections

How can you get involved?

Every person that completes the survey will get a personalised analysis to help them understand their situation

Every city with +10 people completing the survey will get a local analysis you can use to stimulate debate on precarity in your group

Responses from cities ross Europe will provide a transnational analysis we can use to develop future projects

Please encourage your local members to fill in the survey and carry out interviews that we can turn into stories .

What methods can you use?As well as the survey, you can also select from one of the following methods on the next slide to gather the research. Whichever method you choose, please:

This will help us produce an analysis that can help us compare between cities to produce the scenarios & guide. On the next slide are examples of how you can interview young people, do share other methods you want to use! Any questions ask Project Team at london@euroalter.com

Use the same questions from the survey

Document the responses from people

Send us the responses

Send out the survey to your members

Interview groups or organisations working with young people

Interview young people face-to-face, by email, audio or video

Interview young people in public spaces they interact in

Research Methods

Ask organisations if you can interview their members

Ask your local members to interview each other using the questions

Organise a meeting using the questions to stimulate discussion

Invite speakers to debate some of questions

Method Template

Description of the Method

Time it will take People you need Link to examples of method

Resources Needed This is a template for how the different research methods are described on the following pages.

If you would like to suggest a method, let us know at london@euroalter.com

Day in the Life

Description of the Method Describe the person based on one of the personas and how they go about the day based on

the elements of the persona you have chosen in the below. Describe how they would act, react, feel, think & interact using the template below in 2020! Use photos from Make a Living or take your own photos that represent what you’ve written.

30 minutes 1 or 2 people See http://slidesha.re/YkVk7U

Resources Needed Day in the Life Template Photos (optional)

Interview people one to one

Invite your members to a local meeting to interview each other using Survey Questions At the meeting, show Project Video/Presentation to introduce the purpose of the project Invite members to select whether they want to be Interviewer, Interviewee or Reporter Ask them to get into groups of three (one Interviewer, Interviewee & Reporter) Give them 45 minutes to ask the questions & answer & document the answers

Resources Needed Printouts of Survey Project Video Project Presentation Paper & Pens

People needed Interviewer Interviewee & Reporter

60 minutes Do it in threes Check http://bit.ly/121interviews

Walk around the room to check everyone understands what to do Advise Interviewers that if they haven’t finished asking all the Survey Questions, then they

can continue this outside the meeting if they want If they’ve finished all the Survey Questions, before then, they can do the Debriefing Ask the Reporter & Interviewer to write up the interview and send it to the Project Team

Resources Needed Survey Questions Project Video Project Presentation Paper & Pens

People needed Interviewer Interviewee & Reporter

60 minutes60 minutes Do it in threes Check http://bit.ly/121interviews

Questions

(1) What's your job, now?(2) What was your dream when you were ten years old and what is it now?(3) If you weren’t paid for your job any more, would you still want to do it?(4) What would you do if you suddenly won two hundred thousand euros?(5) How much control and freedom do you feel about your working life?(6) Did you ever feel disillusioned about your work situation and why?

Resources Needed Paper & Pens

People needed Interviewer Interviewee & Reporter

Ask the interviewee the following questions

60 minutes60 minutes Do it in threes Check http://slideshare.net/transnarrative

Interview people from organisations

You can use the Interview people one to one method or you can email them a selection of the Survey Questions for an email interview

Explain the content of the debate will be published on www.euroalter.com Advise that it could also feature in a printed publication with content from other cities Ask them if they would like to get further involved in the Project or with EA

Resources Needed Project Issues Project Video Project Presentation Stakeholder Matrix

People Needed Reporter Organisation

60 minutes60 minutes Do by yourself Check www.euroalter.com/journal

Interview people where they interact

Identify places where young people meet or “hang out” (parks, malls, youth clubs) Invite a member to accompany you to the place you have selected Decide between you who will be the Interviewer and who will be the Reporter Introduce yourself & purpose of the project to young people Use the Interview people one to one method

