The My Generation project produced various documents.
A summarizing document is made to present all outputs in a structured way.

To download, please click here

In order to communicate the message of My Generation, four different toolboxes were made in order to address different sort readers. The My Generation message is divided into four different toolboxes. 

Toolbox 1 is contains a Powerpoint file the was used for working groups transforming Youth Policy and good practices. Click on the image to download this file.

Toolbox 2 contains Working material for exploring and designing Youth Policies. Click on the image to download this file.


Toolbox 3 containts a document called "Ideas" for managers and decision makers on transforming Youth Policy in Cities. Click on the image to download this file.

Click on the image to open the "About You" as a PDF file

Below you can find the link to the My Generation Final Conference report of 1 April 2011

Report of the My Generation Final Conference 1 April 2011

Click on the links Below to watch the My Generation movie clips from the final workshop as well as the final conference. 

My Generation final workshop Thursday 31 March 2011

My Generation final conference Friday 1 April 2011

Speech Robert Voorhamme, Alderman of Antwerp.

Speech Ali Khan

Presentations

Final Conference Programme

The web invitation

Final conference documents

Presentation Aminul Hoque 

Presentation Robert Amkil

Conference handout

Workshop posters

Poster 1

Poster 2

Poster 3

Poster 4

Poster 5

Poster 6

Poster 7

Poster 8

Poster 9

Poster 10

Poster 11

Poster 12

Poster 13

Poster 14

Poster 15

Final Local Action Reports Feb 2011

• Final City Report Antwerp
• Final City Report Birmingham
• Final City Report Gdansk
• Final City Report Glasgow
• Final City Report Gothenburg
• Final CIty Report Patras
• Final City Report Riga
• Final City Report Tirgu-Mures
• Final City Report Valencia
• Final City Report Warsaw
• Final City Report Rotterdam

Interviews with My Generation Urbact Experts

• My Generation Urbact Expert Robert Amkil
• My Generation Urbact Expert Ulf Hagglund
  
• My Generation Urbact Expert Eddy Adams 

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        My Generation pictures (to download the original picture click on a picture until it is almost screen sized then click your right mouse button and select view all sizes Original. Then, click on download the original size of this photo)

The MY GENRATION landscapes show a good practice landscape from the different MY GENERATION cities in the fields of transforming education, outreach and transition to working life. 

Click here for a detailed explanation of the MY GENERATION Landcape

Please find here the links to the Local landscapes, exploring their strenghts and weaknesses: Antwerp Landscape, Birmingham Landscape (coming soon), Gdansk Landscape, Glasgow Landscape, Gothenborg Landscape, Patras Landscape, Riga Landscape, Rotterdam Landscape, Tirgu-Mures Landscape (coming soon), Valencia Landscape, Warsaw Landscape

At the moment, activities and actors concerning youth are fragmentated. For MY GENERATION the activities and actors focussing on outreach, education and the transition to employment are of particular interest.

It is shown that defragmentation leads to better coordination which leads to a better connectedness of activities and actors concerning the young as a resource of cities.

As a result of the defragmentation, the key outcome in all MY GENERATION cities is better coordination (i.e. new/better connectedness).

Please click underneath to see the following documents:

• Guidelines for working in MY GENERATION (Jan 2009)

• My Generation Product landscape and Ecology - report on the Coordination theme, Sept 2009

• Towards better coordination - Report with conclusions and policy recommendations from the Mid Term Strategic workshop March 2010

• ACTIVE INCLUSION LANDSCAPE, update October 2010 - a tool to explore policies and measures of activation (report on the Coordination theme)

• Guidance note & Preparation exercise to do an update on LAP progress a Spidergram (May 2010)

• Guidance note on New Generation of Youth Counselling (May 2010)

  Local coordination and Local Support Groups (LSG)

• My Generation Guidelines for Final Report (December 2010)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thematic reports

• What is happening in cities on the Transition to Working life

• The young, from Education to Employment, lessons from the My Generation work
  
  
• Results of the Youth Participation workshop on 26 May 2010

• Final Report Transition to Working Life, May 2011

 Good practice-case studies

• How can early school drop-out be prevented? Antwerp Study accompaniment in an informal setting

  This case describes an experiment developed in a partnership between the Antwerp study guide and the Antwerp Youth Competence Centers. Aim is the prevention of school drop-out.

• Antwerp/C- stick presentation and please see as well: the Antwerp case study description

  C-stick is a digital protfolio. a central database where young people can gather and store all kinds of relevant information, it provides them a framework for personal developments plans and it contains tools to create adjusted CVs in a very quick and easy way. 

