What Is a Network of Practice?

CAPE is a global youth practice network, launched by young people and students in June 2011. It aims to explore our new future together with the practice and observation of contemporary youth and students in globalized education, economy and culture.

CAPE

(A global youth practice network)

CAPE is a global youth practice network, launched by young people and students in June 2011. It aims to explore our new future together with the practice and observation of contemporary youth and students in globalized education, economy and culture.

CAPE consists of the initials of the four words collective, adventure, practice, and experience. In the early days,

When we were in college, we found that when students participated in supporting education, they were alone and helpless. At the same time, university studies were also singles alone. Not only is teaching alone when teaching, back to school, but also fighting alone. Although there is a network, it is still unorganized, and everyone does not learn how to support each other. Students from international internships and students studying abroad often follow Prepare from scratch. I ca nt find anyone who has experience before. I also did nt maximize the power of everyone to help everyone. Everyone is like an island. The information that was possessed was relatively scarce in the early days. However, it cannot be identified. From the island to the open, there is a network but it is still very loose. The value of openness and the network has not been fully reflected.

Take Chen Lu's example, returning to the observation that Chinese youths are practicing globalization, he himself did not apply for AIESEC internship in India (visa issue), and then returned to observe this matter (more and more young people (Apply for internship, work, study abroad), if you are not catching the trend, but observing the trend, what is going on, and at the same time, observe what problems may exist in this trend. If you can further help this trend by yourself, you can do Point something, and then talked about observation and sharing, and found that this is not enough, but also see classmates who have the opportunity to go overseas (Many students have the opportunity to go out, but their experience is only self-experience, not through written records. Social value), and classmates who do not have the opportunity to go overseas (they have no conditions, opportunities, and funds to go out, but it does not mean that they do not desire to understand the wider world and horizons). It seems that this is not a good relationship between the two. Connection, and then we wonder if we can create this connection, connect several groups of people, and do The role of a waiter, that is, the role of a waiter (to help overseas youths better share and sort out their social practice experiences and observations, to help domestic youths to easily access relevant high-quality sharing and information, and to help both of them be more convenient Connection and mutual exchange).

After reflection and imagination, Chen Lu wrote some blog posts, and then won the support and response of netizens. First, Guangjia enthusiastically responded, and then Guangjia pulled his cousin Esprit, and a group of young friends found us. Join us; then we start to consider issues such as submissions and contributors, and from Weibo, blog, wiki, to bbs, etc., to build a youth development community, hoping to more truly connect such a group of people. The first thing we did or the starting point was to encourage overseas practitioners to share their stories and form a pedestrian sharing network. It didn't take long before we went to the butter youth conference, TEDxNanjing participated in the sharing, and then accepted an interview with Youth Magazine and Map Magazine. , Also received the attention and cooperation intention of many domestic youth organizations.

Then there are further observations and reflections, observing some basic problems in the interaction between young people and society, or some basic problems in the participation of young people in social practice, still being influenced by various social concepts. Although there are doubts, it is still difficult to express with their own voice Come out, deep in a period when the traditional society is transformed into a network society, open ideas and closed ideas are intertwined, and young people fluttering duckweed, but I also hope to be rooted in the soil, like fluttering duckweed. At the same time, young people are struggling with the contradiction between globalization and locality. The development of horizons has not completely eliminated our inner confusion. Practice is still the voice of many people in this generation, that is, to gradually explain the meaning of the "Global Youth Practice Network" From the simple service to the sublimation of ideas, the process of observation and reflection is the process of sublimation. Of course, this is only an occasional reverie. You ca nt think about it when you do things, that is, you further affirm the value of doing this thing, then you turn to specific operations, and then you start a website.

After more than a year of development, the content of the website has been continuously enriched, and the number of participating youth has been increasing. It has been extended to more than a year to Chinese youth groups in nearly 35 countries, echoing each other. The focus of our work is that we must first improve and standardize our website content editing process, standardize team collaboration, attract more overseas sharers to join, and initiate CAPE Talk to active young actors. To expand to interviews with global youth Changemaker, and organize localized youth gatherings (CAPE Meetup).

