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TEEN LAB: innovative digital training to combat early school leaving

Published on 26 September 2023
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The TEEN LAB project aims to reduce school drop-out rates and promote the professional integration and social reintegration of young people in difficulty, who are no longer part of the training system and are unable to enter the world of work on a permanent basis (known as NEETs, "Not in Education, Employment or Training").

Funded by the European INTERREG ALCOTRA program, the Teen Lab project was designed and delivered in France by the training organization Les Compagnons de la Tech, in close cooperation with Chambéry's municipal FabLab.

In 2022, 40 young people from Chambéry and 60 young Italians benefited from a 10-week training course focusing on digital skills and "doing it yourself" : "a course designed to give young people a positive dynamic, build a professional project and enable them to acquire a base of digital skills".

A large majority of the young people from Chambéry enrolled in the Teen Lab training program were in a situation of social isolation: isolation resulting from academic failure, relocation (from abroad or from a French town), isolation without family, or following a traumatic collective experience. " The training - even for some of those who dropped out - enabled them to find a place to socialize".

The final report points to the difficulty learners have in keeping up the pace throughout the course: " difficulty in organizing themselves around a multitude of tasks, which can lead to a feeling of being lost, no immediately visible results, giving the impression of not making any progress, difficulty in projecting themselves over a more or less long period of time".

However, two-thirds of those enrolled completed the course. These were young people who "were very much digital consumers, but had no real digital skills, and who nevertheless did very well". The majority of learners who completed the course attended 80% or more of the training time. "This attendance is an apprenticeship to meet a prerequisite for taking up a profession: getting up and keeping to timetables".

« The FabLab was essential to the potential of materializing a digital realization: most of the FabLab's machines are numerically controlled. The FabLab was open outside training hours, so that learners could continue learning independently. »

The city of Chambéry

At the end of the program, 65% of trainees had gone on to further training, study or employment, or had a solid personal project to develop (15 trainees wished to resume their studies or training, and 10 had projects or wished to experiment in order to develop their project: internships, civic services, going to Canada, personal project, testing a sector of activity).

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TEEN LAB: innovative digital training to combat early school leaving

The TEEN LAB project aims to reduce school drop-out rates and promote the professional integration and social reintegration of young people in difficulty, who are no longer part of the training system and are unable to enter the world of work on a permanent basis (known as NEETs, "Not in Education, Employment or Training").

Funded by the European INTERREG ALCOTRA program, the Teen Lab project was designed and delivered in France by the training organization Les Compagnons de la Tech, in close cooperation with Chambéry's municipal FabLab.

In 2022, 40 young people from Chambéry and 60 young Italians benefited from a 10-week training course focusing on digital skills and "doing it yourself" : "a course designed to give young people a positive dynamic, build a professional project and enable them to acquire a base of digital skills".

A large majority of the young people from Chambéry enrolled in the Teen Lab training program were in a situation of social isolation: isolation resulting from academic failure, relocation (from abroad or from a French town), isolation without family, or following a traumatic collective experience. " The training - even for some of those who dropped out - enabled them to find a place to socialize".

The final report points to the difficulty learners have in keeping up the pace throughout the course: " difficulty in organizing themselves around a multitude of tasks, which can lead to a feeling of being lost, no immediately visible results, giving the impression of not making any progress, difficulty in projecting themselves over a more or less long period of time".

However, two-thirds of those enrolled completed the course. These were young people who "were very much digital consumers, but had no real digital skills, and who nevertheless did very well". The majority of learners who completed the course attended 80% or more of the training time. "This attendance is an apprenticeship to meet a prerequisite for taking up a profession: getting up and keeping to timetables".

« The FabLab was essential to the potential of materializing a digital realization: most of the FabLab's machines are numerically controlled. The FabLab was open outside training hours, so that learners could continue learning independently. »

The city of Chambéry

At the end of the program, 65% of trainees had gone on to further training, study or employment, or had a solid personal project to develop (15 trainees wished to resume their studies or training, and 10 had projects or wished to experiment in order to develop their project: internships, civic services, going to Canada, personal project, testing a sector of activity).

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TEEN LAB: innovative digital training to combat early school leaving