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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: meet

Make a safe environment with easy contact

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

Making / creating understanding from both sides and accepting each other

learning, meet
- 8. Inclusive society: Diminish fear

Connect different religions in a peacefull manner teach people about different cultures

learning, meet
- 8. Inclusive society: Diminish fear

Better intergration from arrival in new country; – don’t allow isolation to divide

involve, meet
- 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

Get to know each other

meet
- 8. Inclusive society: Diminish fear

Build trust and culture knowledge

empowerment, meet
- 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

Make everyone somehow get a better understanding of the different cultures. Meet up café

events, meet, spaces
- 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

Social occassions for meet-up of agencies + newcomers; – newcomers café

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

Create low level “speeddates” evenings

events, meet
- 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

Invite them all and put them around a table with the ones in the situation and talk about it

meet
- 7. Inclusive society: Organisations at one table

Learn to listen to each other; – put ego’s aside; – put your perspective aside; – mention the positive: what connects us instead of divide

meet
- 7. Inclusive society: Organisations at one table

‘Find the mutual goal of the organisations and set up a meet up café for them

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

Try to lower the hurdle of both parties, needing to jump over. Make the event a social one, promote unity, listen to each other, be welcoming, and open for new things!

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

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

More social hubs where individuals can exchange ideas

community, creative, meet, places
- 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

“Speed date” to bring together, talent <> problem –> €…,-

events, meet, talents/interests, 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

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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