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Social Challenges & Ideas

Below the social challenges on which is brainstormed during the event. Click on a challenge and scroll down to find the ideas generated.
After the event there is looked at relations between ideas, like empowerment, entrepreneurship, sustainability (themes also stimulated by Leeuwarden-Fryslân 2018). These can be found below the ideas. Choose one for an overview across challenges.
  1. Youth: Engaging more teenagers, particularly male, in creativity or enterprise training and events;
  2. Youth: Ideas for projects where young people can earn money and which become self-acting/sufficient;
  3. Youth: Young people are leaving Croatia in search for a (better) job and better living standards (+/- 60.000 young in 2015.), because of: Education unrelated to the labor market; One of the biggest the tax rates in Europe; Not enough investments to launch growth to create new job. What to do?
  4. Communities: People working in the city centre, park their car around our centre, occupying the limited space meant for our visitors. This also leads to traffic and parking problems, blocked walkways, which some neighbours associate with our centre, and even leads to anti-social behaviour. What to do?
  5. Communities: People letting their dogs foul the pavements in our towns and villages;
  6. Communities: Housing problems – low supply/high demand – causing many problems in our towns and cities, with many people sleeping on our streets or in hostels;
  7. Inclusive society: How to bring organisations, who are involved with newcomers, together at one table in order to increase co-operation, efficiency and especially decrease waiting time in the integration trajectory for newcomers in Friesland?
  8. Inclusive society: Reduce fear (secure societies – protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens – Everybody has the right to follow their culture and respect others -).

Relation: community

Schools + clubs could organise platforms to built a shared culture and let room for diversity (cook together for elderly people) for €5,-

community, events
- 8. Inclusive society: Diminish fear

Encourage community work amongst neighbours i.e. know your neighbours initiatives

community, entrepreneurship
- 8. Inclusive society: Diminish fear

Create groups, made up of business owners of different faiths / cultures / background to discuss how they can facilitate the creation of inclusive communities

community, empowerment, entrepreneurship, meet
- 8. Inclusive society: Diminish fear

‘Find a common shared interest, e.g. football: establish a “world united” to bring newcomers together under a common objective

community, events, meet, sports
- 7. Inclusive society: Organisations at one table

Input from the government and city communities(?) make the proces visible value stream mapping

community, creative, government
- 7. Inclusive society: Organisations at one table

Create groups of business owners of different faiths / backgrounds / cultures, to discuss how they can support newcomers to the labour market

community, entrepreneurship, market, work
- 7. Inclusive society: Organisations at one table

Develop a network of agency workers so that they understand each others votes

community, empowerment
- 7. Inclusive society: Organisations at one table

(Temporary) transform empty properties involve the people, building new communities

alternative housing, community, spaces
- 6. Communities: Housing problems

Develop a social entreprise with local community organisations to clean and maintain their area, then they don’t want to dirty their area (of they are cleaning it!)

community, empowerment, entrepreneurship
- 5. Communities: Dogs foul the pavements

Have a community kids project, show parents they like to play outside in a clear environment

community, kids
- 5. Communities: Dogs foul the pavements

Build more parking garages with youngsters and in cooperation with the neighbourhood

community, parking garage, work
- 4. Communities: Parking / community problems

More social hubs where individuals can exchange ideas

community, creative, meet, places
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

Organise the youth in groups that can be advising / disseminating information on benefits of environmental conservation for a small fee

community, learning, sustainability, work
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

First try to find-out instead of why they leave, what would be reason for them to stay, family? community? friends? space? culture? cheap housing? create new projects based on that

community, empowerment, entrepreneurship, meet, spaces
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

– Hobby / study related business which also concentrate on the community; – tour / city guides with a full day planning for teenagers / adults

community, entrepreneurship, learning, talents/interests
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

Elderly in the lead. An organisation who get youth bring contact with elderly. Youth: respect for elderly, helpful, experience, get social; Elderly: lesser lonely, can learn things of youth

community, elderly, empowerment, learning
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

A cooperation for students sharing responsibility & projects

community, empowerment, work
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

Make + sell: – community projects; – design make sell

community, creative, entrepreneurship, work
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

Make “money-communities”; A community where youngsters come together to find a way to make more money

community, creative, empowerment, entrepreneurship, learning, work
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

Choose a relation between ideas below (the bigger , the more popular), for an overview across challenges:

alternative housing awareness bike / walk cans & bags car free centre catering community creative disabled elderly empowerment entrepreneurship equality events fine food freedom government homeless incentive internship investments involve learning market meet mentoring park & drive parking garage places programme promotion public transport reuse for housing rolmodels share spaces social media spaces sports sustainability talents/interests taxes technology volunteer work
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