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Centre of Expertise Societal Innovation South Rotterdam

2018 - 2019

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EMI’s impact

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EMI’S IMPACT

In this year’s issue of Highlights we take you along to South Rotterdam. A city within a city, known for unpleasant lists and wicked problems. With complicated problems, but also with lots of potential. And also the place where EMI has been active for about seven years, to put the education of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences in the context of South Rotterdam. Societal innovation is all about people, and 200,000 people live in South Rotterdam. This offers as many opportunities in the areas of education, work, care and welfare, housing and art & culture.

EMI’s programmes are in various phases of development. For example, the last few years, lots of work has been put in Mama’s Garden, Urban Innovation and Mentors of Rotterdam; BRIDGE is almost completed, and Culture in South Rotterdam has only just started.

South Rotterdam is on the rise, and EMI contributes to this with an ever-growing number of people from RUAS. Our students, lecturers and researchers, together with partners from South Rotterdam, work together in so-called communities of practice on solutions to current social problems. In this process, we always keep the citizens of South Rotterdam in mind. Our work process is characterized by interaction, connection, innovation, learning by doing and sharing knowledge.

How effective is our work? What is the real impact? How do we prove that we are achieving positive results? We do this by counting and recounting. In this magazine we are highlighting various EMI programmes, and a number of prominent participants are given the floor, such as the students who have been involved in some of these projects. But also lecturers and other staff members of RUAS and EMI who are in South Rotterdam every day, and who think about and work on solutions to tricky problems.

For Marco Pastors, director of the National Programme South Rotterdam, the impact of EMI’s efforts is abundantly clear:” What we see is that more and more children have better school results. They also more often choose for the Care and Technology sectors. I am convinced that the Mentors of Rotterdam programme offers important additional support for many children. This attention will pay off eventually.”

EMI thanks its success to all collaborating partners, who, with knowledge, skill and means, give shape to up-to-date, context-rich education and the societal issues in South Rotterdam.

Getting in touch with each other.

Let’s hope that this yields options for growth for the coming year.

For this, a big thank-you to everyone, fresh from South Rotterdam.

Carolien Dieleman Director Centre of Expertise Societal Innovation

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Contents 1 Carolien Dieleman: EMI's impact

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Mentors of Rotterdam

Interview Caspar van Eerden and Soesja Pijlman EDUCATION | MENTORS OF ROTTERDAM 4 Interview Margriet Clement and Gert-Jan van der Maas 6 Interview Caspar van Eerden and Soesja Pijlman

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CARE & WELFARE | MAMA'S GARDEN Expansion and professionalization Interview Elseligia Livramento Monteiro Logiquiz Thematic Meetings A succes story

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WORK | W&T, BRIDGE AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Interview Tessa Nicolaas Products Science & Technology Research department Parents in South Rotterdam BRIDGE Interview Evi Franken, Talitha Souisa and Terence Pinas

HOUSING | URBAN INNOVATION 30 Samen & Anders 34 Angela van der Heijden: Expedition South Rotterdam 36 Facts & Figures EMI 2018-2019 ART & CULTURE 38 Culture in South Rotterdam

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Mama's Garden Question: where did Didi organize the meeting about the elections?

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Science & Technology Interview Tessa Nicolaas “Science and Technology often appeals more to boys.”

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Social Entrepreneurship Three CMD students talk about work and connection.

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Urban Innovation Angela van der Heijden: Expedition South Rotterdam Angela’s first months at EMI

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Culture in South Rotterdam What if street language were the norm?

Colophon Text contributions Rachid Benhammou, Elsbeth Grievink, Angela van der Heijden, Jos Heinerman, Mariëtte Lusse, Martine van der Pluijm, Floortje van Ree (coordination), Marjon Schrama, Peter Vanhoof, Reinier Weers Chief editor Saskia Gravelijn Photography Sanne Donders, Eric Fecken, Ruben Hamelink, Harrie Manders, Marina Meeuwisse, Hanna Radstake, Megin Zondervan

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Interview Mentors of Rotterdam

Margriet Clement and Gert-Jan van der Maas Through the Mentors of Rotterdam programme, as many students as possible are deployed as effectively as possible as mentors for pupils in South Rotterdam. The programme saw quite a few developments in Academic year 2018-2019.

Programme coordinators Gert-Jan van der Maas and Margriet Clement take stock of the current situation.

Mentors of Rotterdam has been operational for five years. We started with 100 students of an elective, and have grown into the largest mentoring programme of the Netherlands. As from September all 600 students of the Social Studies Institute will be involved in Mentors of Rotterdam

as part of the module Personal Development. The programme is now also embedded in the first year of teacher training colleges English, Biology and History. Margriet feels that it is of vital importance for these students to be active in South Rotterdam. “It prepares them for their future role as mentor, as sooner or later they will get the responsibility for a mentoring group. Many students come from outside the city, and consequently have hardly any experience with urban issues.”

In order to solidify the collaboration between the Stichting Studentmentoren, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences,

Thomas More University of Applied Sciences and schools in South Rotterdam, all parties signed a partner agreement last January, for the coming three academic years.

Margriet sees this agreement as a perfect instrument to intensify the programme. “When you see that schools and institutes have high opinions of each other, an agreement is necessary, because it makes the roles transparent, enabling clearer plans and better evaluation.”

“Yes, the pioneer phase, in which we had to discover and try out everything, is now really over. We can also see this in new collaborations, such as the one with the Rabobank,” Gert-Jan says proudly. “The Rabobank has been a partner from the very start, but that collaboration was mostly linked to one person: regional director Sezgin Yilgin, who had first-hand experience what it is like to grow up in an environment where opportunities are not abundant, which explains his enthusiasm about the programme. He also gives guest lectures to students at the start of their involvement. Now the bank has made a multi-year financial contribution, and we hope that this will inspire other companies to do the same. This way, we keep developing.”

New Developments Mentors of Rotterdam also gets financial support from Students-4Students, which makes it possible for us to hire former student mentors

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EDUCATION

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“Companies, schools and students join forces for society.”

as student assistants to support lecturers. Margriet states that the deployment of student assistants is an excellent way to bring students and lecturers together. One advantage is that lecturers get feedback about the programme. “Lecturers are very happy with the help of student assistants: it lowers the workload, and on top of that, student assistants have an advisory role, because some lecturers are new to the programme, whereas student assistants have been around for a number of years. We now have nineteen student assistants.”

Also technically there are developments, such as with the design of a new website and a student mentor app. Margriet says that the programme can position itself even better, and build on a stronger image.

“Via www.mentorenopzuid.nl we want to create wider support, with more involvement of parents, schools, companies and students. And we want to focus more on community building.

For instance, what do we do with former mentors? I would like them to realize that they have made a valuable contribution to South Rotterdam.”

According to Gert-Jan, the student mentor app was necessary to

automate the most important processes. Important aspects in this context are planning and monitoring.

“It ensures a certain quality, and enables everybody to work in a uniform way. We have added a toolkit, with good examples for students of how they can shape their mentorship.

At the moment, about 75% of the mentors use the app.”

Gert-Jan says that for the academic year 2019-2010 it is vital that everybody involved carries out what is stated in the agreement. ”Financial sustainability is also of the greatest

importance – not just for the money.

