Who We Are
StartNet Manual
Download StartNet’s guidelines on how to build a multistakeholder network and an European dialogue for young people’s transition from school to work with the Collective Impact method.
What is StartNet
StartNet is a network for cooperation, collective action, and impact on young people’s transition from education to work.
It has two levels of action:
- a regional network created to promote orientation in schools and create the conditions for young people in Apulia and Basilicata to enter the labour market in line with their potential and ambitions. This network is made of schools, governmental institutions, businesses, youth groups, and the third sector who plan and implement concrete projects on the ground.
- the StartNet Europe network,a platform for dialogue among similar networks from different European regions to exchange good practices, learn together and be supported in their future development.
Our goal is to provide a productive and efficient transition system that guides and supports young people from school to work.
Funded by the Stiftung Mercator and by the Goethe-Institut, the network StartNet was officially launched in September 2017 in Bari.
The Stiftung Mercator is a German-based foundation committed to project in education, culture, science and art in different countries in the world. The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany worldwide, and in Italy, where it has been working actively on career guidance with schools from all over the country. Following the growing youth unemployment, which was triggered by the global financial crisis especially in Southern Europe, both institutions decided to act and gave birth to StartNet- Network transition education to work in two hardly hit regions, Apulia and Basilicata, for the period of 2017-2020.
StartNet is led by the Goethe-Institut Italien in Rome and Trani and by the Goethe-Institut Bruxelles. Our projects pool together national, European and private funds in effective, long-term and sustainable ways.
Mission
- Fight youth unemployment and foster youth employability by meeting employment needs in Apulia and Basilicata.
- Close the gap between education, training and work by promoting local resources and opportunities.
- Continue and enhance cooperation between strategic partners through collective impact.
- Strengthen the exchange with other European projects on education, training and access to the labour market.
Collective Impact
Five key criteria
Common Agendashared by all stakeholders
Continuous CommunicationInformation and knowledge exchange
Shared MonitoringConsensus on indicators of impact
Backbone Organisationdealing exclusively with the project coordination
Mutually reinforcingactivities across all sectors
Partners
Our goals
- To create opportunities and offers that are aimed at young people, with the objective of making them the architects of development processes.
- To strengthen career guidance at all stages of growth.
- To improve the skills of all key players to promote best practices in the transition from school to work.
- To carry out at least three projects each year with the participation of at least three network partners.
- To implement a "multi-fund" approach that combines different sources of public funding together with private resources.
- To establish a specialised European approach on the subject of the transition from education to work.
- To develop shared guidelines and recommendations for workers and professionals involved in the transition from education to work.
Meet Our Team
Stella Wirth Benedetti
Stella Wirth Benedetti
Goethe-Institut Rom
Angelika Bartholomäi
Angelika Bartholomäi
Goethe-Institut Rom
Diana Sutea
Diana Sutea
Goethe-Institut Brüssel
Gesa Spätling
Jan Wilker
Perla Zanini
Simona Ferrante