Resources Needed Survey Questions Project Issues Pen & Notebook

People Needed Interviewer Reporter Young people

60 minutes60 minutes Do it in pairs Look at http://bit.ly/spaceinterview

Observe your neighbourhood

Go on a tour of your neighbourhood Take photos of places, objects & interactions that make you think of the Project Issues or

represent what it feels like to be out of work, look for a job or try and make a living Write down why you chose what you shot and what it makes you think about the issues Upload the photos & description to www.flickr.com with the #transeuropa tag

60 minutes60 minutes Do by yourself Check http://bit.ly/photoneighbourhood

Resources Needed Survey Questions Project Issues Pen & Notebook Camera / Smartphone

People Needed Reporter

Identify relevant organisations

Download Stakeholder Matrix & identify Organisations working on the Project Issues Contact them and introduce yourself & EA, the purpose of the project Say you’re interested in the issue they’re working on Ask them if they would be happy to be interviewed and/or be speak at a debate on the

issue they are working on relevant to the Project.

60 minutes Do by yourself Check http://bit.ly/stakeholdermatrix

Resources Needed Project Issues Project Video Project Presentation Stakeholder Matrix

Invite speakers to debate the issues

Find a venue and invite speakers from the Organisations you’ve identified Ask the organisations whose speakers you’ve invited to promote event to their members Email your local members to invite them to the event Nominate a Chair to ask questions to the speakers & take questions from the audience Nominate a Reporter to document the speakers’ responses and the audience’s questions

Resources Needed Organisations Contacts Project Issues Project Video Camera

People needed Chair & Reporter Speaker

30 minutes Do as a group Check http://bit.ly/planyouractivity

Organise a debate on the issues

Photograph the debate, write up the answers and send to Project Team Explain the content of the debate will be published on www.euroalter.com Advise that it could also feature in a printed publication with content from other cities Thank the organisation for participating and send them the Project Presentation Ask them if they would like to get further involved in the Project or with EA

Resources Needed Organisations Contacts Project Issues Project Video Venue

People needed Chair & Reporter Speakers

180 minutes Do as a group Check http://bit.ly/planyouractivity

Document the support virtually

Search online for types of organisations featured in Support section of the Project Survey Write down how important you think the types of support are to help young people in

precarious work situations make a living? Write up your thoughts and include a link to the documents and send to Project Team

Resources Needed Survey Questions Project Issues Pen & Notebook

People Needed Interviewer Reporter Young people

60 minutes60 minutes Do it by yourself Look at http://bit.ly/spaceinterview

Create a fictional feed

Create a fictional Facebook/Twitter feed that show how people are coping or tackling with the issues on being out of work, finding a job or trying to make a livingIt can be everyday people or even leaders like this example above

60 minutes60 minutes Do by yourself Check http://bit.ly/fictionalfacebook

Resources Needed Project Issues Project Video Project Presentation

Write a precarious poem

Create a poem about issues on how it feels being out of work, find a job or make a livingEach person submits two lines that rhyme We will connect up the different submissions to turn them into a poemYou can scribble it down however it comes to you, even if it doesn’t initially rhyme

60 minutes60 minutes Do by yourself

Resources Needed Project Issues Project Video Project Presentation

Your role is to ask the interviewee the Survey Question and make sure they’ve understood the exercise and your questions

Concentrate on the answers from the interviewee If you feel they want to talk more about a question, ask them to tell you more Question anything you don’t understand from the interviewee

At the end of the interview Ask them at the end if there is something you haven’t asked they’d like to share Thank them for participating, ask them for their email address so they can check the

interview, get a self assessment and find out how they can get more involved in the Project

Advise them that their interview will be published on www.euroalter.com and may be featured in guide on how young people cope with precarity

Advise them that their interview will be used to develop the personas & scenarios

After the interview Organise a debriefing with the Reporter documenting your interview Make sure the Reporter sends the interview to the Project Team

Interviewer

Your role is to document the answers in the Interview using the Survey Questionnaire and send it to the Project Team

Concentrate on the answers from the interviewee Write down the answers in the Survey Questionnaire

After the interview Organise a debriefing with the Interviewer documenting your interview Write up the interview Send the interview to the Interviewee to check they are happy with it Send the interview to the Project Team

Reporter