We should become a movement in which companies, schools and students contribute to society.”

Margriet nods in agreement. “When it comes to methodology development, I especially look forward to the moment when the programme module gives coordinators a greater role in the schools. As soon as I know that things are running smoothly there, I can take a step back. I find that a good challenge to get to work with.”

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Interview Mentors of Rotterdam

Caspar van Eerden and Soesja Pijlman

Soesja Pijlman is lecturer Mentors of Rotterdam; 21year old Caspar van Eerden studies History at teacher training college and is also a student assistant. At the end of academic year 2018-2019 they tell each other how they experienced their cooperation, and how they benefited from each other’s involvement.

“Dear Soesja, It was good to see how we complemented each other – sometimes unconsciously. I rather like the good cop/bad cop method. It can seem rather overwhelming when a student is corrected by a lecturer, and my role is predominantly that of a fellow student with a little more experience. What suits me best, and what I do rather well, is guarding the undercurrent: making sure that we, as a student group, all work towards the same goal. For example, when a student is absent more and more frequently, I address that issue with him or her, for instance by saying, ‘We are now in week 15, and it is time you start pulling your weight.’ When a lecturer says something like that, the effect is different. In spite of the fact that some students are the same age, or are even older than I am, they are more likely to accept such a remark from me.

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Soesja, for me and for many other students, you are a breath of fresh air. I greatly appreciate the social and humane aspect of your role as a lecturer, and I hope you can keep that. Nowadays, everything has to go fast, and be business like, also in education. You add some warmth to it, and that is beautiful to see. I hope that next year we will again be teamed up.

For now, I wish you a great holiday.”

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“I enjoyed having a sparring partner with whom I could exchange experiences.“

“Dear Caspar,

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pupils matched with a student

Let me first tell you that it was sheer luxury to have a student assistant.

Being a lecturer can in some ways be a lonely job. That is why I enjoyed having a sparring partner with whom I could exchange experiences, for instance with a question like: ‘Is it only my perception that that student seems so listless, or do you see that too?’

It is good to know that you achieve more with that ‘undercurrent’. That you can be more direct to students without it being perceived as a slap on the wrist by the lecturer. For I also have to assess their performance, a role that you don’t have, which makes your contact with students more relaxed. Maybe this is also because you address them on a more personal level, whereas I address them more as a group.

I admire your flexibility, and the ease with which you change tack, such as the way in which two pupils ask for your attention, you make time for them, and within a minute play football with the boys. Sometimes you let me know subtly that I might have said or done things differently. So for me this is also a learning process. Anyway, I see in you a sturdy professional in the making. You are good at what you do, exactly because you have a very organic way of dealing with people.

You have affinity with the pupils, with the students and with the people whose task it is to manage you. But be careful that you don’t bite off more than you can chew. I have every confidence in you as a history teacher.

Enjoy your summer!”

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Mama’s Garden

Expansion and professionalization When you are pregnant, or have just become a mother, you have lots of questions. It is good to be able to ask such questions to other women in the same position. EMI created Mama’s Garden to give these women an informal meeting place.

“We teach our students to look with different eyes, and to be open and unbiased.”

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Expanding the community Reaching more children and mothers on more locations, with a greater allocation of students and mothervolunteers. Enabling the transfer of the concept of Mama’s Garden to other parts of Rotterdam, and implementing it there, and eventually to other cities. These are the ambitions that Wietske Willemse has for her programme. “With the help of the Oranjefonds and Sint Laurensfonds (Dutch charitable funding organizations), Mama’s Garden can continue expanding its community for the coming three years, and we are extremely grateful to these organizations for making it possible!” The objective of the Oranjefonds dovetails exactly with the phase that Mama’s Garden is in: expansion and professionalization. In the longer run the programme should no longer serve as an innovation, but should become a regular programme supporting children and mothers, thus offering hem better chances of a healthy future.

Mama’s what?

Mama’s Garden offers a safe place for mother and child, to get in touch with other women and (future) professionals. For some of these mothers – with children in the ages up to 4 – it is not a matter of course to meet other mothers with young children in their own environment.

But especially when you have a young child it is helpful to be able to ask questions and share your insecurities,

for instance about a healthy lifestyle, or the social make-up of the part of town where you live. This is possible in Mama’s Garden, where you form a community with other mothers.

Time for Mothers Mama’s Garden works in close collaboration with lecturers and students of RUAS, especially with the Institute for Healthcare, the Institute for Communication, Media and Information Technology, and two schools for Intermediate level vocational education (Albeda and Zadkine). Thanks to the use of students and volunteers, the mothers visiting the meetings get the attention they need. The students offer a sympathetic ear, and answer questions the mothers have. At the same time, the children can play in a safe environment, and this gives the mothers some “free time”.

This contact between mother, child, student and volunteer is, more than anything else, informal. Mama’s Garden offers only light support to mothers, and refers them if necessary.

In some cases, at the request of the mothers, they invite a professional.

Esther Sjerp-de Vries, study career coach at the Start College Zadkine, says the following about this: “The young mothers can share their stories with students. As they are among people their own age, they feel safe.”

“In our Entrée plus-class for young mothers, young girls who are

CARE

What makes Mama’s Garden for the field?

Mama’s Garden; • Has time • can refer • Manages to reach mothers • Trains future staff members • Has buddies • Relieves care givers

pregnant, or who already have given birth, can follow mbo-1 course zorg en dienstverlening (“care and services”).

These are girls who are facing many problems, who already get care and guidance in all kinds of areas, and who are flooded with advice. What they need most is a place where they can spend time together with their children and with other girls in the same situation, so that they can exchange experiences. That, and more, is what Mama’s Garden offers.

The young mothers find a sympathetic ear with the students. As they are among people of the same age, they feel safe. This leads to informal and spontaneous talks about topics like raising children, sexuality and money, but also about practical matters like first aid for children. Sometimes they make friends with each other.

Last year a student offered one of the young mothers to join her when visiting the midwife. Another student, who studied speech therapy, has given a young mother with a nonDutch background private lessons to improve her Dutch pronunciation.

Both these examples are so precious!

I would very much like to expand the initiative by starting a Mama’s Garden in our school where ALL young mothers in Vreewijk can come to.”

Mama’s Garden is part of EMI of RUAS and works closely together with various partners, to mention a few: Municipality of Rotterdam, Programme Stevige Start (“Solid Start”), Centrum voor Jeugd en Gezin

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(“Centre for Youth and Family”), U CREATE, Centre of Expertise Create Industries, Albeda College and Zadkine Start college (both schools offer intermediate level vocational education), Humanitas, general medical practices, Library Feijenoord and Library Charlois, Research department Obstetrics and Afterbirth care and Knowledge Centre Innovation in Care.

For and by mothers − Meeting and trust: notions that rank high at Mama’s Garden, also online.

Mama’s Garden has a lively social media network among the mothers involved in this programme. They exchange a lot of information online, also when there are no offline meetings. One of the participants, Megin, writes a regular blog in a private Facebook group, in which she shares all kinds of confidentialities with about forty other mothers. On this page the participants introduce themselves to each other. This blog helps the women to increase their feeling of belonging to a community.

And the mutual trust is reinforced by the idea that this is for and by mothers.

