We want to facilitate the connection of young people in search of career guidance with professionals from various backgrounds through a participative social network adapted to the current modes of communication of young people.

We develop a social network allowing any young person to interact with professionals who are willing to share their experience and to help them in their questioning. This social network is oriented around a gallery of witnesses who present in writing or video their profession through a typical day, their career and their training. The user can access the profiles using a search engine based on classic entries (job name, sector, skill, etc.) or on elements more in connection with the life experience beyond the job description such as the user centers of interest. The goal is to stimulate the navigation of young people through different professional profiles even when they are lacking in inspiration and do not know what to look for precisely.

Through the social network, we want to facilitate the organization of in-person or virtual meetings to inspire students and stimulate their motivation. The social network is also the means to expand each student's network beyond the family and school spheres and to help break the socio-economic partitioning.

To enable Innesta to reach maximum impact in Messina, we partner with the JOF fundation from Friesland, Netherlands, who was challenge owner in the first edition of the EU Social Challenges, and who has selected Backstage to help them to solve the braindrain in their region. JOF has extensive experience working with young people and will support Innesta in the operational part of running the social network.