IMAGINE aims at tackling youth unemployment by providing sustainable job prospects in the horticulture sector, more specifically for young people (15-34 years old) who are NEET – not in education, employment or training - in the (peri-)urban areas of North-West Europe.
In these regions, horticulture, urban agriculture and short food supply chains sectors are growing rapidly and require a lot of low-skilled labour. However, job entry rate after a training is currently 20%. Indeed, these sectors face significant barriers to fully develop their potential, including, lack of access to land and weak youth empowerment.
Local organisations can help to overcome these deficiencies by facilitating free access to their hectares of vacant land and by involving young people through an innovative co-production methodology.
IMAGINE will therefore support the development, testing and implementation of different social incubation models (access to land + support) for young people in the peri-urban horticulture sector on the outskirts of London and Paris, in central Belgium, in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and in Eindhoven.
The objective is also to create a transnational network in charge of social innovation issues in (peri-)urban horticulture to ensure long-term effects and help organisations to replicate the model.
Posted on 16-06-2022
The 7th steering committee of the IMAGINE project took place on June 2nd and 3rd, 2022 in Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The entire IMAGINE project team was invited by the partner P... Read more
Posted on 16-05-2022
As part of the INTERREG "IMAGINE" project (2019-2023), the Lycée Technique Agricole (LTA) and the Forum pour l'Emploi (FPE), in collaboration with the Agency for the Agence pour le... Read more
County Hall, Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 2DN
United Kingdom
75 Avenue Parmentier
Paris cedex 11
75544
France
Place Charles de Gaulle
Moussy-le-Neuf
77230
France
153 rue de la Croix Nivert
Paris
75015
France
1-06 Kanaaldijk-Zuid
Eindhoven
5643 TZ
Netherlands
104 Boulevard Joseph Tirou
Charleroi
6000
Belgium
72 Avenue Lucien Salentiny
Ettelbruck
9080
Luxembourg
2 Avenue Sergent Vrithoff
Namur
5000
Belgium
Lead partner
| Organisation | Address | Website | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bureau Economique de la Province de Namur |
2 Avenue Sergent Vrithoff Namur 5000 Belgium |
crl@bep.be | www.bep.be |
| Name | Contact Name | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surrey County Council | Vincent O'Connell | Vincent.oconnell@surreycc.gov.uk | United Kingdom |
| Palme Association | Catherine Liefooghe | contact@palme-asso.eu | France |
| Moussy-Le-Neuf municipality | Valérie Simil | valerie.simil@moussyleneuf.fr | France |
| Action & Transition | Djamilla Boukercha | djamilla.boukercha@icloud.com | France |
| Phood Farm | Tim Elfring | tim@phoodfarm.org | Netherlands |
| Walloon office for vocational training and employment | Gelsomina Capierri | gelsomina.capierri@forem.be | Belgium |
| Agricultural Technical School Ettelbruck | Gerard Conter | gerard.conter@education.lu | Luxembourg |
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On January 26th, Association Palme will hold a french speaking webinar about Economic Territories & Urban and peri-urban agriculture.
January 26th, 2021 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm via Microsoft Teams
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Join our workshop “ Empowering Europe’s vulnerable youth! “ during the #EURegionsWeek
Two Interreg North West Europe projects – IMAGINE and EYES - pool their experience for this event, to share lessons learnt with policy makers and practitioners.
When? 13 October 2020 from 9.30am to 11am via ZOOM
Interested? You must register before 7 september via this link: https://europa.eu/regions-and-cities/programme/sessions/1395_en
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The launch and presentation event of the Interreg NWE programme, IMAGINE will be held on the 5th & 6th November 2019 in Paris and Moussy-le-Neuf (Ile-de-France).
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The 7th steering committee of the IMAGINE project took place on June 2nd and 3rd, 2022 in Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The entire IMAGINE project team was invited by the partner Phood Farm. Read More
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In the beginning of 2021 Phood Farm opened it’s indoor farm doors to start a new Aquaponics Farm in the middle of the city Eindhoven in the South of the Netherlands. Taking over from the former owner of this Aquaponics system “Duurzame Kost”, Phood Farm had the opportunity to continue collaboration with the IMAGINE program. Read More
Happy New Year 2022 ! Best Wishes ! Read More
For the past decade, the Association de préfiguration de la régie de quartier Vaugirard has been carrying out its activities of local animation and social integration within the 15th district of Paris. Read More
Last week, on December 2nd and 3rd, the 6th PSC organised by the BEP, lead partner of the IMAGINE project, took place in Namur. This was the first face-to-face meeting between all the project partners since the launching event in Paris at the end of 2019. Read More
The association de préfiguration de la Régie de Quartier Vaugirard and its local partners Vergers Urbains, Ecoterale, Samusocial, have just acquired a 5,000 m² space… Read More
On september 11th 2021, the Association de préfiguration de la régie de quartier Vaugirard participated to the annual associations forum of the 15th district of Paris. Read More
On september 24th, the Bureau Économique de la Province de Namur (BEP) and BEP Expansion Economique invite you to discover... Read More
After having filmed the models in Paris and Namur, we continued our video shooting in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Our partners from the Lycée Technique Agricole d'Ettelbruck presented us their social incubation model with their local partners on June 28th and 29th, 2021... Read More
LT3.1 - Business model for Social Enterprise Read More
T.1.2.2 - Benchmark report on social legislation across NWE Read More
T.1.3.3 - Social Governance model Read More
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T2.1.4 - Roadmap to organise transnational mobilities : International Mobility Guide Read More
LT2.2 - Interactive tools to disseminate the guidance document Read More
T.1.4.3 - Toolkits on how to assess engagement levels and competences Read More
T.1.1.2 - Co-production manual Read More
T.1.4.2 - Roadmap on the minimum technical skills and social competencies required in horticulture in NWE Read More
Pilot Data Sheet Social Governance model Read More
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