"Adaptation and Implementation of Social Innovations for Employment of Marginalised Groups through Public Procurement"

Marginalisation is a state in which individuals are living on the fringes of society because of their compromised or severely limited access to the resources and opportunities needed to participate in society and to live a decent life. Around 20-30 families in Botevgrad municipality experience a complex, mutually reinforcing mix of economic, social, health, educational, housing, legal disadvantage, as well as stigma. The municipal administration in Botevgrad endeavors to improve their status but needs different innovations, applicable at local level, for labour, health, educational, etc. inclusion of marginalized groups. The National Institute for Health and Welfare’s project targeting increase the employment possibilities for individuals far from the labour market by developing innovative ways to use social criteria in public procurement can provide this much needed social innovation to integrate or reintegrate marginalised Roma in the labour market. The common transnational objective is to learn how to create work placements, apprenticeships, working habits for people far from the labour market with very low education and professional experience by applying employment criteria in public procurement by participation in the organised from the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) thematic workshops, as well as by exchange information regarding carried out public procurements with employment criteria in City of Helsinki and Vantaa, activities in Helsinki with focus to Roma population, as well as THL’s researches in the field. From its side the Botevgrad municipality will be responsible to adapt and validate the use of social criteria in public procurement in order to integrate and re-integrate individuals into the labour market; to inform people in marginalized groups for newly opened opportunities based on the social criteria in public procurement; to organise the assessment of achieved results; to disseminate positive as well negative results.

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