ACTIVITIES

 
1) Acknowledgment of the best practices

2) Monitoring in firms having already carried out the working insertion of disadvantaged people

3) Preparation of the working insertion model

4) Training of the operators

5) Professional guidance and support for the disadvantaged people

6) Identification of testing groups (depending on the results of the previous activities)

7) On-the-job training of the disadvantaged people

8) Job coaching

9) Development of the integration and knowledge-sharing culture

10) Transnational activity

11) Project promotion

12) Monitoring and evaluation

13) Spreading of the results obtained
 

ROLES OF THE PARTNERS INVOLVED

ACTIVITY 1) Acknowledgment of the best practices

Partner Ulss 16: management and coordination of the work group
Partner Irecoop Veneto: management and coordination of the work group
Partner Ulss 15, Ulss 17, Ulss 13, Ulss 14, Province of Padua, Confcooperative of Padua and Rovigo: participation to the work group

ACTIVITY 2) Monitoring in firms having already carried out the working insertion of disadvantaged people

Partner Ulss 16: management and coordination of the work group
Partner Irecoop Veneto: management and coordination of the work group
Partner Ulss 15, Ulss 17, Ulss 13, Ulss 14, Province of Padua, Confcooperative of Padua and Rovigo, Unindustria of Padua: participation to the work group

ACTIVITY 3) Preparation of the working insertion model

Partner Ulss 16: management and coordination of the work group
Partner Irecoop Veneto, Ulss 13, Confcooperative of Padua and Rovigo, Unindustria of Padua, Enaip Veneto, Politecnico Calzaturiero, Satef Veneto: participation to the work group

ACTIVITY 4) Training of the operators

Partner Enaip Veneto: management and coordination of the work group
Partner Politecnico Calzaturiero: support to the coordination
Partner Ulss 16, Ulss 13, Confcooperative of Padua and Rovigo, Irecoop Veneto: involved in the group for the planning of tutors' and job coaches' training.

ACTIVITY 5) Professional guidance and support for the disadvantaged people

Partner Ulss 16: activity coordination and management of its own Guidance Centre.
Partner Ulss 15, Ulss 17, Ulss 14: management of its own Guidance Centre

ACTIVITY 6) Identification of testing groups (depending on the results of the previous activities)

Partner Ulss 16: activity coordination
All Partners are involved in identifying the disadvantaged subjects to be inserted, the firms to be involved in the testing, and the corporate tutors.

ACTIVITY 7) On-the-job training of the disadvantaged people

Partner Enaip Veneto and Politecnico Calzaturiero: activity managers
Partner Ulss 16, Ulss 15, Ulss 17, Ulss 13, Ulss 14: they organize this first step of insertion of the disadvantaged person in a firm and his/her training to the corporate tutor's charge.

ACTIVITY 8) Job coaching

Partner Ulss 16: activity coordination
Partner Ulss 15, Ulss 17, Ulss 13, Ulss 14: through the job coaches, they carry out the job coaching activity for the benefit of the disadvantaged people and the firms.

ACTIVITY 9) Development of the integration and knowledge-sharing culture

Partner Ulss 16 and Irecoop Veneto: activity coordination
All Partners are involved in this activity (under definition)

ACTIVITY 10) Transnational activity

Partner Irecoop Veneto: activity coordination
All Partners are involved in this activity

ACTIVITY 11) Project promotion

Partner Irecoop Veneto: activity coordination
All Partners are involved in this activity

ACTIVITY 12) Monitoring and evaluation

Partner Satef Veneto: activity coordination
All Partners are involved in this activity

ACTIVITY 13) Spreading of the results obtained

Partner Irecoop Veneto: activity coordination
All Partners are involved in this activity
 

EXPECTED RESULTS

Expected results are:

- a validated model to lead the firm during the process of insertion and integration of the disadvantaged people;
- a validated model of flexibilization and personalization of the guidance and training interventions, especially on the job, able to remove the obstacles due to the insertion process.

By the end of the project, the DP intends to reach the following results as regards the three subjects involved:

Firms:

- increasing their organizational capacities aiming at improving their culture of social inclusion
- increasing the access and availability of working tools on the workplace for the disadvantaged person.

Disadvantaged people:

- develop their professional and relational capacities adapting them to the workplace actual requirements
- increase working insertions and their sustainability over time.

The service network:

- develops the competences and tools available for the authorities in charge of the planning and management of working insertions and social inclusions
- increases the offer of services in terms of integration among the different structures, either public or private.
 

