vitalregionevent.wewewe.org

vitalregionevent.wewewe.org

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: spaces

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

events, meet, spaces
- 8. Inclusive society: Diminish fear

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

events, meet, spaces
- 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 an inhouse store where all the companies are

entrepreneurship, spaces
- 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

Make a kind of employment centre for these organisations

programme, spaces, work
- 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

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

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

Engaging more teenagers: fablabs, idea hubs for teenagers

creative, spaces
- 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

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
designed by wyb de boer (c) - designer-researcher professorship scenario planning / tourism futures - etfi - empowered by wordpress & srini g's emphaino