This document outlines a team's brainstorming efforts to address unemployment in France. It identifies several contributing factors to high youth unemployment rates, including economic crises, outsourcing, and lack of available jobs. The team proposes several solutions, such as promoting French industries like luxury goods, food, agriculture and tourism; requiring all internships and jobs to provide pay; using experienced senior workers to train youth; and increasing investment in research to create new jobs. Feedback from others validated that the team identified the key issues and had a realistic vision, and one company agreed to pilot some of the proposed solutions in order to reduce youth unemployment.

1. HEAL THE WORLD!
Brainstorming to find
unemployment solutions.
Team members:
Alexis FINKBEINER (team leader)
Perrine LECLERC
Thomas GUILLARD
Country:
France
School:
Institut Sup’Biotech of Paris
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2. Heal the world!: Alexis FINKBEINER, Perrine LECLERC, Thomas GUILLARD
Youth unemployment is due to many
factors which create a vicious circle.
Step by step:
• crisis, economical factors
• delocalisation
• political decisions
• The elderly cannot live without a job
nor with just their retirement
• There are less jobs on the market
• Youth unemployment.
Step by step
EXPERIENCE AND DISCOVER
The diagramm : exponentialimprovement.com
Statistics
• France: youth
unemployment ≈ 28%
• Total unemployment =
10%.
• Senior Citizens (+65
years old) have to work
because they cannot
live without a job
• Older generation
unemployment is
increasing.
(statistics of Insee)
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3. Heal the world!: Alexis FINKBEINER, Perrine LECLERC, Thomas GUILLARD
SOLUTIONS
Show French advantages:
• Luxury items
• Gastronomy
• Cereal agriculture
• Tourism.
Make investments in these domains and develop them
(government and private investors); favor co-operative
education schools in these domains.
Goal : restart the economy
Propose a law:
internships and all
jobs must be paid,
increase the
monthly retirement
income.
We have to develop
a new process. The
goal is to use senior
experience in order
to train youth.
That may reduce
unemployment.
Scientists leave France
because they cannot do their
research the way they want.
By developping research we
create jobs.
Sometimes,
managers think
young people do not
have enough work
experience. To have
experience,
someone has to
give us a chance.
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4. Heal the world!: Alexis FINKBEINER, Perrine LECLERC, Thomas GUILLARD
RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
Insee website
Le Monde website
Pôle emploi website
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Average time: 12 years
plus one generation
• People employment:
increases
exponentionally
• Budget (for 12 years): ≈
2 billion euros
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profit of all
companies (in
euros) without
taxes
time ( in years)
people
employed
(UA)
Our solutions have advantages and drawbacks but, we have to consider
human and financial benefits carefully.
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5. IN REAL LIFE
Heal the world!: Alexis FINKBEINER, Perrine LECLERC, Thomas GUILLARD
Feedbacks
We asked:
• Romain El Andaloussi, manager
of the association Cook & Lab
• students of Sup’biotech and of
the Faculty of Medicine of Saint
Quentin en Yvelines.
They said:
• we targeted the most important
points
• we have a realistic vision of the
situation.
Make it work: implement
We find one company, GLOBE
diffusion, which applies all our
ideas.
• employed 20 young people/
week
• free training
• encourages youth employment
• shows the example of what other
companies have to do to reduce
youth unemployment.
If all our ideas were applied:
• it allows to hire 10 thousands young people in 12 years.
It is not a revolutionary concept for youth unemployment, but we can
consider that our solutions are a little progress for youth employment. 5