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Interview Mama’s Garden

Elseligia Livramento Monteiro Elseligia Livramento Monteiro had never heard of Mama’s Garden, until she was looking for a suitable place to do her internship. Now she can say that Mama’s Garden is “the best internship ever”.

Trust From the very start, the secondyear student Social Work functioned completely within the team. During the first few meetings Elseligia got to know the mothers and children visiting Mama’s Garden. “Children are at first quite shy when they don’t know someone. It was a challenge to make a connection with both the children and their mothers.” During her internship, Elseligia wanted to find out where she was going to be headed with her studies. “Before this I did an intermediate-level course, and was mainly focused on young people. But I am also interested in children and how to raise them. At Mama’s Garden I learned how I can reach out to children and start a conversation with their parents. In my next internship with Veilig Thuis (“Safe at Home”) I can make good use of this experience.”

“Young mothers have so very much on their minds.”

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At home at Mama’s Garden A few times per year, Mama’s Garden organizes thematic meetings in the class for young mothers at Zadkine and Albeda. These mothers follow an entrance course, after which they can choose for a follow-up course. During the elections, Elseligia organized such a meeting. “The mothers had to start a political party and debate about issues. The standpoints they took mostly had a bearing on motherhood and education, topics that play an important role in their lives.

Being a Buddy Next to organizing meetings for Mama’s Garden, Elseligia also became a buddy to a young mother. ”At first I became a buddy to a young mother with a premature baby. She had no baby things, nothing had been arranged, no applications for help had been made. So she could do with some help. During our first meeting we wrote down where exactly we could get and offer the necessary help.” But this first meeting was not followed by a second. “Suddenly we got the message that everything had been arranged.” A disappointment, but on the other hand, understandable.

“Mothers - and especially young mothers – have so much on their minds. At first a buddy may seem nice to have, but when push comes to shove, the young women drop out because they have so many things to pay attention to. They have no time at all to meet someone outside their own environment.”

At home at Mama’s Garden Elseligia noticed that the mothers coming to Mama’s Garden are happy to have that opportunity. They come to relax, to meet other mothers, and they are happy that their children can play with other children. “It gives the mothers leisure time for themselves and time with their children. At home they are mostly busy cooking and housekeeping; at Mama’s Garden they have some time off, and they can do things together with their child.

Samira and Wietske, as well as the interns, are very sweet and create a good atmosphere. As a mother coming there, I’m sure you will soon feel at home. If I were a mother, I would also enjoy coming to Mama’s Garden.”

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Didi

Dock Charlois

Maxime

Library Feijenoord

Aleyna

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On Wednesday the visitors made an artistic self portrait at Dock Charlois.

This meeting was not organized by Aleyna or Didi.

Mama’s Garden does not have the EMI Workshop as a location on Mondays.

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The meeting on the Zadkine location was led by Elseligia, who never works on Tuesdays. On her free day, the theme of reading to children was discussed, and a staff member of

the Feijenoord Library gave information about BoekStart (BookStart), a programme promoting reading, which stimulates language and speech development in children.

Dock Charlois

Didi organized a meeting about the elections. This one did not take place in the library. The group was split up into teams, which conceived and presented campaigns. Maxime did not work out the Social Media theme.

During this meeting a workshop was given about making videos in Quik.

Library Feijenoord

The thematic meetings of Mama’s Garden consist of an informative part and a creative part, both led by professionals (from the same part of town), mothers, student staff members and/or students. Below you find a selection of thematic meetings of Mama’s Garden. Check out who organized what theme on which day, for which location.

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Mama’s Garden

A success story As a student, you can make a difference to Mama’s Garden. They really take your advice into account.

What do you do when you, as programme leader, are very satisfied with the work done by students?

Concept development Right, you ask them to stay involved after their graduation. Marlijn Quirijnen is one of the students of the Willem de Kooning Academy who has contributed to the concept development of Mama’s Garden.

The programme in which (soonto-be) mothers can meet each other at various locations in South Rotterdam, and where students from various institutes are also present.

Experiences are exchanged, and networks are created and expanded.

Nowadays, Marlijn makes designs inspired by food – in the broadest sense of the word. She works literally with food, but also with food-related materials.

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Research “During my studies some fellow students and I did research into the needs of mothers in South Rotterdam.

It turned out that they mostly needed the possibility to meet informally. So we created a pop-up version and the first concept of Mama’s Garden: a mobile site hut with a garden set, some toys and a small bar. This way, Mama’s Garden was able to go to playgrounds or parks.

Mama’s Garden is still running, and still going strong. Its programme leader, Wietske Willemse, was so pleased with Marlijn’s work, that she asked her and a fellow student, after their graduation, to help developing and refining the first concept. This was made possible financially by the Kiem Creative Subsidy.

Entrepreneurship This subsidy made it possible for these two alumni to be supported in their entrepreneurship by a design studio: they linked a business model to a concept, for example. “Now I design products for the mothers and their children, such as cards that they can give to other mothers, and goodie bags with all kinds of nice and handy gadgets. We also developed a handbook with ideas for the organization of thematic meetings and suggestions for ways of starting up the programme in other cities as well.”

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Blog 2 Megin Sacré: The colour question.

We take the metro with all our children, to go to the city for a tourist boat trip with the Spido, for whe have just received our Rotterdam passes. Yasalde has Yari in the baby carrier, Nemi is in Yari’s buggy and I am standing next to them. A woman near us, with a baby stroller looks curiously at Yari and Yasalde. She makes a selfie with her phone, in their direction. I wonder if it really is a selfie, or if she is taking a photo of the remarkable match of my partner and my young son. The former has a dark skin and dark frizzy hair, the latter is virtually white and has blond curly hair. Why I have doubts why she is taking a selfie? When Yari was a few months old, we had a similar trip on the metro, I don’t remember where to. Neni and I were a little slower than Yari and Yasalde, who then was also carrying Yari in a baby carrier; they had already got in. Neni and I got in a few moments later.

I heard a couple discussing something the moment I greeted Yasalde.”You see, it ís possible!”, one of them said, clearly looking at us. “I’m sure it isn’t, quite impossible,” the other said.

“Well, when we get a baby, it will probably be green”, the former said. From he subsequent whispering I could clearly glean that the discussion was about Yari; can a dark man get a white son?

I sometimes get the question of Neni is my daughter: Neni is dark, I am white. Or people ask her, while I am standing next to her, “Where is your mother?”. I don’t mind so much. She came out of my boody, so I’m quite sure that she is mine. For my partner it is a greater struggle: Yari didn’t come out of his body, but mine. He know full well that is really is ... More

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EVENTS 2018-2019

september 20 September 2018

Move2Social

Two lecturers of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences gave workshops to fourteen social entrepreneurs from Rotterdam. Students of the minor Business Innovation helped the entrepreneurs with their businesses.

7 November 2018

Visit by the Rotterdam councillor for Education, Art and Culture.

SaĂŻd Kasmi wordt op verzoek rondgeleid door HR om contextrijk onderwijs in de praktijk te ervaren.

EMI neemt hem mee naar Zuid voor een bezoek aan verschillende locaties, waar hij in gesprek gaat met studenten, docenten en leerlingen.

