Partnership in social innovation: capacity for building and managing synergies between

Public andPrivate partners, ESI Funds, and other EU

instruments

The Emilia-Romagna Region experiences

Social Inclusion and new concepts of frailty

• The concept of «Social capital»The need of adapting welfare to new social conditions and demographic dynamicsNew needs: youth unemployment, ageing, fragility of the primary networks, job insecurity, impoverishmentNew welfare = synergy between PA, third sector and business

Reality and the role of the social economy in Emilia Romagna

• Workers employed in the social economy: 64.000.000, with volunteers and workers outer get to 516.000.000

• Over three-quarters employed in 723 social cooperatives

• Good performance of social cooperation - in terms of revenues and employment level – in a time of crisis

• Concept of corporate welfare and profit sector contamination

Experience of public private partnership

• Role of the social economy in promoting the involvement of business in actions of social inclusion

• Project «WEEE in prison», TOI Leonardo Project "Sifor”

• Passage from corporate welfare to community welfare through network welfare

Social Innovation

• Integration between welfare policies and active labor market policies

• Need of territorial agreements for sustainable development

• The draft regional law «Inclusion and work»•

Unitary gathering and registration and customized design

The Regional Programme Proposal for ESF 2014 - 2020

• Social inclusion: Job placement as a lever for social inclusion

Labor market and social policies programming characterized by an integrated, multidisciplinary and horizontal to non-discrimination approach

Interventions based on cooperation between training agencies, social services and employment services, companies and social enterprises

Mainstream approach within the different priorities to support innovative actions aimed at promoting a more competitive social economy

The Regional Programme Proposal for ESF 2014 - 2020

Measures to support social cooperatives start-up and strengthening opportunities, joined by tools and services for the access to finance, guarantee funds, business micro-credit

Training of business leaders and managers of nonprofit organizations to make them suitable to play roles in the social economy, and consultance services and support to the management of a social enterprise

OT.9: 20% of total resources

OT.11 allocation of resources to strengthen the dialogue between the actors of the system, with particular reference to the implementation of the draft law "Inclusion and Work"