EUKN - Netherlands - Rotterdam: Projects bureau Het Jonge Noorden

Rotterdam: Projects bureau Het Jonge Noorden

Introduction

Students, teachers and other staff at the INHOLLAND High School are cooperating on innovative projects for the Noord borough and the city of Rotterdam, whereby vocational training is being supported with practical experience in the neighbourhoods. This will allow students to have a much broader social preparation. There is extra capacity available for the borough to carry out innovative projects.

Problem

The aim of the project is to provide socially relevant and instructive work experience aimed at tackling social problems in Rotterdam Noord.

Description

The work is based in the projects bureau ‘Het Jonge Noorden’ (The Young North) which has been set up specially for this project, and from where the projects are developed, organised and supervised. It concerns 16 projects, including the project ‘Transit’. In this project, 20 students are looking for social work experience placings for 80 established migrants. They are also supervising Moroccan pupils between the ages of 11 and 15.

Eight projects have been completed, including ‘Jongeren voor Jongeren’ (Young People for Young People), in which 90 young people between the ages of 16 and 23 were accompanied to work and back to school by 70 students.

Approach

The spearheads within the Rotterdam programme document are:

Integrated approach of youth problems (family, education, leisure time, work).
Investments in culture and economy; the Cultural world district.
Complete improvement of the quality of the outdoors area in the territory.
Economisal-recreative (re-)development of the Rotte and its surroundings.
Participation of inhabitants and entrepreneurs with the driving Thea terras.

Results

An improvement in people’s future perspective is a unifying thread in all the projects. Supervisory projects aimed at social and economic life are specifically intended for participants from vulnerable groups.

EU involvement

URBAN II is an initiative of the European Commission. The aim is to support innovative projects in the field of urban regeneration in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The URBAN II projects will set an example for national urban policy. In the Netherlands, areas in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Heerlen have been allocated for the period 2000-2006. In Rotterdam URBAN II attention is directed at three neighbourhoods in 'Noord aan de Rotte', with a total of almost 30,000 inhabitants.

Financing

European subsidy: € 108.907,25
Total cost: € 503.695,25

Contact info

The local programme management, tel. +31 10 4667667

Project start date

01/09/2001

Planned end date

31/08/2004

Document type

case

Themes

Urban Policy > Social inclusion & integration > Integration of social groups

Keywords

Young people