• Birmingham/Worth Unlimited- A World Worth Living In

  The programme seeks to engage NEET (not in education, employment or training) young people and provide them with positive outcomes. The programme is deliberately designed to use an informal education approach to learning within a holistic framework.

• How can we value all kinds of learning experiences and how can we better understand them? Gotenborg/ The positive potential of informal knowledge

  The case study is a preliminary attempt to summarise a few different perspectives on the positive potential of informal learning among youth in Göteborg. The purpose to acknowlegde and validate informal learning is to make the entire scope of knowledge and experiences visible. Rather than providing simple answers, a range of questions is posed to enable discussion.

• How can the education sector and the business sector be linked? Gdansk/ The complex of communication schools in Gdansk- secondary technical schools

  The cooperation system is working on the basis of training activities. These training activities are organised in close cooperation with companies. After having participated in several trainings, youngsters get a training on the work site in one of the companies.

• Glasgow/ GCSS " Get Ready for Work"initiative

  This initiative is a pioneering approach to tackling socio-economic exclusion for young people. Particularly NEETs living in areas of multiple deprivation or who face inequality in access to service and support. "Get Ready for Work" provides an intensive, person led support mechanism through which young people can "re-engage" with learning and/ or employment or training. 

• How can sources of information related to employment be identified? Patras/ Consulting and support Actions for Young People- DRASYNA Project

  Through organised personal and/ or working in teams and groups of volunteers, networking and promoting actions, young people are supported in their effort for vocational guidance, entrance to the labourmarket and active social participation which proves to be of vital importance to their professional life. 

• How can young people be introduced to the labour market? Riga/ The open door week in companies of Latvia

  The objective is to promote effective integration of youth in the labour market. The organisation implements complex programmes in order to promote professional orientation of the young and develop cooperation between youth and employers. 

• Tirgu-Mures/ Employment opportunities for the young"- Oppertunities and tactics within the tourist guide profession

  The Agora organisation has as objective training of young people (unemployed, fresh graduates, those needing professional retraining) for the top domains of the local economy and also that of finding employment for the trained people. In this respect the organisation maps the needs of local businesses. 

  
  

             Please click above to see the video on the case study of Tirgu-Mures 

• Warsaw/ Cooperation of business and school

  Vattenfall Heat Poland, in need of employees inveseted in a school that was up for closing because of the lack of interest of youth to go there. The company now provides special lessons and give scholarships to the best students every year. Thanks to this, young people are more and more interested in learning and have no problems finding well paid jobs. Next to this, Vattenfall has no problems finding qualified employees. Both sides profit from the cooperation.

• How can self-employment be encouraged? Valencia/ Valencia for Entrepreneurship

  The focus of this project, a joint action between the Youth Department of Valencia and the Association of Young Entrepreneurs, is fundamentally based on offering young people all the tools necessary for launching their business ideas in a way that covers each and every need for every entrepreneur to implement their business ideas. This is done by using an individual classification approach to define the needs of entrepreneurs. 

• How can youths with complex problems be encouraged to study and gain work experience? Rotterdam Community School

  The aim of the project is to help young people to recognise their own problems and find ways to solve them themselves. Youth that will receive support are tenacious Rotterdammers between 16 and 23 years old that dropped-out from regular eduction repeatedly. 

• How can entrepreneurship be stimulated? Rotterdam/ Stimulating entrepreneurship:The Navigator website (in Dutch) linking experienced and yours entrepreneurs

  YourNavigator is a coaching path that links young (starting) entrepreneurs to already experienced entrepreneurs (coaches). These coaches help the new entrepreneurs with advise and their expertise on subjects like for example marketing, finances and management. Read this interview with a young entreprenuer on her experience with Your Navigator.

Education and employment

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Thematic reports

• The young, Opportunities for Transforming Outreach

  Preparatory report for first outreach workshop, Some thoughts on Outreach, March 2009

• The young, transforming outreach in cities

  First workshop report on outreach, early lessons from the MG project, October 2009

• New Generation of Youth Counselling 

  Preparatory report for second outreach workshop, May 2010

• My Generation Final Report on Outreach

  Second workshop report on outreach, May 2011

Examples of Outreach in cities

• Antwerp - C-stick, e-portfolio for informal knowledge and competences (april 2009)

  C-stick is a digital protfolio. A central database where young people can gather and store all kinds of relevant information, it provides them a framework for personal developments plans and it contains tools to create adjusted CVs in a very quick and easy way. 

• Antwerp - Youth Competence Centers (April 2009), and please see as well the Youth Competence Centres presentation (May 2010)

  Antwerp has 3 Youth Competence Centers that work in localities with high numbers of disengaged youth. The YCC uses a neighbourhood youth engagement model, relaying heavily on staff who have grown up locally an who have a good handle on community issues.