29 November 2018

Working visit to Centquatre Staff members of EMI visited CENTQUATRE PARIS to get inspiration for the new EMI programme Culture in South Rotterdam.

A selection of the 91 events that EMI organized or visited last year.

October 4 October 2018

Rondleiding Zakia Guernina

During the tour, the new member of the board, Zakia Guernina was immersed in South Rotterdam.

She was introduced to the EMI programmes Mentors of Rotterdam, Mama’s Garden, Healthy in South Rotterdam and Urban Innovation.

4 October 2018

Kooning in South Rotterdam

Students of the Willem de Kooning Academy doing the major Lifestyle Transformation Design, made a tour of South Rotterdam. With the help of hints on Instagram they visited various locations. They took pictures of the meaning of these locations, which were shared via the account @kooningopzuid. This way, they created an overview of all the beautiful initiatives in South Rotterdam.

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november

december 17 December 2018

Tour of deans

Deans, course directors and lecturers of Social Work, Institute for the Built Environment and Willem de Kooning Academy were introduced to partners, students, South Rotterdam and each other. EMI organized a tour of South Rotterdam and took participants by bike to various locations.

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june

January 17 January 2019

Werkplaats Zuid

In Theatre Zuidplein, in eight workshops, more than 180 visitors of various backgrounds were introduced to the EMI programmes. Students who had done their placement the previous year and those who had already graduated, presented their views and insights.

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6 June 2019

PI Presentations

In the Creative Factory, more than thirty third-year students of the Institute for the Built Environment presented the final results of the practical integration project Maashaven Dynamics to their lecturers and principals of Stadslab (‘City lab’) Maashaven, City of Rotterdam, Water Board and EMI. 28 June 2019

30 January 2019

Signing of partner agreements Mentors of Rotterdam.

Mama’s Garden closing party

For a festive closing of the academic year, Mama’s Garden organized a summer party in the Millinxparkhuis (DOCK). Apart from games, face painting, a lucky dip and water balloons, there was the Punch and Judy show of Frits Duikelaar, and children could have their pictures taken with mystery guest Hello Kitty. Catering was done

by Wijkkeuken op Zuid.

With the signing of the partner agreement for the Mentors of Rotterdam programme, all parties endorsed their participation for the coming three academic years.

12 June 2019

International UIA BRIDGE workshops

Together with the partners in South Rotterdam and international experts, UIA looked back on the results and the lessons learned of BRIDGE, but they also looked ahead.

may 22 May 2019

Tour of South Rotterdam with former town councillors

During a tour and a presentation in South Rotterdam, former town councillors were challenged to ponder and discuss the dilemmas that students of the Urban Innovation programme are working on.

July

20 June 2019

Presentation of the Rabobank cheque

As the first partner from the business world, the Rabobank adopted a number of classes from the Mentors of Rotterdam programme. Two directors of Rabobank Rotterdam presented a cheque for € 127.122 to the board of Stichting Studentmentoren Rotterdam.”

9 and 10 July 2019

Summit

Students of Spatial Planning and Urban Planning (Institute for the Built Environment) and Transformation Design (Willem de Kooning Academy) showed the versatility of the housing concept Samen en Anders (‘Mix & Match’).

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Interview Science & Technology

Tessa Nicolaas

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“It is important to raise certain interests in children.”

“It is my opinion that context is the most important prerequisite for a good Science & Technolgy lesson.

Think back to your youth, when you had to read the textbooks sentence by sentence: that teaches you nothing.”

Tessa Nicolaas, alumna of the pabo (teacher training for primary education) and now teacher at a primary school, has a clear vision of what Science & Technology lessons at primary school level should look like. “When I was preparing for a lesson about building profiles, I took an existing and well-known building in Rotterdam as an example. As soon as children recognize something, they will want to know more about it.”

Series of lessons From a young age, Tessa has had an interest in science and technology, and at secondary school she chose the profile Natuur en Techniek (Nature and Technology). “If your background level is OK, it is easier to improve your didactic skills.” In her third year at the pabo, Tessa developed a series of Science & Technology lessons. That caught the attention of EMI staff member Tamara van Heel, prompting her to approach Tessa for the development of teaching packs for the BRIDGE programme. “From all the lessons that had been developed by students over the years, I chose the best ten ideas, and integrated them in the teaching packs.” Tessa’s digital Science & Technology teaching packs can be found on the EMI website.

Over the past few years, in the collaboration with the pabo, EMI

has put the emphasis on the professionalization of primary school teachers when it comes to Science & Technology, which has resulted in Tessa’s teaching packs.

Furthermore, refresher training courses have been organized, and a Science &Technology box has been developed, including an information fan which gives teachers easy access to material to teach Science & Technology lessons. What has this resulted in? “I think that we have really created wide support for this. We have shown teachers what they can do with their pupils, and how they can create interest and motivation in them.”

Talent development During her studies, Tessa discovered that many children in South Rotterdam are not aware of career possibilities.

“It is of vital importance to raise certain interests in children, so that they can find out what they like, and match that with ’what can I do with it’, rather than ‘what job do I want to do later’. For children may have talents that fit with professions that don’t exist just yet, but may exist in five or ten years.”

It is Tessa’s conviction that Science & Technology education contributes to talent development in children. “They discover that they are good at other things than they thought they were.”

Bachelor Award During her studies, Tessa was one of the nominees for the Bachelor Award.

This is remarkable, as the award is often given to students of institutes that focus on innovation. And if in the educational world you want to be an innovator, you are to follow a Master’s

programme. “I have mixed feelings about that, to tell you the truth. It is important to keep innovating, but at the same time becoming a good teacher is also quite a challenge.”

As far as Tessa is concerned, giving Science & Technology classes in primary schools is a step in the right direction, and also much less complicated that teachers sometimes think. “Even with something simple as an elastic band or a mirror you can give an interesting Science & Technology lesson.”

Tessa, an important EMI ambassador and ally, started as a pabo student at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. After her internship she started as a student assistant at EMI, and contributed to the development of materials to be used in practice. After her graduation she started as a teacher in primary education, and was co-writer of an EMI publication. Within EMI, Tessa continuously developed herself from a student to a (starting) professional.

To give a good example, Tessa started a Science & Technology working group at her own school. “You can’t achieve anything without the creation of support within the team. All it may take is one enthusiastic person starting with Science & Technology.

I now have a colleague who is also keen, and in the school plan we describe our plans for the future, and how we intend to implement them. “ Tessa has another good tip: “Read our publication Lessons Learned. We are currently compiling it in the context of BRIDGE at EMI, and it contains a summary in brief of our experiences of the past few years.”

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Products S&T powerpoints Some of the S&T teaching packs contain a powerpoint presentation that you can use in a lesson.

Science & Technology newsletters Sharing and exchanging knowledge is valued highly by participants. In the newsletters archive you can ďŹ nd interesting reports and sources for inspiration.

S&T box Together with the S&T information fan, participating schools have also received a box with materials to be used as a basis for lessons. With this, teachers can immediately start preparing for a lesson.

S&T information fan The S&T information fan consists of a number of simple S&T lessons, giving per lesson the goal, the needed materials and the background, plus a step-by-step explanation on how to give the lesson.