If we say that education must first solve the problem of human development. Under the current circumstances, the first issue is youth development. To be a youth community is to promote youth development through community learning. We are currently considering the establishment of a community platform. The platform is a temporary patchwork, and urgently needs technical and artistic personnel. In addition, we are also considering whether to apply for funding or register for an independent institution, but we have already developed for the future development. Certain thinking.

We hope that in the future, friends from all over the world will be encouraged to build small stations around the world, that is, CAPE stations. We hope that each place can have a team and carrier that truly serve the development of young people, and through youth Human development, to drive open education, community construction, and the development of a new economy. Let me first talk about how to serve the society by serving young people. We hope to get the support of students from all over the world. We need everyone's support.

The Local Caper role has been launched in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Singapore and other places. Local Caper's branch network has actively organized local youth gatherings (CAPE Meetup) to participate in the local youth Changemaker Interview (CAPE Talk), participated in the establishment of local youth communication and practice support platform. From Local Caper (connector) to CAPE Meetup (circle), to the future CAPE Local (small station), we believe that the power of youth self-organization can give each youth more opportunities and space for development. I hope you will join in this action.

The CAPE team is composed of university students and young workers distributed in many places around the world, and is a pioneer who is committed to promoting open education and innovative practices of youth society.

The CAPE community gathers a group of young people who have ideas and actions. They are eager to actively create change through their personal efforts and actions, to drive the young people around them to act together to change, and spread positive energy stories.

The core project of CAPE mainly includes two parts:

1. Online information platform : an online information platform based on the CAPE official website as the center and various social media platforms. Establish a convenient sharing platform for active-action youth, pass on the personal observation and reflection of young people, so that each actor s story can be transmitted farther; at the same time, launch an open interview plan (CAPE Talk) to encourage young people to interview the actions around them to create changers stories Let every youth see the story of ordinary youth growing from action youth to zero, inspiring more youth to participate in action; invite action youth with specific experience and experience in a certain field to open a column to continue to share stories of observation and practical experience in this field.

2. Offline event platform: We launched the CAPE Meetup offline event brand to help young people quickly convene and organize a themed party and salon in a city. Through theme gatherings, make friends who follow the topic and share each other's stories and experiences, so as to inspire each other and promote cross-border cooperation and action creation. Based on local youth activity organizations, promote local youth exchange and resource accumulation, and help more young people initiate action plans and practical assistance.

CAPE Meetup

CAPE Meetup is a novel way to party. Follow the Meetup with Purpose party idea. More than 50 Meetup events have been held in more than 20 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, New York, Boston, Singapore, Hangzhou, Zhoushan, Wuhan, Chengdu, and Hong Kong. If you are eager to initiate topic gatherings and exchanges in a certain field, you can apply for CAPE, you will get event brand authorization, event organization experience sharing and event communication assistance.

Cooperation projects : CAPE and various types of organizations and institutions that are in line with values launch cooperative projects to promote the innovation and practice of youth society. Cooperated with iJoin Social Innovation Consulting Project to complete the recruitment of iJoin global summer public welfare consultants, while helping and promoting DFC to enter China ^[1]

Map Magazine, South China Morning Post ^[2] , Beijing Today ^[3] , People Weekly ^[1] , American Atlantic Magazine ^[4] , Australian National Radio, Wuxi Commercial News, Zhoushan Evening News, etc. have all interviewed or interviewed CAPE. Related activity reports have also been invited to share in TEDxNanjing, TEDxSuzhou, Butter Youth Conference and other communities.

I'm at CAPE and share different

On the second anniversary of CAPE, 30 Capers joined forces to help #I am in CAPE, sharing different # activities, telling their different experiences from a first-person perspective, encouraging more young people to create life possibilities, sharing differences in CAPE, attracting domestic and overseas Youth contributes to CAPE.

I am in CAPE, sharing different (21 photos)