We warmly invite young people, employers, policy makers, researchers and career advisers to participate in the online NEXT-UP Living Lab workshop, where we will share our research findings and engage stakeholders in a discussion on youth transitions from education to employment in post-covid era.
Date: 20 April
Time: 13:00–15:30 CET (14:00–16:30 Helsinki time)
Refistration to rceive the Zoom link:
https://tuni.zoom.us/meeting/register/EJTLyv9iTuauN1rIZEt4bg
This interactive workshop will feature short presentations from NEXT-UP research teams across Europe. Each presentation will be followed by a brief stakeholder engagement activity (e.g. via Padlet) to gather feedback and perspectives on the discussed issues.
Draft agenda
| CET | Topic | Presenter |
| 13:00–13:10 | Welcome | What is a Living Lab? | Workshop format | Yulia Shumilova, Tampere University |
| 13:10–13:35 | What do youth employability policies have in common? | Renze Kolster, University of Twente |
| 13:35–14:00 | Education–labour market relations after COVID: adaptation, mismatch or transformation? | Dian Liu, University of Stavanger |
| 14:00–14:25 | New adulthood? Managing transitions without traditional markers of independence | Alexandra Seehaus, Autonomous University of Barcelona |
| 14:25–14:50 | Co-Designing Indicators for Graduate Transition to Employment: what should we measure? | tbc, University of Aveiro |
| 14:50–15:15 | The future of skills: is digital the answer? | Ivano Bison, University of Trento |
| 15:15–15:30 | Closing and next steps (NEXT-UP foresight game) | Yuzhuo Cai, Tampere University/Education University of Hong Kong |
Your participation is essential to help interpret the findings, identify emerging trends, and contribute to the co-creation of future-oriented employability policies and practices.
About the Living Lab:
The Living Lab, coordinated by Tampere University, serves as a collaborative platform bringing together researchers, youth, educators, employers, and policy-makers to co-create evidence-based employability policies and practices.
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