The NEXT-UP Living Lab brings together young people, employers, educators, researchers, policymakers and civil society organisations to co-create solutions to youth employability challenges. Through interactive workshops, participants discuss research findings, draw on their experiences and develop ideas for improving education-to-work transitions. Here you can explore our activities, workshop updates and opportunities to get involved.
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4th Living Lab workshop on 27th of October!
27th of October the NEXT-UP Living Lab will move one step further. Using Design Thinking methods we will explore challenges for young people on the way form education into work. We warmly invite all interested to the 4th online NEXT-UP Living Lab workshop. Working in small groups, you will have the opportunity to share your…
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![2nd NEXT-UP Living Lab Workshop: Emerging Insights on Youth Education–Employment Transitions [20.04]](https://www.nextup-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/devin-avery-lhAy4wmkjSk-unsplash-scaled.jpg)
2nd NEXT-UP Living Lab Workshop: Emerging Insights on Youth Education–Employment Transitions [20.04]
On April, 20 we have met online with 42 young people, employer representatives, policy makers, researchers at the 2nd NEXT-UP Living Lab workshop, where NEXT-UP research teams across Europe shared their initial research findings on youth transitions from education to employment in post-covid era. Each presentation was followed by a brief stakeholder engagement activity (e.g.…
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The Living Lab* kickoff on 3 November was a success, bringing together more than 40 participants from 10 countries: researchers, young people, employer representatives and policymakers. The program featured an overview of the Next-UP project and it’s Living Lab approach (WP6), the keynote by the president of Tampere Youth Council and hybrid-mode group discussions on…
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![Invitation to Next-UP Living Lab kick-off, [November, 3 at 10.00-12.00, CET]](https://www.nextup-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/volodymyr-hryshchenko-V5vqWC9gyEU-unsplash-1024x683.jpg)
We warmly invite you to participate in the Next-UP Living Lab activities: 📍The Next-UP Living Lab, coordinated by Tampere University, serves as a mediating space for collaborative innovation. Through interactive workshops (e.g., World Café, Foresight Game, Policy Co-design), it facilitates dialogue among youth, educators and career services, employers and HR professionals, policy-makers and public officials,…