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Space and Time for Growth

Initiative

The project's promoter and leading partner - Riga City Council Education, Culture and Sports Department

Creates incorporation in the European dimension, favourable and socially open environment for youth organisations

In close cooperation with Riga youth NGO

By involving experts in youth affairs and non-formal learning specialists

Specially emphasising sustainability, intercultural values and continuity of knowledge

By using cross-border cooperation within the framework of the Central Baltic INTERREG IV A programme 2007-2013

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Values

Cooperation

Involvement

Transparency

Responsibility

Reliability

Quality To learn from each other;

not to lose a single bit in the rush for excellence;

To celebrate achievements and to be aware of faults. Most of all: to do ourselves what we teach to young people.

Great Idea

Three cities – three pillars of the project: Youth Resource Centre in Riga – a place for meeting

and joint activities of the organisations

WWW portal for young people from Tallinn

Non-formal learning methodology from Stockholm

Non-formal learning, equality, involvement

and intercultural values

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What will still take place in

2013?

Succession – at the end of 2012 the Youth Centre will continue operating within the framework of the Department

Document Knowledge Manual for work with youth

Terminological dictionary in four languages

Project experience, the ‘interactive package’ prepared for propagation of youth centres

Enforce sustainability – strong, internationally networking, popular youth organisations, an ‘incubator’ of new organisations

Innovative youth portal Playtodo.com for dissemination in the Central Baltic Region

Immediate Sustainability

Riga: Youth Resource Centre “Kaņieris”

institutionally asimilated in 2012, continues

beyond project

Stockholm: methodology focused on youth being

able to co-work for their own creative meetings

and events, skills last beyond project

Tallinn: youth leaders use existing youth centres’

network plus new web-application to

disseminate skills and work with “Kaņieris” in

Riga

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Networks of Youth Space

TIERS

Pier to pier, social networks and opinion leaders

Professional networks of field specialists and youthworkers

Regional municipal platforms

Central Baltic crossborder networks

Pan-European urban and metropolis networks

Tier 1: Partnership and

Central Baltic network

Leading partner: Riga City Council

Education, Culture and Sports

Department, Sports and Youth Board

Tallinn Youth Centre (Tallinna Noorsootöö

Keskus) supervised by the Tallinn City

Council

Stockholm School of Arts

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Tier 2:

Youth networks Up to 20 000 young people from all cities are involved

in the course of the project

Riga youth NGO and youth interest groups– the YS core of 23

Youth leaders from the Stockholm School of Arts

Youth leaders from the Tallinn Youth Centre

Collaborating in 3 workgroups relevant to 3 pillars of the project

Social networks in WWW

Youth exchange

Tier 3:

Field professionals

Riga: national level youth policy experts and

youthworkers pool upheld by Youth Resource

Centre “Kaņieris”:

Ministry of Education and Science

Agency of International Programs for Youth

(inter alia Youth in Action)

Tallinn: youthworkers and youthworker

association

Stockholm: non-formal trainers

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Tier 4: Latvia, VALNET

http://www.valnetlatvija.eu/ via Lifelong Learning

Programme

56 partners in the network: diversity

Raising awareness of recognition of the nonformal

and informal learning,

Assessment of the European Union's policy

framework and the policy framework development in

Latvia

Tier 5: URBACT

Potential of Riga city as regional centre

Direct application of innovations of Youth

Space in regional partner forums and

strategy papers

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Tier 6: EUROCITIES

Potential of Riga city as regional

centre

Interaction via Youth Space

representation in case studies http://www.eurocities2012.eu/en/conference/workshops/young-potential/

Tier 7: international

non-formal opinion leader network

TED X Youth

http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/6114

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Network development

Youth Space entry points: Lead partner Riga as metropolis: national municipal

networks and Pan-European municipal networks

Cross-border project profile as INTERREG

Excellent reputation, tradition and national influence

of Stockholm School of Arts

Established youthworker network of Tallinn

Youthwork Centre

NB! Partnership, project promotion, participation,

persistance.

Good practice

of Youth Space

Partnership,

Project promotion,

Participation,

Persistance.

NB!

Nothing about young without young!

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

QUESTIONS, PLEASE!

IF TIME ALLOWS US OR UPON

THE DEMAND

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What do the young people

expect?

Youth Centre in Riga, at 15 Kaņiera iela – a creatively arranged, modern, well equipped place for office work, seminars and recreation

New knowledge Strengthening of the organisations’ capacity

Possibility of creating own projects within the framework of the Youth Space values

Skills and abilities

Communication skills

Quality youth exchange programme

Active cooperation platform with municipality

What we do in Riga?

Everything is learning: Arrangement of the youth centre as a non-formal

learning process

Project management as a non-formal learning process

We create a manual for compilers of cross-border projects and for work with youth

We organise youth exchange trips within the framework of the project

We expand collaboration between Riga youth organisations

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What we do in Tallinn?

We create a space of ideas for

establishment, design and software

engineering of the virtual youth centre

We learn and teach about internet security

We plan the work with youth by using the

opportunities of social networks

We arrange and run the Dialogue in the

Dark exhibition in Tallinn

What we do in Stockholm?

We master the non-formal learning values of the

Stockholm School of Arts

We provide an opportunity to collaborate at the

School of Arts for young people from Riga and

Tallinn

Creative youth festival in Riga in 2012 ARTSPACE

Project development opportunity with the help of the

methodology of the School of Arts

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Good practice

of Youth Space

Partnership,

Project promotion,

Participation,

Persistance.

NB!

Nothing about young without young!