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H2020Staff exchange2015–2019

PARTY · Participatory Tools for Human Development with the Youth

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2015-02-01 → 2019-01-31
EU contribution
€945,000
Participants
7
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Participatory Tools for Human Development with the Youth

1. To provide tools for the service development integrating into the everyday life of the young people. These tools support the motivation and abilities of young people to participate in their own community development. Young people's opinions and participation are the main focus in this development process. 2. To facilitate the dialogue between the marginalized youth and the interest groups working with them. The project works towards agile and human-centred methods and processes for service development with the NGOs and other service providers. The usage of design tools supports the development of local innovation in service structures and systems. 3. To support the uptake of service design methods and tools in practical development work The project disseminates information about the service design methods for the people working with the development of services for young people. The project aims to encourage the use of service design and design methods in the local service development field. The involvement of marginalized youth, using service design approach, can be identified as a priority research area in this project. The research questions that are examined during the project are: → What are the characteristics of an inclusive, context aware collaborative methodology for facilitating or solving local wicked problems of the unemployed youth? → How does the service design approach facilitate the development of the capabilities of young unemployed persons as part of their learning experiences? → How can the service design approach assist the community-based organisations and other stakeholders in their interventions and activities aimed at the youth? → What kinds of measures are needed to accommodate the different participant expectations, ambitions and limitations with a shared platform for a continuing dialogue?

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Challenges faced by the marginalized youth in developing countries, such as unemployment, are not simple or easily solved. This is influenced by a number of factors including levels of education, gender, self-esteem, geographic location, physical ability and transport. The objective of the project is to contribute to solving the issues related to the youth unemployment in developing countries by creating participatory tools for human development that enable transformational change for the youth. Based on a service design approach, the project will provide tools for the marginalized youth suitable for daily use, enhancing regional democracy, increasing equal opportunities and contributing to human and service development with a particular target group: the San people in South Africa and Namibia. The San are faced with various social, cultural and political difficulties, and their communities are among the poorest in their countries, which are among the most unequal societies in the world. The tools aim to support the youth’s motivation and abilities to participate in the development of their own community towards a wider integration into their national socio-economic systems. The project focuses on the means and methods that assist in reaching the target group. Another objective is to cooperate with NGOs and other service providers in order to produce agile and human-centred processes and methods for developing service structures and systems towards improving the status of the marginalized youth. The third objective is to convey information on service design methods to those engaged in the development of youth services. The project aims to support the uptake of service design methods and tools in practical development work as well as the target and interest groups on a permanent basis. Thus the project establishes a strategy for continuation of the work with the target group and the local partners.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • LAPIN YLIOPISTO · RovaniemiCoordinatorFinland
  • CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY · Cape TownSouth Africa
  • INCOMINDIOS SWITZERLAND (INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE INDIANS OF THE AMERICAS) · ZurichCity levelSwitzerland
  • NAMIBIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY · WindhoekNamibia
  • PACO DESIGN COLLABORATIVE · MilanoItaly
  • THE SOUTH AFRICAN SAN INSTITUTE TRUST · KimberleySouth Africa
  • UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · LeedsUnited Kingdom

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union