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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: entrepreneurship

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

community, entrepreneurship
- 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

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

Let young people organise music events via local local pub or shop coordinated by elderly

elderly, entrepreneurship, events, youth
- 7. Inclusive society: Organisations at one table

Create a “global café” social enterprise to bring people into a shared space & have themed events showcasing different cultures, food, entertainment, etc.

entrepreneurship, events, food, meet, spaces
- 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

Partnership of companies, provide training + mentoring + work experience

entrepreneurship, learning, mentoring, work
- 7. Inclusive society: Organisations at one table

Create an inhouse store where all the companies are

entrepreneurship, spaces
- 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

Financing creating proposals (from the government) in which the organisations have to apply together

entrepreneurship, government, investments
- 7. Inclusive society: Organisations at one table

Start a network platform for these org, working together with local gover, gain a certain quality approval so organisations want / need to be involved organise events and start collaborating projects

entrepreneurship, events, government
- 7. Inclusive society: Organisations at one table

Encourage shop owners to make apartments over their shops

entrepreneurship, reuse for housing
- 6. Communities: Housing problems

Start a poop recycle business and clean the pavements

entrepreneurship, sustainability
- 5. Communities: Dogs foul the pavements

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

Ask students for any reason why it would be worth to stay in the country. Start a enterprise around this

entrepreneurship, meet
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

– Provide them with start-up packages where they pay less tax for the first +/- 5 years; – government investment

entrepreneurship, government, investments, taxes
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

Giving incentives to social business

empowerment, entrepreneurship
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

Talk to business outside of Croatia and lower taxes for them to come to Croatia

entrepreneurship, taxes
- 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

Make a group of companies to talk about unemployment and education and finance these subjects

entrepreneurship, investments, learning, meet, 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

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

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

Build paid social internships in local companies government supported

entrepreneurship, government, internship, investments, work
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

1. Invite and ask youth; 2. local initiatives; 3. lower tax be creative work together

creative, entrepreneurship, involve, taxes, work
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

Change the market lower the tax for start-ups

entrepreneurship, market, taxes
- 3. Youth: Leaving Croatia

Daily events homeless people; – cross over company; – schools and entrepreneurs; – entrepreneurs training center

entrepreneurship, homeless, learning
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

– 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

Combi zakelijk / business and youngsters

entrepreneurship
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

Dial up shopping services for shopping of products, especially for international students

entrepreneurship, work
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

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

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

Social media marketer for small businesses in the local area -> then use projects(?) to do the same for local clubs + NGO’s

entrepreneurship, ngo's, promotion, social media
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

Offering knowledge to other earning some money for the classes

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

Social business based on their own interests and collaboration with disabled people

disabled, entrepreneurship, talents/interests
- 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

Getting a coach / mentor that can keep to change an idea into a business plan

entrepreneurship, learning, mentoring
- 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

Street food is fantastic project to generate income and learning

entrepreneurship, food, learning
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

– Picture framing project; – making and selling crafts -> “pop-up” market; – maintenance of public spaces, play parks etc.; removal of grafitti paid by public authorities

creative, entrepreneurship
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

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

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

Internships / traineeship presentations at schools for male-studies like business

entrepreneurship, internship
- 1. Youth: Engaging more teenagers

Create enterprise based on sports team e.g. players create a catering company for sports events -> then run social activities to get kids into sports using the project(?)

catering, entrepreneurship, sports
- 1. Youth: Engaging more teenagers

Creating spaces in the entrepreneurial classes with real social challenges and leave time to develop their ideas

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

Create a game for young male about enterprise

entrepreneurship, technology
- 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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