Transcript EQUAL TIME

COMMUNITARIAN INITIATIVE EQUAL
Project IT – G2 – PUG - 080
EQUAL TIME
Establishment of the transnational partnership
Presentation of the national project
Strasbourg, March 22 2005
Social Cooperative L’Obiettivo
The
Italian
project
EQUAL TIME will be
carried out within the
Region Puglia, and more
specifically
on
the
territory comprising the
Municipality of Bitonto
that belongs to the
District of Bari.
The project’s partnership is composed by the following
institutions:
Santi Medici Foundation
L’Obiettivo Social Cooperative
Elpendù Consortium of Social Cooperatives
Municipality of Bitonto
Puglia Natura Consortium
Santi Medici Foundation
It has been founded in the year 1993 with the purpose of rendering the
different activities of socio – sanitary, educative and charitable nature
more homogenic and of developing them.
It is strongly rooted on the territory and it is specialized in supplying
different kinds of services for the benefit of the single person and of
the whole community, starting from the socio – sanitary ones to
those of welcoming, listening and helping. It mostly works for
supporting women living in difficulties and who have been victims of
violence, through the management of a Welcoming Home.
Furthermore it had acquired lots of experience in realizing project’s
initiatives aiming at social inclusion and training for specialized
workers.
L’Obiettivo Social Cooperative
It has been established in the year 1982 and it represents a social
cooperative aiming at the labour insertion of weak people. Its
activities on the territory consist in promoting the integration’s
culture.
Among its methodologies we can mention the organisation of
team – work and permanent co-operation and exchange with the
public socio – sanitary services.
It promotes the process of empowerment of methodologies applied
during its 23 years of activity for the creation of integrated working
teams also by managing Community Initiatives finenced by the
ESF.
Elpendù Consortium
It has been established in the year 1994 and it associates social
cooperatives all over the territory of the region Puglia that work in
different fields.
It associates cooperatives aiming at the management of socio – sanitary
and educative services, at the socio- cultural animation, at the labour
insertion of weak people.
The purpose of ELPENDÙ is to put at disposal of the regional territory
a “net” of enterprises able to contribute in satisfying the needs
expressed by the Apulian Society and to guarantee the offer of
structurated answears to the demand of social services and needs
which is becoming more and more diversified and pushing by a Society
in permanent evolution.
Municipality of Bitonto
It is a Public Administration strongly concerned in creating a
socio – environmental balance compatible with the economical
development. It has experience in the territory’s development
policy and in the field of interventions aiming at creating new
job opportunities and at favouring socio – charitable services.
It had experimented integrated interventions aiming at
improving the living conditions of weak people, taking an active
role in experimenting a model for labour insertion.
Furthermore, it is involved in a net of Municipal Administrations
through activities aiming to protect and valorize the local and
typical production.
Puglia Natura Consortium
Its activities are concerned with protection, valorisation and
promotion of local and typical production coming from high quality
organic cultivations.
It represents a meeting point between customers and producers
within this sector at regional, national and international level.
Through its informative points, it supplies assistance and
information to companies and consumers, it spreads out the
results of surveys and studies carried out, it divulges its initiatives
aiming at promoting and valorising the apulian production of high
quality.
70% of unemployed women with less
opportunities to enter the labour
market becouse of weakness factors
and unemployed women with normal
opportunities
BENEFICIARIES
30% of unemployed men with less
opportunities to enter the labour
market becouse of weakness factors
and unemployed men with normal
opportunities
22 people will acceed to the Training phase
9 people will acceed to the Experimental phase
Activation
of
tools
aiming
at
experimenting
organisational solutions of cultural and productive
nature for eliminating the obstacles to the integration in
the labour market related to gender
OBJECTIVES
Qualification of the women’s job in the agricultural field
for what concerns the productive techniques and the
managerial skills for supporting the occupancy in the
specific sector in a territory that is historically and
geographically devoted to such activities
Creation of an integrated working group composed by
women
who
has
”paradoxically”
normal
opportunities and women with different abilities
PLANNING
RESEARCH
MACRO ACTIONS
TRAINING
EXPERIMENTATION
DISSEMINATION
Training Intervention
Organisational Model for
socio and labour integration
Designing of
the detailed
Plan
Organic techniques of cultivation and
transformation of agricultural
production
Research on the cultural/gastronomic
tradition in the rural environment
Research on the agro – food market’s
tendencies
Planning of the communication strategy and
project’s dissemination
Research
History and meaning of the country culture
regarding traditional recipes and typical
products of the territory which the project
refers to. The research, which will prepare the
experiemntal phase, will be useful to discover
the methods for preparing the food, that shall
be applied in the experimental phase
concerning
the
agricultural
product’s
transformation
Market research on the fresh and/or preserved
horticultural product aiming at individualizing
the real market opportunities after the closure
of the project
TRAINING
Primo
First Group
Gruppo
HELTHY WOMEN SUFFERING FROM
PSYCHO – SOCIAL TROUBLES
Social and labour integration and
techniques for company’s management
Women with
normal
opportunities
Second group
Women with
Normal and different opportunities
Orienteering activities and training in the
field of cultivation techniques and organic
transformation
EXPERIMENTATION
It will be developed on the base of productive activities, which
will be all related by a matricial relationaship and the limits of
which will be represented by the specialization choosen in the
training phase and by the results of the reserches.
The activities will concern: cultivation according to
conventional techniques which are not harmful for health and
organic techniques; products’ transformation that will also
follow conventional techniques which are not harmful for helth
and organic ones.
The tranformation as well as the cultivation, will follow
controlled procedures of production, according to the
challenge of the sector: a view of agriculture and
production not limited to the food production, but
representing a multi – functional sector in which
production should mean re - discovery of the rural
culture, environmetal respect, protection of the
consumer’s health, healthy and participating use of the
time.
Finally, a viability plan will be realized that will
support the beneficiaries’ group in starting – up
the following productive activities.
Valorisation of the skills and abilities acquired by
the people composing the integrated group
DISSEMINATION
Valorisation of the entrepreneurial model which combines
the agricultural production’s system with integration
Horizontal sensibilisation of the public, private and no
– profit making sectors