Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov - Ministrstvo za delo, družino
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Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov - Ministrstvo za delo, družino
Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov Program Pobude Skupnosti EQUAL 2004-2006 za Republiko Slovenijo 2 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov Založnik: Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve, Kotnikova 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija [email protected] http://www.mddsz.gov.si/ Zbrala in uredila: Klavdija Vrečer, spec. Lektura: Multilingual, Sonja Zavrtanik Galijaš s.p., Komenskega ulica 6, 1000 Ljubljana Oblikovanje, priprava za tisk in tisk: Utrip Brežice d.o.o., Marof 2, 8250 Brežice Naklada: 1.500 izvodov CIP - Kataložni zapis o publikaciji Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana 364.4:339.732.4(4) PROGRAM Pobude Skupnosti EQUAL 2004-2006 za Republiko Slovenijo : zbornik sofinanciranih projektov / [zbrala in uredila Klavdija Vrečer]. - Ljubljana : Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve, 2007 ISBN 978-961-6471-13-8 1. Vrečer, Klavdija 235585024 »Program delno financira Evropska unija« »Program delno financira Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve« »Organ upravljanja Programa pobude Skupnosti EQUAL je Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve« »Za vsebino dokumenta je odgovorno Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve in v nobenem pogledu ne izraža stališča Evropske unije« Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov KAZALO : PREDGOVOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 UVOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 SEZNAM SOFINANCIRANIH PROJEKTOV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ROMSKI ZAPOSLITVENI CENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 PARTNERSTVO ZA ENAKOST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 K.U.P.O.L.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 ROMSKI IZOBRAŽEVALNO INFORMATIVNI CENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 ENAKOVREDEN ŠTUDIJ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 UFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 IN-VALID-IN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 (RE)INTEGRACIJA ŽRTEV TRGOVINE Z LJUDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 SPINUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 DNEVNI CENTER MOST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 M-LAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 ZNANJE JE MOČ-Vseživljenjsko učenje za vse (osveščanje in informiranje) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 RP FENIKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 SINTEZA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 S COACHINGOM DO VARNE STAROSTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 MLADIM MATERAM/DRUŽINAM PRIJAZNO ZAPOSLOVANJE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Z ODLIČNOSTJO DO ENAKOPRAVNOSTI MED SPOLOMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 EQUAL VESNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 RAZVOJ SISTEMA POMOČI NA DOMU-SIPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 PROGRES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 3 4 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov PREDGOVOR MINISTRICE ZA DELO, DRUŽINO IN SOCIALNE ZADEVE Evropska unija je za iskanje skupnih rešitev za posebne probleme, ki zadevajo celotno Unijo, ustvarila tako imenovane pobude skupnosti. Ena izmed štirih takšnih pobud, ki se financirajo iz različnih strukturnih skladov, je Pobuda EQUAL. Pobuda EQUAL, financirana iz sredstev Evropskega socialnega sklada, je del strategije EU za vzpostavljanje številnejših in boljših delovnih mest ter za zagotavljanje lažjega dostopa na trg dela. Prek partnerskega sodelovanja spodbuja nove načine spopadanja z diskriminacijo in neenakostjo na trgu dela, tako pri zaposlenih kot pri tistih, ki iščejo delo. EQUAL vključuje tudi pomoč pri socialni in poklicni integraciji prosilcev za azil in žrtev trgovanja z ljudmi. Z mednarodnim sodelovanjem se ideje in inovacije razširjajo kot dobre prakse v celotnem prostoru Evropske unije. EQUAL je hkrati doprinos k Evropski strategiji zaposlovanja ter k prednostnim ciljem zaposlovalne in socialne politike članic EU, saj poskuša analizirati vzroke diskriminacije in neenakosti na trgu dela ter predlagati nove načine za spopadanje z njimi. Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve je cilje, ukrepe in aktivnosti, ki so v skladu z Evropsko strategijo zaposlovanja, določilo na podlagi analize stanja na trgu dela v Sloveniji, analize vzrokov diskriminacije in neenakosti na trgu dela ter na podlagi obstoječih politik in posvetovanj. Ministrstvo predstavlja organ upravljanja, ki spremlja dvajset projektov v okviru pobude skupnosti EQUAL in njihovo izvajanje. Rezultati Pobude EQUAL kažejo, da smo tudi na področju inovativnosti iskanja novih načinov spopadanja z diskriminacijo in neenakostjo na trgu dela sposobni izvesti zahtevne projekte sodelovanja. To je še posebej pomembno pri prehodu v novo finančno perspektivo 2007–2013. Prepričana sem, da je bil program Pobude skupnosti EQUAL za vse nas lepa priložnost za razvijanje, spoznavanje in izmenjavo novih idej. Vsem dvajsetim razvojnim partnerstvom Pobude EQUAL se zahvaljujem za dosego rezultatov z željo po nadaljevanju njihovega uspešnega dela v prihodnosti. Marjeta Cotman Ministrica za delo, družino in socialne zadeve 5 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov PREDGOVOR GENERALNEGA DIREKTORJA DIREKTORATA ZA TRG DELA IN ZAPOSLOVANJE Ob zaključku programa Pobude skupnosti EQUAL smo pripravili zbornik, v katerem predstavljamo rezultate programa in posameznih projektov. Glede na višino finančnih sredstev, ki jih je Slovenija prejela s strani EU za pobudo EQUAL, in glede na relativno kratko programsko obdobje (2004–2006) se je Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve odločilo, da program EQUAL omeji na štiri od devetih ukrepov, ki jih je predlagala Evropska komisija. Med izbranimi ukrepi so bili: Ukrep 1: Omogočanje lažjega dostopa in vrnitve na trg dela za tiste, ki imajo težave pri vključevanju ali vnovičnem vključevanju na trg dela, ki mora biti odprt za vse (Zaposljivost); Ukrep 5: Spodbujanje vseživljenjskega učenja in vštetih delovnih praks, ki spodbujajo, da na trg dela pridejo in na njem ostanejo tisti, ki trpijo zaradi diskriminacije in neenakosti v povezavi s trgom dela (Prilagodljivost); Ukrep 8: Zmanjševanje razlik med spoloma na delovnem mestu (Enake možnosti); Ukrep 9: Pomoč pri integraciji prosilcev za azil (Iskalci azila). Na ta način se je lahko zagotovila koncentracija aktivnosti, hkrati pa so se razvila kakovostna razvojna partnerstva. Tematska področja in ustrezne aktivnosti v programu je Ministrstvo za delo družino in socialne zadeve opredelilo glede na potrebe trga dela in prednostne naloge politik. Pobuda EQUAL poziva k učenju in inovativnem mišljenju. Glavni subjekti in akterji pobude EQUAL so razvojna partnerstva. Ministrstvo je v okviru Pobude EQUAL razvojnim partnerjem podalo podlage za sledenje svojemu poslanstvu ter za razvoj svojih idej. Glavni cilj Pobude EQUAL v Sloveniji je prispevati k razvoju celotne in usklajene strategije zaposlovanja ter igrati pomembno vlogo pri razvoju človeških virov na svoj enkraten način, in sicer z iskanjem novih metod boja proti diskriminaciji in neenakosti na trgu dela, da bi se dosegla blaginja vseh prebivalcev Slovenije in se tako spodbujala vrednost človeških virov. Doseženi rezultati dokazujejo, da so bili v duhu razvojnih partnerstev doseženi marsikateri inovativni dosežki, ki bodo v bodoče krojili boljše in enakopravnejše možnosti na trgu delovne sile. V pričujočem zborniku so opisani projekti, ki so bili delno sofinancirani v okviru Evropske unije, deloma pa s strani Ministrstva za delo, družino in socialne zadeve. Zelo pomembno je, da so se pri njihovi izvedbi povezovale številne inštitucije kot tudi mnogi posamezniki, ki so s svojim strokovnim delom prispevali k uspehu programa. Izvedba projektov je bila težka, saj je od partnerjev zahtevala visoko stopnjo znanja, veliko energije, delovnega elana, potrpežljivosti in timskega dela. Vsem partnerjev v okviru Pobude skupnosti EQUAL želim, da bi doseženi rezultati v prihodnje samostojno zaživeli v praksi in da bi s skupnimi močni še naprej razvijali in izvajali inovativne projekte na trgu dela, tudi s pomočjo sredstev Evropskega socialnega sklada. Robert Drobnič Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve 6 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov Uvod Zbornik predstavlja dvajset projektov, ki so sofinancirani s sredstvi Evropskega socialnega sklada (ESS) (75 %) in s sredstvi Ministrstva za delo, družino in socialne zadeve (25 %). Projekti so se izvajali v obdobju med letoma 2004 in 2007. V prvem delu zbornika je na kratko predstavljena donacijska shema, dopolnjena s konkretnimi podatki o izvedbi. Namen, rezultati in učinki sofinanciranih projektov so podrobneje predstavljeni v drugem delu zbornika. Cilji Pobude EQUAL S pomočjo sredstev Evropskega socialnega sklada Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve (MDDSZ) upravlja Program Pobude skupnosti (PPS) EQUAL 2004–2006 za Slovenijo. Program zagotavlja finančno podporo sodelovanju partnerjev iz različnih regij ali sektorjev, z namenom prispevati k strategiji Evropske unije za zagotavljanje boljših delovnih mest in boljše dostopnosti do trga dela. Splošni cilj pobude EQUAL v Sloveniji je prispevati k razvoju celotne in usklajene strategije zaposlovanja ter igrati pomembno vlogo pri razvoju človeških virov na svoj enkraten način – z iskanjem novih načinov boja proti diskriminaciji in neenakosti na trgu dela, da bi se dosegla blaginja vseh prebivalcev Slovenije in se tako spodbujala vrednost človeških virov. V okviru splošnega strateškega pristopa so temeljni cilji Pobude skupnosti EQUAL iskanje novih metod boja proti diskriminaciji in neenakosti, še posebej iskanja: • možnosti za vključevanje prikrajšanih skupin v ukrepe in storitve institucij, ki delujejo na področju zaposlovanja in socialnega vključevanja; • novih in učinkovitih politik in praks za reševanje težav, s katerimi se soočajo prikrajšane skupine; • inovacij, ki bi se jih lahko vgradilo v politike in prakse, da bi bile prikrajšane skupine, politike, sektorji ali geografska območja pokrita širše kot doslej. Donacijsko shemo in tehnično pomoč upravlja Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve. O donacijski shemi Zaradi finančnih sredstev Evropskega socialnega sklada, ki jih je Slovenija prejela za Pobudo EQUAL, in zaradi kratkega programskega obdobja je slovenski program Pobude skupnosti (PPS) omejen na izvedbo sofinanciranih aktivnosti v okviru štirih od devetih prednostnih tem. V okviru zgoraj navedenega strateškega pristopa je Slovenija izbrala naslednje prednostne teme: - Ukrep 1: omogočanje lažjega dostopa do trga dela in vrnitve nanj za tiste, ki imajo težave pri vključevanju ali vnovičnem vključevanju nanj, saj mora biti ta odprt za vse (zaposljivost); Ukrep 5: pospeševanje vseživljenjskega učenja in vštetih delovnih praks, ki spodbujajo, da na trg dela pridejo in na njem ostanejo tisti, ki trpijo zaradi diskriminacije in neenakosti v povezavi s trgom dela (prilagodljivost); Ukrep 8: zmanjšanje razlik med spoloma in podpiranje enakopravnosti na delovnem mestu (enake možnosti); Ukrep 9: podpora socialnemu in poklicnemu vključevanju prosilcev za azil. Pri izvajanju programa izbranih ukrepov in aktivnosti se je posebno pozornost namenilo tudi trem horizontalnim tematskim področjem: razvoju informacijske družbe, pospeševanju enakih možnosti za ženske in moške ter podpori žrtvam trgovine z ljudmi. Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 7 Višina razpoložljivih sredstev Slovenija je za izvajanje projektov v okviru Pobude EQUAL v obdobju 2004–2006 iz ESS dobila sredstva v višini 1,5 milijarde tolarjev (6,4 milijona EUR), k temu pa je potrebno dodati še nacionalna sredstva v višini 500 milijonov tolarjev (2,1 milijona EUR). Sredstva iz sklada so bila porabljena na strateški in osredotočen način ter predstavljajo dodano vrednost, ki dopolnjuje predvsem programe aktivne politike zaposlovanja in druge prednostne naloge Enotnega programskega dokumenta, ki se nanaša na znanje, razvoj človeških virov in zaposlovanje. Upravičenci za prijavo Organ upravljanja za PPS EQUAL je Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve, natančneje Direktorat za trg dela in zaposlovanje. Plačilni organ je v okviru Ministrstva za finance; končni upravičenci so razvojna partnerstva, izbrana na javnem razpisu. Razvojna partnerstva sestavljajo profitne ali neprofitne organizacije (lokalna uprava, nevladne organizacije, zavodi za zaposlovanje, centri za socialno delo, podjetja, zbornice, socialni partnerji, lokalne in regionalne razvojne agencije, javne in zasebne izobraževalne ustanove, fundacije, združenja, itd.). Izvedbena struktura Razpis za sofinanciranje projektov je bil objavljen julija 2004 v Uradnem listu RS. Po zaključenem postopku izbora projektov za sofinanciranje so bile novembra 2004 z izvajalci podpisane pogodbe. Izvedbo programa Pobude EQUAL je omogočila izvedbena struktura, ki so jo sestavljali upravljavski, nadzorni in izvajalski organi: • Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve v vlogi organa upravljanja odgovornega za izvedbo programa EQUAL. • Urad RS za nadzor proračuna pri Ministrstvu za finance kot neodvisen revizijski organ, odgovoren za usklajevanje, razvoj in nadzorovanje sistema notranjega nadzora javnih financ. • Ministrstvo za finance, Sektor za upravljanje s sredstvi EU – Nacionalni sklad kot pristojni plačilni organ, ki je skrbel za izvajanje v postopku načrtovanja in porabe sredstev strukturne politike v RS. • Ocenjevalna komisija je vključevala strokovnjake in je bila zadolžena za pregled, ocenjevanje in izbor projektov, prispelih na javni razpis. • Nadzorni odbor je spremljal projekte ter vključeval predstavnike resorjev in nekaterih organizacij, ki so pokrivali področja donacijske sheme. • Nacionalna podporna struktura je zagotavljala administrativno, tehnično in strokovno pomoč pri vodenju donacijske sheme. • Usmerjevalna skupina za vrednotenje PPS EQUAL je bila zadolžena za spremljanje vrednotenja Pobude skupnosti in njenih dosežkov na državni ravni. • Zunanji izvajalci so izvajali vrednotenje in pregled finančnih poročil razvojnih partnerstev. • Prijavitelji in prejemniki finančnih sredstev so bile organizacije prijaviteljice in nosilke projektov skupaj s partnerji – koristniki finančnih sredstev. Doseženi rezultati Doseženi rezultati vsakega razvojnega partnerstva so podrobneje predstavljeni v nadaljevanju. Glede na zastavljene cilje donacijske sheme so razvojna partnerstva dosegla pomembne rezultate. Projekti so bili glede na zastavljene cilje razvrščeni na štiri že prej omenjene ukrepe. 8 Seznam sofinanciranih projektov Seznam sofinanciranih projektov 9 10 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov ROMSKI ZAPOSLITVENI CENTER Koordinator RP: Občina Škocjan Naziv RP: Romski zaposlitveni center Naslov: Škocjan 67, 8275 Škocjan Telefon: +386 (0)7 38 46 310 Faks: +386 (0)7 38 46 309 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: Anton Zupet, župan Občine Škocjan Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 438.157 EUR (105.000.000 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 328.618 EUR (78.750.000 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 109.539 EUR (26.250.000 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: www.equal-rzc.si Partnerji Občina Škocjan; Alianta, projektno svetovanje, d. o. o.; Center za izobraževanje in kulturo Trebnje; Ljudska univerza Kočevje; Občina Beltinci; Občina Šentjernej; Občina Kočevje; Papilot, zavod za vzpodbujanje in razvijanje kvalitete življenja; Portoval, Novo mesto, d. o. o.; Razvojno-izobraževalni center Novo mesto; Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje, Območna služba Novo mesto; Pedagoški inštitut Ljubljana; Društvo Mladinski ceh; Zavod za izobraževanje in kulturo Črnomelj; Društvo za razvijanje preventivnega in prostovoljnega dela, Ljubljana; Javno podjetje EDŠ, d. o. o., Šentjernej; Mestna občina Murska Sobota; Mestna občina Novo mesto; Občina Krško; Občina Ribnica; Občina Trebnje; Območna obrtna zbornica Novo mesto; Polidej, trgovina, zastopanje, posredništvo, svetovanje, Fajdiga Vid, s. p.; Skledar, Zavod za promocijo kulture in kmetijstva; PLAN e, d. o. o.; RC Kočevje Ribnica., d.o.o. Transnacionalni partnerji Razvojno partnerstvo Romski zaposlitveni center sodeluje v dveh transnacionalnih partnerstvih, ki si prizadevata za izboljšanje zaposlitvenih razmer ranljivih skupin: 1. različne kulture za dosego enakega razvoja, kjer sodelujejo Portugalska: Oeiras PRO, Italija: Empowerment, Madžarska: Centre of Education, Grčija: Filon Enosis, Slovenija: Romski zaposlitveni center in 2. Potujoči ljudje v Evropi, kjer sodelujejo ROM, Italija; Torino: Cittadini d`Europa ; Italija, Bologna: Il lungo cammino dei Sinti e dei Rom: percorsi verso il lavoro; Slovenija: Romski zaposlitveni center. Namen projekta Romi v Sloveniji, predvsem na območju širše Dolenjske, predstavljajo ogroženo skupino prebivalstva, ki brez organizirane pomoči nima možnosti za prilagoditev življenju v sodobni družbi. Glavne ovire za njihovo vključitev so: socialna ogroženost, skromne aspiracije, ki so povezane s tradicionalnim načinom življenja, in nizka izobrazbena raven, ki jim zapira pot do vseh zahtevnejših poklicev. Zaradi pomanjkanja osnovnih kvalifikacij, funkcionalne nepismenosti in tudi predsodkov delodajalcev je delovna aktivnost Romov precej manjša od tiste pri večinskem prebivalstvu v Sloveniji, redna zaposlitev pri njih je redka, prevladujejo neredne oblike dela. Ključno vprašanje, s katerim se srečuje razvojno partnerstvo, je, kako Rome prostovoljno in na podlagi njihovih lastnih interesov vključiti v družbene in ekonomske tokove ter jim tako omogočiti pogoje za enakopravno integracijo na socialni in poklicni ravni. Razvojno partnerstvo Romski zaposlitveni center želi prispevati k izboljšanju socialnega položaja romske skupnosti v Sloveniji z oblikovanjem in uresničevanjem predlogov za izboljšanje zaposlitvenih možnosti Romov. Koordinator razvojnega partnerstva je Občina Škocjan, v partnerstvu pa sodeluje še 25 institucij, ki imajo bogate in raznolike izkušnje z različnih področij dela z Romi in prihajajo z dveh geografskih območij Slovenije, na katerih živi romska populacija: z Dolenjske z Belo krajino in Posavjem ter iz Pomurja. Razvojno partnerstvo je zbralo izkušnje vključenih partnerjev pri dosedanjem delu z Romi in iskalo nove možnosti za njihovo vključitev v procese zaposlovanja. Partnerstvo, ki vključuje lokalno samoupravo, Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje, različne institucije podjetja in organizacije za izobraževanje odraslih, prinaša široko poznavanje problematike in dolgoletne izkušnje z dela z Romi. Veliko partnerstvo zahteva dobro koordinacijo, toda le z vključitvijo organizacij z vseh področij lahko pridemo do dobrih rezultatov. Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 11 Cilji Razvojno partnerstvo Romski zaposlitveni center je bilo osnovano s ciljem, da bi razvilo nove predloge za strategijo zaposlovanja Romov in jim tako omogočilo lažji dostop do trga dela. Z razvojnim partnerstvom in njegovim glavnim produktom, ustanovitvijo javnega zavoda Romski zaposlitveni center (v nadaljevanju: RZC), želimo prispevati k ustvarjanju pozitivne klime za vključevanje Romov v procese izobraževanja in zaposlovanja. Romi bodo z vključitvijo v javni zavod RZC pridobili priložnost za zaposlitev in pridobitev boljših delovnih navad, dodatnih znanj in usposobljenosti za delo, delodajalcem pa želimo približati romsko delovno silo in odpraviti predsodke, povezane z zaposlovanjem Romov. Ciljni skupini razvojnega partnerstva sta tako dve: romsko prebivalstvo in delodajalci. Javni zavod Romski zaposlitveni center je bil ustanovljen z namenom, da bi Romom omogočil lažji dostop do zaposlitve, in sicer tako, da bi povezal in usklajeval različne aktivnosti, ki jih izvajajo posamezni partnerji. Posamezni poskusi reševanja problematike zaposlovanja Romov namreč ne dajejo ustreznih rezultatov, zato je treba ustvariti trajno povezavo med Romi, podjetji, ki Rome zaposlujejo, in drugimi organizacijami, ki se ukvarjajo z romsko problematiko. S pilotno ustanovitvijo javnega zavoda Romski zaposlitveni center, ki ima sedež v Novem mestu, je bilo vzpostavljeno krovno telo, ki bo na eni strani služilo potrebam podjetij po romski delovni sili in podjetjem, ki že zaposlujejo Rome, na drugi strani pa informiranju, usposabljanju in motiviranju Romov za iskanje zaposlitve in za vstop na trg delovne sile. Največja in najpomembnejša naloga javnega zavoda RZC je usmerjeno usposabljanje Romov za delo in zaposlovanje, ki bo temeljilo izključno na potrebah podjetij, ki bodo iskala delovno silo. Javni zavod bo poleg tega raziskoval trg delovne sile in javno mnenje. Skušal bo motivirati delodajalce za zaposlovanje Romov in informirati Rome o možnostih izobraževanja in usposabljanja ter izobraževati in motivirati Rome za iskanje zaposlitve. Ciljne skupine Romsko prebivalstvo, delodajalci. Doseženi rezultati V razvojnem partnerstvu smo pripravili analizo ukrepov za motiviranje Romov za vključevanje v izobraževalne programe, analizo izobrazbene strukture potencialno zaposljivega dela romske populacije in analizo želja, povezanih z zaposlitvijo pri Romih, ter analizo potreb delodajalcev po romski delovni sili. Razvili smo programe za delo z Romi in izobrazili strokovne delavce za delo z njimi. Razvili smo programe za motiviranje odraslih Romov za vključevanje v izobraževanje in usposabljanje glede na njihove interese in možnosti ter pilotsko izvedli motivacijske delavnice. Pripravili smo strategijo izobraževanja odraslih Romov v lokalnem in regionalnem okolju. Vzpostavili smo bazo podatkov kvalificiranih in usposobljenih romskih iskalcev zaposlitve in delodajalcev, ki bi bili pripravljeni zaposlovati Rome. Pripravili smo tudi predlog programa nacionalne poklicne kvalifikacije in ga pilotno izvedli. Na koncu smo izdelali predloge za spremembe delovne in socialne zakonodaje. Eden najpomembnejših elementov pobude EQUAL je transnacionalno sodelovanje, katerega cilj je učenje s prenašanjem strokovnega znanja in dobrih praks med partnerstvi, ki skupaj načrtujejo izmenjavo informacij in izkušenj ter preizkušajo inovativne pristope za zaposlovanje ranljivih skupin. Razvojno partnerstvo Romski zaposlitveni center sodeluje v dveh transnacionalnih partnerstvih, ki si prizadevata za izboljšanje zaposlitvenih razmer ranljivih skupin: Različne kulture za dosego enakega razvoja in Potujoči ljudje v Evropi. Skupen interes vseh vključenih partnerstev prvega transnacionalnega partnerstva je raziskava položaja ranljivih skupin na področju dostopa do trga dela in na podlagi ugotovitev oblikovanje novih programov za njihovo vključevanje na trg dela. Na osnovi poročil o položaju ranljivih skupin v petih sodelujočih državah sta nastala metodološki vodič in interaktivni CDROM, ki bosta služila kot orodje socialnim delavcem, delodajalcem in mentorjem pri podpori zaposlovanja ranljivih skupin, preko spletne strani pa sta na voljo mednarodni strokovni javnosti. Rezultat drugega transnacionalnega sodelovanja pa je vodič po primerih dobrih praks, katerega namen je prav tako izmenjava pozitivnih izkušenj pri zaposlitvenem in družbenem vključevanju Romov. Nadaljevanje projekta Partnerji v razvojnem partnerstvu smo skušali poiskati nove poti, ki bi spodbudile lažji dostop romskih prebivalcev do trga dela in izobraževanja. Pri tem smo ugotovili, da gre za zelo kompleksno tematiko, ki potrebuje celovit pristop in ni enostavno rešljiva, zato je razvojno partnerstvo Romski zaposlitveni center pomenilo le začetni korak na poti k uspešnejšemu vključevanju romske populacije v širše družbeno okolje. 12 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov PARTNERSTVO ZA ENAKOST Koordinator RP: Društvo ŠKUC Naziv RP: Partnerstvo za enakost Naslov: Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana Telefon: +386 (0)1 43 27 306 & 43 27 368 Faks: +386 (0)1 43 03 530 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: dr. Tatjana Greif Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 262.894 EUR (63.000.000 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 197.170 EUR (47.250.000 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 65.723 EUR (15.750.000 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: http://www.ljudmila.org/lesbo/EQUAL/index.htm Partnerji Zveza svobodnih sindikatov Slovenije (ZSSS), Združenje delodajalcev Slovenije (ZDS). Transnacionalni partnerji L'Autre Cercle, Francija; RSFL Švedska; LGL Litva; Društvo ŠKUC, Slovenija. Namen Razvojno partnerstvo EQUAL Partnerstvo za enakost je oblika sodelovanja med Društvom ŠKUC, Zvezo svobodnih sindikatov Slovenije (ZSSS) in Združenjem delodajalcev Slovenije (ZDS). Razvojno partnerstvo pomeni pionirski doprinos na področju razvoja enakih možnosti ter zaščite pred diskriminacijo v zaposlovanju. Prvič doslej se je v Sloveniji zgodilo, da se sistematično obravnava diskriminacija na podlagi spolne usmerjenosti, ter da pri tem aktivno sodelujejo socialni partnerji ter nevladna organizacija. Področje diskriminacije seksualnih manjših je zapostavljeno in prezrto, homofobična diskriminacija pa sodi med najbolj prikrite, težko prepoznavne in težko dokazljive oblike. Geji in lezbijke pogosto živijo pod stalnim pritiskom, da bodo izgubili službo, zaupanje sodelavcev in nadrejenih, zato svojo spolno usmerjenost skrivajo. Zaradi molka in pasivnosti žrtev ostaja to področje »nevidno«. Geji in lezbijke so izpostavljeni večjemu tveganju za socialno izključenost in višji stopnji revščine. Raziskava ŠKUC – LL, izvedena leta 2001 med istospolno usmerjenimi v Sloveniji, kaže obstoj problema diskriminacije na delovnem mestu, pri iskanju zaposlitve, pri poklicnem napredovanju in neupravičenem odpuščanju z dela. Med anketiranimi je bilo 20,3 % takšnih, ki so na delovnem mestu že doživeli diskriminacijo na osnovi spolne usmerjenosti. Diskriminacija seksualnih manjšin v zaposlovanju se manifestira v različnih oblikah: • (prisilno) skrivanje spolne usmerjenosti pri iskanju zaposlitve in na delovnem mestu, pred sodelavci in nadrejenimi; • homofobične reakcije sodelavcev in nadrejenih (zmerjanje, posmehovanje, žaljive pripombe, komentarji, šale, opazke); • spolno in seksualno nadlegovanje in fizično nasilje; • diskriminacija pri iskanju zaposlitve in napredovanju; • neupravičeno odpuščanje; • neenakosti pri poklicnem napredovanju; • neenak dostop do pravic iz naslova zaposlitve. Žrtve vseh oblik diskriminacije potrebujejo jasno zagotovilo delodajalca in sindikata, da so njihove pravice varovane, storilci pa, da so vse oblike kršitev osebne integritete in dostojanstva delavcev na podlagi spolne usmerjenosti v nasprotju z nacionalno zakonodajo ter evropskimi standardi. Diskriminacija je vedno destruktivna; povzroča škodo žrtvi, ogroža medčloveške odnose v kolektivu, znižuje kvaliteto dela in storilnost ter povzroča ekonomsko škodo žrtvi in delodajalcu. Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 13 Cilj Diskriminacija na osnovi spolne usmerjenosti v zaposlovanju s strani socialnih partnerjev v Sloveniji doslej ni bila sistemsko prepoznana kot problem. Zato je namen razvojnega partnerstva ozaveščanje in usposabljanje ključnih socialnih partnerjev – sindikatov in delodajalcev – za razvoj in trajno izvajanje protidiskriminacijskih politik v zaposlovanju in na trgu dela, s ciljem preprečevanja neenakosti in povečevanja vključenosti skupin, prikrajšanih zaradi spolne usmerjenosti. Cilj je olajšati pogoje za vključevanje ranljivih skupin na trg dela in razvoj kulture medsebojnega spoštovanja na delovnem mestu. Ciljne skupine Žrtve homofobične diskriminacije so kot ciljna skupina izredno težko dosegljive, saj večina v delovnem okolju svojo spolno usmerjenost skriva. Zato sta naši ciljni skupini hkrati tudi razvojna partnerja. Model ozaveščanja in usposabljanja sindikatov in delodajalcev za izvajanje protidiskriminacijskih politik je prenosljiv na različne panoge zaposlovanja, poleg tega je tudi horizontalno prenosljiv – za boj proti vsem oblikam neenakosti (na podlagi spola, starosti, hendikepa, etnične pripadnosti itd.). Doseženi rezultati Razvoj dveh priročnikov: »Ukrepi proti diskriminaciji v zaposlovanju za delodajalce« in »Ukrepi proti diskriminaciji v zaposlovanju za sindikate«, namenjenih uvajanju protidiskriminacijskih ukrepov v zaposlovanju. Priročnika sta prvi tovrstni publikaciji v Sloveniji. Inovativnost tega segmenta RP je ključna, saj gre za razvoj popolnoma novega orodja za protidiskriminacijske politike za sindikate in delodajalce. Prinašata pregled temeljnih pojmov, pregled stanja na obravnavanem področju, pregled matične zakonodaje in predpisov RS in EU. Nadalje obravnavamo področje uvajanja dobre prakse in sistematičnih dolgoročnih rešitev v polju preventive za preprečevanje neenakosti v zaposlovanju ter predlagamo vrsto kurativnih ukrepov v primeru kršitev. Priročnika vključujeta številne ilustrativne primere homofobične diskriminacije iz vsakdanje prakse. Ciklus regijskih delavnic »Ukrepi proti diskriminaciji v zaposlovanju« za omrežji ZDS in ZSSS je del strategije za doseganje ciljev RP. Delavnice so sestavljene iz dveh delov: iz teoretičnega – predstavitev programa ESS EQUAL ter vsebine priročnika, in praktičnega – ogled kratkih filmov, vodena diskusija, zaključki in evaluacija. Udeležba na delavnici, priročnik in vsa gradiva so brezplačni. Delavnice so potekale od septembra 2006 do aprila 2007. Zbornika »Norms at Work« in »Open Up Your Workplace« sta rezultat sodelovanja v okviru TP. Namenjena sta izboljšavam v okviru zaposlovanja in trga dela v smeri lažjega prepoznavanja homofobične diskriminacije, ozaveščanja o nevarnosti homofobije in heteronormativnosti v zaposlovanju. V omrežjih ZSSS in ZDS sta bili izvedeni dve anketni raziskavi o odnosu do diskriminacije v zaposlovanju. Izsledki vodijo do ugotovitev, da zavest o diskriminaciji v obeh omrežjih socialnih partnerjev obstaja, vendar je stopnja prepoznavnosti posameznih vrst diskriminacije različna, delovno okolje za geje in lezbijke ni varno. Sodelujoči v raziskavi so izrazili potrebo po pridobivanju znanja na področju boja proti diskriminaciji. Nadalje, spletna raziskava »Iščemo gejem in lezbijkam prijaznega delodajalca« je zbrala 18 predlogov podjetij iz Slovenije, s katerimi imajo posamezniki pozitivne izkušnje. Gre za prvi tovrstni poskus identificiranja dobre prakse delodajalcev. Mednarodna konferenca »Enakopravno zaposlovanje« je potekala 19. in 20. aprila 2007 v Centru Evropa v Ljubljani. Program je bil posvečen predstavitvi rezultatov razvojnih partnerstev EQUAL iz Slovenije, Francije, Švedske in Litve. Srečanje je poudarilo vlogo in odgovornost združenj sindikatov, delodajalcev, države in nevladnih organizacij za razvoj varnega in zdravega delovnega okolja, spoštljivega odnosa do raznolikosti na delovnem mestu ter enakih možnosti za vse. Dvodnevne konference se je udeležilo več kot 60 gostov iz tujine in Slovenije. TV-spot »Ustavimo homofobijo! Varno delovno mesto za vse« je prvi tovrstni spot v Sloveniji. Je vzgojnoizobraževalne narave, namenjen ozaveščanju najširše javnosti. Nastal je ob podpori produkcijskih hiš »Staragara« in »VPK«. Kot brezplačen oglas je bil od maja do decembra 2007 predvajan na RTV Slovenija, POP TV, A Kanal, MTV Adria in drugod. Uvrščen je v program 14. mednarodnega oglaševalskega festivala »Zlati boben 2007«. Obveščanje in informiranje javnosti poteka od leta 2005 preko posebne spletne strani EQUAL, spletnih strani naših partnerjev ter v obliki redne medijske dejavnosti, novinarskih konferenc in objav. 14 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov K.U.P.O.L.A. Koordinator RP: SBDS – Sindikat brezposelnih delavcev Slovenije Naziv RP: K.U.P.O.L.A. Naslov: Svetozarevska 10, 2000 Maribor Telefon: +386 (0)2 22 82 536 Faks: +386 (0)2 22 82 537 E-pošta: [email protected], [email protected] Vodja projekta: Janez Škalič, SBDS – organizacija, Jolanda Lešnik, ZIP – vsebinsko vodenje Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 372.643,97 EUR (89.300.400 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 279.482,98 EUR (66.975.300 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 93.160,99 EUR (22.325.100 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: http://www.kupola.zip.si/, http://www.sbds.si/projekti.htm Partnerji SBDS – Sindikat brezposelnih delavcev Slovenije; Zavod ZIP – Zavod za informiranje in pomoč brezposelnim in iskalcem zaposlitve; RCR – Regionalni center za razvoj, d. o. o.; Zavod ENTRA – Center za izobraževanje, založništvo in svetovanja; PUBLICIST, DIDAKTIS – Zavod za vseživljenjsko izobraževanje in razvoj; NARCISA, d. o. o. Transnacionalni partnerji 1. XoP – TRANSNACIONALNO RAZVOJNO PARTNERSTVO: Dialogos, Italija; Ec.co.mi, Italija; AWO, Nemčija; PSPP, Avstrija; HIMILCE, Španija; K.U.P.O.L.A., Slovenija. 2. Sodelovanje transnacionalnega partnerstva XoP s transnacionalnim partnerstvom DESE in vključenimi partnerstvi: Response, Finska; C3, Velika Britanija. Namen projekta Poiskati odgovore na vprašanja: • KAKO uporabiti izkustvena znanja pri razvijanju programov in orodij za prepoznavanje in pozicioniranje stanja brezposelnosti • KAKO oblikovati in preizkusiti celovite pristope za načrtovanje, motiviranje, usposabljanje in pripravo ciljnih skupin za ponovno vključitev na trg dela • KAKO uporabiti izkušnje doživetja in preživljanja stanja brezposelnosti pri vzpostavljanju podpornega okolja za potrebe brezposelnih oseb • KAKO vzpostaviti medregijsko sodelovanje med partnerji RP, institucijami, lokalnimi skupnostmi in različnimi nosilci odločanja in na podlagi najdenih odgovorov: • oblikovati predloge novih nacionalnih politik in pristopov za reševanje brezposelnosti • oblikovati program in organizacijsko strukturo, ki bo brezposelnim osebam ponudila sistematičen, osebno motivacijski, stimulativen in strokoven okvir za aktivni pristop k vstopu na trg delovne sile ali k vrnitvi nanj • uveljaviti celostni pristop k reševanju stanja nezaposlenosti, ki zajema: mehanizme samoorganiziranja, osebnostni razvoj, celovito seznanjanje z razmerami na trgu dela, strokovno podprto prepoznavanje stanja in usmerjanje v iskanje rešitev, usposabljanje za povečevanje konkurenčnosti in funkcionalne pismenosti ciljnih skupin Cilji • Vzpostavitev dinamičnega samoorganizacijskega modela “z BO za BO” • Oblikovanje INFO-BO-paketa storitev, podprtega z mrežo informatorjev, svetovalcev in mentorjev • Oblikovanje vsaj treh novih programov za aktiviranje potencialov nezaposlenih oseb • Oblikovanje interdisciplinarnega BO prostora z oznako “BO – laboratorij za diagnostiko" • Oblikovanje podlag za vzpostavitev vsaj enega POKLICNEGA STANDARDA • Oblikovanje vsaj ene metode ali pristopa za merjenje socialnega kapitala in ovir na trgu dela • Širjenje oblik socialnega povezovanja v vsaj dveh novih krajih • Oblikovanje vsaj treh predlogov ukrepov politik • Prenos znanj in izkušenj transnacionalnih partnerjev s področja socialnega podjetništva in ustvarjanja povezav med javnim sektorjem – med podjetji in privatnim sektorjem Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 15 Ciljne skupine Pri izvajanju programa RP smo se osredotočili na reševanje problematike brezposelnosti pri naslednjih skupinah brezposelnih oseb: dolgotrajno brezposelne osebe, starejše od 40 let, mlajše osebe – iskalci prve zaposlitve, ženske, s posebnim poudarkom na materah samohranilkah, delovni invalidi. Doseženi rezultati • Oblikovan je organizacijski in programski model bodočega partnerskega sodelovanja • Metodološko so obdelani in sistematično so urejeni podatki o trgu dela v Sloveniji • Izdelana je analiza o stanju na področju starejših v Sloveniji • Vzpostavljena je spletna stran in struktura INFO-BO-paketa za ciljne skupine • Razvite so bile štiri nove vsebinske delavnice na področju osebnostne analize in načrtovanja osebnega razvoja, uveljavljanja prostovoljstva ter pristopa h prepoznavanju in reševanju problemov brezposelnosti • Razvit je bil nov pristop k uporabi tehnik NLP (nevrolingvistično programiranje) za brezposelne osebe • Izdelana sta dva kratka dokumentarna filma o problematiki brezposelnosti • Pripravljen je program za usposabljanje informatorjev in mentorjev za delovanje v BO-mreži v okviru organiziranosti SBDS-a • Izdelan je priročnik z usmeritvami, nasveti in opozorili za brezposelne osebe, ki vstopajo na samostojno pot podjetništva • Izdelana je raziskava socialnega kapitala v Sloveniji skladno s cilji RP • Izdelana je študija »Možnosti uvajanja metode coachinga za delo z brezposelnimi osebami« • Izvedeno je bilo 35 delavnic, ki se jih je na podlagi lastnega interesa udeležilo 339 brezposelnih oseb oziroma 480 človeka/dan z območij: PODRAVJE : 191 oseb; 44 moških in 147 žensk POMURJE: 90 oseb; 22 moških in 68 žensk ZASAVJE: 58 oseb; 11 moških in 47 žensk • Izvedena so bila 4 individualna svetovanja, ki se jih je udeležilo 7 udeležencev: PODRAVJE: 5 oseb; 2 moška in 3 ženske POMURJE: 2 osebi; 2 ženski V fazi izvedbe je implementacija modela samoorganiziranja BO. V pripravi je več predlogov nacionalnih politik na področju zaposlovanja in dostopa do trga delovne sile. Dodana vrednost izbora, financiranja in izvajanja projekta RP K.U.P.O.L.A. je že v izhodišču javno priznana in podprta zamisel o samoorganiziranem, strokovno podprtem in sistematičnem izvajanju aktivnostih samopomoči brezposelnih oseb. Strategija doseganja želenih rezultatov razvojnega partnerstva temelji na: I (inovativnosti) – izkoristiti vse potenciale in možnosti samoaktiviranja brezposelnih oseb ob strokovni podpori partnerjev RP; P (partnerstvu) – prav vsi partnerji nekaj pridobijo v obliki novih spoznanj in izkušenj; V (vplivu in moči) – več ljudi več naredi in spremeni, še posebej ko se aktivnosti združujejo z namenom doseganja skupnih ciljev; P (politikah) – potrebna je dolgoročna sistemska podpora pri generiranju sprememb za aktiviranje brezposelnih oseb z inercijo dolgotrajnega učinka uvajanja pristopa »učenje in aktiviranje brezposelnih oseb s ciljnim samoorganiziranim delovanjem«; T (transnacionalnosti) – v različnih družbenosocialnih okoljih obstojajo različne poti do rešitev podobnih problemov, ki jih je koristno spoznati in uporabiti pri povečevanju socialnega kapitala slovenske družbe. Nadaljevanje projekta V okviru projekta je bilo razvitih in preizkušenih več novih programov delavnic za hitro ozaveščanje stanja brezposelnosti in hitro pozicioniranje brezposelnih oseb, programov za podporo javnemu nastopanju, aktiviranju lastnih potencialov, prostovoljstvu, nevrolingvističnemu programiranju in programov delavnic ter svetovanj za motivacijo in začetek lastne podjetniške poti. Pozitivno prakso in izkušnje bi bilo smiselno nadaljevati z vključitvijo v stalne programe APZ in druge ukrepe na trgu delovne sile. Po naših ugotovitvah omenjeni programi bistveno vplivajo na vključene brezposelne osebe v smislu povečanja njihove samozavesti ter pridobitve dodatnih znanj in izkušenj za uspešen nastop na trgu delovne sile, zato bi bilo zelo koristno s takimi programi nadaljevati tudi v prihodnje. 