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Researchers from the University of Tartu and a group of young people from Tallinn met for a storytelling workshop on Tuesday 20th September 2022.

‘Don’t you, forget about me’ is the title of a well-known Simple Mind’s song. These words also popped up strongly in the Storytelling workshops in Barakaldo, when both youngsters and policymakers recognised that their worlds are increasingly distant.

On 1st July 2022, participants who took park in the qualitative research interviews for WP3 were invited to take part in a local Storytelling Workshop, for their input about our preliminary interpretation findings thus far.

On 14th July 2022, The Young Foundation held a storytelling event at the Corby Rooftop Arts Centre, to share preliminary findings from the WP3 life course interviews. Those invited included policymakers, gatekeeper organisations, community leaders and local people to make a mixed and representative group for discussion.  

A mixed group of around 25 young people (youth board members and interviewees), professionals and academics met in Amsterdam for the UPLIFT local policy and storytelling workshop that was organized by TU Delft.

On June 9, our team from Barakaldo travelled to Copenhaguen to participate in the Consortium Meeting of Youcount, a Horizon 2020 project about social inclusion and Youth Citizen Social Science that has lots of synergies with UPLIFT.

On 22 and 23 June 2022, MRI organised storytelling workshops in Pécs, involving local young people and experts. The workshops were the last steps of the qualitative part of the empirical research, following 40 interviews with local young people and several interviews with local experts, with the aim of validating or refining the main conclusions of the field research before completing the case study report on Pécs.