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The full screen vision is to be able to offer the model in all exclusion areas in Sweden. File image. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
Paid work alongside the school as a way into the professional life for young people in vulnerable areas.
It proposes 32 employers, schools and community actors at DN Debate.
The model is called study -motivating working life orientation (SAO) and assumes that students in grade eight, instead of prao for two weeks, are allowed to work with real tasks two hours a week throughout the year.
Jobs that will provide salary, knowledge and insight into working life.
“It creates an inclusive culture where extra work every week becomes a matter of course in young people’s everyday lives. And perhaps most importantly: it can give hope for the future, ”writes the article authors who have come together to launch the initiative” Next Generation Sweden “.
The jobs should be offered to entire school classes, rather than selected students. Already, 100 students from five school classes in Upplands Väsby and Sundsvall have been able to apply for a job and go on job interviews at participating workplaces.
Participating companies include Apoteket, Hemköp, SJ, Spotify and Telia.
In the long term, they write, the goal is to be able to offer the model in all vulnerable areas in Sweden.
“Everyone who has trained and worked with young people knows that setbacks and failures are inevitable. But we are ready to do our part of the job ”.