16 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov ROMSKI IZOBRAŽEVALNO INFORMATIVNI CENTER Koordinator RP: Regionalna razvojna agencija Mura Naziv RP: Romski izobraževalno informativni center Naslov: Lendavska 5a, 9000 Murska Sobota Telefon: +386 (0) 2 53 61 461 Faks: +386 (0) 2 53 61 465 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: Romeo Varga Pogodbena vrednost: 355.570,86 EUR (85.209.000 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 266.678,14 EUR (63.906.750 SIT) Nacionalno financiranje (25%): 88.892,71 EUR (21.302.250 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: www.romsvet.si; www.romanyhelp.org; www.rra-mura.si Partnerji Prekmurski raziskovalno – izobraževalni zavod Murska Sobota; Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje, OE Murska Sobota; OŠ I Murska Sobota; OŠ II Murska Sobota; OŠ III Murska Sobota; OŠ IV Murska Sobota; OŠ Puconci; OŠ Sveti Jurij; OŠ Črenšovci; OŠ Tišina; OŠ Cankova; OŠ Kuzma; Vrtec Lendava; Vrtec Murska Sobota; Srednja poklicna in tehniška šola Murska Sobota; Občina Dobrovnik; Občina Turnišče. Transnacionalni partnerji Občanské sdružení Slovo 21; Município de Coimbra; Univerzity Mateja Bela Banska Bystrica; Etelä-Suomen lääninhallitus/The State Provincial Office of Southern Finland. Namen projekta Razvojno partnerstvo izhaja predvsem iz ugotovitev »Strategije vzgoje in izobraževanja Romov v Republiki Sloveniji«, ki eksplicitno navaja potrebo po kakovostni pomoči romskim otrokom v osnovni šoli kakor tudi v vrtcih. Cilji Ključni cilj RP je vzpostavitev »romskih mentorjev« kot strokovnih sodelavcev v izobraževalnem procesu, ki bodo romskim otrokom zmožni pomagati pri učenju, obvladovanju jezika večinskega prebivalstva ter premagovanju socialnih vrzeli in ki bodo predstavljali »most« med romskimi starši in pedagoškim osebjem. Istočasno je cilj projekta dodatno izobraziti in zaposliti (vsaj za čas trajanja projekta) 15 oseb romske narodnosti, ki si bodo s tem izboljšale samopodobo in služile kot zgled drugim pripadnikom romske narodnosti. Ciljna skupina Neposredna ciljna skupina projekta so mladi Romi, s kakršnokoli dokončano srednjo šolo, ki imajo afiniteto do opravljanja pedagoškega poklica. Ti so bili tisti, ki so bili deležni največje pozornosti in so si z izobraževanjem pridobili poklic in tudi zaposlitev. Vendar kot ciljno skupino razumemo tudi druge udeležence, ki so bili deležni rezultatov tega projekta: najprej romske otroke, njihove starše ter pedagoške delavce, ki so razdajali svoje znanje in se ob tem učili. Doseženi rezultati Razvojno partnerstvo je v skladu z namenom projekta izdelalo učni načrt za izobraževanje romskih mentorjev. Učni načrt je pripravljen z izdatno pomočjo Pedagoške fakultete Univerze v Banski Bystrici (Slovaška), ki izvaja visokošolska (bolonjska) študija za romskega mentorja in romskega misijonarja. S sodelovanjem z Republiškim zavodom za zaposlovanje, Območno enoto Murska Sobota in romskimi svetniki je bilo izbranih 15 oseb, ki imajo določeno srednjo izobrazbo, živijo v romskih naseljih in obvladajo romski jezik. Na podlagi navedenih kriterijev so bile izbrane pretežno osebe romske narodnosti (vse, razen ene, ki pa prebiva v romskem naselju in obvlada romski jezik), vse pa ustrezajo omenjenim kriterijem. Na podlagi izdelanega učnega načrta je bilo izvedeno šestmesečno izobraževanje, ki je posredovalo dodatna znanja s področja pedagogike, sociologije, psihologije, računalništva, glasbene vzgoje, romskega jezika in kulture, likovne vzgoje, slovenskega jezika ter dela v vzgojno-izobraževalnih institucijah. S petnajstimi vzgojno-izobraževalnimi zavodi je bil sklenjen dogovor o sodelovanju, kjer so se romski mentorji Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 17 usposabljali. V vsakem od zavodov je bil romskemu mentorju dodeljen pedagoški mentor (redno zaposlen na šoli, vrtcu, praviloma razredni učitelj), ki je romskega mentorja uvedel v delo, ga usmerjal, motiviral in vrednotil. Usposabljanje je trajalo še nadaljnjih šest mesecev. Na Center Republike Slovenije za poklicno izobraževanje je bila podana pobuda za vzpostavitev poklicnega standarda »Romski mentor«. Nekajkratna usklajevanja so definirala potrebo po vzpostavitvi dveh poklicnih standardov, in sicer »romski koordinator«, z nižjo stopnjo zahtevnosti, in »romski pomočnik«, ki je izenačen z zahtevnostjo pomočnika vzgojitelja. Poklicni standard je vpisan v katalog standardov strokovnih znanj in spretnosti december 2006. Med trajanjem projekta je prihajalo do manjših fluktuacij med romskimi pomočniki. Nekateri so bodisi našli drugo zaposlitev, bodisi ugotovili, da jim tovrstno delo osebnostno ne ustreza. V trenutku priprave tega teksta je 20 oseb zaposleno pri Prekmurskem raziskovalno – izobraževalnem zavodu Murska Sobota, kjer opravljajo delo romskega pomočnika. Bistveni cilj Razvojnega partnerstva je bil dosežen. Dokazali smo, da so romski pomočniki dobrodošla in bistvena podpora Romom v zgodnji fazi izobraževanja. Čeprav delovno mesto romskega pomočnika (še) ni sistemizirano, osebje vzgojno-izobraževalnih zavodov vidi romskega pomočnika kot dobrodošlega kolego, ki ga vključujejo v pedagoške procese in nanj računajo (ravnatelji praviloma redno vključujejo delo romskega pomočnika v svoje letne plane). Izvedeno vrednotenje na vzorčnih šolah je pokazalo, da se je z delom romskih pomočnikov izboljšal uspeh romskih otrok, bistveno se je zmanjšalo število izostankov (tako opravičenih kot neopravičenih), intenzivnejše je vključevanje v izvenšolske dejavnosti, izboljšala se je komunikacija med šolo in starši romskih otrok ipd. Drugi steber projekta je bil posvečen mednarodnemu mreženju in pripravi za nove, mednarodne projekte, kjer bodo sami Romi igrali ključno vlogo. Izvedeno je bilo devet mednarodnih seminarjev, ki so zajemali različne teme: izobraževanje in zaposlovanje Romov, bivanjske razmere, politična participacija, romska društva in asociacije, informiranje in mediji, romska kultura in umetnost, razvoj romskega jezika, povezovanje mladih na mednarodnem nivoju in podobno. Izdana sta dva zbornika s seminarjev, ki vsebujeta pretežno znanstvene članke z romsko tematiko; pripravljena je komparativna študija, ki daje primerjavo stanja Romov v Sloveniji, na Češkem in Portugalskem; pripravljen je 45-minutni film, ki prestavlja podobnosti in razlike pri delu romskih mentorjev v Sloveniji, na Slovaškem in Finskem; izdelana je zloženka, ki želi ponazoriti nesmiselnost predsodkov in pojasnjuje nekatere kulturne posebnosti Romov. Nadaljevanje projekta Posebej smo se trudili, da so bili v navedene aktivnosti v čim večji meri vključeni predvsem mladi, izobraženi Romi ter romski svetniki kot edini politični predstavniki Romov. Prav posebno doživetje je bilo videti, kako med sabo komunicirajo osebe, ki so sicer oddaljene na tisoče kilometrov, vendar jih povezujejo jezik skupnih prednikov in zelo podobne težave v njihovih matičnih državah. Verjamemo, da se bo ta narod dvanajstih milijonov posameznikov, raztresenih po Evropski uniji, znal med sabo povezati in ohraniti kulturo, ki izginja pred očmi. Ali ni to projekt sam po sebi? Torej ne samo izobraževanje, ampak tudi obujanje kulturne identitete, politična participacija, izboljšanje bivanjskih pogojev, zaposlovanje in predvsem razbijanje stereotipov večinskih narodov bodo v ospredju naslednjih projektov. Upamo, da bodo te projekte izvedli mladi izobraženi Romi sami. Na tem mestu jim obljubljamo podporo in pomoč. 18 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov ENAKOVREDEN ŠTUDIJ Koordinator RP: Univerza v Ljubljani, Ekonomska fakulteta Naziv RP: Enakovreden študij Naslov: Center za svetovanje in razvoj študentov, Kardeljeva ploščad 17, 1000 Ljubljana Telefon: +386 (0)1 58 92 590 Faks: +386 (0)1 58 92 698 E-pošta: [email protected], [email protected] Vodja projekta: Jana Pucelj Pogodbena vrednost: 339.047,60 EUR (81.249.368 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75 %): 254.285,70 EUR (60.937.026 SIT) Nacionalno financiranje (25 %): 84.761,90 EUR (20.312.342 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: http://www.ef.uni-lj.si/projekti/equaL/ Partnerji Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko Univerze v Mariboru; Društvo študentov invalidov Slovenije; Inštitut Republike Slovenije za rehabilitacijo; Gospodarska zbornica Slovenije; Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje. Transnacionalni partnerji V okviru transncionalnega sodelovanja smo oblikovali partnerstvo »Enake možnosti za študente in diplomante invalide« s transnacionalnimi partnerji »Everything is possible« (koordinator Paul Erlich Institut, Langen pri Frankfurtu, Nemčija) in »Life Skills Program for Mentally Competent Youth and Young Adults with Physical Disabilities« (koordinator United Nation Development Programme iz Varšave, Poljska) ter pridruženim partnerjem projektom DIVERSE, ki je potekal v okviru Univerze v Londonu, Velika Britanija. Transnacionalno sodelovanje je prispevalo k izmenjavi informacij in izkušenj, k paralelnemu razvoju inovativnih pristopov, skupnemu razvoju dveh dodatnih publikacij s področja visokega šolstva in zaposlovanja diplomantov ter k vzpostavitvi kanalov za izmenjave študentov invalidov, s strateškim ciljem spodbujanja zaposlovanja diplomantov invalidov v znanosti. Namen projekta Poslanstvo RP Enakovreden študij je iskanje novih rešitev na področju približevanja študija in izenačevanja pogojev študija študentk in študentov s posebnimi potrebami (invalidov), preprečevanje osipa ter višanje izobrazbene ravni oseb s posebnimi potrebami, s tem pa povečanje zaposljivosti in izboljšanje pogojev za vstop na trg dela diplomantk in diplomantov s posebnimi potrebami. Cilji Osnovni cilji partnerstva so: omogočiti enake možnosti izobraževanja študentom (invalidom) s posebnimi potrebami in s tem boljše pogoje za vstop na trg delovne sile, zvišati splošno izobrazbeno raven mladih s posebnimi potrebami ter povečati zaposljivost študentov s posebnimi potrebami. Razvojno partnerstvo išče rešitve preko različnih sklopov aktivnosti, ki združujejo prispevke partnerjev. Sklopi načrtovanih aktivnosti (moduli) so hkrati posebni cilji, iz katerih izhajajo predlogi modelov oziroma rešitev na področju IK-tehnologij (razvoj hipermedijske video predavalnice), individualnih načinov študija (pobude in oblikovanje sistemskih rešitev, testiranje modelov svetovanja in tutorstva, predlog strategije svetovalne pisarne), zaposlitvenih mrež in drugo. Rešitve in pristopi v obravnavi ciljni skupine so novost v našem okolju in so prepleteni z inovativnimi elementi na vseh področjih. Ciljne skupine Med izvajanjem in razširjanjem projekta smo poleg tega veliko časa namenili pripravi metod in pobud v obliki publikacij, ki so namenjene ciljni skupini, pedagoškim delavcem, tistim, ki odločajo, in drugim relevantnim akterjem. Z različnimi predlogi smo slednje opozarjali na pravice in dolžnosti (do) ranljivih skupin študentov, predvsem pa na odgovornost izobraževalnih institucij za odstranitev fizičnih ovir in prilagoditev študijskega procesa. Rešitve smo povzeli v predlogu svetovalne pisarne, katerega implementacija je predvidena ob zaključku projektnih aktivnosti in pomeni nadaljevanje skrbi za te študente v okviru redne dejavnosti. Doseženi rezultati Rezultat bo povečana udeležba prikrajšanih skupin v izobraževanju kot posledica razvoja novih integriranih Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 19 programov motiviranja/vključitve v izobrazbene strukture, z individualno obravnavo potreb prikrajšanih posameznikov, iskanjem novih instrumentov in vključevanjem rezultatov v politike, prav tako pa bodo olajšani prehodi na trg dela in omogočanje doseganja rezultatov v smislu dostopa do zaposlitve. Rešitve, ki jih je razvilo razvojno partnerstvo, so prenosljive tudi v druga okolja, v gospodarstvo in družbeno okolje ter v upravne in vladne storitve, in bodo na ta način poleg izobraževanja in zaposlovanja omogočale tudi večjo socializacijo in vključenost oseb s posebnimi potrebami – poleg lažjega vključevanja v študijski proces tudi lažje vključevanje na trg dela. Pri tem so vse rešitve in produkti oblikovani tako, da bodo čim bolj uporabni in celostni ter kasneje prenosljivi na različne nivoje, med drugim tudi na širšo ciljno skupino, na vse študente oziroma diplomante. Partnerstvo je pripomoglo k širitvi prilagajanja študijskih pogojev študentom s posebnimi potrebami tudi na druge šole in univerze po Evropi in povečalo se je zavedanje o potrebah teh študentov. Velik prispevek, nove pobude in rešitve so nastale tudi na področju mobilnosti in izmenjav študentov s posebnimi potrebami. Nadaljevanje projekta Motiviranje in ozaveščanje je pomemben del rešitev razvojnega partnerstva. Prav posebna svetovanja in razumevanje težav okolja bodo študente s posebnimi potrebami spodbudila k odločanju za nadaljnji študij in k dokončanju študija. Ocenjujemo, da se bo z razvojem in izvajanjem teh rešitev tudi v drugih izobraževalnih organizacijah povečala izobrazbena raven mladih s posebnimi potrebami, ki bodo tako imeli več možnosti pri iskanju prve zaposlitve, omogočeno pa jim bo tudi nadaljnje izobraževanje ob delu in vseživljenjsko učenje ter izpopolnjevanje, ki jim je bilo do sedaj skoraj nedostopno, zaradi nerazumevanja okolja pa se zanj večinoma niso odločali. 20 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov UFO Koordinator RP: YHD – Društvo za teorijo in kulturo hendikepa Naziv RP: UFO Naslov: Neubergerjeva 7, 1000 Ljubljana Telefon: +386 (0)1 52 12 277 Faks: +386 (0)1 52 12 288 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: Katarina Gorenc Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 375.563,35 EUR (90.000.000 SIT) Sredstva Equal (75%): 281.672,51 EUR (67.500.000 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 93.890,84 EUR (22.500.000 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: www.yhd-drustvo.si/equal Partnerji YHD – Društvo za teorijo in kulturo hendikepa; Center za neprofitni management; Zavod RS za zaposlovanje; Fakulteta za socialno delo; Mestna občina Ljubljana; Center za poslovno izobraževanje. Transnacionalni partnerji 1. HINGE – Handiness and Inclusion as Ground for Equality; Germany: BIBER – Berufliche Integration von Menschen mit Behinderungen in Sachsen-Anhalt; France: AGES ET COMPETENCES : SENIORS, TRAVAILLEURS HANDICAPES – GESTION DES ECARTS; Italy: L.IN.D.A. Lavoro Inclusione e Diverse Abilitŕ. 2. Empower disabled people in the european union; Germany: OPEN PATHS – Neue Wege zur Integration behinderter Menschen; Sweden; Tillgänglighet och professionell integrerad scenkonst. Namen projekta Projekt PARTNERSTVO ZA BODOČE MOŽNOSTI smo zasnovali na ideji medsebojne pomoči različnih družbeno marginaliziranih, deprivilegiranih skupin; na medsebojni pomoči, ki temelji predvsem na potenciranju tistega, kar posamezniki zmorejo in znajo z medsebojnim sodelovanjem in dopolnjevanjem, in ne na poudarjanju njihovih hendikepov oziroma pomanjkljivosti. Osnovno vodilo projekta je bilo, da je prav vsaka težje zaposljiva oseba oziroma skupina lahko ekonomsko učinkovita in zanimiva za trg delovne sile. Razvojno partnerstvo oblikuje modele za učinkovitejšo socialno in ekonomsko politiko s povezovanjem in solidarnostjo različnih izključenih skupin na način, da si drug drugemu zagotavljajo ekonomsko in socialno neodvisnost ter avtonomijo. Možna in mogoča so tudi takšna delovna mesta, na katerih se lahko zaposlujejo in delajo tudi ljudje, ki so si različni tako po izobrazbi kot po sposobnostih in imajo različne osebnostne lastnosti. Pomemben je predvsem interes oziroma motivacija za delo. Vodilo projekta je bilo, da imajo posamezniki oziroma uporabniki možnost izbire, pravico in dolžnost soodločanja ter oblikovanja politike projekta. Projekt je v tem oziru presegel obstoječo prakso in se je v svojih vsebinah osredotočal na vzroke izključevanja ljudi s trga dela – ne ukvarja se torej s stanjem telesa, temveč z okoliščinami in ovirami, ki določenim skupinam ljudi onemogočajo participacijo v družbi. Projekt odpira nove zaposlitvene možnosti in vzpostavlja nov profil poklica ter hkrati rešuje tudi perečo problematiko socialnega varstva. Tako so potrebe, na katere je poskušal odgovarjati projekt, potrebe po zaposlitvi in družbeni koristnosti hendikepiranih in socialno izključenih (omogočanje lažjega dostopa do trga dela in vrnitev nanj tistim, ki imajo težave pri prvem ali vnovičnem vključevanju vanj). Projekt je imel tudi učinek opolnomočenja in krepitve moči vključenih posameznic in posameznikov. Cilji Ob začetku izvajanja projekta smo si zastavili dva glavna cilja: 1. cilj: Oblikovanje trajne možnosti za neodvisno življenje hendikepiranih ter razvijanje modelov opolnomočenja, kar pomeni zaposlovanje osebnih asistentov oz. ustvarjanje novih delovnih mest ter oblikovanje poklicnega profila in s tem povečanje zaposlitvenih možnosti dolgotrajno brezposelnih. Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 21 2. cilj: Spodbujanje hendikepiranih oseb za aktivno vključevanje na trg dela, kar pomeni posredovanje med iskalci zaposlitve in delodajalci ter izvajanje ustreznih podpornih storitev in izobraževanj za zmanjšanje stopnje brezposelnosti in omogočanje dostopnosti do delovnih mest. Ciljne skupine Iskalci zaposlitve (mladi, prvi iskalci zaposlitve, dolgotrajno brezposelni, ženske, druge marginalne skupine, ki so izključene iz trga dela zaradi osebnih okoliščin in diskriminacije). Hendikepirane osebe, ki se želijo zaposlovati na običajnih delovnih mestih ali pridobivati priložnosti za delovne izkušnje, ter delodajalci, ki jih hendikep posameznice ali posameznika ne ovira pri ocenjevanju ustreznosti in strokovnosti za prosto delovno mesto. Doseženi rezultati V okviru prvega cilja smo izvedli izobraževanje, ki se ga je udeležilo 20 asistentk in asistentov, ki so bili hkrati udeleženci in sooblikovalci modula. Kot rezultat te aktivnosti imamo izdelan modul izobraževanja, priročnik izobraževanja, etični kodeks osebnih asistentov. Večina asistentov je izobraževanje uspešno zaključila in prejela priznanja. Priročnik zajema natančen opis posameznih tem predavanj, teoretske prispevke, opise vaj, način izvedbe in metode evalvacije in bo za naslednje izvajalce lahko predstavljal bogat vir informacij, izhodišč in preteklih izkušenj. Izdelan je profil poklica osebna asistentka/osebni asistent in podana vloga za potrditev poklica na Centru za poklicno izobraževanje. Oblikovanje trajne možnosti za neodvisno življenje predvideva sistemsko rešitev, v okviru katere se bodo pravice do storitev vezale na posameznika, ki jih potrebuje – v primeru neodvisnega življenja torej pravica do osebne asistence, katere upravljanje mora v največji možni meri ostati v rokah uporabnika. Tako se ta pravica najbolje izvaja preko neposrednega financiranja. Za ureditev tega področja je pristojno MDDSZ, v okviru izvajanja projekta pa smo nanj naslovili več pobud. Pomemben del aktivnosti v okviru drugega cilja smo namenili promociji zaposlovanja hendikepiranih v običajnih okoljih. Najvidnejši rezultat tega so promocijski spoti, ki so se in se še vrtijo na javni in komercialnih televizijah, ter kratek dokumentarni film o primerih dobrih praks na področju zaposlovanja hendikepiranih, ki je del mednarodnega dela projekta. Izdelali smo analizo zakonodaje s področja zaposlovanja, sodelovali v nekaj mednarodnih primerjalnih študijah s področja zaposlovanja hendikepiranih in sprožili postopek za pridobitev koncesije za opravljanje storitve posredovanja del. Tudi na področju zaposlovanja smo izdelali nekaj pobud, ki smo jih posredovali MDDSZ in MJU, rezultat tega pa je odločitev oziroma sklep MJU, da se vsako leto v okviru javne uprave odpre 16 mest za pripravništva mladim, hendikepiranim iskalcem zaposlitve. Inovacija RP je predvsem v tem, da se v njem enakovredno povezujejo različne ciljne skupine, ki skupaj sooblikujejo temeljne koncepte RP. Izvajalci in oblikovalci projekta smo prav tako del ciljne skupine in s tem uresničujemo načelo samozaposlovanja, ekonomske neodvisnosti in enakopravnosti na trgu delovne sile. Hkrati s tem delujemo tudi kot delodajalci skupini tistih, ki so uvrščeni v skupino težje zaposljivih oseb. Gre za ljudi, ki se zaposlujejo kot osebni asistenti (ženske, matere samohranilke, nekdanji odvisniki, dolgotrajno brezposelni, prvi iskalci zaposlitve). Pristop, kjer je vsak posameznik pomemben člen in sooblikovalec ciljev ter ima možnost vpliva in nadzora nad svojim življenjem. Odpirajo se nove možnosti izbire, hkrati pa se pomembno vpliva tudi na ozaveščanje javnosti na spreminjanje vrednot in obravnave posameznih skupin ljudi. Nadaljevanje projekta Po zaključku projekta bomo ustanovili agencijo za zaposlovanje hendikepiranih z namenom lažjega dostopa do trga dela za hendikepirane, v kateri bomo uporabljali inštrumente, ki smo jih razvili tekom izvajanja razvojnega partnerstva. Nadaljevali bomo z izvajanjem programa neodvisno življenje in si prizadevali za sistemsko ureditev pravice do osebne asistence. Razvili smo inštrumente in predloge, ki omogočajo izvajanje te pravice, potrebne pa je še nekaj politične volje, da se ta pravica vnese v zakonodajo. 22 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov IN-VALID-IN Koordinator RP: OZARA d.o.o. Naziv RP: IN-VALID-IN Naslov: Ulica heroja Šaranoviča 27, 2000 Maribor Telefon: +386 (0)2 23 80 678 Faks: +386 (0)2 23 80 677 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: Karmen Šerjak (vsebinski vodja projekta), Mateja Bradeško (finančni vodja projekta) Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 374.987,48 EUR (89.862.000 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 281.240,61 EUR (67.396.500 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 93.746,87 EUR (22.465.500 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: http://www.ozara.org/?id=70 Partnerji: GZS Območna zbornica Maribor – aktivni partner; ZSSS Območna organizacija Podravja – aktivni partner; ZRSZ Območna služba Maribor – pasivni partner. Transnacionalni parterji 1. V okviru sporazuma FADIESIS je nastalo partnerstvo: Italija: FADIESIS Fattoria Didattica di Sviluppo e Inclusione Sociale per giovani disabil; Slovenija: IN-VALID-IN. 2. V okviru sporazuma EXTEND je nastalo partnerstvo: Irska: Carlow EQUAL Employment Programme; Avstrija: RoomyCompany.at; Češka: PENTACOM-labour office-training-vocational rehabilition-target groups-employers; Poljska: Związkowa Promocja i Ochrona Równouprawnienia Osób Niepełnosprawnych w Zatrud; Slovenija: IN-VALID-IN. Namen projekta Namen razvojnega partnerstva IN-VALID-IN je povezovanje partnerjev z osredotočenostjo na dva ključna akterja pri zaposlovanju invalidnih oseb: - potrebe invalidnih oseb in - potrebe delodajalcev. Cilji Glavni cilji RP IN-VALID-IN so: 1. Za namene informiranja delodajalcev in invalidnih oseb vzpostaviti stacionarno in mobilno informacijsko enoto za področje Maribora in okolice. 2. Oblikovanje baze vsaj 30 delodajalcev in 40 zainteresiranih invalidnih oseb za namene promocije vsaj 5 pozitivnih zgledov pri zaposlovanju invalidov na širšem področju Maribora. 3. Pridobivanje primernih mednarodnih izkušenj in veščin za izvajanje nalog inštruktorja dela (Job Coach) za zaposlovanje invalidnih oseb ter evalvacija teh izkušenj. 4. S pomočjo transnacionalnih aktivnosti znotraj partnerstva prevrednotiti in promovirati domače in mednarodne izkušnje pri zaposlovanju invalidov. 5. Evalvacija aktivnosti z vidika ključnih akterjev projekta ter ustrezna promocija. Ciljne skupine Ciljne skupine RP IN-VALID-IN so: - invalidne osebe, - delodajalci. Doseženi rezultati 1. V okviru 1. cilja smo vzpostavili stacionarno in mobilno informacijsko enoto, ki sta na voljo tako invalidnim osebam kot tudi delodajalcem. Poudarek je predvsem na hitrem svetovanju, ki velikokrat usmeri oziroma olajša odločitev invalidnim osebam ali delodajalcem, da bi se napotili do neke institucije, pri kateri predhodno niso niti zagotovo vedeli, ali bodo dobili ustrezno informacijo, kako bodo sprejeti in kolikokrat bo potrebno priti, da se določen problem oz. težava uredi. Informacijski enoti tako zagotavljata zadosten obseg informacij, povezanost institucij in tudi dostopnost komurkoli ne glede na oviranost. Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 23 Informacijski enoti sta prilagojeni predvsem potrebam invalidnih oseb, da jim olajšata dostop do trga dela ter nudita druge pomožne mehanizme za ohranjanje zaposlitve, omilitev socialne izključenosti ali vključitev v delo oz. zaposlitev. Informacijska enota skuša najti pot tudi do delodajalcev ter njihovih potreb, ne glede na to, ali so to potrebe v zvezi z novimi zakonskimi možnostmi, prilagoditvijo delovnega mesta za invalida, kreiranjem novih delovnih mest za invalidne osebe ali težave v zvezi s prezaposlitvijo invalidnih oseb ali pridobivanjem statusa invalidskega podjetja. 2. Sprva smo želeli v okviru 2. cilja ugotoviti potrebe delodajalcev in invalidnih oseb glede zaposlovanja. Iz raziskav, opravljenih na določenem vzorcu delodajalcev in fizičnih oseb, smo skušali izluščiti: - temeljne potrebe delodajalcev glede področij informiranosti o možnih ukrepih, državnih spodbudah in oblikah zaposlovanja invalidov, zakonskih možnostih in posledicah zaposlitve invalidne osebe, ter - poznavanje »problematike«, stališča ter zbrati predloge o izboljšanju vprašanih o zaposlovanju invalidnih oseb. Nadalje smo oblikovali bazo delodajalcev in invalidnih oseb, da bi poiskali 10 pozitivnih zgledov zaposlovanja invalidnih oseb. Nekatere izmed teh bomo uvrstili tudi v priročnik, ki ga sestavljamo v sodelovanju z italijanskimi partnerji v skladu s cilji transnacionalnega sporazuma FADIESIS. 3. Za namen kreiranja profila delovnega inštruktorja v okviru 3. cilja smo se decembra 2006 vključili v nacionalno delovno skupino Razvojnega centra za zaposlitveno rehabilitacijo, zadolženo za pripravo standardov znanj za strokovne delavce na področju podpornega zaposlovanja, v okviru katerih naj bi nastal tudi profil »job coach«. Za ta namen smo uporabili tudi izkušnje naših transnacionalnih partnerjev, pridobljene na transnacionalnih srečanjih. Profil inštruktor dela se razvija na nacionalni ravni in bo ob akreditaciji postal trajen produkt RP IN-VALID-IN. 4. V sodelovanju s transnacionalnimi partnerstvi smo v okviru 4. cilja realizirali načrt pridobivanja mednarodnih izkušenj in znanj za delovnega inštruktorja ter izvedli mednarodno konferenco in delavnico z namenom izmenjave izkušenj in promocije pozitivnih zgledov. V izmenjavo izkušenj smo umestili našo potrebo po profilu inštruktor dela v slovenskem prostoru. 5. Proces validacije, zastavljen v okviru 5. cilja, opravljamo mesečno in rezultate ter korekture usklajujemo znotraj partnerstva na sestankih nacionalnih partnerjev. Merilo za ocenitev rezultatov so postavljeni cilji. Evalvacijo bo ob koncu projekta izvajala zunanja institucija. Za namen promocije smo ustvarili slogane, ki motivirajo delodajalce in širšo javnost, da se poglobijo v problematiko zaposlovanja invalidov in spodbujajo zaposlovanje le-teh. Slogani se pojavljajo tudi na nekaterih večjih artiklih našega promocijskega materiala (majice, mape, zgibanke, brošure …), poleg logotipa razvojnega partnerstva, ki se pojavlja tudi na preostalih promocijskih artiklih (kemični svinčniki, magneti za hladilnik …). V okviru delovanja RP so bili izvedeni tudi naslednji rezultati: 12 tansnacionalnih srečanj, izvedba posveta s predstavitvijo Zakona o zaposlitveni rehabilitaciji in zaposlovanju invalidov in aktivnosti Sklada za vzpodbujanje zaposlovanja invalidov, izvedba mednarodne konference na temo »Vzpodbude na področju zaposlovanja ranljivih skupin – vzpodbude v praksi«, izvedba transnacionalne delavnice na temo »Dobre prakse zaposlovanja invalidnih oseb«, 2 raziskavi na temo »Zaposlovanje invalidov« (splošna raziskava in raziskava za delodajalce), izdelava promocijskega gradiva, izdelava računalniškega programa za spremljanje delovanja mobilne in stacionarne informacijske enote. S pomočjo združevanja delovanja zunanjih sodelavcev (ZPIZ, CSD, IRSD, Združenje delodajalcev …) in nacionalnih partnerjev znotraj informacijske pisarne IN-VALID-IN skušamo ažurno in na primerne načine posredovati odgovore delodajalcem, invalidnim osebam in zainteresirani javnosti, saj boljša informiranost gotovo olajšuje dostop do trga dela invalidnim osebam, hkrati pa informacijska enota omogoča delodajalcem podporni mehanizem za zagotavljanje informacij o možnih ukrepih, načinih in oblikah zaposlovanja invalidnih oseb. V veliko pomoč je tudi spletni forum, ki zagotavlja povezave z ustreznimi stranmi in možnost kontaktiranja o problematiki zaposlovanja invalidnih oseb. S pomočjo inovativnih načinov in mest informiranja smo skušali promovirati uspele načine zaposlitve invalidne osebe z namenom odpravljanja predsodkov do zaposlitve invalidnih oseb. Kot dodana vrednost projekta se smatrajo mobilna in stacionarna informacijska enota (Informacijska pisarna INVALID-IN za svetovanje invalidnim osebam in delodajalcem) ter nov profil delovni inštruktor, ki bo uveden v nacionalne politike z nalogo pomoči pri zaposlovanju invalidnih oseb. Nadaljevanje projekta Informacijski enoti sta zasnovani kot trajni produkt razvojnega partnerstva, zato smo trenutno v aktivnem iskanju potencialnih financerjev, ki bi financirali delovanje enot tudi po izteku projekta. 24 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov (RE)INTEGRACIJA ŽRTEV TRGOVINE Z LJUDMI Koordinator RP: Društvo KLJUČ – center za boj proti trgovini z ljudmi Naziv razvojnega partnerstva: (Re)integracija žrtev trgovine z ljudmi Naslov: p. p. 1646, 1001 Ljubljana Telefon: +386 (0)1 23 22 122 Faks: +386 (0)1 23 22 122 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: Katjuša Kodele Kos Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 232.799,90 EUR (55.788.167,00 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 174.599,93 EUR (41.841.125,25 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 58.199,97 EUR (13.947.041,75 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: www.equal.si Partnerji Društvo KLJUČ; Mercator, d. d.; Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje in Euro Grafik, d. o. o. Transnacionalni partnerji 1. RP OASI 2: PENISOLA Donne: PErcorsi di Nuova Inclusione SOcio-LAvorativa di donne immigrate 2. RP BEMBEA Namen projekta Namen RP (Re)integracija žrtev trgovine z ljudmi je omogočiti dostop do trga dela ter odpravljati diskriminacijo in neenakosti žrtev trgovine z ljudmi v prostoru in času. (Re)integracija v prostoru obsega aktivnosti Slovenije kot države izvora, države tranzicije in države končne destinacije. Z rešitvami v času opredeljujemo celovit proces (re)integracije kjer prepoznavamo elemente, akterje in posledice trgovine z ljudmi, trgovino z ljudmi preprečujemo, žrtvam trgovine z ljudmi konkretno pomagamo, jim omogočamo dolgoročno opolnomočenje ter ozaveščamo strokovno in laično javnost. Program našega RP (Re)integracija žrtev trgovine z ljudmi spada pod ukrep 1 pobude EQUAL – omogočanje lažjega dostopa na trg dela za tiste, ki imajo težave pri vključevanju ali vnovičnem vključevanju vanj. Cilji 1. Oblikovanje (re)integracijskega programa za žrtve trgovine z ljudmi z možnostmi mednarodne implementacije. 2. Spreminjanje politike na področju dela, (re)integracija žrtev trgovine z ljudmi, možnosti in načina financiranja. 3. Vzpostavitev sistema izmenjave informacij, metod, orodij, produktov in znanja tako na nacionalni kot tudi transnacionalni ravni. 4. Večja ozaveščenost strokovne in laične javnosti o problematiki trgovine z ljudmi v Sloveniji. Ciljne skupine Konkretno delo našega RP se osredotoča na nacionalno raven, saj bo (re)integracija potekala na ozemlju celotne države, odvisno od bivališča oseb, ki se bodo vključile v (re)integracijski program, in odvisno od možnosti, kjer se bo lahko izvajal proces (re)integracije. To je seveda odvisno od širitve mreže organizacij, ki bodo pripravljene sodelovati v procesu delovne in socialne (re)integracije žrtev trgovine z ljudmi. Tako delodajalci kot tudi izobraževalne institucije so namreč steber našega RP. Doseženi rezultati Vsi zastavljeni cilji, razen spreminjanja politike na področju dela in zaposlovanja tujcev – žrtev trgovine z ljudmi v Sloveniji, so bili doseženi. Vendar je bil tudi ta cilj delno dosežen, saj smo z aktivnostmi, ki so nas vodile k cilju, sprožili strokovne izmenjave mnenj, kako žrtvam trgovine z ljudmi, ki so tujci, omogočiti pridobitev ustreznih delovnih dovoljenj že v dobi okrevanja, ko še imajo dovoljenje za začasno zadrževanje, ne da bi morali zapuščati Slovenijo. Skozi izvedbo dveh okroglih miz na temo »Spreminjanje politike na področju zaposlovanja tujcev – žrtev trgovine z ljudmi« smo prišli do spoznanja, da zaradi premajhnega števila obravnavanih primerov žrtev trgovine z ljudmi v Sloveniji trenutno še niso podani pogoji za dopolnjevanje zakonov, ki se nanašajo na pridobivanje delovnih dovoljenj in dovoljenj za bivanje v primerih, ko gre za tujce – žrtve trgovine z ljudmi. Slišati je bilo predloge, da bi ravno zaradi majhnega števila obravnavanih primerov žrtev trgovine z ljudmi v Sloveniji obravnavali in našli rešitev za vsak primer posebej. Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 25 Tem predlogom nismo naklonjeni, saj omenjena problematika ne bi bila urejena sistemsko in bi ob vsaki zamenjavi politične oblasti v državi morali ponovno vzpostavljati kontakte in jim poročati o dosedanjem sodelovanju. V Zborniku prispevkov iz okroglih miz so zbrana strokovna mnenja predstavnikov pristojnih državnih služb. V RP (Re)integracija žrtev trgovine z ljudmi smo razvili naslednje produkte: (re)integracijski program za žrtve trgovine z ljudmi ne glede na strukturo žrtev (spol, izvor, izobrazba, izkušnje …), vzpostavili smo INFO-točko za žrtve trgovine z ljudmi, bazo organizacij, pripravljenih sodelovati pri reševanju problematike trgovine z ljudmi, ki jo bomo v prihodnje sprotno nadgrajevali, spletne strani Društva KLJUČ (www.drustvo-kljuc.si), RP (www.equal.si) in transnacionalnega partnerstva (www.equal-openeurope.org). Zaradi premajhnega števila uporabnikov, vključenih v (re)integracijski program za žrtve trgovine z ljudmi (4), nismo mogli oblikovati strategije evidentiranja obravnavanih primerov, vendar pa smo vsak primer temeljito analizirali in tako postavili osnovo, na kateri bomo v prihodnje zbirali in analizirali vse relevantne podatke, ki bodo v pomoč pri nadgradnji in nadaljnjem razvoju že obstoječega (re)integracijskega programa za žrtve trgovine z ljudmi. Kar zadeva uvajanje novega poklicnega standarda svetovalec iz izkušenj smo vložili pobudo na Center za poklicno izobraževanje, kjer so pokazali izjemno zainteresiranost in pripravljenost pomagati pri dosegu omenjena produkta. Junija 2007 smo imeli priložnost podati svoje predloge in pripombe na predlog nacionalnega akcijskega načrta 2008–2009 medresorske delovne skupine za boj proti trgovini z ljudmi. Med drugim smo predlagali, da se kot ena izmed prednostnih nalog v nacionalni AN zapiše tudi (re)integracijski program za žrtve trgovine z ljudmi. Vlada RS je AN julija 2007 potrdila. To pomeni, da se je med drugim zavezala za financiranje (re)integracije žrtev trgovine z ljudmi, s tem pa smo izpolnili enega izmed ciljev, in sicer zagotoviti nadaljevanje izvajanja – kontinuiranega financiranja (re)integracijskega programa po zaključku PPS EQUAL. Mesto v akcijskem načrtu je našla tudi uveljavitev novega poklica svetovalec iz izkušenj (Peer Work Counselor). Medresorska delovna skupina za boj proti trgovini z ljudmi ocenjuje, da je uveljavitev novega poklica svetovalec iz izkušenj smiselna in v tem kontekstu podpira pobudo za pričetek postopka priprave poklicnega standarda. Kot glavne pričakovane rezultate smo si zastavili nove možnosti (re)integracije žrtev, nove metode in tehnike dela z žrtvami trgovine z ljudmi, finančno stabilnost, večja ozaveščenost strokovne in laične javnosti in jih v obdobju trajanja projekta tudi dosegli. Prva dva rezultata smo upoštevali pri oblikovanju (re)integracijskega programa. Glede prihodnje finančne stabilnosti in možnosti nadaljevanja izvajanja (re)integracije žrtev trgovine z ljudmi Društva KLJUČ smo spremenili statut Društva, ki nam omogoča izvajanje profitnih dejavnosti, iz katerih bo dobiček namenjen celostni oskrbi žrtev trgovine z ljudmi (krizna/varna namestitev in (re)integracija). Ugotovili smo, da je stopnja ozaveščenosti o problematiki trgovine z ljudmi strokovne javnosti višja kot pri laični v okviru projekta EQUAL. To lahko utemeljujemo s tem, da smo v doseganje zastavljenih ciljev in rezultatov večinoma vključevali strokovno javnost. Aktivnosti ozaveščanja laične javnosti so bile usmerjene v obveščanje o obstoju in izvajanju projekta EQUAL (re)integracija žrtev trgovine z ljudmi. S pričakovanimi rezultati, kot so seminarji, okrogle mize, novinarske konference, letaki in strokovne publikacije smo skušali povečati nivo ozaveščenosti tako laične kot strokovne javnosti. Poudariti moramo, da so se aktivnosti ozaveščanja laične javnosti o problematiki trgovine z ljudmi intenzivneje izvajale vzporedno s projektom EQUAL v okviru drugih projektov Društva KLJUČ. Trdimo lahko, da se je stopnja ozaveščenosti tako laične kot strokovne javnosti bistveno povečala, saj to beležimo s pozivi po predstavitvi Društva in problematike trgovine z ljudmi kot tudi s klici na svetovalno linijo, z vabili k sodelovanju na projektih itn. Inovativnost je RP zagotavljalo skozi nove metode in tehnike dela z žrtvami – inovativnost skozi izmenjavo izkušenj, oblikovanje strokovnega profila svetovalec iz izkušenj (Peer Work Counselor) – nova kvalifikacija, vzpostavitev INFOtočke – novo orodje, multinacionalni (re)integracijski program – nova orodja in/ali kontekst (oblikovanje standarda za ravnanje z žrtvami trgovine z ljudmi na področju (re)integracije), izdelavo strategije evidentiranja obravnavanih primerov, ki bi lajšala tudi mednarodno učenje iz empiričnih primerov. Dodano vrednost programa (re)integracije tvorita nacionalno in transnacionalno sodelovanje, ki skozi izmenjavo znanj, izkušenj in informacij, skupno delo in razvoj novih orodij, pomembno spreminjata učinkovitost dela posamičnih organizacij. Nadaljevanje projekta: Z oblikovanjem (re)integracijskega programa smo zaokrožili oziroma združili vse oblike pomoči v celoto in jo poimenovali kot celostna oskrba žrtev trgovine z ljudmi. V prihodnosti nameravamo pod tem imenom prijavljati projekte tako na nacionalni kot mednarodni ravni, in tako zagotavljati nadaljevanje programa (re)integracije. 