Digital urban strategy. A digital fablab to equip school leavers with digital skills

La Fabrique de Gonesse” is the first project of the Roissy Pays de France Agglomerations’ (FR) digital strategy. Launched in 2015, the programme uses digital technologies, mass communication, digital fabrication, repairing, networking and project management as an empowerment tool for tackling the problem of school dropouts, especially in deprived neighbourhoods. It combines flexible teaching with peer-to-peer methods, based on an innovative pedagogic method. After three cycles, the remobilisation rate is 90%, while only 10% leaving the programme.

  • Tags: digital skills,formal skills,Informal Skills,job inclusion
  • Name of organization: Gonesse, which is an integral part of Roissy Pays de France Agglomeration, composed of 42 cities, in collaboration with University Cergy-Pontoise and the local administration.
  • Participating countries: France
  • Gender: All
  • Suggested age: 14 to 18 years old, especially in risk of dropping out
  • Type of Activities: Digital activities
  • Resulting Informal Skills: Empathy and social responsibility, Broadened career expectations, Reinforce capacity to make own future decisions
  • Resulting Formal Skills: Increase academic self-efficacy and capacity of self-organization, Improve digital skills
  • Implementation period: To be determined
  • Resources needed: Teachers specialized in digital technologies, mass communication, digital fabrication, repairing, networking and project management
  • Funding Agency: Regional programme of EU funds
  • Contact person: Driss Bziouat (Responsable for EU funds)
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