S&T publication All the acquired knowledge and experience are collected in a publication, Lessons Learned, which can help schools in South Rotterdam get started on it. Expected publication date: September 2019

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S&T teaching packs In the S&T teaching packs you read how you can approach a variety of topics with the methodology of Investigative and Designing Learning. The lessons were developed and tested by S&T students of the pabo.

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S&T information fan Mentors of Rotterdam A special S&T information fan is being developed for Mentors of Rotterdam, with the idea that the student mentor can do a short S&T activity with a pupil in South Rotterdam, as the start of a conversation about S&T talents and dreams for the future. Expected publication date: September 2019.

Time stays for a while, like an old friend that you have been missing.

He makes himself comfortable in your favourite chair and fills the afternoon with stories. About places where he’s been and things that he’s done since he last saw you.

From: Domweg gelukkig, op Zuid

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Research department Parents in South Rotterdam The research department Parents in South Rotterdam focuses on the professionalization of future, starting and experienced teachers and social professionals when it comes to cooperating with parents in disadvantageous situations – for instance in South Rotterdam. How can schools and organizations improve their cooperation with parents, and help them become better educators?

The research department works for both the Knowledge Centre for Talent Development and Centre of Expertise Societal Innovation, which both are part of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.

Thuis in Taal (‘Comfortable with Language’), Ouders en lob (‘Parents and Career Development and Guidance’) and the Gereedschapskist (‘Toolbox’) for better cooperation with parents. Next to this, a number of schools in South Rotterdam is always involved in another three important projects: Parents and Homework, Dealing with Poverty, and Fathers and Sons.

Parents and Homework In order to improve their school results, we help primary and secondary school pupils to talk with their parents about what they are learning at school.

The past few months, six schools in Rotterdam – two of which in South Rotterdam – have developed home assignments for group 7 (the last but one year in primary school), and class 1 of secondary school. The test phase of these assignments will be in academic year 2019-2020. Meanwhile, nine more schools (in Amsterdam, Almere and Groningen) will be developing home assignments for group 8 and class 2. All these schools will test these assignments in academic year 2020-2021. We are doing research on the effect of this approach on the school results and the motivation of the pupils, and on the commitment and confidence of parents. The approach already had positive results in the USA. In 2022, a manual and film about this approach will be put in the Toolbox.

Worrying about money can hamper children badly in their development.

The topics that the research department focuses on are important for improving the chances of a good future of children and young people growing up in disadvantaged situations. Many projects are a direct result of the collaboration between EMI and Nationaal Programma Rotterdam Zuid (‘the National Programme South Rotterdam’) and practical issues in South Rotterdam.

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Dealing with poverty Worrying about money can hamper children badly in their development.

Although schools can’t solve poverty in families, they are confronted with it on a daily basis. Commissioned by the ministries of OCW (Education, Culture and Science) and SZW (Social Affairs and Employment), Parents in South Rotterdam, together with Hanzehogeschool Groningen is working on getting a clear picture of how schools can identify if poverty is an issue, and how they can deal with it more effectively. For example, seven schools (two of which in South Rotterdam) are working together in the development and testing of feasible methods to achieve this. At the beginning of 2021 a manual on this theme will be published in the Toolbox.

Moreover, we are investigating how to best shape the projects that intend to tackle poverty in families in an integrated way.

Fathers and Sons Just like mothers, fathers play an important role in the raising of a child.

Fathers can also contribute greatly to helping their children. However, in practice it turns out that fathers are very often not involved at all. Peter Vanhoof does research on the way aid workers can activate fathers so that they can foster the process of helping their sons or daughters further. This research project leads to new methods and training modules for aid workers.

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Letting them go... without losing them.

Thuis in Taal (‘Comfortable with Language’) Thuis in Taal offers teachers tools to create, step by step, a collaborative relationship with parents of low literacy, or with little or no formal education, and to enrich the interaction between parent and child. This approach was developed together with teachers and parents, with as a starting point the existing parent activities that the schools organize, as well as the needs of the parents. The professionalization route for the teachers helps them to identify and act on the characteristics of the parents. They get to know the backgrounds of the parents and think of parent-child activities that fit in with the knowledge and skills of the parents and their living environment.

This should help the parents to apply strategies to start communicating with their child.

As a part of doctoral research, this method was developed and researched at seven primary schools.

In 2019, about one hundred primary schools, some of which in Brussels, worked with this approach. The more than seventy preschools of Peuter & Co Rotterdam (including those in South Rotterdam) were also involved. From the very start, the practical application in the schools is monitored. The results show a sustainable development in the way the teachers act, and in the collaborative relationship between teachers and parents. There is also

a marked improvement of the interaction between parent and child. The knowledge about working

and financial strength of the school.

From there on we continue, using the findings form practical research, as

In order to improve their school results, we help primary and secondary school pupils to talk with their parents about what they are learning at school. together with parents with literacy problems has been integrated in the curriculum of the Pedagogical Educational Professional department.

In the current phase, the team is looking for the best way to roll out the developed approach on a larger scale, without damaging the effective principles. The first experiences are shared with partners in the city (for example via an inspiration festival that was organized on 3 October 2019).

Parents and Career Development and Guidance (cdg) Parents and Career Development and Guidance is a tailormade professionalization and guidance route, whose aim it is to increase the collaboration with parents and to reinforce the way parents foster career development at home. The coaching builds on the activities that the school already offers in the area of career development and contacts with parents, and is led by the ambitions

laid down in a manual called Parents and cdg for vmbo pupils. (Vmbo: lower vocational education.) We monitor and support the school in their execution of the new approach, and contribute to observations and evaluations. We also help deciding on adjusted versions for the coming year.

Last year, four vmbo schools and two primary schools participated and a few schools made use of advisory consultations. Apart from the changing practice in the schools themselves, tools like instruction videos were added to the Toolbox, and a manual was written for primary schools, which help them to shape their cdg practice and the way they involve parents with it.

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EMI and RUAS create possibilities to test the programmes in real life.

BRIDGE with scientifically underpinned and practice-tested professionalization material: tools, manuals and video material, intended for professionals and institutes/study departments. Each completed research project yields a pre-planned contribution to this Toolbox. It can take years before a research project yields usable tools. A guide was added to the Toolbox, which helps schools in (South) Rotterdam to give further shape to the collaboration with parents. Good use is being made of the Toolbox, in practice and within the institutes – from Brussels to Groningen: the tools have now been consulted more than 80,000 times. In a letter to Parliament, Minister Slob (responsible for primary and secondary education, among other things) recently mentioned the Toolbox as an example of good practice. At the moment, material is available on the following themes: Basic forms of contact with parents (e.g. introductory and progress talks, quickscans, information card and checklist contact with parents. Based on research done by Mariëtte Lusse.)

Parents and Literacy (e.g. parents and language, the open door activity) Parents and career development (e.g. manual about parents and Career Development and Guidance in vmbo schools, and Parents and school career development in primary schools, by Monique Strijk and Mariëtte Lusse, to name a few, and the advisory consultation talk by Rosa Rodrigues.)

In South Rotterdam there is a mismatch between demand and supply of workers, caused by unwise chosen career paths. This leads to unnecessarily high drop-out rates in schools, and wasted talents. Pupils don’t always take enough time to consider what course would suit them, or would give them a realistic chance of work and a promising future. Professionals and parents are trying to find ways how to support these pupils in making the right school career choices. BRIDGE is used as an answer to this practical issue.