26 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov SPINUP Koordinator RP: SPIN Informacijski inženiring d.o.o. Naziv RP: SpinUP Naslov: Cesta Goriške fronte 46, 5290 Šempeter pri Gorici Telefon: +386 (0)5 39 34 062 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: Lilijana Brajlih Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 292.105 EUR (70.000.000 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 219.079 EUR (52.500.000 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 73.026 EUR (17.500.000 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: www.spinup.si Partnerji Društvo Up, Ljubljana; Zavod Pelikan – Karitas, Ljubljana; Zdravstveni dom, Ambulanta za motnje odvisnosti, Nova Gorica; Pro-Eco d.o.o., Ljubljana; Zavod RS za zaposlovanje, Centralna služba Ljubljana; Ministrstvo za zdravje, Urad za droge, Ljubljana (tihi partner). Transnacionalni partnerji E-ICT (RP Phoenix, Francija); QualityUP” (RP EQ Extra Quality, Italija). Namen Partnerstvo povezuje nacionalne akterje na področju problematike odvisnosti od prepovedanih substanc in reintegracije nekdanjih odvisnikov v vsakdanje delo in življenje ter nosilce inovativnih pristopov navajanja uporabnikov k uporabi pridobitev informacijske družbe. Je kombinacija javnega in zasebnega, profitnega in neprofitnega, velikega in malega in deluje na celotnem območju Republike Slovenije. Partnerji razvijamo celostni pristop k reševanju problemov zaposljivosti nekdanjih odvisnikov in brezdomnih žensk, ki nimajo funkcionalnih znanj za vključitev v informacijsko družbo. Projekt izvajamo zaradi uresničevanja konkretnih ciljev programa EQUAL, Ukrep 1 – zaposljivost, zato izdelki projekta zadovoljujejo potrebe uporabnikov in omogočajo njihov povratek na trg dela ter ustrezajo merilom stroke in okolja, v katerem so in bodo uporabljeni, da bi po zaključku projekta postali njegov sestavni del ter omogočali nadgradnjo. Cilji • Uspešnost ciljnih skupin • Uspešnost partnerstva • Boljša kvaliteta življenja in nove možnosti za osebni razvoj vseh • Dobra praksa • Pravilna in učinkovita raba sredstev Ciljne skupine Število vključenih: 91 (63 % moških, 37 % žensk; 18 % mlajših od 25 let, 8 % starejših od 50 let). Zaposlenost ob zaključku projekta: 74 %, 5 vključenih je delalo v RP SpinUP. D o s ež e n i r e z u l t a t i • Ekstranet spletišče SpinUP in informacijska podpora menedžmentu projekta SpinUP: Spletišče je virtualna podoba izvajanja SRP in ena kvalitetnejših stabilnih in varnih ekstranet rešitev za podporo skupinskemu delu. Partnerstvo navaja na racionalnejše delo, centralizacijo sistema informiranja in arhiviranja dokumentacije in mu zagotavlja zmanjševanje napak, boljšo sledljivost ter nadzor in morebitno ukrepanje. • LMS SITOS – prilagoditev učnemu načrtu ECDL in nadgradnja e-vsebin: Prva horizontalna prioriteta PS EQUAL je razvoj informacijske družbe. V projektu SpinUP so IKT stalno prisotne v obliki različnih rešitev, med katerimi je predvsem za ciljne skupine najpomembnejše e-učenje. RP je projekt oplemenitilo z veliko dragocenostjo – spletiščem in multimedijskim gradivom v slovenskem jeziku, pripravljenim Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov • • • • • • 27 skladno z mednarodnim standardom za pridobitev statusa Approved. Elektronske vsebine, objavljene na učnem spletišču SITOS, ob začetku izvajanja usposabljanja niso bile podprte z dodatno razlago, kar je bila pomanjkljivost sistema, ki jo odpravljamo z nadgradnjo lekcij v obliki kakovostne podpore in pomoči e-učencem. Dodatni učni list se lahko natisnejo. Metodologija prilagajanja izvedbe usposabljanja ciljni skupini, Blended Learning, video konferenca in druge novodobne metode izobraževanja: Poznavanje specifik ciljnih skupin, ki se vključujejo v procese usposabljanja, je obvezno. Tudi slaba izkušnja je lahko dobra praksa pri razvoju in preizkušanju novih pristopov. Predvideti je potrebno tudi dodatno usposabljanje pripravljavcev in izvajalcev izobraževanja. Nabor teh pristopov je postal nova praksa, priporočljiva politikam. Sodobni trendi na področju informacijske družbe so ena ključnih sestavin projekta SpinUP. Novosti terjajo od članov projektne skupine in izvajalcev pridobivanje novih znanj in veščin, zagotavljanje ustrezne opremljenosti partnerjev, navajanje ciljnih skupin na drugačne metode dela in učenja itd. Spoznanje, da novosti ne gre vsiljevati za vsako ceno, da pa je potrebno dobiti in dati priložnost, je ključno sporočilo te inovacije. Priročniki za učenje po programu ECDL (Approved): V obdobju izvajanja so na podlagi ustreznih navodil nastali novi priročniki, skladni z učnim načrtom ECDL. V Sloveniji lahko oceno skladnosti gradiva z učnim načrtom poda le Slovensko društvo Informatika. Glej tudi Dodana vrednost itd. Priznavanje neformalnega izobraževanja: V RP SpinUP so bile ciljne skupine in drugi učenci (partnerji) vključeni v neformalno izobraževanje, ki ga je potrebno ustrezno in primerljivo vrednotiti, kakor priporoča tudi Memorandum EU o vseživljenjskem učenju (2000). Pripravili smo predstavitev stanja vrednotenja neformalnega izobraževanja pri nas in možnosti izboljšav. E-storitev vzajemne pomoči ciljnih skupin pri iskanju zaposlitve: Izdelek smo s prvotne ideje (izdelava modela e-storitve svetovanja pri iskanju zaposlitve) na osnovi novih spoznanj pri delu s ciljnimi skupinami razširili iz svetovanja »partnerstvo – ciljna skupina« na tripartitno svetovanje in pomoč (ciljne skupine si pri iskanju zaposlitve pomagajo med sabo). Metodologija razvoja nove e-vsebine v slovenskem jeziku: Razvoj e-vsebin je nova dejavnost, ki potrebuje ustrezne strokovne in tehnične mehanizme, med katerimi je eden bistvenih metodologija priprave in razvoja kvalitetnih e-vsebin. Partnerji so iskali rešitve za tehnične zahteve in možnosti, usposobljenost človeških virov, dostopnost do strokovnjakov, dejanske potrebe na trgu dela … Nastala ni le metodologija razvoja e-vsebine, pač pa tudi model nove e-vsebine v slovenskem jeziku (spletna stran www.spinup.si). Spletna HRM aplikacija www.spin.si/4learning/, metodologija motiviranja ciljnih skupin, priprava predavatelja (trenerja, asistenta, mentorja) za poučevanje (standard ECDL CTP), delovni zvezki po programu ECDL SV 4.0, katalog znanj poročevalca organu upravljanja, stigmatizacija ciljnih skupin na trgu dela, izmenjava dobre prakse vključevanja ciljnih skupin v družbo in na trg dela v transnacionalnem partnerstvu, metodologija samoevalvacije, tehnična opremljenost partnerjev. Dodana vrednost projekta: • Dobra praksa: Partnerstvo SpinUP, izvajalci in ciljne skupine razpolagamo z novimi znanji in izkušnjami, pridobljenimi zaradi uporabe inovativnih pristopov in tehnologij. Informacijske rešitve, spoznanja in gradiva so dobra podlaga tako za nove skupne kot individualne podvige. • Vpliv na politike: Posebna dodana vrednost so gradiva za usposabljanje po programu ECDL SV 4.0. Partnerstvo predlaga Ministrstvu za delo, družino in socialne zadeve, da ZRSZ pri izvajanju programov APZ za brezposelne odslej uporablja ta gradiva, kar more privesti do boljše kakovosti usposabljanja, poenotenja učnih pripomočkov, učinkovitejše sledljivosti in gospodarnejše rabe davkoplačevalskega denarja. • Zaposlitev ciljnih skupin: Ciljnim skupinam, ki so izrazile interes, smo omogočili aktivno sodelovanje pri aktivnostih partnerstva. Štirje nekdanji odvisniki so se uspešno preizkusili kot mentorji udeležencem izobraževanja, ena nekdanja odvisnica pa je oblikovala ovitek priročnika. Vsi so bili za svoje delo nagrajeni iz sredstev projekta. Na d a l jeva nje p roje k ta Veliko vključenih si želi dodatnega izobraževanja v smeri specializacije za delo v informacijski družbi. Nekdanjim odvisnikom, žrtvam stigmatizacije na trgu dela, bi na tak način odprli nove možnosti, saj se jim npr. kot samostojnim podjetnikom in/ali izvajalcem dela na domu/e-dela ne bi bilo potrebno soočati z neenakopravno obravnavo pri delodajalcih, ki imajo pomisleke in so nezaupljivi do zaposlencev – nekdanjih odvisnikov od nedovoljenih drog. 28 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov DNEVNI CENTER MOST Koordinator RP: Regionalni center za razvoj d.o.o., Zagorje ob Savi Naziv RP: Dnevni center MOST Naslov: Podvine 36, 1410 Zagorje ob Savi Telefon: +386 (0)3 56 60 500 Faks: +386 (0)3 56 60 510 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: mag. Tadeja Nimac Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 273.114,44 EUR (65.449.144 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 204.835,83 EUR (49.086.858 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 68.278,61 EUR (16.362,286 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: http://www.rcr-zasavje.si/most Partnerji Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje preko Območne službe Trbovlje; Knjižnica Mileta Klopčiča, Zagorje ob Savi; Varstveno-delovni center Zagorje ob Savi (izstop z dne 20.05.2005);Športno društvo Izlake; Zasavska ljudska univerza Trbovlje; Območna obrtna zbornica Hrastnik in Center za promocijo znanja, CPZ International, d. o. o., Ljubljana. Transnacionalni partnerji Partnerji v okviru TCA P.I.E.S.: RP OPCAOVAL, A.N.E. – Associacao Nacional das Empresarias, Porto. Partnerji v okviru TCA EURO-SIGNAL: RP SIG.NET, NETwork New Employment in the District of SIGmaringen, Landratsamt Sigmaringen; RP EQUAL IN RED, D.G. Fomento de Empleo, SEVILLA; RP E LE CHANGE, Consorzio Sociale Agor, Genova. Namen projekta Namen programa Dnevni center MOST je dodati novo vrednost in s tem kvaliteto pomoči dolgotrajno brezposelnim osebam v primerjavi s pomočjo, ki jo lahko nudi vsak posamezen partner, aktivirati brezposelne osebe iz stanja apatičnosti in pasivnosti, jim nuditi kontinuirano strokovno pomoč in nadgrajevati konkurenčnost na trgu dela z različnimi izobraževanji in usposabljanji, prilagojenimi aktualnim razmeram na trgu dela, omogočiti pomoč brezposelnim osebam pri preseganju vplivov dolgotrajne brezposelnosti na kognitivnem, čustvenem, motivacijskem, predvsem pa na socialnem področju ter vzpostaviti učinkovitejše komunikacije in povezave med ključnimi akterji na trgu dela. Cilji Cilji programa so dolgoročno zmanjšanje brezposelnosti v (Zasavski) regiji ter oblikovanje učinkovitejše pomoči brezposelnim osebam. Ciljne skupine Dvainštiridesetim udeležencem, mladim brezposelnim osebam iz Zasavja, starim do 26 let in dva meseca prijavljenim na ZRSZ, je bilo na razpolago tedensko, po potrebi pa tudi pogostejše individualno svetovanje. Doseženi rezultati Program RP je bil usmerjen v individualno pomoč posamezniku, ki išče zaposlitev. Izhajal je iz neokonstruktivističnega pristopa, torej je upošteval sodobne pristope pomoči in je bil usmerjen v reševanje problema brezposelnosti konkretnega posameznika in njegove konkretne situacije. Vsakega udeleženca smo v sklopu programa seznanili s situacijo na trgu dela in mu poskušali pomagati pri soočanju z njegovo lastno situacijo na trgu delovne sile – primanjkljaji znanja, veščin, spretnosti. Skupaj z udeleženci smo že v sklopu programa poskušali te primanjkljaje zmožnosti maksimalno nadoknaditi, na primer s praktičnimi usposabljanji za komercialista in knjigovodsko-računovodska dela, s tečaji tujih jezikov, z uporabo IKT, s pripravo na izpit iz Zakona o upravnem postopku in tudi z izobraževanjem za poklic, z vključevanjem v programe nacionalnih poklicnih kvalifikacij, z dokončanjem izobraževanja, s prekvalifikacijami … Udeleženci so imeli ves čas obiskovanja programa na razpolago materialne možnosti za iskanje zaposlitve v t. i. zaposlitveni pisarni RP Dnevni center MOST, in sicer: računalnike z dostopom do interneta in s tiskalnikom, dnevnika Delo in Dnevnik, brezplačno uporabo telefona, pisemske ovojnice z znamkami, preglednice prostih delovnih mest ZRSZ itd. To so po mnenju RP osnovni materialni pogoji, ki jih potrebujejo brezposelne osebe za aktivno iskanje zaposlitve. Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 29 Za udeležence programa smo izvedli tudi aktivnosti, ki so bile udeležencem namenjene za motiviranje, aktiviranje in socialno vključevanje, in sicer: športne, računalniške in študijsko-bralne krožke, športne dneve, izobraževanja, delavnice in druga druženja, kar se je pokazalo kot pomembna podpora svetovalnemu procesu. V programu smo z opisanim pristopom zabeležili 83,3% uspešnost na ravni posameznikov, vključenih v program (zaposlitve in vključitve v izobraževanje, dokvalifikacije, prekvalifikacije). Skozi program RP pa je nastajal tudi osnovni produkt, Model individualnega pristopa k nudenju pomoči brezposelni osebi v procesu iskanja zaposlitve, ki temelji na konceptu delovnega odnosa v socialnem delu in sodobnih pristopih pomoči, z njim pa je tesno povezan drugi produkt, kompetenčni model. V produktu Model ugotavljanja in merjenja kompetenc brezposelnih oseb smo definirati tiste kompetence, ki so na trgu dela pri delodajalcih pričakovane. Poimenovali smo jih kot ključne kompetence za uspešno življenje in delo. Za ugotavljanje kompetenc posamezne brezposelne osebe smo pripravili poseben samoevalvacijski vprašalnik –pripomoček zaposlitvenemu svetovalcu za ugotavljanje kompetenc brezposelnih oseb. Za uspešno izravnavanje potreb in ponudbe na trgu dela pa je potrebno poznati tako kompetence brezposelnih oseb (oz. iskalcev zaposlitve) kot tudi kompetenčne profile delovnih mest, ki so oz. bodo aktualna na trgu delovne sile. V sklopu programa smo skupaj z udeleženci iskali tudi možne delodajalce, ki bi zaposlili udeležence programa. Z njimi smo navezovali stike in sodelovali, da bi udeležencem lahko omogočili zaposlitev s pomočjo ciljanih izobraževanj oziroma s pomočjo aktivnosti usposabljanja brez delovnega razmerja. V programu smo poskušali prilagajati in čim bolj izenačevati kompetence posameznih iskalcev zaposlitve s kompetencami delovnih mest, ki so bila na (regionalnem) trgu dela na razpolago. Žal je bil interes delodajalcev za sodelovanje pod našimi pričakovanji. V razvojnem partnerstvu Dnevni center MOST smo lahko ugotavljali le razloge za slabo sodelovanje in komunikacijo med ključnimi udeleženci na trgu delovne sile, predvidenega sistema krožnih in povratnih komunikacij pa nismo mogli vzpostaviti. V času izvajanja programa z mladimi brezposelnimi osebami iz Zasavja se je pokazalo, da je aktivna komunikacija med delodajalci in iskalci zaposlitve oziroma podpornimi institucijami s področja trga dela ter izobraževalnimi institucijami zelo pomembna, saj lahko prispeva k hitrejšemu prepoznavanju in izravnavanju primanjkljajev v kompetencah iskalcev zaposlitve. Te naše ugotovitve so potrdile tudi izkušnje in rezultati razvojnega partnerstva PPS EQUAL M-LAB, ki ga je koordinirala družba BSC iz Kranja in s katerim smo v času izvajanja projekta sodelovali v nacionalni tematski mreži. Podobne ugotovitve o nujnosti sodelovanja med ključnimi udeleženci trga dela so temeljno spoznanje tudi dvoletnega transnacionalnega sodelovanja z razvojnim partnerstvom EQUAL Opcaoval.pt s Portugalske (TCA P.I.E.S., sodelovali smo tudi v TCA EURO-SIGNAL). Skupni cilj obeh razvojnih partnerstev je bil iskanje inovativnih pristopov in struktur, ki bodo pospeševale uravnoteženost trga delovne sile ter ustvarjale kulturo dialoga med ključnimi udeleženci trga delovne sile. Ob sklepu transnacionalnega sodelovanja po TCA P.I.E.S. smo v skupni izjavi, namenjeni pristojnim ministrstvom obeh držav, javnosti in tudi Evropski komisiji, glede na enotne smernice zaposlovalne politike v Evropski uniji, med drugim zapisali: »Skrb za razreševanje brezposelnosti je skupna skrb države, delodajalcev, aktivnega prebivalstva, izobraževalnih organizacij in nenazadnje tudi lokalnih oblasti. Razvojno partnerstvo je ob prej omenjenih produktih razvilo tudi Model vodenja svetovalnega procesa na področju zaposlovanja uporabnikov drog, ki smo ga skupaj z razvojnim partnerstvom Feniks (koordinator je bil Zavod Vir Celje) pripravili v sklopu Nacionalne tematske meže EQUAL Zaposlovanje in odvisniki. To je bil naš odgovor na sedanje neustrezno stanje, predvsem na aktualni svetovalni pristop brezposelnim osebam Zavoda Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje, ki zaradi več razlogov ni koncipiran za prepoznavanje oziroma učinkovito pomoč odvisniku v trenutku, ko bi se ta proces lahko intenzivno pričel reševati, obenem pa je tudi medinstitucionalno in medresorsko sodelovanje v Sloveniji zaenkrat še slabo vzpostavljeno (ob Zavodu za zaposlovanje so to še centri za socialno delo, zdravstvo, programi rehabilitacije). Dodaten produkt razvojnega partnerstva je tudi Predlog pobude za pridobitev nacionalne poklicne kvalifikacije poklica svetovalec za zaposlovanje, s katerim bi se v prakso zaposlitvenega svetovanja v Sloveniji lahko postopoma uvedel individualni pristop. Nadaljevanje projekta Partnerji razvojnega partnerstva oziroma nacionalne tematske mreže EQUAL bomo aktivno vključeni pri pripravi kataloga znanj oziroma poklicnih standardov, s čimer bomo nadaljevali s skupnimi prizadevanji za kvalitetnejše svetovalno delo z brezposelnimi v Sloveniji tudi po izteku programa.Po izteku programa si bomo prizadevali tudi za prenos programa v prakso, predvsem z nadaljevanjem aktivnosti »zaposlitvena pisarna« za vse brezposelne v posamezni občini, kar naj bi postalo minimalni standard, namenjen prav vsaki brezposelni osebi kot osnovna pomoč za aktivno iskanje zaposlitve. Nadaljevati želimo tudi z vzpostavljanjem sistema kvalitetnejšega komuniciranja med ključnimi udeleženci trga dela. 30 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov M-LAB Koordinator RP: BSC Poslovno podporni center d.o.o. Naziv RP: M-LAB Naslov: Cesta Staneta Žagarja 37, 4000 Kranj Telefon: +386 (0)4 28 17 230 Faks: +386 (0)4 28 17 249 E-pošta: [email protected] Vsebinski vodja projekta: Franja Gabrovšek Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 312.848,44 EUR Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 234.636,3 EUR Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 78.212,11 EUR Spletna stran projekta: www.m-lab.si Partnerji Študentska organizacija fakultete za organizacijske vede Kranj; Izobraževalni center Vedi; Šent – slovensko združenje za duševno zdravje; Zavod Jelša – Center za izobraževanje, usposabljanje in rehabilitacijo; Občina Jesenice; Mestna občina Kranj; Iskraemeco, d. d.; Merkur – trgovina in storitve, d. d., Naklo; Naredi sam, Obl´č, lesna proizvodnja in trgovina, d. o. o.; Sava, družba za upravljanje in financiranje, d. d.; Center za socialno delo Tržič v okviru koordinacije CSD za Gorenjsko; Območna obrtna zbornica Kranj; Ljudska univerza Radovljica; Ljudska univerza Kranj; Ljudska univerza Jesenice; Razvojna agencija Sora, d. o. o.; Razvojna agencija Zgornje Gorenjske; Fakulteta za organizacijske vede Kranj; Zavod RS za zaposlovanje; Območna služba Kranj; Javna agencija RS za podjetništvo in tuje investicije; GZS Območna zbornica za Gorenjsko; KGZS – Zavod Kranj; Občina Škofja Loka. Transnacionalni partnerji Transnacionalno partnerstvo S.A.F.E.: Španija: IBN Arabi, Avstrija: Generation 19 +, Francija: One area, various partners, one path towards employment, Italija: Consortio Nova Leisure incubator + Leisure agency. Namen Namen in tudi glavni cilj partnerstva je vzpostavitev novega modela zaposlovanja za mlade M-LAB, integriranega programa motiviranja, usmerjanja in vključitve v delo, ki združuje in povezuje regionalno partnerstvo (nevladne organizacije, podjetja, lokalne skupnosti, ljudske univerze, socialne partnerje, javne zavode in razvojne agencije) in vključuje ciljno populacijo mladih. Z razvojem novih metod in oblik dela, kombinirano z delovno prakso v podjetjih, želimo dvigniti zaposlitvene možnosti mladih, povečati njihovo socialno vključenost, zmanjšati brezposelnost in s predlogi za nadgradnjo nacionalnih politik prispevati k vzpostavitvi stalnega instrumenta za hitrejši in stalni prehod mladih na trg dela. Cilji • Vzpostaviti in krepiti regijsko razvojno partnerstvo pri alternativnem zaposlovanju mladih • Izdelati analizo konkretnih potreb in situacij mladih ter podpornega okolja • Razviti alternativni/integralni/mrežni model zaposlovanja mladih M-LAB na principu motiviranje – usmerjanje – svetovanje – integracija v delo • Preveriti model M-LAB v praksi • Zagotoviti prenos izkušenj v okviru transnacionalnega partnerstva in nacionalnih mrež • Zagotoviti trajnost sistema in prenosa modela v nacionalne politike Ciljna skupina Razvojno partnerstvo M-LAB odgovarja na probleme brezposelnosti mladih na Gorenjskem. V pripravljalnem obdobju smo znotraj partnerstva oblikovali štiri projektne skupine, ki so pripravile analizo stanja in predloge rešitev za ciljne skupine mladih, in sicer mladih na črnem trgu dela, žensk, oseb z zdravstvenimi in socialnimi omejitvami in mladih diplomantov. Pri vseh ciljnih skupinah potencialnih kandidatov za vključitev v projekt M-LAB so se pokazale podobne potrebe. Najpogosteje mladim primanjkuje delovnih izkušenj oziroma ustrezne delovne prakse, zato jih delodajalci neradi zaposlijo, saj imajo na drugi strani dovolj kadra z ustreznimi delovnimi izkušnjami. Zlasti to velja za suficitarne poklice na trgu dela, za poklice, ki jih je glede na povpraševanje delodajalcev še vedno preveč. Glede na opravljene analize in predloge se je Razvojno partnerstvo odločilo, da razvije model in ga pilotno izvede s ciljno Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 31 skupino brezposelnih mladih diplomantov, v starosti od 19 do 35 let, z najmanj V. stopnjo izobrazbe, s podskupinami mladih žensk, mladih na črnem trgu dela in podzaposlenimi. Doseženi rezultati Razvit alternativni/integralni/mrežni model zaposlovanja mladih M-LAB: • Razvoj informacijskega sistema www.m-lab.si: internet in intranet, možnost prijave mladih preko spletne strani, dokumenti za delo M-LAB-mentorjev in koordinatorja • Razvoj sistema animacije in informiranja mladih: izvedba animacijske kampanje in vzpostavitev info-točk po celotni Gorenjski (izvedena delavnica za info-točke, na katerih so mladi dobili osnovne informacije o projektu, možnosti vključitve, promocijsko gradivo…) • Model ocenjevanja sposobnosti mladih, priprava vprašalnika, na podlagi katerega se je izkazalo, da mladi poleg delovnih izkušenj in motivacije, individualnega pristopa, potrebujejo tudi dodatna funkcionalna znanja, pomoč pri odkrivanju zaposlitvenih ciljev in iskanju njihovih zaposlitvenih poti, seznanitev in svetovanje o možnostih, ki že obstajajo na trgu dela, ter pomoč pri navezovanju stika s potencialnimi delodajalci. • Koncept M-LAB-središč z zaposlitvenimi mentorji za mlade (na LU Jesenice, CIPS v Kranju, RA SORA v Škofji Loki): vključevanje kandidatov, intervjuji, individualno spremljanje, napotitev kandidatov na razgovore v podjetja, iskanje novih podjetij na principu ponudbe usposobljenosti in znanj kandidatov, vključenih v projekt, priprava dokumentacije za podjetja za vključitev v projekt M-LAB, vmesno reševanje konfliktov … Tekom implementacije projekta smo najprej izvedli usposabljanje za zaposlitvene mentorje M-LAB, delavnice z vsebinski sklopi: Svetovalno delo z odraslimi (diplomanti), Motivacija, Portfelj, Karierni načrt, Zbirna mapa, Ocenjevanje sposobnosti mladih ter Zasnova in potek M-LAB-a in za delo z mladimi usposobili 12 mentorjev. Trimesečno usposabljanje mladih na delovnem mestu v podjetjih se je izvajalo na podlagi pripravljenih mentorskih načrtov za konkretno delovno mesto: strokovni sodelavec za razvoj podeželja, kolorist – uvajalec spektrofotometra, svetovalec, prodajalec, kozmetik – vizažist (2x), računovodja, delo v gostinstvu (2x), administrator, produktni vodja, zavarovalni zastopnik, specialist za razvoj podeželja, knjigovodja (2x), pomočnik vodje svetovalnega centra, samostojni komercialist v prodaji, referent v računovodstvu, komercialist – podjetniški svetovalec, tehnologinja. Oblikovana je bila skupina 23 mladih, ki so aktivno sodelovali na delavnicah: Podjetništvo – izzivi, priložnosti, pasti, dileme, Poslovni načrt – osnova vsakega uspešnega posla, Generiranje poslovnih idej, Marketing, Analiza trga in tržnih priložnosti, Akcijski načrt prodaje, Ekonomika poslovanja, Branje in analiza bilanc, Menedžment in vodenje, Načrtovanje kadrov v podjetju, Gospodarsko pravo, Komuniciranje in retorika, Poslovna pogajanja/ predstavitev poslovne ideje, Predstavitve poslovnih načrtov, Ocena poslovnih načrtov z nasveti predavatelja. Mladi so izdelali poslovne načrte, ki so jih ob koncu tudi javno predstavili, s strani strokovnjakov pa pridobili mnenja o svojih podjetniških idejah. Trije udeleženci usposabljanja so se tekom projekta samozaposlili Na tridnevni delavnici z naslovom »Upravljanje z evropskimi projekti« so udeleženci pridobili znanja s področja delovanja programov Evropske unije, priprave projekta in vzpostavljanja projektnega partnerstva, izvajanja projektov, spremljanja in evalvacije doseženih rezultatov. Na delavnici »Priprava osebnega portfelja« so bile mladim predstavljene poti do NPK in praktični primeri oblikovanja portfelja. Dodana vrednost projekta: Model M-LAB je po terenu vzpostavil 3 M-LAB središča, kjer so usposobljeni strokovnjaki predstavljali stično točko med kandidati in potencialnimi delodajalci ter nudili pomoč in strokovne nasvete tako kandidatom kot delodajalcem. Model M-LAB odlikuje tudi jasno vzpostavljeno sodelovanje z delodajalci in jasno pozicioniranje izkušenj in »neizkušenosti« mladih ter neformalnih znanj in povezavo sposobnosti mladih s točno določenim delovnim mestom, kjer je potekalo 3-mesečno usposabljanje pod vodstvom usposobljenih mentorjev v podjetjih. M-LAB je mladim ponudil tudi možnost samozaposlitve, kar dodatno ocenjujemo kot pomemben element znanja in večanja zaposlitvenih/samozaposlitevnih možnosti mladih. Nadaljevanje projekta M-LAB se je z razvitimi inovativnimi instrumenti, metodami in ukrepi tekom pilotne izvedbe izkazal kot dober temelj za reševanje problematike zaposlovanja/samozaposlovanja mladih v regiji in bi ga bilo možno prenesti tudi v druge regije ter ga prilagoditi za delo z drugimi ciljnimi skupinami. 32 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov ZNANJE JE MOČ-VSEŽIVLJENJSKO UČENJE ZA VSE (OSVEŠČANJE IN INFORMIRANJE) Koordinator RP: Emines d.o.o. Naziv RP: Znanje je moč-Vseživljenjsko učenje za vse (osveščanje in informiranje) Naslov: Taborska cesta 3, 1290 Grosuplje Telefon: +386 (0)1 46 33 151 Faks: +386 (0)5 99 38 463 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: Matjaž Kušar Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 348.528,13 EUR (83.521.280 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 261.396,09 EUR (62.640.960 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 87.132,03 EUR (87.132,03 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: www.mojasoseska.si Partnerji Hribar in Ga-Ga, d. n. o.; Kompas Design, d. d.; Murgelj Franc Fritz, s. p.; Ecetera, d. o. o.; Ilumino, vizualne komunikacije, Zlatko Levačič, s. p.; Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje; Ksantipe, d. o. o.; Založba Izolit, d. o. o.; Alenka Bergant, s. p.; Iksiv, d. o. o.; Cebram, d. o. o. Transnacionalni partnerji RP Znanje je moč sodeluje v 3 transnacionalnih partnerstvih, in sicer: 1. DAWN (Disadvantageds At Work Now): Italija (Padova), Madžarska 2. POPE (Power Of Promotion of Empowerment): Italija (Bari), Francija 3. YOUTHLINKS: Litva, Nizozemska, Švedska Namen projekta Kakovostno in množično izobraževanje odraslih je pomemben razvojni dejavnik vsakega naroda. Vseživljenjsko učenje pripomore k uravnavanju razmerij na trgu delovne sile, k izboljšanju izobrazbene in kulturne ravni naroda, k povečevanju kakovosti življenja in k preprečevanju odrinjenosti nekaterih skupin prebivalstva. Zato je nujno, da je vseživljenjsko učenje dostopno vsem. Dostopnost izobraževanja je odvisna od izobraževalne infrastrukture, ustreznih programov izobraževanja in usposabljanja, dodatnih ukrepov za spodbujanje vključevanja v vseživljenjsko izobraževanje in bistveno od informiranja prebivalstva. Država je že razvila in še razvija različne ukrepe in programe, s katerimi želi olajšati dostop do vseživljenjskega izobraževanja. Vendar pa ukrepi in programi v preštevilnih primerih ne dosežejo vseh predvidenih rezultatov in ciljnih skupin. Bistvene težave predstavljajo: neosveščenost vsakega posameznika o pomenu vseživljenjskega učenja, neosveščenost vsakega posameznika o soodgovornosti za lastno poklicno pot, neinformiranost o možnostih, ki so na razpolago, neinformiranost tistih, ki bi se v vseživljenjsko učenje morali najbolj nujno vključevati, nemotiviranost ljudi z najslabšimi zaposlitvenimi možnostmi in premalo pozornosti delodajalcev za nadaljnje izobraževanje in usposabljanje zaposlenih. Zato smo se partnerji razvojnega partnerstva odločili, da bomo skozi projekt poskusili zapolniti navedene vrzeli preko vzpostavitve modela informiranja, ozaveščanja in motiviranja. Cilji Širši cilji razvojnega partnerstva: • povečati delež udeležbe ciljnih skupin v izobraževanju in usposabljanju • povečati zaposlitvene možnosti ciljnih skupin Specifični cilji razvojnega partnerstva: • zagotoviti dostop do informacij za vse ciljne skupine • zagotoviti svetovanje za vse ciljne skupine • motivirati ciljne skupine za vključevanje na trg dela • ozaveščanje delodajalcev o pomembnosti vseživljenjskega učenja vseh zaposlenih in o vplivu stalnega Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 33 izobraževanja in usposabljanja zaposlenih na rast, produktivnost in konkurenčnost podjetja • informiranje širše javnosti o vseh razvojnih partnerstvih, ki bodo sofinancirana preko pobude EQUAL ter o njihovih rezultatih Ciljne skupine Glavne ciljne skupine so: nizko izobraženi zaposleni, starejše aktivno prebivalstvo, ljudje z nizkimi dohodki, invalidne osebe, mladi osipniki, dolgotrajno brezposelni, starejši delavci, delodajalci in širša javnost. Doseženi rezultati Model informiranja, ozaveščanja in motiviranja posameznih ciljnih skupin na področju vseživljenjskega učenja, zaposlovanja in socialne vključenosti kot inovacija vzpostavlja učinkovito izrabo medijev. Tako je bila v okviru projekta vzpostavljena redna radijska oddaja, ki je bila nadgrajena z objavami na spletnem portalu – mediju prihodnosti. Skozi projekt smo združevali vse glavne akterje in vse bistvene informacije na enem mestu, dostopnem vsem, tudi najbolj ranljivim skupinam na trgu dela. Informacije so bile predstavljane na razumljiv način z neformalno komunikacijo. Na ta način se poslušalca skozi sproščeno pasivno poslušanje postopno spodbudi k aktivnemu spremljanju in v nadaljevanju k aktiviranju. V oddaje smo vključevali »javne animatorje« – osebe, ki so v javnem nastopanju kredibilne in s svojim zgledom motivirajo tudi druge. Oddajo »Moja soseska – Znanje je moč« je preko nacionalnega radia Val 202 vsako soboto zjutraj spremljalo med 70 in 90 tisoč poslušalcev, kar v povprečju predstavlja 40-odstotno poslušanost celotnega prebivalstva. Doseženi rezultati so: 100 radijskih oddaj, spletni portal www.mojasoseska.si in časopisni članki ter brošura. Preko 100 radijskih oddaj smo širili informacije o izbranih temah s področja izobraževanja, usposabljanja, zaposlovanja in socialnega vključevanja. Ciljnim skupinam smo preko sproščenega voditelja in strokovnih sogovornikov na zanimiv način predstavili različna področja dela, odgovornosti in nenazadnje tudi prednosti, ki jih prinaša opravljanje posameznega poklica. Govorili smo o svetovalnih službah na področju poklicne orientacije ter o pomenu ozaveščanja delodajalcev o pomembnosti vseživljenjskega učenja vseh zaposlenih in vplivu stalnega izobraževanja in usposabljanja zaposlenih na rast, produktivnost in konkurenčnost podjetja. Govorili smo o izobraževanju, usposabljanju in zaposlovanju v tujini. Predstavili smo tujce, ki se izobražujejo in delajo pri nas. V sodelovanju z Ministrstvom za šolstvo in šport smo prikazali novosti, ki jih prinaša šolsko leto 2007/2008, ter programe in projekte, ki jih omogoča ministrstvo (središča za samostojno učenje, borza znanja, študijski krožki …). Ob podpori Ministrstva za delo, družino in socialne zadeve smo ciljnim skupinam približali različne programe izobraževanja (Program 10.000), usposabljanja (brezposelnih, zaposlenih, Phare program računalniškega opismenjevanja itd). Prikazali smo različne možnosti usposabljanja, izobraževanja in zaposlovanja posebnih skupin (invalidov, osipnikov itd). Seznam obravnavanih tem je obsežen, saj je pokril 50 ur radijskega programa. Za tiste, pri katerih smo vzbudili radovednost, povzetke radijskih oddaj objavljamo na spletnem portalu www.mojasoseska.si in v brošuri »Moja soseska – Znanje je moč«. Ni pa »Moja soseska – Znanje je moč« le oddaja na Radiu Slovenija. Sodelovanje v transnacionalnih partnerstvih je omogočilo predstavitve izkušenj in dobrih praks drugih držav. Sodelovanje na področju promocije vseživljenjskega učenja torej poteka tudi preko meja in se prepleta ne le s sosednjimi državami, temveč še širše in bolj globalno. Vse z namenom večje zaposljivosti ogroženih ciljnih skupin in promocije znanja, saj v znanju je moč. Nadaljevanje projekta Preizkušen model informiranja, ozaveščanja in motiviranja bi bilo smiselno izvajati tudi po zaključku sofinanciranja s strani pobude EQUAL, saj nadgrajuje obstoječe prakse in dosega širok krog slovenskega prebivalstva. Kot tak predstavlja enega ključnih elementov razvijanja kulture vseživljenjskega učenja v Sloveniji. 34 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov RP FENIKS Koordinator RP: Zavod VIR – preprečevanje odvisnosti in rehabilitacija uporabnikov drog Naziv RP: RP FENIKS Naslov: Vrunčeva 9, 3000 Celje Telefon: +386 (0)3 49 00 024 Mobilni telefon: +386 (0)31 288 827 Faks: +386 (0)3 49 00 025 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: Karmen Bailat, skrbnica projekta Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 205.516,61 EUR (49.250.000 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 154.137,46 EUR (36.937.500 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 51.379,15 EUR (12.312.500 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: www.zavod-vir.si Partnerji Zavod za zdravstveno varstvo Celje; Srednja ekonomska šola Celje; Policijska uprava Celje; Pivovarna Laško, d. d.; Unior Zreče, d. d.; Mestna občina Celje; Zavod RS za zaposlovanje Celje, OS Celje. Transnacionalni partnerji TCA – Back on track – Creating Equal Opportunities for Disadvantaged Youngsters: Nizozemska: DP Drop outs can learn, naturally; Slovenija: RP Dnevni center MOST. Namen projekta Namen projekta je bil prevetriti aktualno situacijo o poznavanju drog in odvisnosti med strokovnimi delavci na lokalnem nivoju in z inovativnimi pristopi stremeti k učinkovitim spremembam v smeri zagotavljanja enakopravnosti ciljne skupine. Cilji Preko vseživljenjskega učenja smo želeli ustrezno osvestiti splošno javnost in opozoriti na diskriminiranost uporabnikov drog in njihovih bližnjih, ki so se znašli v svetu drog. Hkrati je bil namen vplivati na gospodarstvo in politiko ter aktivno poseči v prilagajanje obstoječega delovanja omenjenih struktur. Specifični cilji so še: najti nove metode za boj proti diskriminaciji in neenakosti na trgu dela ciljne skupine uporabnikov nedovoljenih drog; osveščati, informirati in seznaniti širšo javnost s perečo problematiko ter z aktivnostmi vseživljenjskega učenja pri strokovnih delavcih dvigniti raven poznavanja problematike drog in odvisnosti; s partnerji prevetriti pravne akte v šoli oziroma službi, pripraviti ustrezne predloge, ki bodo uporabnikom drog dale možnost, da se pod določenimi pogoji vključijo v različne programe rehabilitacije in tako ne izgubijo službe oz. statusa dijaka; skrbeti za promocijo produktov in raznoliko ponudbo programov, projektov za ciljne skupine ter preko transparentnosti obveščati in informirati splošno, specifično in strokovno javnost o situaciji v vezi z drogami, pereči problematiki in drugem; permanentno meriti rezultate izvedb aktivnosti in aplikacij ustvarjenih produktov, kar narekuje ustrezno in učinkovito sodelovanje v mreži strokovnih delavcev na lokalnem, nacionalnem in TN-nivoju; skrbeti za koordinacijo vseh aktivnosti in obveznosti med nacionalnimi partnerji v RP Feniks; na TN-ravni: spoznati dobre prakse, izmenjati izkušnje in skrbeti za koordinacijo in izvedbo zadanih aktivnosti in obveznosti med TNpartnerji. Ciljna skupina Koordinator je izhajal iz bazne ciljne skupine, ki je neposredna in diskriminirana. Sestavlja jo skupina obravnavanih posameznikov uporabnikov nedovoljenih drog in odvisnikov. Posredno skupino predstavljajo strokovni delavci iz treh sfer – stroke, gospodarstva in politike, ki smo jih preko partnerjev RP povabili k projektnemu programu in aktivnostim. V samem projektu Feniks postanejo neposredna ciljna skupina prav strokovni delavci različnih poklicev, ki so povezani s ciljno skupino oseb, ki se znajdejo v svetu drog. Ugotovljeno je bilo, da imajo strokovni delavci profesionalne mreže za pristop k obravnavi premalo ustreznega znanja z omenjenega področja. Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 35 Doseženi rezultati Produkti s področja vseživljenjskega učenja za strokovne delavce: • Zrcalo – cikel izobraževalnih delavnic na temo droge – produkt koordinatorja RP Feniks. 3 pilotne izvedbe in vključitev v skupen produkt NTM – Zaposlovanje in odvisniki • Droge niso igra – produkt koordinatorja RP Feniks; 1 informativna delavnica, ki se izvaja pri partnerjih ali na sedežu koordinatorja. • Novi izzivi za zaposlene – produkt koordinatorja RP Feniks in ZZV Celje – partnerja RP; cikel izobraževalnih delavnic na različne pereče teme družbe: droge, duševno zdravje, motnje hranjenja, stres, alkohol, drugo. • Informativno izobraževanje – produkt koordinatorja RP Feniks s področja programa rehabilitacije uporabnikov drog – prilagojeno izobraževanje, ki je specifično izdelano za vsako ciljno skupino, ki tako predstavitev s predavanjem in delavnico želi (tudi časovno omejeno). • Produkti s področja prilagajanja. • Enota Partner – sodelovanje med represivnim organom (Policijska uprava Celje) in programom rehabilitacije uporabnikov drog (Zavod VIR) – nudenje pomoči osebi v deliktu, povezanem z nedovoljenimi drogami, z dodatno možnostjo za vrnitev v normalno življenje. Poleg tega so bila izvedena informativna izobraževanja policistov. • Sprememba internih pravnih aktov za ustreznejšo obravnavo delavca oz. dijaka – koordinator RP v partnerstvu z DO Pivovarna Laško, d. d., in Srednja ekonomska šola Celje – zavzemali smo se za enakopravnejšo obravnavo osebe, ki se znajde v svetu drog, z možnostjo rehabilitacije pod posebnimi pogoji in reintegracije brez izgube službe ali statusa dijaka. Dosegli smo spremembo akta in dopolnitve členov v gospodarski organizaciji ter pripravo predlogov sprememb akta v šoli, ki pa bo predvidoma vključen v letu 2008. • Smernice za zapisano strategijo za droge in odvisnost v MO Celje – S partnerjema MO Celje, Zavodom za zdravstveno varstvo Celje je koordinator RP Feniks pripravil smernice za ustreznejšo strategijo politike do drog in odvisnosti na lokalnem nivoju mestne občine. Koordinator je izvedel anketo in v smernicah predstavil rezultate raziskave, v katero smo povabili 14 institucij, ki se aktualno ukvarjajo s problematiko drog in odvisnostjo v MO Celje. Projektna pobuda bo predvidoma obravnavana na seji Mestnega sveta MO Celje novembra 2007. • NTM – Zaposlovanje in odvisniki – partnerstvo z RP DC Most (ukrep 1) in RP Feniks (ukrep 5) – produkt je bil pripravljen zaradi jasno izražene potrebe po reševanju pereče problematike zaposlovanja, dela, metod obravnave in pristopov k populaciji, vezani na področje nedovoljenih drog. Produkt je bil izredno uspešno izveden v Celju, na Zavodu RS za zaposlovanje OS Celje, partnerju RP Feniks. • Produkti s področja informiranja, obveščanja javnosti. • Organizacija in udeležba na različnih dogodkih na lokalni, nacionalni in TN-ravni z večinoma aktivno udeležbo koordinatorja RP Feniks. • Aktivno sodelovanje z mediji z dajanjem intervjujev, s časopisnimi članki, izdajo izjav za javnost itd. • Izvajanje promocije za boljšo informiranost, osveščenost strokovne in splošne javnosti s transparentnostjo in permanentnim stikom z mediji – priprava gradiva: zloženke za produkte izobraževanja, zloženke projekta Feniks, zloženke osnovnega programa, vizitke, dokumenti, brošure itd. v slovenskem in angleškem jeziku. • Priprava raznih prezentacij v obliki Power Point in v tiskanih izvedbah dokumentov za različne ciljne skupine za potrebe RP Feniks, Organa upravljanja – MDDSZ v slovenskem prostoru in ECDB na področju EU. • Permanentno delo z domačo spletno stranjo in delom, namenjenim EQUAL in RP Feniks. Nadaljevanje projekta Ravno zaradi svoje inovativnosti imajo ob ustrezni podpori na nacionalni ravni vsi produkti RP Feniks velike možnosti, da se hitro razširijo na lokalnem, nacionalnem, nekateri pa tudi na TN-nivoju. • Produkti izobraževanja so trajni in se lahko razširjajo. Modificirajo se lahko glede na potrebe specifične ciljne skupine. Potrebe okolja so že jasno izražene. Za strokovno nadaljevanje bo potrebno najti nove vire financiranja izobraževanj. • Produkti sprememb pravnih aktov v delovni organizaciji Pivovarne Laško, d. d. – partnerja RP, so bili proti pričakovanju hitro aplicirani v aktualni pravni akt. Tudi nadaljevanje je že dogovorjeno, in to v smeri priprave dodatnih aktov obravnave delavca – zaposlenega ter v smeri razvoja načina kontrole drog na delovnem mestu. • Z represivnim organom, Policijsko upravo Celje, smo začeli sodelovati najprej. Kljub pripravljenosti vodstva, evalvacijam, iskanjem vzrokov in sprotnim adaptacijam Enota Partner kot taka ni zaživela. Zato smo ubrali čisto drugo pot in se približali posameznim policijskim postajam, kjer pa je bil odziv zelo velik in zadovoljiv tako s strani komandirjev kot tudi s strani policistov s terena. Vsekakor je nadaljevanje zagotovljeno, s tem pa tudi konstruktiven, transparenten in zelo kolegialen odnos z vsemi službami PU Celje. 36 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov SINTEZA Koordinator: RACIO SOCIAL, Zavod za razvoj socialnih in zaposlitvenih programov Naziv RP: SINTEZA Naslov: Kersnikova ulica 19, 3000 Celje Telefon: +386 (0)3 42 85 060 Faks: +386 (0)3 42 85 065 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: mag. Tatjana Dolinšek Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 286.888,67 EUR (68.750.000 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 215.166,50 EUR(51.562.500 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 71.722,17 EUR (17.187.500 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: http://www.zavod-ips.si/si/equal/index.html Partnerji ZIPS, Zavod invalidskih podjetij Slovenije; CRI Celje, rehabilitacija, proizvodnja, storitve, d. o. o.; DDS, Društvo distrofikov Slovenije; ZDIS, Zveza delovnih invalidov Slovenije; ŽELVA, podjetje za usposabljanje in zaposlovanje invalidov, d. o. o.; ANIMACIJA, d. o. o.; IPP, Invalidsko podjetje Posočje, d. o. o.; IC Štore, Izobraževalni center Štore, d. o. o.; DART, razvoj kadrov, storitve in produkcija, d. o. o., Lendava; Inštitut Republike Slovenije za rehabilitacijo. Transnacionalni partnerji RP Sinteza je partner v transnacionalnem partnerstvu EN-POWER, ki združuje še dva razvojna partnerstva iz Italije (RP F. L. E. S. in RP Investing in people), enega iz Francije (RP O. D. E.) in enega z Nizozemske (RP EMU – PASS). Namen projekta Invalidska podjetja igrajo v Sloveniji pomembno vlogo na področju zaposlovanja invalidov in drugih ranljivih skupin. Trenutno jih deluje 166, zaposlovati pa morajo vsaj 40 % invalidov. Izobrazbena struktura v invalidskih podjetjih je dokaj nizka, saj ima več kot tretjina zaposlenih končano oziroma nedokončano le osnovno šolo, približno enako število zaposlenih pa le dve- ali triletno poklicno šolo. To pomembno vpliva na konkurenčno sposobnost invalidskih podjetij na trgu. Z mrežnim sodelovanjem in povezovanjem partnerjev na nacionalnem in transnacionalnem nivoju smo se zato kot odziv na omenjeni problem lotili razvijanja, preizkušanja in vzpostavljanja pogojev za uveljavitev modela vseživljenjskega učenja, osebnostnega in strokovnega razvoja posameznikov in podpornih ukrepov za to. Cilji • vzpostaviti trdno in učinkovito partnerstvo na nacionalni kot tudi mednarodni ravni • vzpostaviti pogoje za vpeljavo modela vseživljenjskega učenja • preizkusiti model in ga nato vključevati v širšo politiko in prakso Ciljne skupine V projektu so zaposleni v invalidskih podjetjih: a. delavci z nizko stopnjo izobrazbe (največ 10 let šolanja), nizko kvalifikacijo, zmanjšano delovno zmožnostjo in drugimi ovirami b. strokovni kader, odgovoren za razvoj in delo z zaposlenimi c. druge ranljive skupine na trgu dela Doseženi rezultati V okviru projekta smo dosegli naslednje rezultate: • Z vzpostavitvijo trdnega partnerstva smo pričeli uresničevati vizijo postopnega povezovanja ponudnikov izobraževalnih programov na eni strani in delovnih okolij, kjer poteka proces vseživljenjskega učenja, na drugi strani. • Razvili in preizkusili smo model vseživljenjskega učenja, ki ima za zaposlene in za invalidska podjetja velik pomen. Zaposleni so namreč pripravljeni vlagati v lasten razvoj za dosego višjih osebnih, podjetja pa v doseganje višjih organizacijskih ciljev. • Razvili in preizkusili smo dva izobraževalna programa: o modularno zastavljen izobraževalni program za strokovne delavce, odgovorne za razvoj in delo z zaposlenimi, o modularno zastavljen izobraževalni program za nizko kvalificirane delavce. Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 37 • Model vseživljenjskega učenja in oba programa smo predlagali in delno že vključili v obstoječe politike in sisteme, predvsem na področju izobraževanja in zaposlitvene rehabilitacije ter zaposlovanja invalidov. • Pridobljena znanja, izkušnje in dobre prakse s področja vseživljenjskega izobraževanja, osebnostnega in strokovnega razvoja posameznikov ter podpornih ukrepov pri zaposlovanju ranljivih skupin smo izmenjali s partnerstvi iz drugih držav EU. Med dodane vrednosti razvojnega partnerstva Sinteza med drugim štejemo: • večanje vrednosti človeškega kapitala – višja izobraženost/usposobljenost zaposlenih, večje možnosti za njihov poklicni razvoj in nenazadnje večje možnosti za ohranjanje zaposlitve, • izboljšanje medosebnih odnosov, • osvajanje strategije razvoja učeče se kulture in s tem večanje uspešnosti delovanja invalidskih podjetij na trgu sploh. Nadaljevanje projekta Poslovna strategija vsakega podjetja mora upoštevati potrebe zaposlenih in zagotavljati pogoje za njihov razvoj. V partnerstvu bomo zato: • nadalje motivirali in osveščali javnost, še posebej menedžment in zaposlene v invalidskih in drugih podjetjih, o nujnosti in pomenu vseživljenjskega učenja. Vlaganje v razvoj človeških virov mora postati enakovredno vlaganju v kapital in kot takšno nujno potrebno za nadaljnji uspešni razvoj podjetij. • za izvedbo kvalitetnih, ciljno usmerjenih ter ciljnim skupinam prilagojenih izobraževalnih programov, upoštevajoč tako izobraževalne potrebe podjetja kot posameznika, iskali možnosti tudi z odzivanjem na različne razpise na nacionalni kot EU ravni. • tako na nacionalni kot transnacionalni ravni nadalje povezovali in nadgrajevali v projektu razvito znanje in produkte ter se tudi v prihodnje s projekti prijavljali na različne razpise na EU ravni. V razvojnem partnerstvu Sinteza se bomo tudi po zaključku projekta ukvarjali z odpravljanjem ovir, ki prikrajšane skupine postavljajo v neugoden položaj na trgu dela. Prepričani smo, da je možnosti in izzivov za nadgradnjo in razširjanje v projektu razvitih ter za razvoj novih oblik profesionalnega in osebnostnega razvoja zaposlenih še veliko. Da je učenje permanenten proces, se morajo zavedati vsi zaposleni. Dolžnost delodajalca pa je, da jim, skladno s strategijo razvoja podjetja, to tudi zagotavlja. 38 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov S COACHINGOM DO VARNE STAROSTI Koordinator RP: Sklad dela Zasavje, Zagorje ob Savi Naziv RP: S COACHINGOM DO VARNE STAROSTI Naslov: Podvine 36, 1410 Zagorje ob Savi Telefon: +386 (0)3 56 60 532 Fax: +386 (0)3 56 60 540 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: mag. Franci Čeč Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 170.614,25 EUR (40.886.000 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75 %): 127.960,69 EUR (30.664.500 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25 %): 42.653,56 EUR (10.221.500 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: http://www.rcr-zasavje.si/coaching Partnerji Regionalni center za razvoj, d. o. o., Zagorje ob Savi; Fast Forward International, d. o. o., Velike Lašče. Transnacionalni partnerji 1. APRIL: Italija: Impresa di Comunitŕ; Španija; TANDEM Acceso a la empresa de personas con transtornos mentales graves; 2. MOBILITY: Italija: Mobilita e Conoscenza – Sistema locale per la formazione continua e permanente; Grčija: Delta singular software; Poljska: Modelowy system przystosowania kadr przeds. do zmian strukturalnych w gospodarce. Namen Z aktivnostmi projekta želimo pomagati starejšim delavcem, da s pridobljenim znanjem in motiviranostjo za usposabljanje izboljšajo možnost za ohranjanje delovnih mest in na takšen način preprečijo prehod v odprto brezposelnost. Cilj • razviti in promovirati inovativen pristop coaching za individualno delo s starejšimi, zaposlenimi v okviru vseživljenjskega učenja Ciljne skupine Potencialno presežni starejši delavci v organizacijah, trenerji skladov dela, menedžment v organizacijah. Doseženi rezultati 1. Izdelan model coachinga Plod sodelovanja partnerjev Fast Forward International, Regionalnega centra za razvoj ter poljskega in italijanskega partnerja v okviru transnacionalnih aktivnosti je izdelan model coachinga. 2. Izvedene 4 delavnice coachinga – usposabljanje trenerjev skladov dela o vlogi in pomenu coachinga Skozi obdobje izvajanja programa so bile izvedene 4 delavnice, ki jih je izvedlo podjetje Fast Forward International, organizator pa je bil Sklad dela Zasavje. V delavnice je bilo vključenih 40 udeležencev skladov dela Slovenije, ki so delavnico obiskovali dva dni. Doslej se v takšnih delavnicah ni usposabljal še nihče od trenerjev skladov dela, prav tako pa so bili v delavnico vključeni tudi nekateri menedžerji skladov dela. Delavnico je uspešno končalo 40 udeležencev. Učinki delavnic Usposabljanje v tej delavnici je imelo za udeležence pozitivne učinke, še zlasti kar zadeva: - večjo angažiranost pri iskanju možnosti nadaljnjega usposabljanja v smeri coachinga, - pridobivanje pomembnih izkušenj v odnosih z znanim predavateljem, - spreminjanje vedenja na področju upravljanja s človeškimi viri. 3. Izvedena 1 delavnica – ozaveščanje menedžmenta o vlogi in pomenu coachinga Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 39 Podjetje Fast Forward International je izvedlo eno delavnico – ozaveščanje menedžmenta o vlogi in pomenu coachinga. V delavnico je bilo vključenih 8 udeležencev. Glede na pridobljene povratne informacije se ugotavlja, da so odzivi ciljne skupine izjemno pozitivni, še posebej, ker so bili predstavniki te ciljne skupine tudi aktivno vključeni v oblikovanje in izvajanje aktivnosti iz projekta. 4. Vzpostavljen portal e-coaching Program vsebuje naslednje tematske sklope: mit o coachingu, definicijo coachinga, trening (poučevanje, učenje), mentorstvo, svetovanje, menedžer kot coach, vrste coachinga, veščine za izvajanje coachinga, koristi coachinga, ovira coachinga ter konkreten primer zmanjšanja absentizma s pomočjo coachinga. E-coaching je program usposabljanja, ki je namenjen izboljševanju individualnega učinka dela, povečanju dobička in konkurenčnosti podjetja, razvoju zaposlenih ter izboljšanju odnosa zaposlenih v menedžmentu. Program je namenjen vodjem podjetij (vrhnji in srednji menedžment), vodjem kadrovskih služb, socialnim in izobraževalnim delavcem v organizacijah, strokovnjakom, ki se kakorkoli ukvarjajo z razvojem človeških virov, direktorjem malih in srednjih podjetij ter ostali zainteresirani javnosti. Z vzpostavitvijo portala e-učenje na tematiko coachinga je zainteresiranim posameznikom omogočeno dodatno usposabljanje preko e-portala, le-to pa prispeva k učinkoviti izvedbi in promoviranju coachinga v Sloveniji. 5. Izdelana publikacija na temo coachinga Koordinator razvojnega partnerstva Sklad dela Zasavje je s partnerjem Regionalni center za razvoj. d. o. o., pripravil publikacijo na temo coachinga. Vodnik »S coachingom do večjih poslovnih in osebnih dosežkov« je bil izdan v 1000 izvodih. V publikaciji je v strnjeni obliki opisana osnovna definicija coachinga, zgodovina coachinga, modeli coachinga, veščine za izvajanje coachinga, koristi coachinga, soočanje s spremembami, razumevanje posameznika ter praktičen primer reševanja absentizma s pomočjo coachinga. Publikacija je uporaben dokument za vse udeležence delavnic coachinga, za ciljno skupino projekta ter tudi širšo publiko. 6. Izveden seminar na temo socialnega podjetništva Koordinator razvojnega partnerstva je junija 2006 organiziral in izvedel mednarodni seminar »Socialno podjetništvo – vir za lokalni razvoj«. Na seminarju so sodelovali predstavniki Ministrstva za delo, družino in socialne zadeve, partner projekta Regionalni center za razvoj, d. o. o., ter transnacionalni partnerji EQUAL iz Španije in Italije. 7. Izdelan model socialnega podjetništva s poudarkom na starejših Model pokriva naslednje vsebinske sklope podjetništva: pregled razvitosti te gospodarske dejavnosti v Sloveniji in možnosti za njen nadaljnji razvoj tudi v Zasavju; pregled primerov: Slovenija, Evropa, s poudarkom na Italiji in Španiji ter Zasavju, in opredelitev problematike te dejavnosti. Pri izdelavi modela je uporabljena metoda analize pisnih virov in spletnega materiala oziroma gradiv s konferenc na temo socialnega podjetništva. Po pregledu literature in virov je bila vzpostavljena vsebina, ki je pomembna za obravnavano tematiko. 8. Izdelan program usposabljanja za socialni menedžment Program menedžerjem omogoča, da s socialnega področja pridobijo znanja posameznih poslovnih funkcij, pri čemer je vrednost programa v tem, da daje poudarek pragmatičnosti in ne toliko teoretičnemu znanju. 9. Izvedba mednarodne konference o coachingu Mednarodna konferenca o coachingu je potekala v Zagorju 8. junija 2007 in je bila ena od transnacionalnih aktivnosti. V njej so aktivno sodelovali še predstavniki transnacionalnega partnerstva s Poljske in iz Italije, ki so predstavili tudi svoje izkušnje iz modelov, ki so jih implementirali v svojih okoljih. Konferenca je bila namenjena menedžerjem za razvoj človeških virov v podjetjih, ki so izvedbo konference ocenili zelo pozitivno. Nadaljevanje projekta Koordinator in partnerji projekta RP »S coachingom do varne starosti« so pripravili ustrezne aktivnosti za trajnost oz. nadaljevanje projekta. Tako bo Sklad dela Zasavje izvajal aktivnosti na področju socialnega podjetništva in coachinga, prav tako pa je bil v okviru Regionalnega razvojnega programa (v njegovem izvedbenem delu) identificiran Inštitut za coaching, ki bo s svojim poslanstvom zagotavljal izvajanje določenih aktivnosti pričujočega projekta. 40 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov MLADIM MATERAM/DRUŽINAM PRIJAZNO ZAPOSLOVANJE Koordinator RP: Inštitut za ekonomska raziskovanja Naziv RP: Mladim materam/družinam prijazno zaposlovanje Naslov: Kardeljeva ploščad 17, 1109 Ljubljana Telefon: +386 (0)1 53 03 864 Faks: +386 (0)1 53 03 874 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: dr. Nada Stropnik Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 436.751,27 EUR (104.663.076 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 327.563,45 EUR (78.497.307 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 109.187,82 EUR (26.165.769 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: www.equal-mladematere.si Partnerji Zavod Ekvilib; Fakulteta za družbene vede; Zavod za informiranje in pomoč brezposelnim in iskalcem zaposlitve; Zveza svobodnih sindikatov Slovenije; Konfederacija sindikatov Pergam; Združenje delodajalcev Slovenije. Transnacionalni partnerji P.O.N.T.I. Pari Opportunitŕ Nei Territori e nelle Imprese, Italija; Por la Diversidad Activa en el Mercado Laboral, Španija; Partnerstwo-Rodzina-Równość-Praca, Poljska; Mladim materam/družinam prijazno zaposlovanje, Slovenija. Namen projekta Izhajajoč iz ugotovitve, da so starši majhnih otrok (zlasti ženske) diskriminirani na trgu dela zaradi specifične potrebe po usklajevanju poklicnih in družinskih obveznosti, je bil namen projekta ugotoviti, kakšna je situacija v Sloveniji in poskusiti vplivati (a) na delodajalce, tako da bodo ta problem razumeli in reševali skupaj z delojemalci, in (b) na širšo javnost, ki naj bo skozi javno mnenje naklonjena takšnemu pristopu. V tem kontekstu je bil poudarek na zmanjševanju prikrite diskriminacije pri zaposlovanju mladih žensk (potencialnih mater) zaradi materinstva. Cilji • Boljše poznavanje težav mladih staršev v Sloveniji, ki izhajajo iz potrebe po usklajevanju poklicnih in družinskih obveznosti in nerazumevanja v delovnem okolju • Boljša informiranost o praksi v slovenskih podjetjih kar zadeva usklajevanje poklicnih in družinskih obveznosti • Implementacija certifikata »Družini prijazno podjetje« • Bolj informirane in osveščene osebe, ki so zaradi starševstva diskriminirane na trgu dela, ter delodajalci in javnost nasploh Ciljne skupine · · · · Osebe, ki so zaradi starševstva diskriminirane na trgu dela (predvsem matere majhnih otrok in mlade ženske nasploh) Delodajalci, ker lahko vplivajo na izboljšanje možnosti za lažje usklajevanje poklicnih in družinskih obveznosti svojih zaposlenih Mladi ljudje, ki končujejo izobraževanje, ker se bodo v kratkem soočili s težavami usklajevanja poklicnih in družinskih obveznosti Širša javnost, ker informiranost ljudi in naklonjeno javno mnenje lahko pozitivno vplivata na položaj staršev (še zlasti tistih z majhnimi otroki) na trgu dela Doseženi rezultati • • • • Anketa o usklajevanju dela in starševstva/zasebnega življenja mladih v Sloveniji Študije primerov podjetij/organizacij v Sloveniji z vidika usklajevanja poklicnih in družinskih obveznosti zaposlenih Raziskava o ekonomskih vidikih družini prijazne politike Podeljeni certifikati »Družini prijazno podjetje« 32 podjetjem/organizacijam s skupno več kot 20.000 zaposlenimi (skupno so izbrali 305 ukrepov za lažje usklajevanje družine in dela oziroma v povprečju 9,5 ukrepov na podjetje/organizacijo) in medijska kampanja v zvezi s tem • Mednarodna konferenca o družbeni odgovornosti podjetij Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 41 • Mednarodna konferenca transnacionalnega partnerstva »Usklajevanje in odgovornost« • Predavanja in delavnice za ciljne skupine • Predstavitve tematike in rezultatov razvojnega partnerstva na javnih dogodkih (sejmi, konference, strokovna srečanja, okrogle mize ipd.) • Članki in intervjuji v javnih medijih (časopisi, radio, televizija) Razviti produkti: • Certifikat »Družini prijazno podjetje« (prenos tuje metodologije in prilagoditev slovenski situaciji ter fizična oblika certifikata) • Televizijski spot, ki osvešča delodajalce o njihovi družbeni odgovornosti do zaposlenih staršev • Knjiga z rezultati sociološke in ekonomske raziskave (usklajevanje poklicnih in družinskih obveznosti v Sloveniji, ekonomski vidiki družini prijazne politike v podjetjih in organizacijah, družbena odgovornost podjetij do svojih zaposlenih) • Informativna zloženka za delojemalce (»Družini prijazno podjetje – Družinsko in poklicno življenje z roko v roki«) • Informativna zloženka za delodajalce (»Družini prijazno podjetje – Družinsko in poklicno življenje z roko v roki«) • CD ROM z gradivom o enakih možnostih spolov s poudarkom na usklajevanju poklicnih in družinskih obveznosti (kot pripomoček za delodajalce) Inovativni elementi in strategija za doseganje rezultatov: · · · · Prva poglobljena slovenska nacionalna raziskava o izkušnjah staršev in potencialnih staršev ter o odnosih do materinstva oz. očetovstva na delovnih mestih v Sloveniji Vpeljava razprave o družbeni odgovornosti podjetij do svojih zaposlenih v slovenski prostor Certifikat »Družini prijazno podjetje« (prilagoditev metodologije slovenski situaciji, aplikacija v slovenskem prostoru, medijska strategija promocije certifikata in fizična oblika certifikata) Kreativna rešitev televizijskega spota za osveščanje delodajalcev in širše javnosti glede potrebe po upoštevanju družinskih obveznosti zaposlenih Dodana vrednost projekta: · · · Boljše poznavanje slovenske situacije glede usklajevanja poklicnih in družinskih obveznosti zaposlenih in predstavitev pridobljenih informacij in znanj v knjigi Povečana zavest o potrebi reševanja problema usklajevanja poklicnih in družinskih obveznosti zaposlenih z (majhnimi) otroki v kontekstu družbene odgovornosti podjetij do svojih zaposlenih Implementacija certifikata »Družini prijazno podjetje« (vključno s prilagojeno metodologijo) Nadaljevanje projekta Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve je neformalno zagotovilo, da si bo prizadevalo za nadaljevanje podeljevanja certifikata »Družini prijazno podjetje« (predvidoma v okviru strukturnih skladov Evropskega socialnega sklada, operativni programi razvoja človeških virov). Razvojno partnerstvo ocenjuje, da bodo kontinuiteta, kvalitetno izvajanje in evalvacija postopka certificiranja pomembno prispevali k uresničevanju potrebnih sprememb na področju usklajevanja poklicnih in družinskih obveznosti. Zanimanje za pridobitev certifikata »Družini prijazno podjetje« je izrazilo že več kot 60 nadaljnjih podjetij/organizacij. 42 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov Z ODLIČNOSTJO DO ENAKOPRAVNOSTI MED SPOLOMA Koordinator RP: Oria Computers d.o.o. Naziv razvojnega partnerstva: Z odličnostjo do enakopravnosti med spoloma Naslov: Podvine 36, 1410 Zagorje ob Savi Telefon: +386 (0)3 56 58 450 Faks: +386 (0)3 56 64 060 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: Neva Marn Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 184.992,35 EUR (44.331.570 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 131.763,60 EUR (31.575.830,25 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 43.921,20 EUR (10.525.276,75 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: http://www.equal.oria.si/ Partnerji Regionalni center za razvoj d.o.o., Center za socialno delo Trbovlje. Transnacionalni partnerji Špansko partnerstvo, Instituto Canario de la Mujer (ICM); Italijansko partnerstvo, CRAMARS; Avstrijsko partnerstvo, Netzwerk österreichischer Frauen- und Mädchenberatungsstellen; Slovaško partnerstvo, Aspekt. Namen projekta Razvojno partnerstvo sestoji iz treh članov – koordinator Oria Computers, d.o.o., Regionalni center za razvoj, d.o.o., in Center za socialno delo. Namen razvojnega partnerstva je identificirati omejitve, ki nastopajo pri razvoju poklicne kariere žensk, in izdelati strategijo odpravljanja omejitev ter aktivno spodbujati večjo zastopanost žensk na ključnih delovnih mestih v gospodarskem sektorju zasavske regije. Cilji projekta Naš cilj je na podlagi analize pridobljenih podatkov in primerjave s teoretičnimi modeli iz strokovne literature, prakse in rezultati transnacionalnih partnerjev identificirati omejitve, ki onemogočajo enak razvoj poklicne kariere moških in žensk. S pomočjo vzrokov in posledic teh omejitev smo izdelali strategijo, priporočila in orodja za odpravo teh omejitev, ki so kot glavni rezultat uporabna tako za podjetja kot tudi za posameznice. Strategija vsebuje priporočila za odpravo omejitev, konkretne predloge za oblikovanje aktov motiviranja zaposlenih, akcijske načrte za razvoj ključnih delovnih mest ter kariernih načrtov ključnih kadrov na teh delovnih mestih, s čimer bi pripomogli k bolj enakomerni razporeditvi spolov na delovnih mestih in vzpostavitvi mentorske mreže za uveljavitev žensk v poklicni karieri. Ciljne skupine Ciljne skupine, zajete v projekt, so tako ženske s potencialom za napredovanje na ključna delovna mesta, ženske, ki so prve iskalke zaposlitve, in pa tudi podjetja oziroma potencialni delodajalci. Doseženi rezultati Ker v Sloveniji oziroma v Zasavju tema enakosti med spoloma na delovnem mestu še ni bila posebej obravnavana, želimo z novim, inovativnim pristopom nadgraditi standard družbene odgovornosti, edinega dokumenta, ki zagotavlja etični odnos do zaposlenih. Prvi cilj v okviru projekta je bila identifikacija omejitev, ki ovirajo enake možnosti razvoja poklicne kariere žensk in moških v gospodarskem sektorju. S študijem obstoječe literature na področju gradnje kariere, poslovnih okolij, steklenega stropa in načinov, kako se ženske z njimi spopadajo, smo pripravili analizo oziroma opis omejitev, s katerimi se soočajo ženske na delovnem mestu in poslovnem področju nasploh. Rezultat analize literature je elaborat, ki opredeljuje in predstavlja že obstoječe primere reševanja težav in problematiko žensk na delovnem mestu in ob izgradnji kariere v splošnem. Elaborat je postavil tudi osnove za naslednji korak v projektu, ki je bil animacija podjetij za sodelovanje v analizi stanja v zasavskem prostoru in ozaveščanje podjetij o problematiki. Podjetja smo tako najprej obvestili in seznanili s projektom ter jih nato prosili za podatke o zastopanosti žensk na vodilnih in ključnih položajih, v nadzornih svetih in upravah podjetij. V naslednjem koraku smo jih povabili k sodelovanju v intervjujih. Pred tem smo sestavili bazo podjetij z vsaj 50 zaposlenimi, ki smo Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 43 jih pozneje povabili k sodelovanju. Ko smo dobili pozitiven odziv 10 podjetij (število smo si zadali v SRP), smo le-tem razložili potek izvedbe intervjujev. Ta je namreč potekal s tremi različnimi skupinami: moškimi na vodilnih položajih, ženskami na vodilnih položajih in ženskami, ki imajo sposobnosti, motivacijo, ambicije ali vsaj izobrazbeno raven, ki jih opredeljuje kot potencialne kandidatke za napredovanje. Iz vsake skupine smo intervjuvali po dva zaposlena. Za namen izvedbe intervjujev smo sestavili štiri različne vprašalnike za štiri različne skupine intervjuvancev. Moške in ženske na vodilnih položajih ter potencialne kandidatke smo že omenili, zadnja skupina pa so bile ženske, iskalke prve zaposlitve. Pri prvih treh skupinah je bilo precej več odprtih vprašanj, saj smo želeli intervju izvesti bolj v obliki pogovora, saj le-ta običajno razkrije več kot strogo spraševanje in odgovarjanje. Nekoliko bolj zaprtega tipa so bili vprašalniki za četrto skupino – za ženske, prve iskalke zaposlitve. Tu smo se omejili na skupino žensk z vsaj VI. stopnjo izobrazbe. Pri pošiljanju vprašalnikov tej skupini nam je priskočil na pomoč Zavod za zaposlovanje Trbovlje, ki nam je prijazno pomagal pri pošiljanju vprašalnikov in zbiranju odgovorov. Po opravljenih intervjujih in transkripciji je sledila statistična in vsebinska analiza rezultatov, ki je hkrati služila tudi pri definiciji omejitev v podjetjih, s katerimi se soočajo ženske na delovnih mestih. Center za socialno delo je dalje pripravil delavnice, namenjene moškim in ženskam različnih starosti, s katerimi naj bi opozorili in dvignili ozaveščenosti o stereotipih, ki jih ljudje nosimo v sebi. Del delavnic je bil izveden tudi v okviru mednarodne konference, ki smo jo organizirali junija 2006 v Zagorju, z naslovom »Dobre prakse do enakopravnosti med spoloma«, namenjen pa je bil tudi mednarodnim partnerjem. V okviru mednarodne konference smo pripravili tiskovno konferenco in različne promocijske materiale, ki so bili opremljeni z vsemi potrebnimi logotipi in ki smo jih razdelili vsem udeležencem konference. Ena izmed zanimivosti konference je bila tudi okrogla miza na temo gradnje kariere in težav, s katerimi se ženske ob tem soočajo. V ta namen smo k sodelovanju povabili več priznanih in uspešnih menedžerk, ki so tako naredile tudi prvi korak v mentorski mreži. Za okroglo mizo, ki jo je povezovala in moderirala Sonja Šmuc, izvršna direktorica Združenja Manager, so mnenja izmenjevale še Aleša Kandus (Medex), Gordana Tekavčič (InterINA), Ajša Šunjič (TV Paprika), Metka Wachter (Krka Kozmetika, združenje SILA) in mag. Sonja Klopčič (Oria Computers). Del posnetkov s konference in okrogle mize smo predstavili tudi v videu, ki je deloma služil za informiranje in obveščanje javnosti v Sloveniji, bil pa je tudi eden izmed sestavnih delov videa, ki smo ga pripravili v okviru mednarodnega partnerstva WEGA. V video smo vključili tudi izjave vseh sodelujočih na okrogli mizi, ki smo jih posneli pozneje, v njihovem delovnem okolju, in ki so vključevale nasvete in napotke mladim (predvsem ženskam) ob prehodu iz študija v delovno razmerje oziroma na začetek gradnje kariere. V okviru sodelovanja s strokovno delovno skupino smo na podlagi izvedenih intervjujev definirali in podrobneje opredelili omejitve in s tem začrtali osnovna področja, ki naj bi jih zajemala strategija za odpravo omejitev. Po definiranih področjih so se zaključili tudi dogovori s podjetjem za sodelovanje v pilotskem projektu. Za to podjetje smo v tesnem sodelovanju s strokovno delovno skupino oblikovali strategijo za pilotsko podjetje. Ta strategija zajema naslednja področja: motivacijske delavnice in priročnik za vodje, priročnik za opravljanje letnih pogovorov, delavnice za opravljanje letnih razgovorov, sistem kompetenc za ključna delovna mesta in predlog za ocenjevanje zaposlenih. Poleg strategije za pilotsko podjetje je vzporedno potekala tudi izgradnja splošne strategije, ki jo lahko s primernimi modifikacijami in prilagoditvami podjetja uporabijo zase. Motivacijske delavnice in delavnice za opravljanje letnih razgovorov smo izvedli z vodji oziroma s tistimi, ki izvajajo ocenjevanje in letne pogovore. Ena izmed inovacij projekta je – poleg same izvedbe intervjujev, ki je bila prva v Zasavju in celo v Sloveniji izvedena na tak način – seveda tudi strategija, ki ponuja celosten razvoj vodij in hkrati obravnava tudi samomotivacijo, motivacijo in delo ter ocenjevanje podrejenih vodji. Inovativni so tudi indikatorji, ki smo jih (poleg modela kompetenc) primerjali in pozneje dopolnjevali v sodelovanju z ostalimi mednarodnimi partnerji, zlasti z italijanskim partnerstvom, s katerim smo letos aprila izvedli tudi bilateralno srečanje. Indikatorji predstavljajo ukrepe in primere rešitev, uredb in praks, ki zagotavljajo enakopraven položaj zaposlenih ne glede na spol pa tudi starost. Nadaljevanje projekta V nadaljevanju bi bilo smiselno nadgraditi s projektom pridobljene rezultate na način, ki bi podpiral in vzpodbujal proces spreminjanja miselnosti med ciljnimi skupinami, definiranimi v okviru našega razvojnega partnerstva, ter projekt navezati tudi na širša področja delovanja. 44 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov EQUAL VESNA Koordinator RP: Zavod za razvoj družinskega in ženskega podjetništva META Naziv RP: EQUAL Vesna Naslov: Svetovalna pisarna, Dimičeva 9, 1000 Ljubljana Telefon: +386 (0)1 54 43 678 Brezplačni svetovalni telefon: 080 11 50 Faks: +386 (0)1 54 43 680 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: Marta Turk Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 312.969,45 EUR (SIT 75.000.000) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 234.727,09 EUR (56.250.000 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 78.242,36 EUR (18.750.000 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: www.equal-vesna.si Partnerji Zavod za razvoj družinskega in ženskega podjetništva META; Animacija, d. o. o., Ptuj; Zavod za zaposlovanje; SVOP Inženiring, d. o. o; Občina Majšperk; GZS, Območna zbornica Ljubljana; Emona Tiskarna, d. o. o.; Mestna občina Ljubljana, Oddelek za gospodarstvo in turizem; Regionalna razvojna agencija – Ljubljanske urbane regije. Transnacionalni partnerji S strani transnacionalnega partnerstva bomo pridobivali primere dobre prakse in jih inovativno vpeljali v delo in postopke projekta. V fazi razširjanja programa si bomo prizadevali za prenos novega pristopa v nacionalne in transnacionalne politike. Transnacionalno partnerstvo smo poimenovali »Hackers for equality« ali »Lovci na enakost«. Partnerstvo sestavljajo izkušeni nosilci projektov EQUAL s Švedske (GENDER SCHOOL, Dalarna County) in Škotske (HI HOPES, Inverness) ter EQUAL Vesna. Namen projekta Namen RP je raziskati ter preizkusiti inovativne pristope k podpiranju ter razvijanju skupin žensk za vključevanje v podjetništvo ob upoštevanju sedmih smernic EQUAL. Cilj je povečati število žensk iz različnih družbenih skupin, ki ustanavljajo ali razvijajo svoja podjetja. Ženske so še vedno premalo zastopane v podjetništvu, obrti, gospodarstvu in v visokem menedžmentu. Po GEM pa je »eden najboljših načinov, da Slovenija poveča raven podjetništva, spodbujanje in podpiranje večjega števila žensk, ki naj se vključujejo v podjetništvo.