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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: empowerment

Make a safe environment with easy contact

empowerment, meet, places
- 8. Inclusive society: Diminish fear

Make people discover it will make your ideas less extreme and more viable to reason

empowerment, meet
- 8. Inclusive society: Diminish fear

Build trust and culture knowledge

empowerment, meet
- 8. Inclusive society: Diminish fear

More often promote Fryslân as a possible way to deal with… for the Randstad

empowerment, entrepreneurship
- 8. Inclusive society: Diminish fear

Encourage people to feel “European” as well as their own nationality

empowerment
- 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

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

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

Have / stimulate newcomers to start their own enterprise and create their own jobs. Business support organisations + gov. + edu + c.t.zens

creative, empowerment, entrepreneurship, learning
- 7. Inclusive society: Organisations at one table

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

Street arts by (disadvantaged) youth making it fun to park in the right spot

creative, empowerment
- 4. Communities: Parking / community problems

Giving incentives to social business

empowerment, entrepreneurship
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

Run training programmes aimed at developing practical skills for students – then support the teens in developing a social enterprise in the local area that makes them use those skills

empowerment, entrepreneurship, learning
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

Stimulate entrepreneurship as a way to become economically independent, self-sufficient. Create your own jobs!

empowerment, entrepreneurship
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

Subsidise and stimulate entrepreneurship, get funds, knowledge and make them independent by giving them space and let them create on their own (1, 2, 3)

empowerment, entrepreneurship, investments, learning, spaces
- 1. Youth: Engaging more teenagers, - 2. Youth: Ideas for projects, - 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

Develop a new ‘Silicon Valley’ but than all about sustainability Croatia the most sustainable country with sun-energy, re-use of garbage, etc.

creative, empowerment, entrepreneurship, sustainability
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

Set up a creater(?) that prouds(?) courses or training related to the market, preferably given by and to youngsters when everyone donates a small amount, no investment is needed

empowerment, learning, market
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

Reduce taxes for young people

empowerment, taxes
- 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

Youth start-up idea hubs; – guide, fund + support their development

creative, empowerment, entrepreneurship, learning, mentoring, spaces
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

Provide guidance for these youngsters to get the education they want and make sure they give this knowledge to their own country

empowerment, learning, mentoring
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

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 “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

Programme so they can make something or create an event

creative, empowerment, entrepreneurship, events
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

Find something in the region that needs to be fixed, changed, ???? etc. and get a team of youngsters who can do that their way (with some mentoring)

empowerment, entrepreneurship, mentoring, work
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

Find out where you can find young (male) people and just go talk to them find out what they like and involve them in your plan / projects

empowerment, involve, meet, talents/interests
- 1. Youth: Engaging more teenagers

Ask them what is interesting for them, involve them in your project development

empowerment, involve, talents/interests
- 1. Youth: Engaging more teenagers

Focus on the qualities that one has and try to work with that. Find something that fits him/her individually

empowerment, talents/interests
- 1. Youth: Engaging more teenagers

Appeal to their interest: for instance set-up training for barber (shop) instead of hairdresser salon

empowerment, entrepreneurship, learning
- 1. Youth: Engaging more teenagers

Look at the ideas and talents of an individual student, maybe he/she wants to start with an idea and training wishes will follow

empowerment, learning, talents/interests
- 1. Youth: Engaging more teenagers

1. Building up social skills and self-confidence; 2. finding different kind of approaches and views; 3. Intrest education

empowerment, learning
- 1. Youth: Engaging more teenagers

Youth 1. building self-confidence; 2. open eyes; 3. foreign investments in…

empowerment, investments, learning
- 1. Youth: Engaging more teenagers

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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