BRIDGE is a three-year programme of the municipality of Rotterdam and partners in South Rotterdam, supported by the European Fund Urban Innovative Actions. EMI is involved as a partner and contributes to the development of the contents of the programme as a whole.

EMI is also closely involved with three tried and tested interventions. With Mentors of Rotterdam the current practice is reinforced by giving pupils direct and extra (Career Development and Guidance) support, whereas Science & Technology and Parents and cdg raise the chances of pupils by professionalization of school teams. EMI and RUAS create the possibilities to test the programmes in real life and to fine-tune them, while at the same time aiming to involve more students and lecturers with the interventions.

How career development and guidance is embedded in these three EMI programmes and what results have been achieved can be read on the previous pages and in the Mentors of Rotterdam articles.

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The passer-by folded his umbrella, and looked to his left. He wondered if he would ever again meet the girls, made eternal in the temporariness of the moment. As linguists, surgeons, or PokĂŠmon Go trainers.

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Interview Social Entrepreneurship

Talitha Souisa, Evi Franken and Terrence Pinas The focus of the EMI programme Social Entrepeneurship is on finding creative ways of tackling the unemployment in South Rotterdam, and of developing untapped talents of residents. Evi, Terrence and Talitha, students of Communication and Multimedia Design literally went into the field to get to work on complex problems there.

WerkKracht (‘WorkForce’) Talitha is still in the research phase, as during the process she changed the research question. In connection with the programme WerkKracht she saw that women who had just moved to The Netherlands had difficulty finding fitting work, mainly because of the language barrier. “These women have very little chance of a job. That worries me. I want to help these women to communicate with each other so that they can help each other. In talks with the women I found out that the problem is not due to the level of prior education they had, or to their will to achieve, but most of all to the fact that they can’t express themselves well enough.”

Talitha is now working on validating the problem statement, and wants to take the time for this. “I allow myself the time for this, as I want to create something that I can be proud of. In order to meet the deadline I would have had to rush things, and nobody benefits from shoddy work: neither the women nor I. That’s why I will simply graduate a little later than planned.”

Jouw Stem Telt (‘Your Voice Counts’) Evi Franken started working for het Jongerenloket. (‘Youth Support Counter’), where young people can go for support in the areas of schooling, work or housing. “I soon learnt that young people sometimes

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end up in a route that doesn’t fit in with their profile. I focused on what young people want themselves, and investigated how they want to be helped. That worked better than providing generic solutions.” Evi developed a route planner Jouw Stem Telt, a system with which you can find out fast and effectively what route fits best with a young person. Using a set of statements, the young people can indicate what they find important, such as travelling times and what they find hard, or what they enjoy doing. That is then the basis of a consultation in which they can think about the steps to be taken. The difference with the existing intake interviews is that Evi’s product ensures that the young people are involved more in the choices that are made. Hence the name.

Link Up When Terrence Pinas ended up in the Afrikaanderwijk in South Rotterdam, he noticed that the collaboration between the entrepreneurs and Wijkcoöperatie (‘Neighbourhood cooperation’) needed to be improved.

The cooperation brings together entrepreneurs, social organizations and the market, and stimulates a sustainable local economy and exchange of knowledge in the neighbourhood. “I wanted to involve the local entrepreneurs more with the Wijkcoöperatie, for I noticed that they were keen to cooperate, but they were reluctant to put too much

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time and energy in it. This is quite understandable, as they are busy with their own enterprise. But although they are so busy, they are very driven and have a strong will when it comes to the interests of the neighbourhood.”

Terrence came up with the concept Link Up, an application for supply and demand. Entrepreneurs can use the app to indicate what they have to offer, and ask who would like to

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collaborate. Others can respond to this.

The added value is that this increases involvement, because you no longer have to go by all entrepreneurs to present your product. It is like doing business from your lazy chair.

Everything goes via the Wijkcoöperatie, for you have to become a member of it, before you can use the app. When there is a match, the app also arranges a date in Gemaal op Zuid, the home base of the Wijkcoöperatie.

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EMI’s Social Entrepreneurship programme organizes collaborations and connections that can stimulate the labour participation of residents in South Rotterdam. Commissioned by practical partners, students and lecturers help (beginning) social entrepreneurs involved in projects in South Rotterdam with the development, execution and underpinning of their business case. Next to that, untapped talents are discovered and developed.

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Urban Innovation

Mix & Match

Samen en Anders (‘Mix & Match’) is an unconventional housing concept of housing corporation Laurens Wonen; it is a pilot project in South Rotterdam. As one of the partners, EMI links students of RUAS to the project.

Bob Janse, quarter master of Mix & Match, is happy with the collaboration.

“Critical questions and unexpected ideas of young people, that’s just what we need in our quest.”

In South Rotterdam, a large nursing home was partly transformed to a housing complex where groups of people live together in a way that you don’t see anywhere else: Mix & Match. The vulnerable and not so vulnerable residents of all ages 30

help each other. The rent is low, but each resident is expected to spend ten hours per month refurbishing the building, supporting other residents of the nursing home or helping the project further develop.

With EMI, RUAS is involved in the project as a partner. Bob explains how both parties benefit: “EMI functions as a sort of catalyst for Mix & Match, by thinking with us, and initiating research that is relevant for us. From our side, we offer students the opportunity to contribute to an innovative project that is very much in development.”

On-the-go development “Within Laurens Wonen we have decided that Mix & Match is a project

that we may develop on the go”, says Bob. “Even if we encounter sandstorms and highwaymen on the way, we will proceed nonetheless.

The help from students is invaluable in this. Their unbiased view, critical questions and unexpected ideas are just what we need in our quest.”

The housing corporation has made the conscious choice to formulate challenging assignments for students, but also to enter into a long-term agreement with various research departments of RUAS. Added value of students Bob mentions a few examples to illustrate the value that students add to Mix & Match. “Our housing complex has the capacity to house a certain number of residents, who also have

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“Critical questions and unexpected ideas of young people: that is exactly what we need in our quest.” of Mix & Match. Each research project yields a wealth of information.”

to meet certain conditions. The result of this is that we have to disappoint many people, who already have been disappointed many times before. To prevent this from happening, a student of Communication and Multimedia Design conceived an app that tests beforehand if you are eligible to come and live in the Mix & Match concept.

Unfortunately, we don’t have the financial means yet to create this app, but the idea is extremely valuable.

Moreover, a group of students has made a plan for improvement of the ground floor, students of the Willem de Kooning Academy have developed a communication plan to make Mix & Match more widely known, and other students have done field research in the neighbourhood to find out what residents of the neighbourhood think

Elderly ladies and big rappers That students can be found at the housing complex only contributes to the concept of Mix & Match living. “In our building you see elderly ladies of the nursing home chatting with big rappers. And yes, there are also students around.” Recently that led to quite a misunderstanding. “Two students had installed a big red pushbutton near the lifts. That was part of an experiment, but some residents thought it was a bomb.

“Consternation in the building, ha ha. Oh well, never a dull moment.