« Razvojno partnerstvo EQUAL Vesna se je usmerilo na žensko populacijo in njihove možnosti in priložnosti na področju ekonomskega uveljavljanja žensk, zaposlovanja in samozaposlovanja ter na žensko podjetništvo kot možnost, ki posebej v nekaterih regijah predstavlja primerno metodo za zagotavljanje vključitve ženskega intelektualnega in delovnega potenciala v lokalni družbeni in gospodarski razvoj. Za oblikovanje teh ciljnih skupin smo tako v pripravljalnem (do aprila 2005) kot tudi v celotnem obdobju izvajanja obveščali in animirali slovensko prebivalstvo, še posebej na področju Majšperka in Ptuja. Razvojno partnerstvo EQUAL Vesna je s svojimi dejavnostmi opozarjalo na pereče probleme naraščajoče brezposelnosti žensk predvsem v manj razvitih občinah, kjer se odpirajo večinoma tehnična in proizvodna delovna mesta, pri katerih ženske le stežka konkurirajo. Z različnimi dejavnostmi je omenjeno razvojno partnerstvo močno prispevalo k dvigu splošne občutljivosti in zavedanja o dejstvih, da je splošna zaposljivost žensk v neposredni povezavi z njihovo izhodiščno izobrazbo ter hkrati z možnostjo za stalno izpopolnjevanje in širitve zaposlitvene prilagodljivosti; ta pa je odvisna od dostopa in nadalje pridobivanja novih znanj na formalne (šolanje) in neformalne načine (delavnice, medsebojna izmenjava znanj, socialne mreže). Cilji Med svojimi cilji je razvojno partnerstvo EQUAL Vesna želelo predvsem: • pokazati učinek socialnega kapitala v razvoju ženskega podjetništva in vpliv podjetnic na razvoj družbenega okolja (oblikovanje posebnih oblik socialnih storitev v lokalnem okolju, odkrivanje zaposlitvenih in samozaposlitvenih priložnosti in s tem zmanjševanje brezposelnosti žensk v lokalnem okolju, dvig kulture solidarnosti in sodelovanja skozi inovacijske pilotne akcije) • opisati in prikazati, kako lahko dosegljivi dobri vzori in primeri domačih in tujih dobrih praks vplivajo na ženske ter jih motivirajo za vstop na podjetniški trg in na trg zaposlovanja (vzornice in mentorice; pogovori, motivacijska srečanja, mreže; medsebojno sodelovanje in recipročno delo ter samoizobraževanja) Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 45 • opisati in promovirati delovanje neformalnih mrež kot most za prehod posameznice ali posameznika iz skupine »ogroženih« v skupino »neodvisnih in samostojnih« Dalje: zagotoviti model dostopa in kvalitetne podjetniške podpore, prilagojenega ženskam in pri tem opozoriti na specifične potrebe žensk, ki se odločajo za podjetništvo in samozaposlitev (usklajevanje obveznosti zaradi skrbi za družino, otroke, ostarele družinske člane in podjetniško rast), ter predvsem na specifične potrebe socialno ogroženih skupin žensk, z uporabo inovativnih modelov (mobilna svetovalnica, brezplačni svetovalni telefon, redno srečanje lokalnih ženskih mrež). Konkretni cilji Razvoj in vzpostavljanje mehanizmov za vključevanje ciljnih skupin, transnacionalno sodelovanje in prenos dobrih praks, vzpostavitev ciljnih skupin, razvoj modelov, osveščanje, informiranje in promocija tem, enake možnosti in okolje, enake možnosti in posameznice, posamezniki v javnosti. Ciljne skupine V ta namen smo oblikovali štiri ciljne skupine, in sicer: • brezposelne in nezaposlene ženske, ki se odločajo za samozaposlitev ali iščejo možnost za izboljšanje svojega ekonomskega položaja (različna starostna in izobrazbena struktura) • študentke in mladi, ki prehajajo v področje iskalcev zaposlitve • menedžerke v slovenskem gospodarstvu • podjetnice in obrtnice Znotraj teh ciljnih skupin smo se v okviru mobilne svetovalnice in na naših motivacijskih delavnicah ter individualnih pogovorih in svetovanjih srečali z osebami z zelo različnimi statusi in iskanji boljšega, predvsem ekonomskega pa tudi družbenega položaja. Vse osebe pa so se izjavile, da imajo pri svojem ekonomskem uveljavljanju številne težave in ovire: tako zaradi pomanjkanja razpoložljivih delovnih mest, njihove neustrezne ali prenizke izobrazbe, zaradi pomanjkanja delovnih izkušenj in modernih znanj. Vse osebe, ki so bile vključene v katerokoli obliko delovanja RP EQUAL Vesna, so tudi v anonimnih anketah in pogovorih povedale, da je njihova osnovna ovira dejstvo, da so kot ženske pri delodajalcih manj zanesljive in torej manj zaposljive, ker so tako ali drugače vpete v družinske obveznosti. Doseženi rezultati • vzpostavitev in delovanje svetovalne pisarne EQUAL Vesna v Ljubljani, delujoči pisarni z informacijsko tehnologijo in osebjem za osebno svetovane in usmerjanje kandidatk • vzpostavitev in delovanje svetovalne pisarne EQUAL Vesna na Ptuju in Majšperku • brezplačni svetovalni telefon 080 11 50 • motivacijske delavnice, izobraževanja, osebna svetovanja, individualni pogovori, anketiranje • vzpostavitev videokonferenčnega sistema za transnacionalno sodelovanje in prenos dobrih praks na lokacijah, izvedba 7 videokonferenčnih povezav med partnerji s Škotske, Švedske in iz Slovenije, spoznavanje različnih tehnologij in možnosti za TK-povezavo, uvedba skype- in MSN-tehnologije komuniciranja • razvoj modela mobilne svetovalnice za pilotno izvedbo v Ljubljani, na Ptuju, v Majšperku, Kočevju in Ilirski Bistrici, prenosljiv model mobilne svetovalnice – neposredna svetovalna pomoč in informiranje, uporaba modela: motivacijske delavnice, izobraževanja, osebna svetovanja, individualni pogovori, anketiranje • vzpostavitev samostojnega portala www.equal-vesna.si • delo skupine za poklicno uveljavljanje žensk v državnem svetu, sodelovanje s sindikatom delavcev v tekstilu (stupis) • projekt biltena »Vesnine teme« • sodelovanje na mednarodnih konferencah in delavnicah v Sloveniji in tujini Nadaljevanje projekta Načela evropskega programa EQUAL ter domače in tuje izkušnje, ki smo jih pridobili v času trajanja projekta, so nam potrdile, da imamo dovolj znanja in izkušenj – zanimivih tudi za mednarodni evropski prostor –, da ga s partnerji v tujih okoljih tudi delimo. Hkrati pa nas ta spoznanja obvezujejo, da tudi v prihodnje razvijamo programe in aktivnosti, s katerimi bomo spodbujali uveljavljanje žensk na trgu dela, predvsem pa spodbujali podjetnost kot lastnost posameznika, ki preprosto ne dovoljuje pasivnega opazovanja in sprejemanja danosti, temveč zahteva premike, spremembe in vlaganje v lasten osebni razvoj. Za institucije in predstavnike civilne družbe pa to pomeni obvezo, da sodelujemo pri razvijanju socialnih mrež ter rasti in razvoju človekovega kapitala za moderno družbo blagostanja in trajnostnega razvoja. 46 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov RAZVOJ SISTEMA POMOČI NA DOMU - SIPA Koordinator RP: Mirovni inštitut Naziv RP: Razvoj sistema pomoči na domu - SIPA Naslov: Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana Telefon: +386 (0)1 23 47 720 Faks: +386 (0)1 23 47 722 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: dr. Majda Hrženjak Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 309.778 EUR (74.315.800 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 232.334 EUR (55.736.850 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 77.444 EUR (18.578.950 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: http://sipa.mirovni-institut.si Partnerji Zavod RS za zaposlovanje; Ninamedia, d. o. o.; Center Kontura, d. o. o. Transnacionalni partnerji Transnacionalno partnerstvo HOME MANAGING: Belgija: Home Managers; Madžarksa: Modellértékű Nő Támogató Rendszer kiépítése; Italija: Nuovi orizzonti per l'economia sociale; Nizozemska: Women @ Work in Action. Namen projekta V RP SIPA se osredotočamo na reproduktivno oziroma domače delo, znotraj tega pojma pa posebej izpostavljamo gospodinjsko delo in varstvo otrok oziroma družinsko delo. V kapitalističnih družbah je reproduktivno delo definirano kot »nedelo«, ki ima status zasebnega, neplačanega, potrošnega dela, ki ga, predvsem ženske, opravljajo »iz ljubezni«. Percepcija reproduktivnega dela kot »nedela« vodi v nevidnost dvojne obremenjenosti sodobnih žensk s plačanim produktivnim delom v javni sferi in z neplačanim reproduktivnim delom v zasebni sferi. Percepcija reproduktivnega dela kot »nedela« vodi tudi v nevidnost plačanega domačega dela – ki je, kot kažejo raziskave, v sodobnih družbah razširjeno v prav tolikšni meri, kot je bilo v preteklosti, in je še v porastu – in v nevidnost sodobnih gospodinjskih delavk. To je še posebej problematično, ker to nevidno delo v neformalnih pogojih opravljajo predvsem tiste skupine žensk, ki so že sicer socialno izključene (priseljenke, starejše ženske, dolgotrajno brezposelne ženske, mlade ženske kot iskalke prve zaposlitve in delavke, ki jim osebni dohodek ne zadostuje za preživetje). Tako imamo na eni strani zgodbo žensk, ki jih dvojna obremenjenost s produktivnim in reproduktivnim delom napelje k delni alokaciji domačega dela na črnem trgu plačanega reproduktivnega dela, na drugi strani pa zgodbo žensk, ki v situaciji take ali drugačne eksistenčne stiske poleg svojega neplačanega domačega dela poprimejo še za domače delo neke druge ženske, ki je sicer plačano, vendar se odvija v povsem nedefiniranih pogojih dela, brez pravic in dolžnosti, ki izhajajo iz delovnega razmerja. Cilji Projekt je bil zasnovan kot raziskovalno-aplikativen, z izhodiščno tezo, da je neenakomerna obremenjenost med spoloma z gospodinjskim delom in skrbjo za otroke v gospodinjstvih z majhnimi otroki eden izmed razlogov neenakosti spolov na trgu dela in da bi s sistemom pomoči pri reproduktivnem delu v gospodinjstvih z majhnimi otroki lahko ženskam omogočili več časa, posvečenega karieri. Cilj projekta je bil oblikovanje priporočil za Ministrstvo RS za delo, družino in socialne zadeve, kako oblikovati sistem plačanega reproduktivnega dela v gospodinjstvih z majhnimi otroki, da bo reguliran in cenovno dostopen čim širšemu krogu tistih, ki te storitve potrebujejo, in da bo pomenil kvalitetna nova delovna mesta za težko zaposljive osebe, med njimi zlasti za dolgotrajno brezposelne ženske. Ciljne skupine Raziskovali smo dve ciljni skupini: gospodinjstva z majhnimi otroki (takih gospodinjstev je v Sloveniji po statističnih podatkih iz leta 2006 87.547), v katerih je obremenitev z reproduktivnim delom zelo velika in ki na črnem trgu že v veliki meri kupujejo storitve plačanega domačega dela, ter dolgotrajno brezposelne ženske (v Sloveniji jih je približno 23.000 oz. polovica vseh brezposelnih žensk in predstavljajo strukturni problem brezposelnosti, ki je v porastu), ki jim področje neformalnega plačanega domačega dela že predstavlja pridobivanje nujnih sredstev za preživetje. Z regulacijo in subvencioniranjem bi to področje lahko postalo možnost ustvarjanja novih zaposlitev in urejenih delovnih pogojev ter večje dostopnosti storitev tistim, ki jih potrebujejo. Inovativnost RP SIPA je v predlogu subvencioniranja plačanega domačega dela za novo ciljno skupino – Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 47 gospodinjstva z majhnimi otroki –, ki bi ga prek družbenih podjetij izvajale za to zainteresirane dolgotrajno brezposelne osebe. Doseženi rezultati Ker s področja neformalnega plačanega domačega dela v Sloveniji ni raziskav in refleksij, je teoretični del projekta vseboval analizo študij, raziskav in primerov reguliranja plačanega domačega dela, ki so bili na tem področju narejeni po svetu, zlasti v Evropi. Empirični del raziskave je obsegal aplikacijo dveh vprašalnikov na dve ciljni skupini (gospodinjstva z majhnimi otroki in dolgotrajno brezposelne ženske na območju Ljubljane), na katerih smo ugotavljali potrebe po plačanem domačem delu in zanimanje za zaposlitev na tem področju. Po analizi vprašalnikov smo v 30 ljubljanskih gospodinjstvih z majhnimi otroki organizirali pilotni preizkus plačanega domačega dela kot redne zaposlitve, v katerem smo za obdobje šestih mesecev zaposlili pet dolgotrajno brezposelnih žensk. Po izteku pilotnega preizkusa smo s kvantitativno in kvalitativno evalvacijo v obeh skupinah ugotavljali dobre in slabe strani takšnega sistema plačanega domačega dela. Z dolgotrajno brezposelnimi ženskami smo izvedli tri ciljne skupine, analizirali strukturo te družbene skupine in pridobili izkušnje in stališča svetovalcev in svetovalk Zavoda RS za zaposlovanje o delu z njimi. Na območju Sežane in okolice smo naredili pet intervjujev z neformalnimi gospodinjskimi delavkami v Italiji, ki so sicer v Sloveniji registrirane kot dolgotrajno brezposelne osebe. Na ta način, pa tudi z intervjuji v gospodinjstvih, nam je nekoliko nenačrtovano uspelo odgrniti nekaj tančic z neformalnega trga plačanega domačega dela v Sloveniji, čeprav to ni bil poglavitni namen projekta. Da bi v praksi preizkusili tezo o plačanem reproduktivnem delu kot načinu razbremenitve gospodinjstev z majhnimi otroki, ki so z reprodukcijo najbolj obremenjen segment družbe, in hkrati s tem ponudili priložnost ustvarjanja novih zaposlitev za dolgotrajno brezposelne osebe, smo v projektu SIPA s sredstvi Programa pobude skupnosti EQUAL organizirali šestmesečni pilotni preizkus. V tem obdobju smo v 30 ljubljanskih gospodinjstvih z majhnimi otroki organizirali pomoč pri reproduktivnem delu s petimi gospodinjskimi delavkami. Pilotni preizkus razvojnega partnerstva SIPA lahko prispeva k razmisleku, kako urediti področje plačanega domačega dela v Sloveniji, z naslednjimi ugotovitvami: • Subvencioniranje ponudbe, torej ustvarjanje novih delovnih mest v višini približno 50 % bruto plače gospodinjske delavke ter stroškov koordinacije in izobraževanja, bi po eni strani storitev na trgu pocenilo ter omogočilo njeno širšo dostopnost, po drugi strani pa bi omogočilo gospodinjskim delavkam redno in urejeno delovno razmerje. Subvencija bi omogočila, da bi preživela družbena podjetja, ki bi izvajala nabor, izobraževanje, zaposlovanje gospodinjskih delavk in ponudbo storitve na trgu. • Osebni dohodki gospodinjskih delavk bi morali biti stimulativni, sicer ne bodo konkurenčni zaslužkom na črnem trgu. Hkrati pa morajo ostati v takih mejah, da bo storitev dostopna širokemu krogu uporabnikov, ne samo premožnim družbenim slojem. V zvezi s tem ciljem bi veljalo razmisliti tudi o selektivnem subvencioniranju povpraševanja (denimo v okviru družinskih politik). • Storitve plačanega domačega dela morajo biti natančno določene, tako po vsebini kot po delovnem času in ceni. Oblikovati je mogoče tako specifične storitve (denimo samo generalna čiščenja) kot integrirane storitve (na primer nakupovanje, kuhanje in spremljanje otrok v vrtec in iz njega). • Kakovost delovnega mesta je najbolj pomemben element pri ustvarjanju novih delovnih mest v storitvenem sektorju. Glede na to, da gre za težje fizično delo, za katero se odločajo dolgotrajno brezposelne ženske, ki so pogosto starejše, je potrebno efektivno delo omejiti na 5 do 6 ur dnevno in v osemurni delovnik vključiti čas, porabljen za prevoze med uporabniki. • Glede na to, da se predvideva delo s težje zaposljivimi osebami, bi moralo izobraževanje vsebovati elemente motiviranja za delo, psihosocialne integracije in poseben poudarek na poznavanju lastnih pravic ter načinov, kako jih uveljavljati. Izobraževanje bi moralo vsebovati tudi segment druženja z otroki, katerega standardi so v Sloveniji zelo visoki. • Koordinacija mora biti profesionalna, dostopna, prilagodljiva in mora obvladovati sodobne tehnologije komuniciranja. Tako gospodinjskim delavkam kot gospodinjstvom mora dajati občutek zaupanja in organiziranosti. Posredovati mora v konfliktnih situacijah ter povezovati, organizirati in biti zagovornica gospodinjskih delavk. Omogočati mora samoorganizacijo gospodinjskih delavk v obliki samozaposlitev in kooperativ. Težiti mora k enotni standardizaciji plačanega domačega dela, h kvalitetnim delovnim pogojem in k defeminizaciji področja. Nadaljevanje projekta Za pomoč v gospodinjstvu, ki so jo v okviru pilotnega preizkusa gospodinjstva prejemala brezplačno, bi bila gospodinjstva v povprečju pripravljena plačati 4,6 EUR na uro. Strošek ure nudenja pomoči v pilotnem preizkusu je znašal nekaj več kot 10 EUR na uro. Zaključek je jasen – projekt lahko v stalni praksi zaživi le s finančno podporo države. 48 Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov PROGRES Koordinator RP: do 30. 4. 2007 Fundacija GEA 2000, od 1. 5. 2007 Slovenska filantropija Naziv RP: Progres Naslov: Poljanska 12, 1000 Ljubljana Telefon: +386 (0)1 43 01 288 Faks: +386 (0)1 43 01 289 E-pošta: [email protected] Vodja projekta: Urška Hartman Pogodbena vrednost projekta: 173.240,44 EUR (41.515 338 SIT) Sredstva EQUAL (75%): 129.930,33 EUR (31.136.503,50 SIT) Nacionalno sofinanciranje (25%): 43.310,11 EUR (10.378.834,50 SIT) Spletna stran projekta: www.filantropija.org Partnerji MaTAFIR, društvo za medkulturne povezave; ARX, d. o. o.; Konzorcij ŽIVA, konzorcij za pomoč beguncem. Transnacionalni partnerji Fluchtort Hamburg: Berufliche Qualifizierung für Flüchtlinge (Nemčija), IntegRARsi – Reti locali per l`integrazione dei richiedenti asilo e rifugiati (Italija), Transition Supports Project (Irska). Namen projekta V razvojnem partnerstvu Progres je skupno sodelovalo pet partnerjev, od tega štiri organizacije iz nevladnega sektorja (Fundacija GEA 2000; Slovenska Filantropija; MaTAFIR, Društvo za medkulturne povezave; Konzorcij ŽIVA) in ena gospodarska organizacija Arx, d. o. o. Fundacija GEA 2000 in Slovenska filantropija že več let uspešno sodelujeta na področju azila. Sta tudi ustanovna člana Konzorcija ŽIVA. Društvo MaTAFIR se je oblikovalo v pripravljalnem obdobju pobude EQUAL in združuje študente, mlade raziskovalce in druge zainteresirane posameznike. Deluje predvsem na področju migracij in medkulturnega učenja. Podjetje Arx, d. o. o., se že vrsto let ukvarja z razvijanjem zaposlitvenih programov za različne ciljne skupine, pri delu s prosilci za azil pa so jim bile v veliko pomoč prejšnje izkušnje z delom v begunskih centrih. Opisano partnerstvo je v taki zasedbi sodelovalo prvič. Pomoč prosilcem za azil v smislu pridobivanja enakih možnosti na trgu dela se verjetno zdi tistim, ki so seznanjeni s stanjem na področju azila v Sloveniji, precej nemogoč projekt. Zakon o azilu, ki je bil sprejet leta 2006, namreč prosilcem za azil v obdobju prvega leta čakanja na odločitev ne omogoča pridobitve delovnega dovoljenja. Od sprejetja zakona pa do danes so delovno dovoljenje pridobili le trije prosilci za azil. Cilji Pravice beguncev so na področju zaposlovanja izenačene s slovenskimi državljani. Ker morajo begunci po pridobitvi tega statusa opraviti zahteven tečaj slovenskega jezika, si poiskati stalno bivališče, urediti dokumente, najti zaposlitev in podobno, je bil glavni cilj programa Progres prosilce za azil v času čakanja na odločitev naučiti osnov slovenskega jezika in jih čim bolje pripraviti na »spopad« z birokracijo, s katero se bodo najverjetneje srečali, ko bodo pridobili status begunca. Hkrati je bil zelo pomemben cilj projekta tudi osveščanje javnosti, s čimer smo želeli razbijati stereotipe, osveščati delodajalce in širšo javnost o pravicah, ki jih imajo begunci in prosilci za azil. Skratka, na različne načine skušamo prosilcem za azil (bodočim beguncem) izboljšati možnosti za vstop na trg dela. Glede na statistične podatke MNZ je bilo 31. maja 2007 v Sloveniji 119 beguncev. Od tega jih je 15 zaposlenih, 50 nezaposlenih, 19 starostnikov, 10 predšolskih otrok, 14 osnovnošolskih otrok, 7 dijakov in 4 študentje. Ciljne skupine Prosilci za azil. Doseženi rezultati Programi in produkti RP Progres: • učenje slovenskega jezika v Azilnem domu • tečaj o sistemu zaposlovanja v RS (z individualno konkretno pomočjo prosilcem za azil, pomoč pri pridobivanju delovnega dovoljenja in iskanju konkretnih možnosti na trgu dela, praktične predstavitve …) • raziskava med delodajalci o pripravljenosti zaposlovanja beguncev Zbornik sofinanciranih projektov 49 • osveščanje javnosti: organizacija javnih dogodkov, okroglih miz, novinarskih konferenc, priprava radijske oddaje, osveščanje mladine po šolah … Produkti transnacionalnega sodelovanja • • priročnik o metodah učenja tujega jezika prosilcev za azil: EQUAL language kratki film za osveščanje javnosti: EQUAL voices Načelo inovativnosti V okviru razvojnega partnerstva se je načelo inovativnosti izražalo predvsem skozi pristope in vsebine izobraževalnih procesov ter pri aktivnostih na področju osveščanja. Na področju izobraževanja velja izpostaviti razvijanje novih metod za učenje jezika in oblikovanje delavnice »Osebne predstavitve z delom«. Na področju osveščanja je vsekakor inovativen pristop vključitve samih prosilcev za azil preko gostovanja v radijski oddaji in aktivne participacije na okrogli mizi in drugih aktivnostih ob svetovnem dnevu beguncev leta 2006. Menimo pa, da bo upoštevanje načela inovativnosti mogoče oceniti šele, ko bo inovacije mogoče podvajati in z njimi vplivati na obstoječe sisteme. Razvojno partnerstvo Progres je razvilo priporočila, s katerimi skušamo vplivati na politike ter glede na katere bomo razvijali nadaljnje programe, in sicer: 1 Priporočila na področju svetovanja in izobraževanja Prosilcem za azil naj se ob prihodu zagotovijo informacije o procesu pridobivanja novih veščin, dostopu do jezikovnih tečajev in izobraževanj ter o dostopu do poklicnega izobraževanja, ki bi vključevalo tudi praktično delo. Pri tem je potrebno še posebno upoštevati potrebe te deprivilegirane skupine. Priporočila na področju zaposlovanja Prosilci za azil naj bi imeli direkten dostop do trga delovne sile, oziroma naj bi jim bilo to omogočeno najkasneje šest mesecev po vložitvi prošnje za azil. S tem bi pridobili nove izkušnje, znanja in kvalifikacije ter denarno podporo zase in svoje družinske člane, zmanjšali pa bi se tudi negativni učinki pasivnega čakanja v azilnem domu. Ekonomske koristi bi imela tudi sprejemna družba, saj bi se na ta način zmanjšalo delo na črno, prosilec pa bi imel možnost sam kriti določene stroške bivanja, zdravstvene oskrbe in druge stroške. Prizadevati si je potrebno za ustvarjanje novih delovnih mest, ki bodo podpirala različnost in enake možnosti. Ključnega pomena je, da so v ta proces vključeni tudi delodajalci in sindikati. Priporočila na področju večanja sposobnosti in pridobivanja znanj ter izkušenj (capacity building) Aktivnosti za povečanje vpliva in moči prosilcev za azil (empowerment) bi morale postati sestavni del vseh aktivnosti, ki so namenjene prosilcem. Ob tem bi bilo dobro razmisliti o vzpostavitvi svetovalne skupine, ki bi svetovala drugim zainteresiranim prosilcem za azil, sestavljali pa bi jo tudi prosilci za azil2; za to delo bi morali biti slednji tudi primerno nagrajeni. Pripraviti bi morali jasna navodila za zaposlene, ki delajo s prosilci za azil, oziroma seznam kvalifikacij, ki jih potrebujejo ljudje za delo s prosilci za azil. Priporočila na področju boja proti diskriminaciji prosilcev za azil Organiziranje informacijske kampanje z namenom izboljšati javno podobo prosilcev za azil ter povečati stopnjo osveščenosti širše javnosti glede integracije prosilcev za azil. Osveščanje delodajalcev o pozitivnih učinkih ustvarjanja delovnega okolja brez diskriminacije, ne glede na narodno ali etnično pripadnost, ter o pomenu sprejemanja prosilcev za azil z določenimi kvalifikacijami kot stanovskih kolegov v občutljivi situaciji, ne pa kot ljudi, ki preprosto prosijo za pomoč. Nadaljevanje projekta Vzpodbujanje transnacionalnega sodelovanja predvsem na področjih, kjer so se posamezne dejavnosti že izkazale kot dobra praksa. Instrumente za razširjanje dobre prakse in vplivanje na politike, ki so bili razviti v okviru pobude EQUAL, bi morali nadalje razvijati in jih prenesti na nove programe Evropskega socialnega sklada. 1 Povzeto po dokumentu »Poročilo o vrednotenju izvedbe programa razvojnega partnerstva Progres«, avtoric Tatjane Pezdir in Saše Zupanc. 2 Tu je govora o prosilcih za azil, ki bi že dosegli določeno stopnjo vključenosti in bi bili pripravljeni svetovati drugim prosilcem za azil. Report of the Co-Financed Projects Community Initiative Programme EQUAL 2004-2006 for the Republic of Slovenia 52 Report of the Co-Financed Projects Published by: Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs Kotnikova 5 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia [email protected] http://www.mddsz.gov.si/ Collected and edited by: Klavdija Vrečer, spec. Lectured by: Multilingual, Sonja Zavrtanik Galijaš s.p., Komenskega ulica 6, 1000 Ljubljana Designing, preparation for printing, and printing: Utrip Brežice, Marof 2, 8250 Brežice Number of copies printed: 1.500 copies CIP - Kataložni zapis o publikaciji Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana 364.4:339.732.4(4) COMMUNITY Initiatives Programme EQUAL 2004-2006 for the Republic of Slovenia : report of the co-financed projects / [collected and edited by Klavdija Vrečer]. - Ljubljana : Ministry of Labour, Family, and Social Affairs, 2007 ISBN 978-961-6471-14-5 1. Vrečer, Klavdija 235585280 "The program is co-financed by the European Union." "The programme is co-financed by the Ministry of Labour, Family, and Social Affairs." "The Managing Authority of the Community Initiative Programme EQUAL is the Ministry of Labour, Family, and Social Affairs." "The content of the documents is the responsibility of the Ministry of Labour, Family, and Social Affairs, and does not express the view of the European Union in any respect." Report of the Co-Financed Projects TABLE OF CONTENTS: FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 LIST OF THE CO-FINANCED PROJECTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 ROMA EMPLOYMENT CENTRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 PARTNERSHIP FOR EQUALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 K.U.P.O.L.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 ROMA EDUCATIONAL INFORMATIVE CENTRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 EQUIVALENT STUDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 UFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 IN-VALID-IN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 (RE)INTEGRATION OF VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 SPINUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 DAYCARE CENTER MOST (BRIDGE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 M-LAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 DP FENIKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 KNOWLEDGE IS POWER-LIFELONG LEARNING FOR ALL (raising awareness and information) . . . 91 SINTEZA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 WITH COACHING TO SAFE OLD AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 YOUNG MOTHERS/FAMILY FRIENDLY EMPLOYMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 WITH EXELENCE TO GENDER EQUALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 EQUAL VESNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF DOMESTIC HELP - SIPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 PROGRES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 53 54 Report of the Co-Financed Projects FOREWORD OF THE MINISTER OF LABOUR, FAMILY AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS In order to find a common solution for special problems concerning the entire Union, the European Union has created so-called community initiatives. One of the four such initiatives, financed by various structural funds is the EQUAL initiative. The EQUAL initiative, financed by the funds of the European Social Fund, is a part of the EU strategy for the establishment of numerous and more quality employment positions, as well as for the assurance of easier access to the labour market. The initiative encourages, by means of the partnership cooperation, new ways of fighting discrimination and inequality in the labour market, for employees and for job seekers as well. The EQUAL incentive also involves assistance in the social and occupational integration of applicants for asylum and the victims of human trafficking. By means of international cooperation, ideas and innovations spread as good practices in the whole territory of the European Union. The EQUAL initiative at the same time presents a contribution to the European strategy of employment and to priority objectives of the employment and social policy of the member states of the EU, since it tries to analyse causes of discrimination and inequality in the labour market, as well as to propose new ways to deal with them. The Ministry of Labour, Family, and Social Affairs defined the objectives, measures, and activities, which are in compliance with the European strategy of employment, on basis of the analysis of conditions in the labour market in Slovenia, analysis of causes of discrimination and inequality in the labour market, and existing policies, and consultations. The Ministry presents the management authority, monitoring twenty projects within the framework of the EQUAL Community Initiative, as well as their implementation. The results of the EQUAL initiative demonstrate our capacity for implementing exacting cooperation projects even in the areas of finding new ways of dealing with discrimination and inequality in the labour market. This is especially important at the transition to the new financial perspective 2007 - 2013. I am sure that the programme EQUAL Initiatives for the Community presents a great opportunity for all of us, for the development, recognition, and exchange of new ideas. I thank all twenty development partnerships of the EQUAL Initiative for their achievements and extend to them the wish for the future continuation of their successful work. Marjeta Cotman Minister of Labour, Family and Social Affairs 55 Report of the Co-Financed Projects FOREWORD OF THE GENERAL DIRECTOR OF THE LABOUR MARKET AND EMPLOYMENT DIRECTORATE At the conclusion of the EQUAL Community Programme Initiatives, we prepared this report in which we present the results of the programme and of individual projects. Considering the amount of the funds received by Slovenia by the EU for the EQUAL initiative, and considering the relatively short programme period (2004 - 2006), the Ministry of Labour, Family, and Social Affairs decided to limit the Equal programme to four out of nine measures proposed by the European Commission. The selected measures were the following: Measure 1: Enabling easier access and re-entry for those having difficulties with integration or re-integration into the labour market, which should be open for everyone. (Employability); Measure 5: Encouraging of lifelong learning and the included work practices, stimulation of the entry into the labour market and participation therein for those who suffer due to discrimination and inequality. (Flexibility); Measure 8: Reducing differences between genders in the workplace. (Equal opportunities); Measure 9: Assistance in the integration of those who are applicants for asylum. (Asylum seekers). In this way, the concentration of activities was assured and at the same time the quality development partnerships were developed. The Ministry of Labour, Family, and Social Affairs defined the subject areas and provided adequate activities in the programme with respect to the needs of the labour market and the priority missions of policies. The Equal Initiative invites learning and innovative thinking. The principal subjects and figures of the EQUAL Initiative are the development partners. Within the scope of the EQUAL Initiative, the Ministry submitted to the development partners a basis for the monitoring of their missions and the development of their ideas. The main objective of the EQUAL Initiative in Slovenia is to contribute to the development of a complete and harmonized strategy of employment and to play an important role in the development of human resources in correct and unique manner. In this way, there would be a search for new methods to combat discrimination and inequality in the labour market in order to improve the welfare of all the inhabitants of Slovenia, and to raise the value of human resources. The results obtained have provided the successful attainment of many innovative achievements in the spirit of development partnerships, which will create better and more equal opportunities in the labour market in the future. The present account contains descriptions of projects, partially co-financed within the frame of the European Union, and partially financed by the Ministry of Labour, Family, and Social Affairs. It is very significant that numerous institutions were connected in the course of their implementation, as well as the many individuals who contributed to the success of the programme through their expert work. The implementation of projects was difficult, as it required a high degree of knowledge from partners, a great deal of energy, an enthusiasm for the work, as well as patience and team work. It is my wish for all the partners of the EQUAL Initiative that the results obtained will survive independently in practice in the future and that they will continue to develop and implement innovative joint projects in the labour market, also with the assistance of funds coming from the European Social Fund. Robert Drobnič Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs 56 Report of the Co-Financed Projects Introduction This report presents twenty projects, co-financed with the means of the European Social Fund (ESF) (75%), as well as with the assistance of the Ministry of Labour, Family, and Social Affairs. The projects were implemented in the period between 2004 and 2007. The first part of the document is comprised of the short presentation of the donation scheme, completed with the current data on implementation. The purpose, results and effects of the cofinanced projects are presented in more detail in the second part of the document. Objectives of the Initiative EQUAL By means of the financial sources of the European Social Fund, the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs manages the EQUAL Community Initiative Programme 2004 - 2006 for Slovenia. The programme provides financial support for the cooperation of partners from various regions and sectors, with the aim of contributing to the strategy of the European Union for the assurance of a higher number of quality employment positions and the assurance of the better access to the labour market. The main objective of the EQUAL Initiative in Slovenia is to contribute to the development of a complete and harmonized strategy of employment and to play an important role in the development of human resources in a proper and unique manner - by finding new methods to combat discrimination and inequality in the labour market, to improve the welfare of all the inhabitants of Slovenia, and to in this manner that will raise the value of human resources. In the scope of the general strategic approach the fundamental objectives of the EQUAL Community Initiative present the search for new methods to fight discrimination and inequality, especially: • possibilities of integration of disadvantaged categories into the measures and services of institutions, acting in the realm of employment and social integration; • new and efficient policies and practices for the solution of the challenges that disadvantaged peoples are facing; • innovations which could be incorporated into policies and practices in order to provide wider coverage of assistance to disadvantaged groups, policies, sectors, or geographic regions. The donation scheme and technical assistance are managed by the Ministry of Labour, Family, and Social Affairs. About the donation scheme Owing to the financial sources of the European Social Fund received by Slovenia for the EQUAL Initiative, as well as due to the short programme period, the Slovenian Community Initiative Programme (CIP) is limited to the implementation of the co-financed activities in the framework of four of the nine priority themes. Slovenia chose the following priority themes within the above stated strategic approach: Measure 1: enabling an easier entry and re-entry into the labour market for those experiencing difficulties in integration or re-integration, since the labour market should be open to everybody (employability); Measure 5: encouraging lifelong learning and integrating work practices, stimulating the entry and sojourn into the labour market for those who suffer from discrimination and inequality (flexibility); Measure 8: reducing differences between genders and supporting equal rights in the workplace (equal opportunities); Measure 9: support for social and occupational integration for asylum seekers. Special attention was also paid to the three horizontal thematic domains at the implementation of the programme, selected measures, and activities: development of information society, the promotion of equal opportunities for women and men, and the support of the victims of human trafficking. Amount of available financial sources For the purpose of the implementation of projects in the scope of the EQUAL Initiative, Slovenia received from the ESF in the period between 2004-2006, funds in the amount of 1,5 billion Slovenian Tolars (6,4 million EUR), to which we added national funds in the amount of 500 million of Slovenian Tolars (2,1 million EUR). The financial means from the funds were spent in a strategic and focused manner, and present the added value of supplementing all the above programmes of the active policy of employment and the programme of the second priority mission of the Uniform programme document, relating to knowledge, development of human resources, and employment. Report of the Co-Financed Projects 57 Beneficiaries for application The management body for the DPP EQUAL is the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, more precisely, the labour market and Employment Directorate. The paying authority is organized within the Ministry of Finance; the final beneficiaries are development partnerships, selected by public notice. The development partnerships are composed of both profitable and non-profitable organizations (local government, non-governmental organizations, employment institutes, centres for social work, private companies, chambers of commerce and industry, social partners, local and regional development agencies, public and private educational institutions, foundations, associations, etc.). Implementation structure Public notice for the co-financing of these projects was published in July 2004 in the Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia. The completion of the project selection proceeding for co-financing in November 2004 was followed by the signature of contract with service providers. The implementation of the programme of the EQUAL Initiative was facilitated through the implementation structure composed of the managing, supervising, and implementation bodies: • Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs was in the role of management authority, responsible for the implementation of the EQUAL programme; • Budget Supervision Office at the Ministry of Finance as an independent revision authority, responsible for harmonization, development, and supervision of the system of the inside control of public finances. • Ministry of Finance, Sector for the management of EU funds - the National fund as a competent paying authority, supervising the implementation during planning and the subsequent use of resources of the structural policy in the Republic of Slovenia. • The evaluation committee was comprised of experts and was charged with the review, evaluation, and selection of projects, presented for the public notice. • The Supervising Committee was monitoring the projects and integrated the representatives of the authorities, covering the region of the donation scheme. • the national supportive structure was providing the administrative, technical, and professional assistance at the management of the donation scheme. • The steering group for the evaluation of the DPP EQUAL was charged with the monitoring of the evaluation of the Community Initiative and of its achievements at the governmental level. • the exterior service providers were implementing evaluation and supervision of the financial reports of the development partners. • The applicants and the beneficiaries of the financial sources were the organizations applicants and the holders of projects together with the partners - beneficiaries of the financial sources. Obtained results The obtained results of each development partnership are presented more in detail in the following. Considering the set objectives of the donation scheme, the development partnerships attained important results. In respect to the set objectives, the projects were divided into the four previously mentioned measures. 