• Birmingham - Streetgames (april 2009)

  The Birmingham Streetgames model also focusses on specific neighbourhoods where young people are at risk of social exclusion. It utilises sport, dance, DJing and other activities in the community to establish relationships with these youngsters and their families. 

• Warsaw - photograph workshops for young people at district level (april 2009)

  The Warsaw photograph workshops aim to show youngsters the different possibilities they have in their neighbourhood to spent their time. Besides, it wants to change the attitude of youngsters towards their neighbourhood by showing them its history and interesting places whilst making pictures.

• Gdansk - Skateboarding animation supporting granroot initiative (april 2009)

  An exciting area for skateboarding and other urban sports within the disused dockyard area of the city's waterfront. The development of this has brought together young people, NGOs, the municipality and the Baltic Property Trust which owns the premises. 

• Gothenburg - Young & Safe Collaboration (april 2009)

  This model brings together all of the city's key players in preventing youth crime and anti-social behaviour. With support from the highest level of the city, the approach has played an imortant role in reducing youth crime levels. 

• Patras - Participative organisation of youth events (april 2009)

  A new approach to promoting positive collaboration between communities and between generations. An activity co-ordinated by the Patras Youth Council

  
  

          Pleace click above to see the video on the workshops in Patras 2009:

• Riga - Youth Month (july 2009)

  Every summer there is a youth month in Riga. The format of this is shaped by the local recreational education institutes and the Riga students'Youth Council. Designes to encourage young people to 'come and take part' it is another example where public spaces are given over to young people. 

• Rotterdam, CASE STUDY Mobile youth work team (april 2009)

  A model where junior youth workers, often from deprived neighbourhoods and communities, work closely with more experienced professionals. This blend of youth and enthousiasm combined with skills and experience has proveb to be a highly effective one. 

• Rotterdam, VISUAL PRESENTATION, Mobile Youth work team

  The mobile team consists of senior youth workers together with junior youth workers who follow a combined learning/work trajectory. Junior youth worker are young people without starting qualifications  or with just an Intermediate Vocational education. They work under the supervision of a senior youth worker on concrete projects. Next to this they complete a dual academic education. After being in the mobile team for one year the youths are expected to find a regular job and to continue their education.

• Tirgue_Mures, Education for Roma Children (april 2009)

  A collaboration between the local authority and two international NGOs  designed to tackle the difficulties with engaging children of Roma families in education. 

• Valencia - Youth Information Centers

  Offices in the neighbourhoods which help young entrepreneurs with advice, training and guidance. These offices are a co-operation between several partners to connect and support youngsters. 

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Participation

Thematic reports

• Initial Thoughts on Youth Participation

  Preparatory report for Youth Participation workshop in Patras, January 2009

• Youth Participation, conclusions from MG workshop in Patras

  First report on Youth Participation, January 2009

• Youth Participation, conclusions from MG workshop in Gdansk

  Second report on Youth Participation, May 2010

Examples of Youth Participation in cities

• Antwerp - Youth Cabinet

  As a preparation for the elections the deputy mayor of Antwerp organised a youth cabinet. This youth cabinet has composed a programme for the deuty mayor on youth.

• Birmingham - Northfield Anti-Racism project

  This project aims to create a more harmonious and cohesive community in Northfield by tackling the issue of racism.

• Goteborg - Mixgården

  A youth recreation centre in the forefront of exploring new boundaries in regard to participatory and fluid forms of youth activities.

• Patras - Everyone, a world himself

  A two day event during which school, students and volunteers organised a fest that attracted the interest of many citizens.

• Rotterdam - Youth councils

  Rotterdam has many platforms for youth to participate and share their ideas. This document mentions and explains these platforms

• Tirgu-Mures - Supporting you

  Supporting you is a non-governmental organisation fighting aids. Members of this NGO are young people

• Valencia - Valencia creates

  A contest of Youth Creation to reward young creators and invest in them.

• Warsaw - Several interesting youth participation projects 

  There are several interesting youth participation projects in Warsaw. Please read the document under the link above to find out which projects

Click here to see the report about youth exchange

Click on the cartoon to enlarge and to view the top 20 cartoons that were made during the international youth exchange

See the promo movie of Rotterdam youth exchange

See below the full movie of the outreach theme resulted from the youth exchange, FIRST PART

 

See below the full movie of the output on the Education/Employment theme resulted fromthe youth exchange SECOND PART

See below the movie of the outreach youth exchange with Bob

 

Movies about hopes, dreams, outreach, education and Rotterdam. Made by 45 youngsters from all over Europe during the MyGeneration International Youth Exchange (April 2009).

