Objectives
- To explore the industrial heritage of areas affected by industrial decline and contribute to their economic development;
- To challenge negative stereotypes among younger generations about their local areas’ economic potential, and tackle unemployment, brain drain and skills mismatches;
- To provide guidance and education professionals working with younger generations with knowledge and expertise of digital tools as an instrument to address these issues.
Activities
- Mapping industrial heritage of project partners’ locations and exploring areas of current and future market growth in these areas;
- Conducting interviews with experts of industrial heritage, guidance and education professionals, representatives of local labour market and representatives of good practices in the use of digital tools in education;
- Producing interactive city maps for younger generations to explore local areas’ industrial heritage and future employment opportunities;
- Testing the interactive city maps with students (14-18 years old) and guidance and education professionals working with youngsters;
- Creating a practitioner toolkit to support guidance and education professionals in their use of digital tools in their work.
Resources
- Metropolis City Map Guides;
- Metropolis City Exploration Interactive Map;
- Metropolis Practitioner Toolkit: Practitioner Support Guides & Jobs of the Future Resource Pack.
Impact
- Guidance and education professionals will strengthen their competences and knowledge on the use of digital tools for young people’s education and training;
- Students will deepen their knowledge of local industrial heritage and labour market and will be more motivated to find a job in their city/region, acquiring the necessary skills;
- Enhanced European exchange of good practices in the use of digital tools in education and in the re-evaluation of post-industrial areas;
- The economic heritage of post-industrial areas will receive new stimuli, reducing the negative stereotypes often associated to these areas, the inequalities between skills and job offer, thus facilitating the inclusion of more disadvantaged classes.
Partners
- Coordinator: ASPIRE IGEN GROUP LIMITED (UK)
- Quality manager: CESIE (Italy)
- EUROCULTURE/EVROPOLITISMOS (Cyprus)
- FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER_UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN NUERNBERG (Germany)
- Monceau-Fontaines (Belgium)
- CHY Consultancy Ltd (UK)