58 List of the co-finaced projects List of the co-finaced projects 59 60 Report of the Co-Financed Projects ROMA EMPLOYMENT CENTRE Coordinator of Development Partnership: Municipality of Škocjan Title of Development Partnership: Roma Employment Centre Address: Škocjan 67, 8275 Škocjan Telephone: +386 (0)7 38 46 310 Fax: +386 (0)7 38 46 309 E-mail: [email protected] Project manager: Anton Zupet, mayor of the Municipality Škocjan Project contract value: 438,157 EUR (105,000,000 SIT) EQUAL funds (75%): 328,618 EUR (78,750,000 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 109,539 EUR (26,250,000 SIT) Project Website: www.equal-rzc.si Partners The Municipality Škocjan; Alianta, project consulting services, Ltd.; Educational and Cultural Centre Trebnje; Institute for Adult Education Kočevje; Municipality Beltinci; Municipality Šentjernej; Municipality Kočevje; Papilot, Institute for the Promotion and Development of Quality of Life; Portoval, Novo Mesto, Ltd.; Development-Educational Centre Novo Mesto; Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia; Regional Service Novo Mesto; Educational Research Institute Ljubljana; Association Mladinski ceh; Educational and Cultural Institute Črnomelj; Association for the Development of the Preventive and Voluntary Service Activity, Ljubljana; Public Enterprise EDŠ, Ltd., Šentjernej; Urban Municipality Murska Sobota; Urban Municipality Novo Mesto; Municipality Krško; Municipality Ribnica; Municipality Trebnje; Regional Chamber of Craft Novo Mesto; Polidej, Trade, Representation, Agency, Advisory Services, Fajdiga Vid, private entrepreneur; Skledar, Institute for the Promotion of Culture and Agriculture; PLAN e, Ltd.; Development Centre Kočevje Ribnica., d.o.o. Trans-national partners The development partnership Roma Employment Centre is made up of in two trans-national partnerships, endeavouring to improve employment conditions of vulnerable groups: 1. different cultures for the achievement of the same goal, with the following participants: Portugal, Oeiras PRO, Italy: Empowerment, Hungary: Centre of Education, Greece: Filon Enosis, Slovenia: Roma Employment Centre and 2. The Travelling People (Potujoči ljudje ) in Europe, with the participation of ROM, Italy, Torino: Cittadini d`Europa,; Italy, Bologna: Il lungo cammino dei Sinti e dei Rom: percorsi verso il lavoro; Slovenia, Roma Employment Centre. Project Purpose The Roma people in Slovenia, especially those in the wide region of Dolenjska, represent a category of the population at risk, having no possibility for adjustment to life in modern society without organized help. The principal obstacles for their integration are social endangerment, modest aspirations associated with the traditional way of life, as well as a low level of education preventing their entry into more exacting professions. Owing to a lack of elementary qualifications, functional illiteracy, as well as employer prejudices, the employment activity of Roma people is much weaker than that of the majority of the population in Slovenia. Regular employment of the Roma is rare, irregular forms of work are prevailing. The development partnership is constantly encountering the key issue how to integrate Roma people into social and economic spheres of their own free will and based on their own interests, as well as how to provide conditions for equal integration at the social and professional level. The development partnership Roma Employment Centre wants to contribute to the improvement of the social situation of the Roma community in Slovenia by the establishment and implementation of proposals for the improvement of employment opportunities for the Roma population. The coordinator of the development partnership is the Municipality of Škocjan, and in addition to this 25 more institutions coming from two geographic regions of Slovenia populated by the Roma people are participating in the partnership using their rich and diversified experiences in several domains of work with the Roma people: Dolenjska region with Bela Krajina and Posavje, and the Pomurje region. The development partnership has gathered the experiences of the partners thus far included in work with the Roma people, and has searched for new opportunities for their integration in the employment process. The partnership, including local self-government, The Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia, various institutes, companies and organizations for adult education, offer broad knowledge of issues, as well as many years of experience of working with the Roma people. This significant partnership requires high quality coordination. However, good results can be attained only through the involvement of organizations from all spheres. Goals The development partnership Roma Employment Centre was established with the objective of assuring the Report of the Co-Financed Projects 61 development of new proposals for the Roma people employment strategy, and to enable easier access to the labour market. By means of the development partnership and with its principal product, the establishment of the public institute, The Roma Employment Centre (hereinafter: REC), wishes to contribute to the creation of a positive milieu for the integration of the Roma people in the areas of education and employment. The work of REC will offer the Roma people the opportunity to become employed and to acquire better working habits, additional skills and qualifications for work on one hand, while on the other hand the REC wishes to advance the Roma labour force to employers and to eliminate prejudices related to the employment of the Roma people. Therefore, there are two focus groups in the development partnership: the Roma population and employers. The public institute Roma Employment Centre was established with the aim of providing the Roma people easier access to employment, and through that, connecting and coordinating various activities performed by individual partners. Individual attempts to solve Roma employment issues do not provide adequate results, and for this reason it is necessary to establish a permanent connection between the Roma people and various companies which are currently employing Roma individuals as well as other organizations dealing with issues facing the Roma. The pilot establishment of the Roma Employment Centre, whose registered office is in Novo Mesto, has introduced an umbrella program which will satisfy the needs of companies employing the Roma labour force on the one hand, and the need for information, training, and motivation of Roma people seeking employment and at entering in the labour market on the other. The greatest and most important task of the public institute REC is the target-oriented training of the Roma for work and employment, grounded exclusively on the requirements of companies and the recruiting labour force. In addition to this, the public institute will carry out research work regarding the labour market and public opinion. It will try to motivate employers to employ the Roma people and to inform the Roma about the possibilities of education and training, as well as to educate and to motivate them to seek employment. Target groups The Roma population, employers. Achieved results Within the development partnership we prepared the analysis of measures for the motivation of Roma people for the integration into educational programmes, the analysis of the educational structure of the potentially employable part of the Roma population, as well as the analysis of wishes of the Roma people, related to employment and the analysis of the needs of employers with regards to the Roma labour force. We have developed work programmes and educated practitioners for work with the Roma. We have developed programmes for the motivation of Roma adults for the integration into education and training with regard to their interests and possibilities, and we have performed pilot motivation workshops. We have prepared a strategy of education of Roma adults in the local and regional environment. We have introduced the data base of qualified and trained Roma job seekers and of employers who are willing to employ Roma people. Likewise, we have prepared the programme proposal of the national professional qualification and have performed it as a pilot project. At the end, we have created proposals for the amendments to work and social legislation. One of the most important elements of the EQUAL Initiative is trans-national cooperation whose aim is learning by the transference of professional knowledge and good practices between partnerships. They also concern themselves with planning the exchange of information and experience, and testing innovative ideas for the employment of vulnerable groups of individuals. The development partnership Roma Employment Centre takes part in two trans-national partnerships, seeking the improvement of employment conditions among vulnerable people: ´Different Cultures for the Attainment of Equal Development´ and ´ the Travelling People in Europe´. The common interest of all the involved parties of the first trans-national partnership is the research into the situation of vulnerable groups in the domain of accession into the labour market, as well as the creation of new programmes for their integration in the labour market. The methodological guidebook and the inter-active CD-ROM were created based on reports on the situation of vulnerable groups in five participating countries. This was intended to serve as an instrument to social workers, employers, and mentors in their support of the employment of vulnerable groups. This information is available to international professionals on the internet. The result of the second transnational cooperation is the guidebook on the cases of good practices, whose purpose is the exchange of positive experiences regarding the employment and social integration of Roma people. The continuation of the project The partners in the development partnership tried to find new ways to stimulate easier access population to the labour market and to education for the Roma people. We have found out that this is a very complex topic, requiring a full approach and a challenge which will not be easily solved. For this reason, the development partnership the Roma Employment Centre presented only the initial step on the way to the more successful integration of the Roma population into the broader environment. 62 Report of the Co-Financed Projects PARTNERSHIP FOR EQUALITY Coordinator of Development Partnership: Association ŠKUC Title of Development Partnership: Partnership for Equality Address: Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana Telephone: +386 (0)1 43 27 306 & 43 27 368 Fax: +386 (0)1 43 03 530 E-mail: [email protected] Project manager: Dr. Tatjana Greif Project contract value: 262,894 EUR (63,000,000 SIT) EQUAL funds (75%): 197,170 EUR (47,250,000 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 65,723 EUR (15,750,000 SIT) Project Website: http://www.ljudmila.org/lesbo/EQUAL/index.htm Partners Association of the Free Trade Unions of Slovenia (AFTUS), Slovenian Employers' Association (SEA). Trans-national partners L'Autre Cercle, France; RSFL Sweden; LGL Lithuania; Association Društvo ŠKUC, Slovenia. Project Purpose The development partnership EQUAL - partnership for equality, is a cooperation between the association Društvo ŠKUC, the Association of the Free Trade Unions of Slovenia (AFTUS), and the Slovenian Employers' Association (SEA). The development partnership is a pioneering contribution in the domain of the development of equal opportunities and the protection against discrimination at employment. It happened for the first time in Slovenia, that discrimination on base of the sexual orientation has been treated systematically with an active participation of social partners and a non-governmental organisation. The sphere of discrimination of sexual minorities has been neglected and ignored while homophobic discrimination is among the most hidden, most difficult to identify and ascertainable form. Gays and lesbians often live under constant pressure of losing their jobs and the confidence of their co-workers and superiors, and for this reason they hide their sexual orientation. Owing to the silence and passivity of the victims of this level of discrimination, this sphere remains "invisible". Gays and lesbians are exposed to a higher risk of social exclusion and to a higher level of poverty. The research of the Lesbian Section ŠKUC - LL, performed in the year 2001 among the homosexual population in Slovenia, demonstrates the existence of discrimination at work, while seeking work, when professional promotion is at hand, as well as unjustified dismissals. 20,3 % of the respondents to the research have already experienced discrimination at work, based on their sexual orientation. Employment discrimination of sexual minorities employment is manifested in various forms: • (compulsory) hiding of sexual orientation during the search for employment and at work in front of co-workers and superiors; • homophobic reactions of co-workers and of superiors (abusive language, mockery, insulting remarks, comments, jokes, observations); • sexual harassment and physical violence; • discrimination while seeking employment and during potential promotion; • unjustified dismissal; • inequality of access to professional promotion; • unequal access to the right to a respectful workplace. The victims of all kinds of discrimination need an absolute assurance from their employer and from the trade unions that their rights are protected, while offenders shall know that all manner of violation of personal integrity and dignity of workers based on their sexual orientation are contrary to national legislation and European standards. Discrimination is always destructive, causes damage to the victim, collectively endangers human relations, lowers work quality and productivity, and causes economic damage to the victim and to the employer. Report of the Co-Financed Projects 63 Goals Discrimination, based on sexual orientation in the area of employment has not been systemically recognized as a problem by the social partners in Slovenia to the present. For this reason the purpose of the development partnership is awareness and education of key social partners - trade unions and employers - for the development and the sustained implementation of anti-discrimination employment policies and in the labour market with the aim to prevent inequality and to increase group integration of those disadvantaged on the basis of sexual orientation. The objective is to facilitate conditions for the integration of a vulnerable group into the labour market as well as the development of the culture of mutual respect at work. Target groups The victims of homophobic discrimination are extremely difficult to locate as a focus group since the majority of these individuals hide their sexual orientation within their working environment. That is why our focus groups are simultaneously also the development partners. The model of awareness and education of trade unions and of employers for the implementation of anti-discrimination policies is transferable to various employment branches, and in addition to this, it is also horizontally transferable - to combat against all forms of inequality (based on sex, age, handicap, ethnic affiliation, etc.). Achieved results Development of two manuals: "Measures Against Discrimination in Employment for Employers" and "Measures Against Discrimination in Employment for Trade Unions", meant the introduction of anti-discrimination employment measures. The manuals are the first publications of this kind in Slovenia. The innovation of this segment of the Development Project is of key importance since it presents the development of a completely new tool for antidiscrimination policy for both trade unions and employers. They bring forward a review of fundamental notions, review of facts in this area, review of national legislation and regulations of the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union. Further on, we deal with the introduction of good practices and of systematic long-term solutions in the field of the prevention of inequality in employment, and we propose a series of curative measures in the case of violations. The two manuals include numerous illustrative cases of homophobic discrimination taken from everyday life. The cycle of the regional workshops "Measures Against the Discrimination in Employment" for the networks of the SEA and AFTUS is a part of the strategy of attaining the objectives of the DP. The workshops are composed of two parts: the theoretical - presentation programme ESS EQUAL with the contents of the manual, and a practical part - survey of short films, lead discussions, conclusions, and evaluation. The participation in the workshop, the manual, and all the materials are free of charge. The workshops were carried out from September 2006 to April 2007. The workshop proceedings "Norms at Work" and "Open Up Your Workplace" are the result of the cooperation within TP. They are intended to improve the conditions of employment and labour market in the direction of an easier recognition of homophobic discrimination, awareness of the dangers of homophobia and the equality for all persons in the workplace. Two questionnaire surveys were performed in the networks of AFTUS and the SEA, relating to attitudes towards job discrimination. The results of the surveys lead to the ascertainment that the awareness of discrimination in both networks of the social partners exists, yet the level of recognition of individual types of discrimination differs and the workplace is not safe for gays and lesbians. The participants in the research expressed their need to acquire knowledge of the fight against discrimination. Further on in the internet research "We are looking for an employer, friendly to gays and lesbians", gathered 18 proposals of companies providing positive experiences for individuals. This is the first such employers' good practice identification trial. The international conference "Equality at Work" was held on April 19 and 20, 2007, in the Centre of Europe in Ljubljana. The programme was dedicated to the presentation of the results of the development partnerships EQUAL from Slovenia, France, Sweden, and Lithuania. More than 60 guests from abroad and from Slovenia took part in the conference. The TV spot "Stop Homophobia! A Safe Workplace for Everyone" is the first spot of its kind in Slovenia. The spot has the educational-informative message, meant to broaden the awareness of the general public. It was made with the support of the production house "Staragara" and "VPK". It was broadcast as a free-ofcharge advertisement from May till December 2007 on Radio and Television of Slovenia, POP TV, A Kanal, MTV Adria, and elsewhere. It is short-listed in the programme of the 14th international advertising festival "Zlati boben 2007" (Golden Drum 2007). Since the year 2005 , publicity has been carried out by means of the special web page EQUAL, web pages of our partners, and in the form of regular media activity, press conferences, and announcements. 64 Report of the Co-Financed Projects K.U.P.O.L.A. Coordinator of Development Partnership: SBDS- Trade Union of Unemployed Workers of Slovenia Title of Development Partnership: K.U.P.O.L.A. Address: Svetozarevska 10, 2000 Maribor Telephone: +386 (0)2 22 82 536 Fax: +386 (0)2 22 82 537 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Project manager: Janez Škalič, Trade Union of Unemployed Workers of Slovenia – organization, Jolanda Lešnik, ZIP – content related management Project contract value: 372,643.97 EUR (89,300,400 SIT) EQUAL funds (75%): 279,482.98 EUR (66,975,300 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 93,160.99 EUR (22,325,100 SIT) Project Website: http://www.kupola.zip.si/, http://www.sbds.si/projekti.htm Partners Trade Union of Unemployed Workers of Slovenia; Institute for the Information and Assistance of the Unemployed and Job Seekers; Regional Development Centre, Ltd.; Institute ENTRA - Centre for Education, Publishing, and Advisory Services; PUBLICIST, DIDAKTIS - Institute for the Lifelong Education and Training; NARCISA, Ltd. Trans-national partners 1. XoP – TRANS-NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: Dialogos, Italy; Ec.co.mi, Italy; AWO, Germany; PSPP, Austria; HIMILCE, Spain; K.U.P.O.L.A., Slovenia. 2. Cooperation of the trans-national partnership XoP with the trans-national partnership DESE and the included partnerships: Response, Finland; C3, Great Britain. Project Purpose The purpose of the project is to find answers to the following questions: • HOW to apply empirical knowledge to the development of programmes and instruments for the recognition and positioning of the state of unemployment • HOW to create and test the integrated accessions for the planning, motivation, training, and preparation of the focus groups for repeated integration into the labour market • HOW to apply experience of the state of being unemployed to establish a supportive environment for the needs of unemployed persons • HOW to establish inter-regional cooperation between the DP partners, institutions, local communities, and various decision makers and on basis of the found answers: • to create proposals of new national policies and plans to provide solutions to unemployment • to create a programme and organizational structure providing to unemployed persons a systematic, personal motivation, stimulation, and professional framework for the active accession to the entry or re-entry into the labour market. • to implement an integrated accession to solve the problems of being unemployed, comprising: self-organizing mechanisms, personal development, integrated acknowledgement with the situation in labour market, expertly supported recognition of the situation, and guidance towards the search for solutions, education with the aim of increasing competitiveness and the functional literacy of focus groups Goals • Establishment of the dynamic self-organizing model "with UP for UP" (UP - Unemployed Person) • Creation of the INFO-UP-package of services, supported by a network of information providers, counsellors, and mentors • Creation of at least three new programmes for the activation of the potential of unemployed persons • Creation of the multi-disciplinary UP with the marking "UP - laboratory for diagnostics" • Creation of basis for the establishment of at least one PROFESSIONAL STANDARD • Creation of at least one method or accession to the measurement of social capital and obstructions in labour market • Spreading of forms of social integration in at least two new places Report of the Co-Financed Projects 65 • Creation of at least three proposals of policy measures • Transfer of knowledge and experience of trans-national partners from the domain of social entrepreneurship and creation of connections between the public sector - between companies and the private sector Target groups At the implementation of the DP programme, we focused on solutions to the issues of unemployment of the following groups: those persons unemployed for a significant period of time, those aged more than 40 years, younger persons - those seeking their first jobs, women, with a particular emphasis on single–mothers and persons with a work-related disability. Achieved results • • • • • • • • • • • • • Creation of the organization and programme model of the future partner cooperation Methodological processing and systematic arrangement of labour market data in Slovenia Evaluation of the analysis of the situation in the area of elderly persons in Slovenia Establishment of the web page and the structure INFO - UP - package for focus groups Development of four new content related workshops in the domain of personal analysis and designing of personal development, implementation of volunteering, and a plan to aid in the recognition and resolving of unemployment issues Development of a new accession to the application of the NLP techniques (neuro-linguistic programming) for unemployed persons Creation of two short documentary films dealing with unemployment issues Preparation of the programme for the training of information providers and mentors to conduct activities in the UP network within the organization of the SBDS (Trade Union of the Unemployed Workers in Slovenia) Development of the manual with guidelines, advice and cautions for unemployed persons entering the field of independent entrepreneurship Evaluation of research on social capital in Slovenia in compliance with the objectives of DP Evaluation of the study "Possibilities of Establishing the Coaching Method for Work With the Unemployed " Performance of 35 workshops with the participation of 339 unemployed persons, respectively 480 man/day, based on their own interest, coming from the regions of: PODRAVJE : 191 people; 44 men and 147 women POMURJE: 90 people; 22 men and 68 women ZASAVJE: 58 people; 11 men and 47 women Performance of 4 individual counselling sessions with the attendance of 7 participants: PODRAVJE : 5 people; 2 men and 3 women POMURJE: 2 people; 2 women Implementation of the self-organizing model of the UP is in progress. Several proposals on national policies in the domain of employment and accession to the labour market are in the process of preparation. The added value of the selection, financing, and implementation of the DP project K.U.P.O.L.A. presents a publicly recognized and supported idea of self-organizing, professionally supported and systematic implementation of selfhelp activities of unemployed persons. The strategy of acquiring set results of the development partnership is based on: I (innovation) – to use all the potentials and possibilities of self-activation of the unemployed by the professional support of DP partners; P (partnership) – all the partners gain something in the form of the new knowledge and experience; I (influence and power) –people do more and change more, especially if the activities are united with the purpose of attaining common objectives; P (policies) – A long-term support system to generate change is required to move to action those unemployed persons who suffer from inertia. Of the long-term effects are the introducing of the accession of "Teaching and Activation of Unemployed Persons With the Aim of Self-Organizing Action"; T (trans-nationality) – different methods to find solutions for similar problems which exist in different social environments. It is useful to know these methods and to apply them to increase the social capital of Slovenian society. 66 Report of the Co-Financed Projects The continuation of the project Several new programmes of workshops for the immediate awareness of the state of unemployment and the prompt placement of the unemployed have been developed and tested within the project framework , as well as programmes for the support of public reputation, realization of own potential, volunteering, neuro-linguistic programming, workshop programmes, and advisory services for motivation and introduction into the world of entrepreneurship. It would be reasonable to continue these positive practices and experiences through the integration into permanent programmes of AEP - Active Employment Policy. According to our conclusions, the above-mentioned programmes substantially affect the involved unemployed persons in the sense of an increase in their self-confidence and the acquiring of additional skills and experiences for a successful segue into the labour market. For this reason, the continuation of these programmes in the future would be very useful. Report of the Co-Financed Projects 67 ROMA EDUCATIONAL INFORMATIVE CENTRE Coordinator of Development Partnership: Regional Development Agency Mura Title of Development Partnership: Roma Educational Informative Centre Address: Lendavska 5a, 9000 Murska Sobota Telephone: +386 (0)2 53 61 461 Fax: +386 (0)2 53 61 465 E-mail: [email protected] Project manager: Romeo Varga Project contract value: 355,570.86 EUR (85,209,000 SIT) EQUAL funds (75%): 266,678.14 EUR (63,906,750 SIT) National financing (25%): 88,892.71 EUR (21,302,250 SIT) Project Website: www.romsvet.si; www.romanyhelp.org; www.rra-mura.si Partners Research and Education Institute of Murska Sobota; Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia, Organization Unit Murska Sobota; Primary School I Murska Sobota; Primary School II Murska Sobota; Primary School III Murska Sobota; Primary School IV Murska Sobota; Primary School Puconci; Primary School Sveti Jurij; Primary School Črenšovci; Primary School Tišina; Primary School Cankova; Primary School Kuzma; Kindergarten Lendava; Kindergarten Murska Sobota; Middle Specialized and Technical School Murska Sobota; Municipality Dobrovnik; Municipality Turnišče. Trans-national partners Občanské sdružení Slovo 21; Município de Coimbra; University Mateja Bela Banska Bystrica; Etelä-Suomen lääninhallitus/The State Provincial Office of Southern Finland. Project Purpose The development partnership originates first of all from the conclusions of the "Strategy of Education and Schooling of Roma People in the Republic of Slovenia", which explicitly states the need for quality assistance to Roma children in primary school, as well as in kindergartens. Goals The key objective of the DP is the establishment of "Roma mentors" as practitioners in the educational process, capable to assist Roma children in learning, mastering the language of the majority population, and overcoming social gaps. Further more, they will build a "bridge" between Roma parents and teaching staff. At the same time, the project aims to provide additional education and employment (at least for the period of the project duration) of fifteen Roma persons who will thus improve their self-image and will offer an example to other members of the Roma culture. Target group The direct focus group of the project are young Roma people with any kind of completed secondary school and an affinity for work in the socio-educational profession. These are the people who have received most of the attention and have acquired, by means of education, an occupation and also employment. Nevertheless, the other participants, too, are understood as a focus group, and present a part of the result of this project: primarily, Roma children and their parents, as well as socio-educational workers who were sharing their knowledge and learning at the same time. Achieved results In compliance with the purpose of the project, the development partnership created the educational schedule for the education of the Roma mentors. The educational schedule was prepared with the substantial assistance of the Faculty of Pedagogy of the University in Banska Bystrica (The Slovak Republic), performing the higher educational (Bologna) study for the Roma mentors Roma missionary. Fifteen people who have acquired a certain secondary education and who are living in the Roma settlement are mastering the Roma language. These individuals were selected with the cooperation of the Employment Service of Slovenia, the Regional Unit in Murska Sobota, and the Roma councillors. 