A student Spatial Planning and Urban Planning, together with Guido de Ruiter, senior advisor to the municipality of Rotterdam, and myself, did research on the societal value of Mix & Match. The outcome is that each euro that we spend on the project yields four euros in return on investment, as fewer residents need the help of doctors, aid workers and heath insurance. We need to convince the authorities that projects like these may initially cost money, but yield so much more.”

& Match. The support from EMI and the work and ideas of students are more than welcome. “A concept like this cannot be copied one on one in another building at another location.

What you cán do is transpose it. Local circumstances are the most important determining factor for the concept to succeed. That is the reason why we are going to make a toolbox, giving instruments for other locations to implement the concept.”

“Together with Angela van der Heijden, staff member of the Urban Innovation programme and CoP director for the S&A account from EMI, we are conducting research on how we can expand this for the coming years. We are also working on the idea to appoint a facilitator in each hallway, who can serve as a contact person for the other residents; we are seeking to reach out to the neighbourhood (outside in and inside out) and we want to make the building’s plinth more lively.

We can make very good use of the commitment and ideas of RUAS students.”

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Quality of Life: 8.5 Residents of Mix & Match grade their quality of life with an 8.5, almost twice as much as the 4.3 they used to give in the period before they were part of this project. This is one of the outcomes of an effect measurement that Quincy Maas carried out as a third-year student of Spatial Planning and Urban Planning, during his internship with Mix & Match. “The reciprocity and the housing concept have a few positive societal effects.

Residents support each other socially, mentally and physically.

They don’t need so often the help of professionals, they take large steps in their personal development and also financially they are more autonomous.”

Societal added value Quincy made use of the Effect Calculator, an existing method that assesses and shows the societal and financial effect of individual support actions. “I interviewed thirteen residents about their experiences, and with the Effect Calculator we have assessed and shown the added value of this special housing concept.

With the use of a social price list we could even underpin the effect

measurement with figures. And the outcome? Each euro that Laurens Wonen invests, yields four euros as a return on investment, in the form of money saved on aid, municipal services, Wmo (social support) and welfare benefits. Laurens Wonen wants to use these results to get in touch with potential partners to create a new financial structure for this unique project.

Barter Community in Practice He was glad to see that his work did not simply end up in the bin. The resulting report certainly has added value for Mix & Match and EMI. As part of his placement, Quincy joined the project Stad als Leefomgeving (‘City as Living Environment’), of former EMI staff member and ROP lecturer Mark Wissing. “In the Feijenoord district we were working on a collaboration model between four parties that exchanged services with each other. The result of this was a barter community. When I saw in Mix & Match that this also existed in practice, I became very enthusiastic.”

Graduating on South Rotterdam issues In the past few years various students did research on Mix & Match, via EMI. “I was glad I was able to take over the baton. I presented the results of the Effect Calculator to former municipal council members during an EMI meeting. The reactions were predominantly positive, and everybody was rather surprised by the financial effects. I can understand why, as on basis of seventy residents of Mix & Match, several millions of euros are saved annually. This internship has made me see the importance of housing and community formation, and of these two aspects I have discovered a few pearls in South Rotterdam. If possible, I would like to do my graduation placement here next year.”

“If possible, I would like to do my graduation placement here next year.”

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EMI verbindt onderwijs met onderzoek en praktijkpartners op Zuid. Docenten en studenten van verschillende opleidingen werken samen met organisaties aan oplossingen voor complexe maatschappelijke vraagstukken op het gebied van wonen, werken, zorg, onderwijs en cultuur in Rotterdam Zuid.

Meer info: https://www.emiopzuid.nl/

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“Als je in Rotterdam woont, ben je een Rotterdammer.” Sabine Maertens in NRC artikel https://www.nrc.nl/.../01/31/verborgenparels-op-zuid-a3652319 over EMI, Mentoren op Zuid en geheime tips in Rotterdam. Nationaal Programma Rotterdam Zuid NIFFO Galerie/ Recycle Studio Hogeschool Rotterdam Rotterdam Le Cent Quatre

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Eerder was Ferhat Dogan een student Bouwkunde aan Instituut voor de Gebouwde Omgeving - Hogeschool Rotterdam. Nu is hij trainee bij het programma Urban Innovation. Hij houdt zich bezig met vraagstukken over wonen op zuid wat in het verlengde ligt van het onderwerp van zijn afstudeeropdracht bij #EMIopzuid om goedkope studentenhuisvesting te realiseren.

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Urban Innovation

Expedition South Rotterdam

“All these results are achieved through collaboration.”

“I have been working as staff member of the Urban Innovation programme for seventy days, in the dynamic environment of EMI, and I’m pleasantly surprised about so many enthusiastic students, initiatives, events and collaborations. Below you find a few highlights that I experienced while biking through the city, and walking in RUAS. My first months at EMI were very inspiring, and I look forward to giving further substance to the lines set up by Urban Innovation.”

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Tackling practical issues “The supervisors of those in the final stages of their studies, interns and students of Praktijkintegratie (‘Practical integration’, or PI) Maashaven, PI Studying, and the Honours Programme are very keen to get to work on practical issues in South Rotterdam. And the final presentations, given in the Maassilo by students of PI Maashaven and PI Studying showed an interesting variety of solutions for the city. Water Board Hollandse Delta wanted to know more, and asked one of the groups how the Water Board could best redevelop the sewage water purification plant, according to the students. And when presented with the students’ plans for an Educational Walking Trail around Maashaven, the city council responded enthusiastically with the words “This is what we want!”

Deepening elements “In order to give more substance to the programme lines of Urban Innovation, events are organized.

For example, a number of Honours Programme (HP) students was linked to a group of former town council members, to talk together about the (im)possibilities of finding a place to live in South Rotterdam. It was good to see that the students held their own in the ensuing lively political discussion. “On 10 July, interns of Spatial Planning and Urban Planning, and of the Willem de Kooning Academy, addressed an international audience about their contributions to

reciprocal living, as developed in the Mix & Match programme (see page 32). Bob Janse of Laurens Wonen supervised the interns intensively.

At the meeting, they were young professionals informing their audience about the societal effect measurement and about an interactive game with as central theme: contact with others.”

Joint effort “All these results were achieved through collaboration. What is striking, is the open attitude of all partners from the National programme South Rotterdam and City Lab Maashaven to Like je Wijk (‘Like your District’) and the district managers - who together are working on a better South Rotterdam. Literally all people I speak with are open to connection.

RUAS and EMI have really become household names with the partners in the city. They already have a list ready of issues to be tackled and look forward to the solutions that our students will come up with.”

“In academic year 2019-2020 we start a new collaboration, with the Veldacademie and a number of institutes within RUAS. For example, the district Hillesluis will be the focal point of a long-term project about social resilience, giving centre stage to action research and interventions.”

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I write this from a different time zone.

At the seaside.

