Know-How Lab for Social Entrepreneurship

The aim of the project is to ensure higher and long-term employment of vulnerable groups through exchange of innovative models and practices implemented by social enterprises. We will launch a Know-How Lab for Social Entrepeneurshup with focus on social entrepreneurship which will initially involve 27 organizations. The Lab will contribute to building a community for finding, testing and implementing good and effective practices with a social focus from other EU countries. Foreign experience will be presented through various models of employment of vulnerable groups in social enterprises and good practices for improving the organization and working conditions in them. In view of the characteristics and profile of the participants in the Lab, they will be formed three pilot groups – each one with representatives from up to nine organizations which will be involved in study visits. Special methodology for constant measurement of the readiness for inclusion of people with disabilities in the labor market will be presented which will help to their effective employment (the Netherlands).They will be investigated various training programs for systematic and sustained increase of the qualifications and competences of employees in the social enterprises (Italy–Veneto).The experience of innovative models for inclusion of migrants and refugees in the social entrepreneurship with the purpose of more successful integration will be also presented (Italy-Sicily).With mentorship by the team experts, they will start activities on prototyping and implementing of innovations in the daily work of the social enterprises.The activities will include preparation of a plan about how and for what the investigated models will be implemented; matrices of the implementation stages; individual strategies for implementation of the relevant social innovations; action plans.The assessment of the project results will provide recommendations for ensuring suitability of the achieved project results.

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