{"id":1886,"date":"2013-06-27T21:21:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/news\/the-university-of-life\/"},"modified":"2020-03-03T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T11:20:28","slug":"the-university-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/fr\/the-university-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"THE UNIVERSITY OF LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Making a Living<\/a> project is trying to find out how young people cope with making a living across Europe. As part of this, we’re encouraging you to interview other young people<\/a> but also organisations who are helping others make a living.<\/p>\n

One of the areas we’re focusing is how young people cope practically with making a living, the day to day workarounds that help them get by and develop skills. That’s we’ve been really impressed by\u00a0The U<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We interviewed Louise Foreman, who as well her love for halloumi and Beyonce, is the U’s community coordinator. She shares her insights on how the U came about and how it helps people tackle everyday issues.<\/p>\n

What were the steps in developing The U<\/a> from coming up from the idea to opening up the first U?<\/span>
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\nThe U is a Young Foundation<\/a> venture which started in October 2010 with support from NESTA<\/a> (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). During the first four months we conducted research into similar models of learning in order to build an understanding of what was currently available, and to establish what the most successful format for our sessions could be. <\/strong><\/p>\n

For the following 2 months we then worked with a service designer to begin the design and prototyping phase<\/strong> for a template of what a U session should be like<\/strong>. In this phase it was important for us to be able to understand user experience; questioning our assumptions about what works and allowing room for feedback was essential.<\/p>\n