Join the YSD community!

Become a Young Service Designer/Young Service Designer.

Do you want to connect with other young people, exchange opinions,best practices, get information about your community and opportunities in your city, contribute to the City's work on service design for young people, and meet and debate with city policy makers and politicians? We invite you to apply to the Young Service Designers (and Service Designers) Network, or YSD!

The project in brief:
YSD is a project funded by European Youth Together and coordinated by the Comunità Brianza Consortium in Italy, with partners from Finland, Germany, Greece, Poland and Slovakia. In each country, one partner youth organization works with one municipality, which is the local experimentation site for YSD activities. In Poland, it is we Lublin-based Sempre a Frente Foundation.

The YSD project aims to support young people (16-24 years old) through civic education and engagement approaches, developing their competencies and offering them opportunities to truly participate in local decision-making in order to rethink their cities and public spaces.

This will be made possible through a variety of activities, including the implementation of the Capacity Building Program for Youth Activism, targeting 20 young people (Young Service Designers) in each country, focusing on service design, particularly service creation in a post-communist society.

After participating in the Capacity Building Program, the Young Service Designers will activate Youth Public Innovation Laboratories, starting in September 2022, and implement and prototype the “service(s)” designed in the previous phase. The project's cities and youth workers will support the young participants throughout the duration of the project.

Read all the details about the YSD 2022 project below and apply to participate in the program. We are waiting for applications until June 20, 2022.

For whom?

You can apply for the program if:

You are 16-24 years old
You live in Lublin
You know English at a communicative level (it is not a necessity)
You are ready to work in a cross-cultural environment;
You belong to community organizations or are a volunteer dealing with social issues (this is an added advantage);
You declare full participation in all phases of the YSD project, in particular:
Participation in the Capacity Building Program, scheduled for May-June 2022.
Active participation in the Youth Public Innovation Labs
Willingness to engage in the piloting of solutions produced by the project and related collaboration with institutions.

Fill out the application form by JUNE 20, 2022: https://forms.gle/osgPtGmw8uH78dvX9

Candidates will be selected based on the quality of the application form and taking into account gender balance.

Why apply?

Benefits:

Experiencing real participation in decision-making at the local level regarding activities in the spaces of one's city.
Becoming a creator of change.
Gain skills in identifying problems and needs, creating solutions, co-designing services, cooperating with other young people and local public administration.
Establishing contacts with other young service designers from your city and from EU countries: Germany, Greece, Finland, Poland and Slovakia online and offline,
You can network with other young people in Europe -During the hackathon, 5 young participants/participants will be selected to attend the first peer-to-peer learning meeting in Lublin in September 2022.
Exchange experiences with other young people in Europe. 5 more participants/participants will attend the second peer-to-peer learning meeting in Finland in November 2022.
Obtain a LEVER UP certificate confirming the competencies gained during the project, which will validate your skills and may increase your employability.

In addition, all young service designers and designers will have the opportunity to participate in various communication activities related to the program: interview, video, competition.

What?

The YSD 2022 program will be implemented during the European Year of Youth.
The program consists of modules:

Design thinking- a brief theoretical overview of design thinking and its application to policy and services.
Conducting design research- an introduction to design research methods and principles, a brief overview of user and market research and its application.
Interviewing and observation-exercises in conducting interviews and observations.
Mapping ideas and needs-exercises.
Modeling, experimentation and rapid prototyping-exercises to bring ideas and solutions to life.
Bringing local administrative institutions closer to young people.

The YSD program will help you build bridges between your city and region and the EU, give inspiration on how to foster democracy, and find ways to engage other young people in democratic discussion and local life.
Building resilient communities. Under this theme, the YSD program will allow you to learn how to contribute to improving services for young people in your city, and be inspired by the projects of other YSDs in Europe on topics such as youth inclusion, climate, or civic engagement.

When?
The 2022 YSD training will take place from 18-22.07.2022.

From September to December 2022, trained young designers and service designers will take part in the launch of the Public Innovation Lab to experience real participation in decision-making at the local level to rethink their cities and public spaces.
We intend to pilot the proposed solutions starting December 22.
In addition, some of the participants/participants will be able to take part in an international event in Poland or Findland in 2022.
Additional activities/events may be added during the year. You will be informed about it in due time. Dates are still subject to change.

Where?
In Lublin!

How?
To apply, please fill out the form below: https://forms.gle/osgPtGmw8uH78dvX9

Selected candidates will be interviewed by teleconference

In the event of withdrawal of one or more selected candidates/candidates, their place will be taken by the immediate lower ranked candidates. Also in this case, the admitted candidates/candidates will receive an email.

What are the costs?

Participation in the training is free of charge.

If you have any questions, you can write to: biuro@sempre.org.pl