Click below to see the movie created by youngsters about hopes, dreams, employment

Click below to see the movie of the workshop 'When we were young'

Click below to see the movie of the makeover of Rotterdam

Click below to see the movie named 'streetwise' that treats dreams and hopes of 45 youngsters in Rotterdam

Click below to see the movie named 'choices in life' that treats dreams and hopes of 45 youngsters in Rotterdam

Click below to see the movie named 'gangster love' that treats dreams and hopes of 45 youngsters in Rotterdam

The different spidergrams show the estimate of the situation in the fields of empowerment of young, trust and new communications, new "ecology" of knowledge, coordination and integration, and challenging prevailing structures. For more information on the spidergrams see the detailed powerpoint on spidergrams

• Antwerp spidergram

• Birmingham spidergram

• Gdansk spidergram

• Glasgow spidergram (coming soon)

• Gothenborg spidergram

• Patras spidergram

• Riga spidergram

• Rotterdam spidergram

• Tirgu-Mures spidergram

• Valencia spidergram

• Warsaw spidergram

This is a resource book that gives you ideas how to transform your workshops and tells you what young people think of Europe, Cities, Education and Work.

• Click here for the Report of My Generation Youth Exchange
  

(Video)reports of Study Visits

Please click below to see the following video's

Rotterdam visiting Antwerp (Oct 2009)

Antwerp visiting Rotterdam (Dec 2009)

Goteborg visiting Rotterdam (Jan 2010)

• Study Visit Report, Gothenborg visiting Rotterdam (January 2010)

• Study Visit Report, Gothenborg visiting Rotterdam (March 2010)

Formats

Please click below to see the following documents:

• MG Bilateral Study VisitsGuide (Aug 2009)

• Template for reporting Bilateral Study Visits

Gdansk Study Visits, May 2010

• Background information on Gdansk Study Visit areas and visited projects 

• Report Orluna Study Visit 

• Report Dolne Miasto Study Visit

• Report Moreno Study visit

Gothenborg Study Visit to Rotterdam, 25th of march 2010

My Generation stimulates the partner cities to search for funding possibilities to implement their URBACT Local Action Plans. Connections were build by the cities with the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF).

To discover the funding possibilites the cities have to study the “Operational Programmes” of their own ESF and ERDF Managing Authority. To guide this process an assessment form had to be completed by each city.

Click underneath to see the following documents:

• Form for analysing funding opportunities

• Guidelines for analysing funding opportunities

By dedicating a special budget line the URBACT programmes want to stimulate that cities build a connection with their Managing Authorities. The budget offers the possibility to invite the Managing Authorities to My Generation meetings. Getting to know each other and already in an early phase discussing the local plans enlarges the changes for funding when the Local Action Plan is funded (and hopefully can be submitted to the ESF or ERDF programme).

Please click underneath to see the following document:

• MG presentation for MA's

• Click here to see the My Generation Crisis study report-SUMMARY

• Click here to see the My Generation Crisis study report-DATABASE

MY GENERATION has conducted  a baseline study, where the good practices and youth challenges are identified, the partner cities have made their own baseline studies on their youth challenges and needs, and the learning infrastructure is spelled out.

Please click on the following links to open the documents:

My Generation Baseline Study Including ANNEX 1

My Generation Baseline Study ANNEX 2- Article on Future Diologue 

My Generation Baseline Study ANNEX 3

My Generation Baseline Final Summary

Below you can find a long list with My Generation video- reports.

My Generation story

Get to know....My Generation.

My Generation Workshop Impressions.

Impressions of My Generation workshops in Patras (jan 2009)

A video report prapered by the youth representatives of the rotterdam delegation.

Impression of the My Generation Workshop in Goteborg, Sweden (2009)

MY GENERATION is a project made up of 12 European cities that want to activate the role of youth for better development: they are looking for joint, effective, sustainable solutions in facing the threat of losing contact with the young generation. From 16-18 September the MY GENERATION network gathered in Goteborg, Sweden to discuss the Education and Employment theme. The three interactive workshop sessions were dedicated to: 1. Informal and non formal learning 2. Cooperation between schools and business society 3. Young Enterpreneurship More info: http://urbact.eu/my_generation © 2009 - StampMedia - Abbie Boutkabout & Bert Roymans

 

Watch Goteborg in pictures

Prepared by Young People from Goteborg, to be shown at the start of the My Generation workshop in Goteborg.

 

 

Impression of My Generation workshop in Riga (Jan 2010)

 

 

Slideshow of Riga

Prepared by young people, to be showed at the start of the My Generation workshop in Riga (Jan 2010)

 

 

In less the 5 min.: Gdansk - participation workshop (May 2010)

 

My Generation Youth Exchange, April 2009