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Facts & Figures EMI Reach in South Rotterdam Residents Pupils Parents Professionals Partners

0614 6166 3876 1254 0227

Meetings

5% 51% 32% 10%

228 Events Excursions Guest Lectures

2%

Presentations Expert Meetings

Friends & relatives

781

Partners in networks

The Netherlands Residents 17.336.612 Residents up to the age of 27 31% Disposable income 27.800 People looking for work 7% Citoscore group 8 535,5 Official value of houses 230.000

Focus areas 79.427 38% 19.500 24% 513,1 99.375

The information in this grid was put together with the greatest possible care, as we want to give realistic figures of the achieved results. As we used a new methodology, these figures may differ from earlier versions of this grid. We are currently working hard to create a standardized data collection for the nationwide centres of expertise. This will affect the Facts & Figures for the coming years, and will lead to more uniformity.

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Communication

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Focus areas in South Rotterdam

91 08 14 70 45

Publications Digital

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Print Handbook

Videos

025

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2018-2019 Education Primary education Secondary education Intermediate level Tertiary (Vocational) education Universities of Applied Sciences Universities

132 022 003 004 009

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IVL IVG ISO IGO RAC IFM IBK COM WDKA CMI

532 435 315 316 133 114 76 65 44 33

13% 12% 11% 8% 5% 5% 3% 2% 2% 1%

373 (2) 285 (4) 297 (3) 576 (1) 109 (6) 44 (8) 34 (9) 140 (7) 221 (5)

Afstudeerders

Minors

Socials

183 125 96 269

21 Deployment students

218.101 hours 7.192 website visitors

Fewer because of focus on quality rather than quantity

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students

Deployment RUAS: *

students lecturers Research lecturers

2149 ** 0113 0013

* = including 86 from outside RUAS ** = including 6 from outside RUAS

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Art and Culture

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What if street language were the norm? With the project Ode to the Street, students Eline Schellekens and Loïs Simon did research on the contribution that street language can make to the resilience of the city. During the first WERKplaats Art and Culture, they talked with a group of (former) students, lecturers and experts from the art and culture sector to discuss this question. Four other groups of students, from the department Lifestyle & Transformation Design and the minor City Branding of the Willem de Kooning Academy, also presented their findings of the previous months to the audience.

The session Art and Culture during the EMI WERKplaats Zuid of 17 January 2019 was nearly the starting shot for the still to be developed new EMI programme. Improving the living environment in South Rotterdam by means of art and culture, creating a better connection between art & culture and education, and the cliché that we should try to empower the residents to realize their ideas themselves.

Not top-down, but bottom-up. Inge Kruithof of Theatre Walhalla said about the cultural array on offer in South Rotterdam, ”Extremely accessible, that works in South Rotterdam.”

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“Extremely accessible, that works in South Rotterdam”.

He established his own production house, in which he works together with about thirty young people.

Just like him, they want to make a difference in society. As a guest speaker during WERKplaats Zuid he repeated his mantra: “If you do something for South Rotterdam, but without involving South Rotterdam, you do it against South Rotterdam.”

Sharply formulated, but there is some truth in it, which was confirmed by Jeroen Chabot, dean of Willem de Kooning Academy: “We should be careful making the southerners feel like guinea pigs by taking things to South Rotterdam. What we should do is involve them, collaborate with them. That is why what EMI does is so important.”

What you do for South Rotterdam…

Spoken-word artist and festival organizer Y.M.P is a born storyteller and ‘southerner’ who speaks openly about his life on ‘his’ side of the river Maas. Growing up in a one-parent family, with the wrong kind of mates, wrong choices leading to two years in prison: a story you hear more often.

But in his case it is a story with a positive ending. Y.M.P. decided to change his ways, became a father and developed into a much soughtafter artist and cultural innovator in Rotterdam.

A front seat for Cultural Capital According to Reinier Weers, the first condition for EMI to get started is: “Let EMI emphasize the informal infrastructure of art and culture and the already existing cultural capital of South Rotterdam.” As from March 2019 Reinier has been in charge of developing the EMI programme Culture in South Rotterdam. South Rotterdam is a city district with about 200,000 residents, comparable to the provincial town of Almere. There are not many cultural institutions, and few Cultuurplan subsidies are granted for that part of town. Reinier was commissioned by the department for Culture of the municipality to make an inventory of the cultural array on offer in the various parts of Rotterdam.

One of the conclusions in that report, was: “In the districts where people tend to live anonymously, and soon move elsewhere, there is currently a

lack of so-called cultural anchors and of places where young and old can develop their talents. Such places are vital for social cohesion and talent development.”

The informal infrastructure is as yet too fragile and too dependent on a few passionate individuals, like the abovementioned Y.M.P. That the value of art and culture (and of sport, for that matter) is widely acknowledged by the National programme South Rotterdam, municipality and the national government is visible in the plans to work on it, and the available budgets for it.

In the autumn of 2018 EMI organized an event that acquainted about thirty students of the major Lifestyle Transformation Design of the Willem de Kooning Academy with culture in South Rotterdam. This was done through the #kooningopzuid-tour. Students uploaded pictures on the account, after which hints for the next location followed. The tour led the groups of students to various locations in South Rotterdam, like the sculpture Dijkwerkers at the Maashaven, the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperation, Playground De Regenboog in district Charlois and the sculpture Ziek en Genezen (‘Sick and Healed’) in the Carnisse district. Each group got a presentation on a different location, about social commitment. Sandra Pardoel of the Katrol Foundation, for example, spoke about vulnerable families and children in the Afrikaander district. Other central themes during the tour were Participant Observation and Street Art. This can be seen in the pictures that the students took and shared on the @ kooningopzuid account. EMI’s aim with the tour was to create an overview of all the beautiful things in South Rotterdam, and more attention will be paid to this in academic year 20192020.

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“It all depends on the enthusiasm of the lecturers. They must make an effort to make their students come this way.”

Another collaboration has just started: this time with the department Leisure & Events Management. In South Rotterdam a group of second-year students is starting a Leisure Lab in South Rotterdam for De Veerkrachtige Stad (‘The Resilient City’). With support from the Comenius Teaching Fellowship Grant, the Leisure Lab responds to the increasing urban compacting, and the resulting societal issues such as gentrification, super diversity and excessive tourism. Students work on a series of reiterated problem statements instead of on loose assignments, which increases the impact around the problem. They start by developing a feeling for the neighbourhood, collect stories and come up with interventions of programmes with leisure as a starting point. The ultimate goal is to create a scaleable educational model for urban development and place making, which can serve as an example for other study departments and cities. In the context of this Leisure Lab, the first-year students and lecturers of Leisure & Events management of course also go to South Rotterdam during their introduction week, in their first exploration of the city.

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Culture in South Rotterdam: it is a cause for hope. But meanwhile, lots of questions related to culture participation in South Rotterdam remain unanswered. For there is very little culture participation, according to Reinier, and EMI can begin to deal with that with a cultural programme.

What informal infrastructure is already present? How can we support it?

What are the needs of the residents?

There already are passionate people who are working with culture. This cultural capital is the starting point for EMI to think about how it can make a contribution in the coming years.

“With students, EMI can meet the need for art and culture. The students can find out what is needed by means of one-on-one talks, debates or as

part of the Mentors of Rotterdam programme.” According to Dafne Foet, RUAS lecturer and concept developer for areas, the support of already existing initiatives in South Rotterdam shouldn’t be too difficult. “RUAS has quite a few departments that could contribute to the development of cultural entrepreneurship in South Rotterdam. But it all depends on the enthusiasm of the lecturers. They must make an effort to make their students come this way.”

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