68 Report of the Co-Financed Projects Based on the stated criteria, the selected persons were predominately those of Roma nationality (all except one living in the Roma settlement and mastering the Roma language). The framework of the prepared educational scheme was made up of six months of education, providing additional knowledge in the domain of pedagogy, sociology, psychology, computer technology, musical education, Roma language and culture, artistic education, Slovenian language, and work in the educational institutions. An agreement about the cooperation has been concluded with fifteen educational institutions where the Roma mentors were trained. A pedagogical mentor (with regular employment in a school or kindergarten, a class teacher, as a rule) was assigned to the Roma mentor in each institute, introducing this individual to the work, directing , motivating, and evaluating him. The training lasted for the further six months. The Centre of the Republic of Slovenia has received an initiative for the establishment of the professional standard "Roma Mentor". Multiple levels of involvement defined the need for the establishment of two professional standards, namely that of the "Roma coordinator" with a lower degree of complexity, and that of "Roma Assistant", which is aligned with that of childcare assistant worker. The professional standard was entered in the standard catalogue of professional knowledge and skills, in December 2006. Minor fluctuations of Roma Assistants occurred from time to time during the implementation of the project. Some of them either found other employment, or they concluded that this kind of work did not correspond to their personality. Twenty individuals are employed at the Research and Education Institute of Murska Sobota as Roma assistants at the moment of writing this text. The essential objective of the development partnership has been attained. We have proven that the Roma assistants are a welcome and essential support of the Roma people in the early phase of education. Although the occupation of the Roma Assistant has not been systemized yet, the staff of the educational institutions see the Roma Assistant as a welcome colleague and count on him, and involve him in pedagogical processes (as a rule, the headmasters regularly include Roma Assistant in their annual plans). The evaluation conducted at the sample schools demonstrated that educational success of Roma children has improved due to the work of the Roma Assistants. The number of absences has decreased substantially (justified absences as well as the unjustified ones), and the participation in extramural activities has become more intense, communication between the school and the parents of the Roma children has improved, etc. The second pillar of the project was dedicated to international networking and the preparation of a new, international project, where the role of the Roma people will be a key one. Nine international seminars regarding various matters were conducted: education and employment of Roma People, housing conditions, political participation, Roma societies and associations, information and media, Roma culture and art, development of Roma language, integration of young people at the international level, and similar topics. Two seminar proceedings have been issued, containing mainly scientific articles, dealing with Roma subject matter; a comparative study of the situation of the Roma people in Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Portugal has been prepared; a forty-five minute film presenting the details and differences of the work of the Roma mentors in Slovenia, the Slovak Republic, and in Finland has been prepared. Pamphlets have been issued whose focus was on the absurdity of prejudice and the clarifying of some cultural particularities of Roma people,. The continuation of the project We did our best to involve first of all young, educated Roma people and Roma councillors as the only political representatives of Roma people in the above mentioned activities A particular experience was to see the mutual communication of persons, otherwise separated from one another by thousands of kilometres, yet bound by the language of common ancestors, as well as by the experience of similar difficulties in their countries of origin. We believe that this nation of twelve million individuals spread all over the European Union will know how to unite and preserve their culture which is visibly disappearing. Isn't this the project in and of itself? Therefore, not only education, but also the awakening of a cultural identity, political participation, improvement of housing conditions, employment and above all, breaking the stereotypes of the majority nations, will be in the foreground of the projects that will follow. We hope that future projects will be planned and executed by young, educated Roma people themselves. We are promising them herewith our support and assistance. Report of the Co-Financed Projects 69 EQUIVALENT STUDY Coordinator of Development Partnership: University in Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics Title of Development Partnership: Equivalent study Address: Counselling and development student centre, Kardeljeva ploščad 17, 1000 Ljubljana Telephone: +386 (0)1 58 92 590 Fax: +386 (0)1 58 92 698 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Project manager: Jana Pucelj Project contract value: 339,047.60 EUR (81,249,368 SIT) EQUAL funds (75 %): 254,285.70 EUR (60,937,026 SIT) National financing (25 %): 84,761.90 EUR (20,312,342 SIT) Project website: http://www.ef.uni-lj.si/projekti/equaL/ Partners Faculty for Electrotechnics, Computing, and Informatics, University of Maribor; Disabled Students Association of Slovenia; Institute for Rehabilitation of the Republic of Slovenia; Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia; Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia. Trans-national partners Within the framework of trans-national cooperation, we have created the "Equal Possibilities for Students and Graduated Disabled Students" with the trans-national partners "Everything is Possible" (coordinator Paul Erlich Institute, Langen near Frankfurt, Germany) and "Life Skills Program for Mentally Competent Youth and Young Adults with Physical Disabilities" (coordinator United Nation Development Programme from Warsaw, Poland), as well as with the associate partner project DIVERSE, carried out within the framework of the University of London, Great Britain. The trans-national cooperation contributed to the exchange of information and experiences, to the parallel development of innovative plans, the common development of two additional publications in the field of higher education and employment of graduates, as well as to the establishment of channels for the exchange of disabled students, with the strategic aim of encouraging the employment of the disabled science graduates. Project Purpose The mission of the DP Equivalent Study is to search for new solutions to the issues of approaching studies and equalizing the studies of both female and male students with particular needs (disabled persons), preventing the occurrence of leaving school early, and raising the educational level of persons with special needs and consequently, the increase in employability and improvement of conditions for the entry into the labour market for both female and male graduates. Goals The principal objectives of the partnership are: to provide equal opportunities of education to students with particular needs (disabled persons) and consequently to better conditions for the entry into the labour market, to raise the general educational level of young people with special needs, and to increase the employability of students with those particular needs. The development partnership seeks solutions by means of various activities, combining the contributions of partners. The sets of the planned activities (modules) are at the same time the objectives, generating the propositions of models, respectively the solutions in the domain of the ICT - Information and Communication Technology (development of the hyper-media video lecture room), individual ways of studying (initiatives and creation of system solutions, testing of counselling and tutoring models, proposal of the strategy of the advisory office), employment networks, etc. The solutions and execution of the plans to assist disabled students was new to our environment and was interweaved with innovative elements in all domains. Target groups In addition to this, we devoted a lot of time in the course of the implementation and development of the project, to the preparation of methods and initiatives in the form of publications intended for the focus group, pedagogical workers, and decision makers, as well as for the other relevant individuals. By means of different proposals, we called attention to the rights and duties of vulnerable groups of students, and especially to the responsibility of educational institutions to eliminate the physical obstacles and to the adaptation of the study process. The solutions 70 Report of the Co-Financed Projects were taken up in the proposal by the establishment of the advisory office, the implementation of which is foreseen by the completion of the project activities, and which will present the continuation of care for these students within the framework of regular activity. Achieved results Results will be seen by the increased participation of disadvantaged categories in the educational process as a consequence of the development of new integrated programmes of motivation/integration in the educational structures. Results will likewise bee seen with the individual treatment of the needs of disadvantaged individuals, seeking new instruments, and the integration of recommendations into policy and likewise, facilitated passage into the labour market as well as the assurance of finding employment. The solutions developed by the development partnership are transferable also to other areas in the business and social environment, as well as in administrative and government services. It will thus enable education and employment, a higher socialization and integration of persons with particular needs - and an easier integration in the study process besides. There will be an easier integration into the labour market as well. All the solutions and products are created in such a way as to be as useful and integrated as potential and can later be transferable to various levels, among others also to a wider focus group, to all students, and graduates respectively. The partnership has contributed to a spreading of the need for adjustment of study conditions to the needs of disabled students to other schools and universities in Europe and has increased awareness about the needs of these students. A significant contribution, with new initiatives and solutions took place also in the area of mobility and student exchange for those with particular needs. The continuation of the project The motivation and awareness is a significant part of the solutions of the development partnership. The special advisory services and the comprehension of the environmental difficulties will encourage students with particular needs to opt for a continuation and completion of the study. We estimate that the educational level of young people with special needs will increase in other educational institutions as well, simultaneously along with the development and the implementations of these solutions, thus providing them more opportunities while seeking their first jobs and enabling them further off-the-job training, lifelong learning and improvement which was up to now almost inaccessible and which due to a lack of societal understanding, they have to now mostly decided to forego. Report of the Co-Financed Projects 71 UFO Coordinator of Development Partnership: YHD – Association for the Theory and Culture of Handicap Title of Development Partnership: UFO Address: Neubergerjeva 7, 1000 Ljubljana Telephone: +386 (0)1 52 12 277 Fax: +386 (0)1 52 12 288 E-mail: [email protected] Project manager: Katarina Gorenc Project contract value: 375,563.35 EUR (90,000,000 SIT) Equal funds (75%): 281,672.51 EUR (67,500,000 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 93,890.84 EUR (22,500,000 SIT) Project Website: www.yhd-drustvo.si/equal Partners YHD – Association for the Theory and Culture of Handicap; Centre for Non-profit Management; Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia; Faculty for Social Work; Urban Municipality Ljubljana; Centre for Business Education. Trans-national partners 1. HINGE – Handiness and Inclusion as Ground for Equality; Germany: BIBER – Berufliche Integration von Menschen mit Behinderungen in Sachsen-Anhalt; France: AGES ET COMPETENCES : SENIORS, TRAVAILLEURS HANDICAPES – GESTION DES ECARTS; Italy: L.IN.D.A. Lavoro Inclusione e Diverse Abilitŕ. 2. Empower Disabled People in the European Union; Germany: OPEN PATHS – Neue Wager zur Integration behinderter Menschen; Sweden; Tillgänglighet och professionell integrerad scenkonst. Project Purpose The project UNION FOR THE FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES was created following the idea of mutual assistance of various socially marginalized underprivileged groups and above all creating an intensification of the understanding of what individuals are capable of and what they can do with mutual cooperation and aid, and not on emphasizing their handicaps or challenges. The principal guideline of the project was that every person or group at a disadvantage in the labour market can be economically efficient and of interest to the labour market. The development partnership creates models for efficient social and economic policy with the integration and solidarity of various excluded groups in a manner that assures economic and social independence and autonomy. Both feasible and possible are also such positions of employment which can be occupied by people who differ in education and in their skill sets, as well as those with different personal qualities. What especially counts is an interest and motivation for work. The guidance of the project was that the users have the possibility of choice, right and duty of co-decision and creation of the project's policy. In this respect the project surpasses the existing practice and focuses their content on the causes of exclusion of people from the labour market - namely, it does not deal with the physical condition of the body, but with the circumstances and obstructions preventing societal participation for certain categories of people. The project opens new employment opportunities and establishes a new profile of employment, and at the same time, solves urgent issues of social welfare. Thus the needs to which the project tried to find answers are the needs of employment and of the social usefulness of disabled and socially excluded people (providing easier access to the labour market and re-entry into it for those having difficulty with a first or repeated integration). In addition to this, the project has had an empowering effect and strengthening of the power of the integrated individuals, both men and women. Goals Two principal objectives were set at the beginning of the implementation of the project: Objective 1: Creation of a lasting possibility for an independent life for disabled people and the development of the models of empowerment, through the means of the employment of personal assistants, and the creation of new positions of employment respectively, as well as the creation of the job profile and consequently the increase of employment possibilities of those individuals who deal with long-term unemployment. Objective 2: Encouragement of disabled persons to have an active integration in the labour market, which means brokering between job seekers and employers, as well as performance of adequate support services and trainings with the aim to decrease the unemployment level and to provide accessibility to employment positions. 72 Report of the Co-Financed Projects Target groups Job seekers (the young, first-time job seekers, individuals who have been unemployed for long periods of time, women, other marginalized groups excluded from the labour market owing to personal circumstances and discrimination). Disabled persons wanting to find employment in regular employment environments, or to acquire opportunities for work experience, as well as employers who do not consider the disability of individual as an obstacle to the suitability and professional ability for a vacant employment posting. Achieved results Within the framework of the first objective, we performed training with the participation of twenty female and male assistants who were at the same time the participants and co-creators of the module. The result of this activity is the educational module, educational manual, and personal assistant’s code of ethics. The majority of assistants completed their education successfully and received rewards. The manual is comprised of a detailed description of the individual topics of courses, theoretical papers, descriptions of exercises, the manner of implementation and methods of evaluation, and will in future present a rich source of information, of starting points, and past experiences. The professional profile of the personal assistant has been created, and the application for the approval of the profession was filed at the Centre for Vocational Training. The creation of the real and lasting possibility for an independent life foresees a solution within which the rights to the services will be bound to the individual who needs them - in the case of independent life, namely, the right to personal assistance, the management of this need will stay in the hands of the user insofar as possible. In this way this right is best implemented by means of direct financing. This is the domain of the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, and several initiatives were addressed to the Ministry within the framework of the project implementation. The vital part of the focus of the second objective was the promotion of the employment of disabled persons in socalled normal environments. The most visible results of this are promotional spots, which have been broadcast on national and private television stations, as well as a short documentary film on the cases of good practices in the domain of the employment of disabled persons which is part of an international project. We have elaborated the analysis of the legislation regulating the domain of employment; we have cooperated in some international comparative studies in the domain of the employment of disabled persons and initiated the proceedings for acquiring a concession for the performance of the job brokering service. In the employment domain, we elaborated some initiatives, and submitted them to the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, as well as to the Ministry of Public Administration, and the result of this is the decision, and respectively the conclusion of the Ministry of Public Administration, that sixteen employment positions shall be made available within the framework of public administration, namely for the internships for young, disabled job seekers. The innovation of the DP is integrated into various focus groups, co-creating the fundamental concepts of the DP. We, the providers and designers of the project, are part of the focus group as well, thus implementing the principle of self-employment, economic independence and equality in the labour market. At the same time we act also as employers to the group of those who are ranked into the category of people at a disadvantage in the labour market. These are individuals who are employed as personal assistants (women, single mothers, former drug addicts, individuals with a long history of unemployment, and first-time job seekers). This is an approach in which each individual is an important member and co-creator of objectives, having the possibility to influence control over his life. New opportunities for choice are opening and at the same time, public awareness about a changes of values and treatment of individual categories of people is increasing. The continuation of the project After the completion of the project we are going to establish an agency for the employment of disabled people, aiming for easier access to the labour market, in which the tools developed during the course of the development partnership will be applied. We will continue to implement the programme for independent living and do our best to achieve the system regulation of the right to personal assistance. We have developed instruments and propositions, enabling the implementation of this right; however, a bit of political will is still needed for the introduction of this entitlement in legislation. Report of the Co-Financed Projects 73 IN-VALID-IN Coordinator of Development Partnership: OZARA d.o.o. Title of Development Partnership: IN-VALID-IN Address: Ulica heroja Šaranoviča 27, 2000 Maribor Telephone: +386 (0)2 23 80 678 Fax: +386 (0)2 23 80 677 E-mail: [email protected] Project manager: Karmen Šerjak (contents project manager), Mateja Bradeško (financial project manager) Project contract value: 374,987.48 EUR (89,862,000 SIT) EQUAL funds (75%): 281,240.61 EUR (67,396,500 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 93,746.87 EUR (22,465,500 SIT) Web site of the project: http://www.ozara.org/?id=70 Partners: Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Regional Chamber Maribor - active partner; AFTUS Regional Service Maribor - passive partner. Trans-national partners 1. The following partnership was created within the agreement FADIESIS: Italy: FADIESIS Fattoria Didattica di Sviluppo e Inclusione Sociale per giovani disabil; Slovenia: IN-VALID-IN. 2. The following partnership was created within the agreement EXTEND: Ireland: Carlow EQUAL Employment Programme; Austria: RoomyCompany.at; Czech Republic: PENTACOM-Labour Office-Training-Vocational Rehabilitation-Target Groups-Employers; Poland: Związkowa Promocja i Ochrona Równouprawnienia Osób Niepełnosprawnych w Zatrud; Slovenia: IN-VALID-IN. Project Purpose The purpose of the development partnership IN-VALID-IN is the integration of partners with the focus on two key figures in the employment of disabled persons: - The needs of disabled persons - The needs of employers. Goals The principal objectives of the DP IN-VALID-IN are: 1. The establishment of the mobile information unit, covering the region of Maribor and its surroundings in order to provide information to employers and individuals. 2. Creation of a base of at least thirty employers and forty interested disabled persons for the purpose of promotion of at least five positive examples of the employment of disabled persons in the greater Maribor area. 3. Acquiring adequate international experience and skills for the implementation of the responsibilities of a job coach for the employment of disabled persons, as well as the evaluation of these experiences. 4. Re-evaluation and promotion of the national and international experience of the employment of disabled persons by means of trans-national activities within a partnership. 5. Evaluation of the activity from the point of view of key project figures as well as the appropriate promotion. Target groups The focus groups of the DP IN-VALID-IN are: - disabled persons, - employers. Achieved results 1. We have established within the framework of the first objective, a stationary and mobile information unit, both available to disabled persons and to employers. The emphasis is above all on the immediate advisory service, in the majority of cases orienting or facilitating the decision of disabled persons or employers, to approach an institution for which prior to this it was unsure if it would be possible to obtain suitable information, how they will be accepted, and how many times they need to contact them in order to solve a certain problem or difficulty. The two information units thus assure a sufficient scope of information, integration of institutions, as well as accessibility to anyone, regardless of their physical 74 Report of the Co-Financed Projects challenge. The two information units are adapted first of all, to the needs of disabled persons, facilitating access to the labour market, and also providing other associated mechanisms for the continuance of employment, mitigation of social exclusion or integration in the workplace. The information unit also tries to help employers and to discern their needs, regardless of whether these needs are related to new legal opportunities, the adjustment of job posting for a disabled person, creation of new job posts for disabled persons, or difficulties associated to the redeploying of disabled persons or acquiring the status of the social enterprise. 2. Within the framework of the second objective we first wished to state the needs of employers and disabled persons with respect to employment. We tried to extract the following data from the research performed on a certain sample of employers and disabled persons: data on the fundamental needs of employers with respect to the field of providing information about the possible measures, about government stimulation, and forms of employment available to disabled persons, legal possibilities and consequences of employment of a disabled person, and data on understanding the "issues", standpoints, and we also tried to gather proposals for the improvement of employment for disabled persons. Further on, we created a data-base of employers and of disabled persons in order to find 10 positive examples of employment of disabled persons. Some of them will be listed in the manual which is in process of preparation in cooperation with the Italian partners and in compliance with the objectives of the trans-national agreement FADIESIS. 3. For the purpose of the creation of the position of job coach in the framework of the third objective, we joined, in December 2006, the national working group of the Development Centre for the Employment Rehabilitation, charged with the preparation of the standards of knowledge for the practitioners in the domain of support employment, in the framework of which the description of "job coach" should be formed. For this purpose we also used the experiences of our trans-national partners, acquired at trans-national meetings. The profile of job coach has been developing at the national level and will become, by accreditation, a permanent product of the DP IN-VALID-IN. 4. In cooperation with trans-national partners we were able to complete, within the framework of the fourth objective, the plan of acquiring international experience and knowledge of the position of job coach, and we performed an international conference and workshop with the purpose of exchanging experiences and promoting positive examples. Our need for the job coach profile in Slovenia was put forth in the exchange of experiences. 5. The process of validation, set in the framework of the fifth objective, is being performed monthly, and the results and corrections are being correlated within the partnership at meetings of the national partners. The set objectives are the criterion for the evaluation of results: The evaluation will be carried out by the external institution by the end of the project. Several slogans were created for the purpose of promotion, motivating employers and the general public to the absorption on the issues of the employment of and encouraging employment for disabled people. The slogans appear also on some larger products of our promotional material (T-shirts, maps, pamphlets, brochures, etc.), in addition to the logo-type of the development partnership, which appears also on the rest of the promotional products (ball-point pens, magnets for refrigerators, etc.). The following results were also attained in the framework of the DP: twelve trans-national meetings, implementation of the consultation session with the presentation of the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment of Disabled persons Act and the activity of the Fund for Promoting the Employment of the Disabled, implementation of the international conference, dealing with the subjects "Stimulation in the Domain of the Employment of Vulnerable Groups – Stimulation in Practice", implementation of the trans-national workshop on the topics "Good Practices in the Employment of Disabled Persons", two research studies on the topics "Employment of Disabled Persons" (general research for employers), preparation of promotional material, creation of software for monitoring the operation of the mobile and stationary information unit. By means of the integration of the operation of the outside co-workers (PDII - Pension and Disability Insurance Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, SWC - Social Work Centres, LI - Labour Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia, SEA - Slovenian Employers' Association, etc.) and the national partners, within the information office IN-VALID-IN, we try to present answers to employers, disabled persons, and the interested general public, quickly and in an appropriate manner, since better information will surely facilitate access to the labour market for disabled persons, and at the same time the information unit provides employers a supportive mechanism for the assurance of providing information about possible measures, manners, and forms of employment of disabled persons. Report of the Co-Financed Projects 75 A great help is also the internet forum, providing connections to appropriate sites, as well as the possibilities of contacts related to the issues of the employment of disabled persons. The innovative methods and places of information helped us to promote proven successful ways of employment for disabled persons with the aim of eliminating old prejudices. The added value of the project is represented by the mobile and stationary information unit (information office INVALID-IN for the advisory services for disabled persons and employers), as well as the new profile of job coach, which will be introduced into national policy with the mission of assistance in the employment of disabled persons. The continuation of the project The two information units are designed to be a lasting product of the development partnership, and for this reason we are in the middle of actively seeking potential financers who will be willing to finance the operation of units even after the expiration of the project. 76 Report of the Co-Financed Projects (RE)INTEGRATION OF VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING Coordinator of Development Partnership: Association KLJUČ Title of the development partnership: (Re)Integration of Victims of Human Trafficking Address: p. b. 1646, 1001 Ljubljana Telephone: +386 (0)1 23 22 122 Fax: +386 (0)1 23 22 122 E-mail: [email protected] Project manager: Katjuša Kodele Kos Project contract value: 232,799.90 EUR (55,788,167.00 SIT) EQUAL funds (75%): 174,599.93 EUR (41,841,125.25 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 58,199.97 EUR (13,947,041.75 SIT) Project Website: www.equal.si Partners Association KLJUČ; Mercator, Plc.; Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia, and Euro Grafik, ltd. Trans-national partners 1. RP OASI 2: PENISOLA Donne: PErcorsi di Nuova Inclusione SOcio-LAvorativa di donne immigrate 2. RP BEMBEA Project Purpose The purpose of the DP (Re)Integration of Victims of Human Trafficking is to assure access to the labour market and to stop discrimination and inequality of the victims of human trafficking. The (re)integration is comprised of activities with Slovenia as the state of origin, a transition state, and the state of final destination. The solutions in time define the integrated process of the (Re)integration, where we recognize elements, key figures, and the consequences of human trafficking. We prevent human trafficking, offer actual assistance to the victims, enabling them a long-term empowerment, and raise awareness of the general public. The programme of our DP of the (re)integration of the victims of human trafficking is falling under the measure 1 of the EQUAL Initiative – enabling easier access to the labour market for those experiencing difficulties with the integration or reintegration into the labour market. Goals 1. Creation of the (re)integration programme for the victims of trafficking in human beings with the possibilities of the international implementation. 2. Changing of the policy in the field of work, (re)integration of the victims of trafficking in human beings, possibilities and ways of financing. 3. Establishment of a system of exchange of information, methods, instruments, products, and knowledge, at the national and trans-national level. 4. Higher awareness on the part of professionals and the public on the issues of human trafficking in Slovenia. Target groups The concrete work of our DP is focused on the national level, as the (re)integration will be carried out in the territory of the whole country, depending on the residence of persons who will be involved in the (re)integration program and depending on possibility where the (re)integration process could be performed. Of course, this depends on the spreading of a network of organizations, which will be ready to cooperate in the process of work and social (re)integration of the victims. It is mainly educational institutions that represent the pillar of our DP. Achieved results All the set objectives, with the exception of the changing of policy in the area of work and employment of foreigners - victims of the human trafficking in Slovenia, were attained. However, this objective was also attained partially, as through our activities professional exchange of opinion was launched on how to enable the victims [who are foreigners] to acquire adequate work permits while already in the course of their recovery. This is a time during which they still have temporary permission to remain in the country without being obliged to leave Slovenia. With the organization of two round tables on the topics "Changing of the Policy in the Domain of the Employment of Report of the Co-Financed Projects 77 Foreigners - Victims of Human Trafficking " we have come to the conclusion that at the present moment there are no conditions in place for the amendment of legislation related to the acquisition of work permits and residence permits in the cases where the victims are foreigners, owing to the insufficient number of treated cases in Slovenia. The proposals were submitted and that owing to the small number of treated cases of the victims in Slovenia, we should treat and search for a solution separately in each case. We are not favourably inclined to these proposals that abovementioned issues would not be regulated systematically, and we should re-establish contacts at each exchange of political authority and submit reports on the cooperation thus far. The professional opinions of the competent government services are presented in the published proceedings of the round tables. The following products have been developed in the DP of the (re)integration of victims of human trafficking: (re)integration programme for the victims regardless of status (gender, origin, education, experiences, etc.), we established the INFO-point for the victims, base of organizations, ready to cooperate in solving the issues of human trafficking, which will be currently upgraded in the future, web sites Association KLJUČ (www.drustvo-kljuc.si), DP (www.equal.si), and the trans-national partnership (www.equal-openeurope.org). Due to the insufficient number of users integrated in the (re)integration programme (4), we were not able to create the strategy for recording treated cases; however, we thoroughly analysed each case and have thus established a base on which we will gather and analyse all the relevant data in the future. This will be useful in the upgrading and the further development of the already existing (re)integration programme for the victims. As for the introduction of the new professional standard of Peer Counsellor, we file the initiative at the Centre for Vocational Training, where we encountered an extraordinary interest and readiness to assist at the attainment of said product. In June 2007 we had an opportunity to submit our proposals and remarks on the proposal of the national action plan 2008 - 2009 of the Interdepartmental Working Group for the Combat Against Trafficking in Human Beings. Among our suggestions is that the (re)integration programme for the victims should be comitted to writing as one of the priority missions in the national action plan. In July 2007 the government approved the action plan. This means that the government committed itself to the financing of the (re)integration of human-trafficking victims and consequently we have fulfilled one of the set objectives, this is, to provide the continuation of the implementation continuous financing of the (re)integration program after the completion of the PPS EQUAL. The enforcement of the new employment posting of Experience Counsellor (Peer Work Counsellor) has also found its place in the action plan. The Interdepartmental Working Group for the Combat Against Trafficking in Human Beings estimates that the enforcement of the new employment position of Peer Work Counsellor is reasonable and supports the initiative to begin the preparation of the professional standard. The new opportunities of the (re)integration of victims, new methods and work techniques, related to humantrafficking victims, financial stability, higher awareness of the expert and lay public, were set as our main anticipated results, which have also been attained in the duration of the project. The first two results were taken into consideration at the creation of the (re)integration programme. As for the future financial stability and possibility of the continuation of the implementation of the (re)integration of the Human Trafficking victims, the Association KLJUČ we modified the statute of the Association, which facilitates the performance of profitable activities, the profit of which will be intended for the integrated care of the victims (crisis/safety short-term accommodation and (re)integration). We have ascertained that the level of awareness on the issues of human trafficking among the expert public is higher than that of the lay public within the framework of the project EQUAL. This can be demonstrated by the fact that the expert public has been involved in the majority of cases in the attainment of set objectives. The activities of the awareness of the lay public were oriented into the awareness about the existence and implementation of the EQUAL project - (re)integration of human trafficking victims. By means of activities such as seminars, round tables, press conferences, publishing leaflets and expert publications, we tried to raise the level of awareness of both the lay and expert public. We have to emphasize that the activities of raising awareness of the lay public on the issues of human trafficking were performed more intensely in tandem with the EQUAL project in the frame of the other projects of the Association KLJUČ. We may ascertain that the level of awareness of the lay and expert public has been raised considerably, since this was recorded on basis of the appeals for the presentation of the Association and of the issue of human trafficking as well as on basis of calls to the advisory line, invitations to the participations at projects, etc. The innovation was assured by the DP through new methods and techniques of work with victims –innovation by means of the exchange of experiences, creation of the professional profile of Peer Work Counsellor – new qualification, establishment of the INFO-point – new instrument, multi-national (re)integration programme – new 78 Report of the Co-Financed Projects instruments and/or context (creation of a standard for the management of the victims of human trafficking in the area of the (re)integration), elaboration of the strategy of the recording of the treated cases, which would also facilitate international learning from empirical cases. The added value of the programme of the (re)integration is composed of national and trans-national cooperation, contributing an important modification of the efficiency of the work of individual organizations by means of the exchange of knowledge, experience and information, joint work and the development of new tools. The continuation of the project With the creation of the (re)integration programme we were able to unite all the forms of assistance into the whole and gave it the name of integrated care for the victims. In the future we intend to present projects under this name at the national and international level and in this way to provide a continuation of the programme of (re)integration. Report of the Co-Financed Projects 79 SPINUP Coordinator of Development Partnership: SPIN Informatics Engineering Ltd. Title of the development partnership: SpinUP Address: Cesta Goriške fronte 46, 5290 Šempeter pri Gorici Telephone: +386 (0)5 39 34 062 E-mail: [email protected] Project manager: Lilijana Brajlih Project contract value: 292,105 EUR (70,000,000 SIT) EQUAL funds (75%): 219,079 EUR (52,500,000 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 73,026 EUR (17,500,000 SIT) Project Website: www.spinup.si Partners Association Up, Ljubljana; Institute Pelikan – Karitas, Ljubljana; Health Care Centre, Clinic for the Addiction Disturbances, Nova Gorica; Pro-Eco, Ltd., Ljubljana; Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia, Central Service Ljubljana; Ministry of Health, Office for Drugs, Ljubljana (silent partner). Trans-national partners E-ICT (RP Phoenix, France); QualityU” (RP EQ Extra Quality, Italy). Project Purpose The partnership unites national figures area of addiction to forbidden substances and the reintegration of former addicts into every day work and life, the familiarization of users to the qualities and functions of the information society. It is a combination of public and of private, profitable and non-profitable, large and small, and operates in the whole region of the Republic of Slovenia. The partners develop integrated access to the solution of problems of employability of former addicts and homeless women without functional skills for the integration in the information society. The project is being performed due to the enforcement of the particular objectives of the EQUAL programme. The first measure is employability, that is why the project satisfies the needs of users and enables their re-entry into the labour market and corresponds to the criteria of the discipline and the environment in which they are applied. This upgrading will continue even after the end of the program. Goals • • • • • Efficiency of focus groups Efficiency of partnership Better quality of life and new opportunities for the personal development of all Good practice Correct and efficient use of funds Target groups Število vključenih: 91 (63 % moških, 37 % žensk; 18 % mlajših od 25 let, 8 % starejših od 50 