Why PLACES-3T? The economic, social, environmental structures, employment, training, insertion, guidance in a constantly an rapidly evolving universe, lead to imagine new routes so that every person may create their own place into the ecosystem. Working situations require a more and more complex mix of knowledge, know-hows, behaviours, emotions, cultural components and technical job skills ("fusion skills"). The current development of working modalities implies more and more to reflect upon, and be able to implement succesfully, the possibility of working in a hybrid way, partly on site and partly at distance. Out of Institutional systems, various experiments have evidenced the desire and the possibility to develop spaces and places that enable people to find themselves, create their own journey, though cooperation, co-creation, co-learning. The territorial context plays a key role in the idea of PLACES-3T Spaces. The ecosystem is firstly a proximal one, but could not be isolated; rather they would build a European network bringing a successful international span. PLACES-3T gather 7 partners from 5 Regions in 5 countries: Smart (Wallonie Bruxelles Belgium), FREREF (Wallonie Bruxelles Belgium and France) , PLS (Wallonie Bruxelles Belgium), AFPA (Rhone-Alpes, France), CEIS (Emilia-Romagna, Italy), FUEIB (Illes Balears, Spain), DFOIW2W (The Netherlands), together with associated partners. This consortium is well balanced between partners with a methodological background and partners with a field rooted activity. That enables them to produce not only method, tools, business models and recommendations to accompany the projects, but also to support real field implementations (Pilot Actions), to evaluate and validate them. What PLACES-3T produces, how and for whom: The PLACES-3T Spaces are special, anchored in their territorial, social, cultural context. They support people in developing new ways of learning, creating value, based on new success criteria: trust building – trust in yourself, in others, in the future; respect of the persons and of the planet; valorisation of abilities acquired previously, and developed in cooperation and collaboration; value of the creative thinking ("flip thinking"). By supporting the expression of desires, wishes, envies, they modify in a sustainable way the relation to the future, support visons that are more optimistic, more inclusive, more egalitarian, non-discriminating. They propose a process to start this journey. Innovation takes place, but not only, in the way the relations between the actors take place, the mixing of thinking and acting: no separations between work, learning, creation, individual and collective, content and method. They are evidently creating business value; not only self-employment, but more certainly new forms of organisations, collective and cooperative, structures of the social economy, or other forms to be invented. PLACES-3T produces: * a repository of successful innovative European practices; * a set of key success factors that may be re-appropriated in new contexts; * elements of sustainable business models that may also re-appropriated in new contexts; * elements to support the decision in and process of hybridizing the spaces (real, virtual hybrids); * a methodology to accompany actors in creating, developing, sustaining "PLACES-3T Places"; * pilot actions to experiment real life field implementations; * recommendations towards the decision and policy makers, who have the levers to enable the creation, support the development and sustain the life of these spaces. The audiences as full actors of PLACES-3T These activities gather an ensemble of various actors, either internal – the consortium – and/or external – the "target" audiences and stakeholders, whom we prefer considering as full actors: * people questioning their trajectories, young people with difficult contexts, adults looking or a reorientation of their career, or who are looking for different ways of working, in structures more valuable; * people whose job it is to accompany the former ones, and who would like to have a kind of action more participative, more innovative; * people concerned with inscribing their journey in a system of values that aims at more social justice, more sharing, less wasting of resources, more respect for the planet, a more reasonable consumption, more respect to the persons and their diversity; * people who desire to deploy their potential in creativity, imagination, entrepreneurial spirit, to create innovative business models and structures; * institutional actors and decision makers, in economy and politics, to help the PLACES-3T Spaces flourishing, to house them, to nurture them, to make them sustainable.
The Places-3T project aimed to identify, characterize and develop PLACES-3T Spaces which are unique, anchored in their territorial, social, cultural context. these places allow people to develop new ways of learning, of creating, of producing value, taking into account new criteria for success: development of confidence - in oneself, in others, in the future; respect for people and the planet; enhancement of skills previously acquired and those developed in cooperation and collaboration, enhancement of creative thinking (flip thinking). Innovation lies, among other things, in the way in which relationships between people are created and function, the mixing of concerns: no separations between work, learning, creation, personal and collective, content and method. These spaces are obviously creators of economic value, not just self-entrepreneurship, rather forms of collective and collaborative organizations, cooperatives, structures of the social and solidarity economy, or other forms to be invented.
The Places-3T project is part of a social context where relationships with work and learning methods are evolving profoundly. Economic, social and environmental structures, employment, training, integration, orientation in a constantly and rapidly evolving universe, lead us to imagine new routes so that everyone can create their place in the ecosystem. Work situations increasingly involve a complex mix of knowledge, know-how, attitudes, behaviors, emotions, cultural components and technical business skills (fusion skills). Outside of institutional systems, various experiences have highlighted the desire and the possibility of developing spaces that allow people to (re)find themselves, to define their own path, through cooperation, co-creation, co-learning. The territorial context plays an important role in the notion of 3rd type spaces and the Places-3T project made it possible to analyze and support these movements.