ACTIITIES CARRIED OUT DURING THE SEMESTER

(list)

1) Acknowledgment of the best practices (concluded)

2) Monitoring in firms having already carried out the working insertion of disadvantaged people (concluded)

3) Preparation of the working insertion model (concluded)

4) Training of the operators (under way)

5) Professional guidance and support for the disadvantaged people (under way)

6) Identification of testing groups (depending on the results of the previous activities) (under way)

7) On-the-job training of the disadvantaged people (under way)

8) Job coaching

9) Development of the integration and knowledge-sharing culture (under way)

10) Transnational activity (under way)

11) Project promotion (under way)

12) Monitoring and evaluation (under way)

13) Spreading of the results obtained (under way)

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF EVERY ACTIVITY CARRIED OUT. describe the partners' role in carrying out the activities

1) Acknowledgment of the best practices (concluded)

This activity was carried out by means of a research on the literature and the best practices emerged from previous Equal projects or other local/European projects in order to define a "model of best practices for the working insertion of disadvantaged subjects" consisting of:

1. model of working guidance for disadvantaged people

2. model of working support for disadvantaged people

3. tools of analysis of the disadvantaged people's needs and resources.

The Group segments into 3 subgroups, one for each of the 3 sections described above and making up the "model of best practices".

The three subgroups drew up a document as follows:

• subgroup 1 'Guidance' and subgroup 2 'Support'

• joint definition of the service on the basis of the needs the service has to satisfy (typology and characteristics of the users: i.e. need to evaluate and develop potentials and resources in a process shared with the person and the family)

• specific targets

• operational methods

• tools and resources

• strength points

• difficulties

• subgroup 3 'Tools of analysis of the disadvantaged people's needs and resources':

• contexts and methods of use of the tools

• strength points

• undervalued aspects and proposals for additional surveying tools/methods (i.e. motivation, self-effectiveness, etc.).

Partner Ulss 16 and Irecoop Veneto: management and coordination of the work group

Partner Ulss 15, Ulss 17, Ulss 13, Ulss 14, Province of Padua, Confcooperative of Padua and Rovigo: participation to the work group.

2) Monitoring in firms having already carried out the working insertion of disadvantaged people (concluded)

This action was carried out along with the Action "Acknowledgment of the best practices" since these two actions were conceived as synergistic and preparatory to the definition of the intervention model as provided for in the following actions and tested during the MacroPhase 3 "Testing".

This Action has carried out an intervention of research-action aiming at analysing thoroughly and in a direct and immediate way, meaning in a way not filtered by interpretative schemes and models, the analysis relating to the complex problems concerning the process of social-working insertion of disadvantaged people.

For this purpose, a working group was established including operators of the Working Integration Services, the Employment Services of the province of Padua, the Social Cooperatives and the training authorities in charge of planning the training of job coaches and corporate tutors; this group planned the research action which was realized as a monitoring activity in the provinces of Padua and Venice (territories of the S.O.LE. Project) involving:

• firms having already carried out the working insertion of disadvantaged people

• social cooperatives

• the Working Integration Services (WIS) of the reference Ulss

with the aim of giving space to those who are directly involved in the process of corporate insertion of disadvantaged people in order to weigh together the experiences lived.

This monitoring was carried out by means of a series of interviews addressed to privileged witnesses that aimed at highlighting the strong and weak points of the experiences realized and at pointing out the best practices and the difficulties of this process. A meeting and discussion point was created to compare the corporate problems and those noticed by the "operators" during the working insertion of disadvantaged people.

One of the main issues was to listen to the firms in order to check what really happens during the working insertion of the disadvantaged people and to understand how they live this process and what difficulties they face.

It was realized what follows:

• a group semi-structured interview that involved 4 corporate delegates, 1 delegate from a social cooperative, and 3 operators of the WISs in charge;

• 5 interviews addressed to 4 corporate delegates, 1 operator of a social cooperative and 3 operators of the WISs in charge.

The interviews were recorded and later transcribed in order to dispose of more complete and reliable material to ponder about.

The information gathered was later analyzed by the operators of Working Group 2 who highlighted important and precious elements for the comprehension of the difficulties concerning the corporate insertion of disadvantaged people.

Partner Ulss 16 and Irecoop Veneto: management and coordination of the work group

Partner Ulss 15, Ulss 17, Ulss 13, Ulss 14, Province of Padua, Confcooperative of Padua and Rovigo, Unindustria of Padua: participation to the work group.

3) Preparation of the working insertion model (concluded)

This activity was dedicated to the definition of the working insertion model for disadvantaged people by means of:

• Planning of the model

• Definition of the tools and methods used to implement the model and its acknowledgment

• Identification of the firms fit for the testing.

The training paths for job coaches and corporate tutors, key actors for the testing of the S.O.L.E. project, were also planned.
 

RESULTS OBTAINED DURING THE SEMESTER

1. Definition of the model of working guidance for disadvantaged people

2. Definition of the model of working support for disadvantaged people

3. Definition of the tools of analysis of the disadvantaged people's needs and resources

4. Report on the strong and weak points, as highlighted by the firms, of the working insertion of disadvantaged people

5. Preparation of the working insertion model by means of the model planning and the definition of the tools and methods used to implement the model and its acknowledgment

6. Planning of the training paths for job coaches and corporate tutors.
    

Possible products and/or tools realized during the semester

The tools reflect the results obtained.