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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: work

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

Make a kind of employment centre for these organisations

programme, spaces, work
- 7. Inclusive society: Organisations at one table

– Build a parking garage – provide employees with alternative ways of transport

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

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

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

Penalties, car parking, areas, efficient parking control (specially hired persons for it)

fine, work
- 4. Communities: Parking / community problems

Parking penalty, parking control -> employment

fine, work
- 4. Communities: Parking / community problems

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

– Put in(?) these youngsters; – to educate on the spot; – create high payed jobs; – regional money

investments, learning, work
- 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

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

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

entrepreneurship, work
- 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

Offering knowledge to other earning some money for the classes

entrepreneurship, learning, 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

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

events, meet, talents/interests, work
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

Why do they need to earn money to be self-acting / self-sufficient?

work
- 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

Decrease workload in health care by using youngsters

care, work
- 2. Youth: Ideas for projects

Fair pay for honest work (increase minimum wage)

wage, work
- 1. Youth: Engaging more teenagers

Get rolmodels to work out-reaching at public places

rolmodels, work
- 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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