let). Zaposlenost ob zaključku projekta: 74 %, 5 vključenih je po enkratni pogodbi delalo v RP SpinUP. Number of included persons: 91 (63 % of men, 37 % of women, 18 % younger than 25 years, 8 % older than 50 years). Employment by the completion of the project: more than 74 % , 5 of included worked in the DP SpinUP. Achieved results • Extranet web site SpinUP and information support to the management of the project SpinUP: The web site is the virtual image of the implementation of the DP SpinUp and is one of the highest quality, stable and safe extranet solutions for the group work support. The partnership deals with more rational work, centralized information and documentation archiving system and assures a decrease of faults, better 80 Report of the Co-Financed Projects traceability and control, and eventual action. • LMS SITOS – adjustment to the learning schedule ECDL and upgrading of-contents: The first horizontal priority of the Equal project group is the development of the information society. The ICT - Information and Communication Technology is permanently present in the project SpinUP in the form of various solutions, and the most important among them, especially for focus groups, is e-learning. The DP has enriched the project greatly - a web site and the multi-media material in Slovene, prepared in compliance with the international standard for the acquiring of Approved status. The electronic contents, published at the learning web site SITOS at the beginning of the training implementation were not supported by additional explanation, which was indeed a deficiency of the system. This is being remedied by the upgrading of lectures in the form of quality support and assistance to the e-learner. The additional lectures can be printed. • The methodology of the implementation learning adjustment to the focus group, the Blended Learning, video conference, and other advanced education methods. These include the understanding of specific characteristics of focus groups, and an obligatory involvement in the learning process. Even learning from bad experience can be a good practice in the course of the development and testing of new accessions. It is also required to foresee additional training of producers and education providers. The range of these accessions has become a new practice, recommendable to the policies. The recent trends in the area of information society are one of the key composite parts of the project SpinUP. The request for new programs from the members of the project group and from the providers assure the acquirement of new knowledge and skills, assurance of the appropriate equipment of partners, familiarization of focus groups with different methods of work and learning, etc. New programs shall not be imposed at cost and the opportunity shall be acquired and given, is the key message of this innovation. • The manuals for learning according to the programme ECDL (Approved): New manuals were prepared in the course of implementation, based on adequate instructions and in compliance with the learning schedule ECDL. The appraisal of the consistency of the material with the learning schedule in Slovenia can be submitted only by the Slovenian association Informatika. See also the added value, etc. • The recognition of informal education: Within the DP SpinUP, the focus groups and other learners (partners) were included in the informal education, which should be adequately and comparatively evaluated, as recommended also by the Memorandum EU on life-long learning (2000). We have prepared the presentation of the state of the evaluation of informal education in our country, as well as the possibilities for improvement. • The e-service of the mutual assistance of focus groups for seeking employment: Based on a new understanding of work with the focus groups, we developed the product starting from the initial idea (elaboration of the model of the e-advisory service at job seeking), from the advisory service "partnership - focus group" to the three-fold advisory service and assistance (the focus groups help each other in the area of seeking employment ). • The methodology of the development of e-content in Slovenian: The development of the e-contents is a new activity, demanding appropriate professional and technical mechanisms; one of the most important is the methodology of the preparation and development of quality e-contents. The partners were looking for solutions for technical requirements and possibilities, the qualification of human resources, accessibility to experts, actual need in the labour market … Thus, not only the methodology of the development of e-contents was created, but also the model of new e-content in Slovenian (web site www.spinup.si). • The internet application of HRM, www.spin.si/4learning/, methodology of the motivation of focus groups, preparation of the lecturer (coach, assistant, mentor) for teaching (standard ECDL CTP), workbooks according to the programme ECDL, a catalogue of knowledge of the reporter to the management body, stigmatisation of focus groups in the labour market, exchange of good practice of the integration of focus groups in the society and in the labour market in the trans-national partnership, methodology of the self-evaluation, technical equipment of partners. Project added value: • Good practice: The partnership SpinUP, the providers and focus groups, dispense new knowledge and experiences, acquired through the use of the innovative approaches and technologies. The information solutions, recognitions, and materials, present a good foundation both for the new common achievements, as well as for individual ones. • Impact on policies: Special added-value is present in learning materials according to the programme ECDL. The partnership proposes to the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, that AFTUS should use these materials from now on, when implementing the programmes of AEP for the unemployed, which could help to achieve better quality of learning, uniformity of learning accessories, more efficient traceability, and more Report of the Co-Financed Projects 81 economic use of the taxpayers´ funds. • Employment of focus groups: The focus groups were enabled to participate actively in the partnership activities of. Four former addicts proved themselves as successful mentors for the participants of the training, one of them designed the manual cover . They all received payment for their work from project funds. The continuation of the project Many of the persons, involved in the project wish additional training in the form of specialization for working in the information society. In this way, new opportunities would open for former addicts who are victims of stigmatisation in the labour market since for instance, as private entrepreneurs and/or providers of services at home/e-work , they would not in the position to encounter unequal treatment by employers who would be full of doubts and suspicions regarding their employees - former drug addicts. 82 Report of the Co-Financed Projects DAYCARE CENTER “MOST” Coordinator of Development Partnership: Regional development centre d.o.o., Zagorje ob Savi Title of the development partnership: Daycare Centre “MOST” Address: Podvine 36, 1410 Zagorje ob Savi Telephone: +386 (0)3 56 60 500 Fax: +386 (0)3 56 60 510 E-mail: [email protected] Project manager: MSc Tadeja Nimac Project contract value: 273,114.44 EUR (65,449,144 SIT) EQUAL funds (75%): 204,835.83 EUR (49,086,858 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 68,278.61 EUR (16,362.286 SIT) Project Website: Partners Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia through the Regional Service; Library Mile Klopčič, Zagorje ob Savi; Occupational Activity Centre Zagorje ob Savi (withdrawal on 20.05.2005); Sports Association Izlake; Zasavska Institute for Adult Education Zasavje, Trbovlje; Regional Chamber of Craft Hrastnik, and Knowledge Promotion Centre , CPZ International, Ltd., Ljubljana. Trans-national partners Partners within the framework of TCA P.I.E.S.: RP OPCAOVAL, A.N.E. – Associacao Nacional das Empresarias, Porto. Partners within the framework of TCA EURO-SIGNAL: DP SIG.NET, NETwork New Employment in the District of SIGmaringen, Landratsamt Sigmaringen; DP EQUAL IN RED, D.G. Fomento de Empleo, SEVILLA; RP E LE CHANGE, Consorzio Sociale Agor, Genova. Project Purpose The purpose of the programme of the Daycare Centre MOST is to add new value and consequently increase the quality of assistance to those persons dealing with long-term unemployment, to draw unemployed persons out of a state of apathy and passivity and to offer them continuous expert assistance, as well as to upgrade competitiveness in the labour market through various educational courses and training adapted to the actual labour market conditions. Also, the project will help to enable assistance for unemployed persons in the overcoming the impact of the long-term unemployment on the cognitive, emotional, motivational, and especially in the social field, as well as to establish more efficient communication and connections between key figures in the labour market. Goals The objectives of the programme are the long-term decrease of unemployment in the region (Zasavje region) and the creation of a more helpful assistance for the unemployed. Target groups Weekly or if required even more frequent individual advisory services were available to the forty-two participants, unemployed young persons from the Zasavje region, who were up to 26 years and two months of age, registered at the Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia. Achived results The DP programme was oriented to the personal assistance to the individual job seeker. This resulted from the neo-constructivist approach, that is, it respected the advanced approaches of assistance, and was oriented towards the remedying of unemployment issues of the particular individual and his particular situation. Within the scope of the programme we introduced to each participant the situation in the labour market and tried to assist him in facing his own situation in the labour market - lack of knowledge, abilities, and skills. We have tried, together with the participants already within the scope of the programme, to compensate for these capability deficiencies to the greatest degree possible, for instance, with practical training for the occupation of accountant and for book-keeping and accounting work, with courses in foreign languages, with the application of the ICT, with the preparation for examination of the General Administrative Procedure Act, as well as with professional Report of the Co-Financed Projects 83 education and the integration in the national vocational qualifications, with the completion of education, and with pre-qualifications. During period of the programme, the participants could conduct their job search using materials available to them at the so called employment office of the DP Daycare Centre MOST. These materials included computers with internet access and a printer, the daily newspapers Delo and Dnevnik, free use of the telephone, envelopes with stamps, lists of vacant positions of the Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia, etc. According to the opinion of the DP these are the basis material conditions, required by unemployed persons for an active job search. For the participants of the programme we also performed activities, intended to motivate, activate, and encourage social integration, namely: sports, computer and study-reading clubs, sports days, training, workshops, and other social events, which proved to be an important support in the advisory process. We have recorded an 83,3% of effectiveness at the individual level, for those involved in the programme (employments and integrations in the education, completion of qualification, pre-qualifications). The basic product, created in the course of the programme of the DP, was the Model of the individual approach to the provision of the assistance for the unemployed in the process of seeking employment, grounded on the concept of the current attitudes in social work and the modern approaches of assistance, the second product, closely related to the first one, is the competency model. In the product Model of ascertainment and measurement of the competences of unemployed persons we defined those competences, which are required by employers in the labour market. We have named them the key competences for a successful life and employment. For the purpose of the assessment of the competences of the individual unemployed person, we prepared a special self-evaluating questionnaire - a tool for the employment counsellor in the assessment of the abilities of the unemployed person. For the successful balancing of inquiries and offers in the labour market it is required to know both the abilities of the unemployed persons (respectively, job seekers), and also the competency profiles of the employment positions, which will be of interest in the labour market. Within the scope of the programme we were, together with the participants, looking for potential employers who would be willing to employ the participants of the program. We contacted them and cooperated with them in order to provide to the participants some means of employment through the use of target training, respectively, by means of training activities without working relations. Within the programme we tried to accommodate and to equalize as far as possible the skill set of the individual job seekers with the requirements of employment positions, available in the (regional) labour market. Unfortunately the interest of the employers in this collaboration was below our expectations. In the development partnership Daycare Centre Most we could ascertain reasons for the poor cooperation and communication between the key participants in the labour market, while the foreseen system of the circular and the feed back communications could not be established. In the course of the period of the implementation of the programme with the young persons from the Zasavje region it was discovered that active communication between employers and job seekers, as well as the support of the labour market and educational institutions is very important, as it can contribute to the faster recognition and balancing of the deficits in the skill sets of job seekers. These findings were proven also by the experience and the results of the development partnership PPS EQUAL MLAB, which was coordinated by the company BSC from Kranj, and with which we cooperated during the implementation of the project in the national topic network. Similar findings about the necessity of cooperation between the key participants of the labour market are the fundamental knowledge also of the two-year transnational cooperation with the development partnership EQUAL Opcaoval.pt from Portugal (TCA P.I.E.S., we cooperated also in TCA EURO-SIGNAL). The common objective of the two development partnerships was to seek innovative approaches and structures which will promote the balancing of the labour market and create a culture of dialogue between the key participants of the labour market. When making the decision of the trans-national cooperation in compliance with the TCA P.I.E.S., we have written a common statement, intended for the competent ministries of both states, for the general public, and also for the European Commission, in respect to the uniform guidelines of the employment policy in the Union, stating among other things: “The concern for addressing the unemployment problem is the common concern of the country, employers, the active population, educational organizations, and not least, also of the local governments”. The development partnership has developed, in addition to the aforementioned product, also the Model of the management of the advisory process in the domain of the employment of drug addicts, which was prepared together with the development partnership Feniks (the coordinator was the Institute Vir Celje) within the scope of the National topic network EQUAL, Employment and drug addicts. This was our response to the present inadequate condition, especially to the current advisory access for unemployed persons to the Employment Service 84 Report of the Co-Financed Projects of the Republic of Slovenia, which, for many reasons and the current efficient assistance afforded to drug addicts when this process could be resolved more intensely. At the same time, the establishment of the inter-institutional and inter-departmental cooperation in Slovenia is still weak for the time being, (in addition to the Employment Service, there are also centres for social work, health care, and rehabilitation programmes). The additional product of the development partnership is also Proposal for the initiative for the acquirement of the national vocational qualification of the profession of job advisor, which could gradually become an individual approach of the practice of the employment advisory services in Slovenia. The continuation of the project The partners of the EQUAL development partnership and the national topic network will be actively included in the preparation of the catalogue of knowledge and professional standards which will be the continuation of the common efforts for a higher quality advisory service for unemployed persons in Slovenia even after the expiration of the programme. After the expiration of the programme we will do our best to transfer the programme into practice, above all with the continuation of the activity of the “employment office” for all unemployed persons in the individual municipality, which should become a minimum standard, meant for each unemployed person as a fundamental assistance for actively seeking employment. We also wish to continue with the establishing of contacts in the system of the quality communication between the key participants in the labour market. Report of the Co-Financed Projects 85 M-LAB Coordinator of Development Partnership: BSC Business Supportive Centre d.o.o. Title of Development partnership: M-LAB Address: Cesta Staneta Žagarja 37, 4000 Kranj Telephone: +386 (0)4 28 17 230 Fax: +386 (0)4 28 17 249 E-mail: [email protected] Project manager: Franja Gabrovšek Project contract value: 312,848.44 EUR EQUAL funds (75%): 234,636.3 EUR National co-financing (25%): 78,212.11 EUR Project Website: www.m-lab.si Partners The Students' Organization of the Faculty of Organizational Sciences in Kranj; Educational Centre Vedi; Šent – Slovenian Association for Mental Health; Institute Jelša – Centre for Education, Training, and Rehabilitation; Municipality Jesenice; Urban Municipality Kranj; Iskraemeco, Plc.; Merkur – trade and services, Plc., Naklo; Naredi sam, Oblič, wooden production and trade, Ltd.; Sava, company for management and financing, Plc.; Centre for Social Work Tržič within the coordination of SWC-Social Work Centres for Gorenjska region; Regional Chamber of Craft Kranj; Institute for Adult Education Radovljica; Institute for Adult Education Kranj; Institute for Adult Education Jesenice; Development Agency Sora, Ltd.; Development Agency of Zgornja Gorenjska region; Faculty for Organizational Sciences Kranj; Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia; Regional Service Kranj; Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Entrepreneurship and Foreign Investments; Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Regional Chamber of Gorenjska region; Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of Slovenia CAFS – Institute Kranj; Municipality Škofja Loka. Trans-national partners Trans-national partnership S.A.F.E.: Spain: IBN Arabi, Austria: Generation 19 +, France: One area, various partners, one path towards employment, Italy: Consortio Nova Leisure incubator + Leisure agency. Project Purpose The purpose and the principal objective of the partnership is the establishment of a new model of employment for young people, M-LAB, an integrated programme of motivation, direction, and integration in work, uniting and connecting regional partnership (non-governmental organizations, companies, local communities, institutes for adults education, social partners, public institutions, and development agencies) and including the focus population of young people. We wish to raise employment opportunities for young people, to enlarge their social integration, to reduce unemployment, and to contribute to the establishment of the regular instrument for quicker and continual passage of young people to the labour market by means of the proposals to upgrade national policies and with the development of new methods and work forms, combined with work experience in companies. Goals • Establishment and strengthening of the regional development partnership for the alternative employment of young people. • Evaluation of the analysis of the current needs and situation of young people, as well as of the supportive environment • Development of the alternative/ integral/ network model of the employment of young, M-LAB, on the principle of motivation – direction – advisory services – integration into work • Examination of the M-LAB model in practice • Provision of the transfer of experiences within the scope of the trans-national partnership and national networks • Provision of the continuance of the system and the transfer of the model into national policies Target group The development partnership M-Lab is a response to the issues of the youth unemployment in the Gorenjska region. Over the course of the preparatory period we created, within the partnership, four project groups, who prepared 86 Report of the Co-Financed Projects the analysis of the conditions and the proposals for solutions among the focus groups of young people, namely, of the young people in the black labour market, women, persons with health and social disabilities, and young graduates. Similar needs were manifested at all focus groups of the potential candidates for the integration in the project M-LAB. Young people frequently do not have enough work experience or adequate work practice, therefore employers are unwilling to employ them since there is a sufficient number of qualified, experienced workers available. This is especially true in the case of occupations which exist in excess of the demand of the labour market. Considering the performed analysis and proposals, the development partnership decided to develop a model and to implement it by piloting a focus group of unemployed young graduates, aged 19 to 35 years, with at least a fifth degree of education, with sub-groups of young women, young people working in the black, and under-employed people. Achieved results The developed alternative/integral/network employment model of young M-LAB people: • Development of the information system www.m-lab.si: internet and intranet, possibilities of logging-on to an internet site, documents for the work M-LAB-mentors and coordinator • Development of the animation and information system of young people: implementation of the animation campaign and the establishment of info-points over the whole Gorenjska region (performed workshop for infopoints, where young people received the basic information on the project, possibilities of integration, promotion material, etc.).The model of evaluation of the capacities of young people, the preparation of a questionnaire on basis of which was demonstrated what young people need, besides work experience and motivation. There was also an individual approach, additional functional skills, assistance in the discovery of employment objectives, and choosing their employment paths, familiarization and advisory services about opportunities already existing in the labour market, as well as the assistance at the entering in contacts with potential employers. • The concept of M-LAB-centres with the employment mentors for young people (at the Institute for the Education of Adults in Jesenice, VICC- Vocational Information and Counselling Centre in Kranj, Development Agency SORA in Škofja Loka): integration of candidates, interviews, individual follow-up, referral to interviews in companies, searching for new companies following the principle of the offer of qualifications and skills to candidates involved in the project, preparation of the documentation for companies for the integration in the project M.LAB, intermediate solving of conflicts, etc. In the course of the implementation of the project we first performed the training for the employment mentors of the M-LAB in the workshops with the content related units: Advisory work with adults (graduates), Motivation, Portfolio, Career Schedule, Collecting Map, Evaluation of the Capacities of Young People, as well as the Concept and Course of the M-LAB, and the qualification of twelve mentors for work with young people. The three-month training period of youth in job posts within companies was performed on basis of the prepared mentor schedules for the particular employment position: expert co-worker for the development of rural environment, colourist– introducer of the spectrophotometer, counsellor, salesman, cosmetician – beautician (2x), accountant, worker in catering activity (2x), administrator, product manager, insurance agent, expert for rural development, book-keeper (2x), assistant of the manager of the advisory centre, independent sales accountant, accounting referee, book keeper – business counsellor, technologist. A group of twenty-three young people was created and who took an active part in workshops: Entrepreneurship – challenges, opportunities, traps, dilemmas, Business plan – basis for every successful business, Generating of business ideas, Marketing, Analysis of market and marketing opportunities, Action sales plan, Economics of business conduct, Reading and analysis of balance sheets, Management and business conduct, Human resource planning in a company, Commercial law, Communication and rhetoric, Business negotiations/ presentation of business idea, Presentation of business plans, Assessment of business plans with the lecturer's advice. The young participants created business plans and presented them by the end of the project, and were offered opinions on their business ideas from the experts. Three of the participants of the training became self-employed during the course of the project. During the three-day workshop, entitled "European Project Management" the participants acquired knowledge in the domain of operation of the programmes of the European Union, preparation of projects, and establishing a project partnership, project implementation, modification and evaluation of obtained results. The workshop "Preparation of Personal Portfolio" showed young people the workings of the National Professional Qualifications (NPQ) and the practical cases of portfolio modelling. Project added value: The model M-LAB established, on the territory, three M-LAB centres, where qualified experts Report of the Co-Financed Projects 87 were presenting the meeting point between candidates and potential employers and provided assistance and expert advice to candidates and employers. The model M-LAB is distinguished also by a clearly established cooperation with employers and the clear positioning of experiences and "inexperience" of the young and informal skills, as well as the connection of the capabilities of young people with exactly defined job posts, where the threemonth training was carried out under the guidance of qualified mentors within companies. In addition to this, the MLAB offered young people the opportunity for self-employment which is considered an important element of knowledge and growth of the employment/self-employment opportunities of young people. The continuation of the project By means of the developed innovative instruments, methods, and measures, in the course of the pilot implementation, the M-LAB proved as a quality foundation for remedying the issues of employment/selfemployment of young people in the region and could be transferred to other regions as well and adapted to work with other focus groups. 88 Report of the Co-Financed Projects KNOWLEDGE IS POWER Lifelong Learning For All (raising awareness and information) Coordinator of DP: Emines d.o.o. Title of DP: Knowledge is Power- Lifelong Learning For All (raising awareness and information) Address: Taborska cesta 3, 1290 Grosuplje Telephone: +386 (0)1 46 33 151 Fax: +386 (0)5 99 38 463 E-mail: [email protected] Project Head: Matjaž Kušar Contracting value of project: 348,528.13 EUR (83,521,280 SIT) Sources of EQUAL (75%): 261,396.09 EUR (62,640,960 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 87,132.03 EUR (87,132.03 SIT) Project Website: www.mojasoseska.si Partners: Hribar and Ga-Ga, d. n. o.; Kompas Design, d. d.; Murgelj Franc Fritz, s. p.; Ecetera, d. o. o.; Ilumino, Visual Communications, Zlatko Levačič, s. p.; Employment Service of Slovenia; Ksantipe, d. o. o.; Založba Izolit, d. o. o.; Alenka Bergant, s. p.; Iksiv, d. o. o.; Cebram, d. o. o. Trans-national partners: DP Knowledge is power cooperates in three trans-national partnerships, as follows: 1. DAWN (Disadvantaged at Work Now): Italy (Padova), Hungary 2. POPE (Power of Promotion of Empowerment): Italy (Bari), France 3. YOUTHLINKS: Lithuania, Holland, Sweden Project Purpose Qualitative and mass education of adults is an important developmental factor of every nation. Lifelong learning contributes to the balancing of relationships in the labour market, the improvement of a national educational and cultural level, an increase of the quality of life and the prevention of alienation of some groups within the population. Therefore, it is necessary that lifelong learning is accessible to all. Accessibility of education depends on educational infrastructure, appropriate education and training programs, additional measures of encouraging the engagement of life-long learning, and, essentially, on keeping the general population informed. The government has already developed and continues to develop various measures and programs in order to afford easier access to lifelong learning. Too often, however, these measures fail to attain all the anticipated results and reach target groups. Essential problems are: lack of awareness of each individual regarding the significance of lifelong learning, lack of awareness of each individual on co-responsibility for his or her own professional career, being poorly informed of the possibilities which are at their disposal, lack of information for those who should be most urgently involved in lifelong learning, absence of motivation of individuals with the poorest employment opportunities and too little attention paid by employers to the subsequent education and training of employees. Therefore, along with the partners of developmental partnership, we have decided to try to fill in the aforementioned gaps through this project by means of establishing a model for informing, raising awareness and increasing motivation. Goals Broader goals of developmental partnership: • To increase the share of participation of target groups in education and training • To increase employment opportunities of target groups Specific goals of developmental partnership: • To ensure access to information for all target groups • To ensure counseling for all target groups • To motivate target groups to engage in the labour market Report of the Co-Financed Projects 89 • Raising employer awareness about the importance of lifelong learning of all employees and of the influence of standing education and training of employees regarding growth, productivity and competitiveness of the company • Informing the broader public about all developmental partnerships which shall be co-financed through the EQUAL Incentive as well as of their results Target groups The main target groups are: employees with a low level of education, an older active population, people with low incomes, handicapped persons, young dropouts, individuals who have been unemployed for a significant period of time, older workers, employers and the broader public. Achieved results The model of informing, raising awareness and motivation of individual target groups in the field of lifelong learning, employment and social engagement as an innovation establishes an effective use of media. Therefore, a regular radio show has been established within the framework of this project, which was upgraded by publishing on the web portal – media of the future. Throughout the project, we combined all the main participants and all essential information in one spot, accessible to everybody, including the most vulnerable groups in the labour market. Information was presented in a comprehensive manner through informal communication. In this way, the listener is gradually encouraged – through relaxed passive listening – towards an active follow-up and later into action. “Public animators” were included in the shows – the persons who have a credible public reputation and motivate others through their own example. The show “My Neighbourhood – Knowledge is Power” was followed by 70,000 to 90,000 listeners through national Radio Val 202 every Saturday, which on average represents 40 percent of audience presence of the entire population. The achieved results are 100 radio shows, web portal www.mojasoseska.si and newspaper articles as well as the brochure. Through 100 radio shows, we spread information on selected topics from the fields of education, training and social engagement. In an interesting way, using a relaxed speaker as well as professional guests, we presented the target groups with different spheres of work, responsibilities and, last but not least, the advantages of performing each individual profession. We spoke about counseling services in the field of professional orientation as well as the significance of raising employer awareness about the importance of lifelong learning for all employees and the influence of a solid, modern education and training on growth, productivity and the competitiveness of the company. We spoke about education, training and employment abroad. We presented foreigners who are receiving their education and who work in Slovenia. In cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Sport, we discussed novelties brought by the school year 2007/2008, as well as the programs and projects, enabled by the Ministry (centers for independent learning, stock market of knowledge, study clubs…). With the support of the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs we presented the target groups with different programs of education (Program 10,000), training (of unemployed, employed, Phare Program for computer literacy, etc). We showed different possibilities of training, education and employment of special groups (handicapped individuals, drop-outs, etc.). The list of discussed topics is vast, for it covered 50 hours of radio time. For those who expressed interest, we’ve published the summaries of radio shows at web portal www.mojasoseska.si and in the brochure “My Neighbourhood – Knowledge is Power”. “My Neighbourhood – Knowledge is Power” is not only the radio show at Radio Slovenia. Cooperation in transnational partnerships enabled presentations of experiences and good practices in other countries. Cooperation in the field of promotion of lifelong learning, therefore, takes place also over the border and is interweaved not only with neighboring countries, but even broader and more globally, all with the purpose of increasing employment of at-risk target groups and a promotion of knowledge, for there is power in knowledge. The contin u a t ion of the proje c t A verified model for informing, raising awareness and motivation could be exercised also after the end of cofinancing by EQUAL Incentive, for it upgrades the existing practices and reaches a broad circle of the Slovene population. As such, it represents one of key elements of development of the culture of lifelong learning in Slovenia. 90 Report of the Co-Financed Projects DP FENIKS Coordinator of DP: VIR Institution – Drug Addiction Prevention and Drug Users Rehabilitation Title of DP: DP Feniks Address: Vrunčeva 9, 3000 Celje Telephone: +386 (0)3 49 00 024 Mobile telephone: +386 (0)31 288 827 Fax: +386 (0)3 49 00 025 E-mail: Project Head: Karmen Bailat, Project Guardian Contracting value of project: 205,516.61 EUR (49,250,000 SIT) Sources of EQUAL (75%): 154,137.46 EUR (36,937,500 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 51,379.15 EUR (12,312,500 SIT) Project Website: Partners Public Health Institute Celje; The Secondary School of Economics in Celje; The Police Directorate in Celje; Pivovarna Laško, d. d.; Unior Zreče, d. d.; The City Municipality of Celje; Employment Service of Slovenia, OS Celje. Trans-national partners TCA – Back on Track – Creating Equal Opportunities for Disadvantaged Youngsters: Holland: DP Drop outs can learn, naturally; Slovenia: DP Day Center MOST. Employment and addicts, Slovenia: DP Day Center MOST; Project Purpose The purpose of the project was to improve the present situation about knowledge of drugs and addiction among professional workers on the local level and by using innovative approaches, strive for efficient changes in the direction of ensuring the equality of the target group. Goals Through lifelong learning we wished to appropriately raise the awareness of the general public and warn about discrimination against drug users and those who are close to them who have found themselves in the world of drugs. At the same time, the purpose was to influence the economy and politics as well as to actively intervene in the adaptation of existing actions of the mentioned structures. The specific goals are also: to discover new methods in the struggle against discrimination and inequality in the labour market of the target group made up of users of illegal drugs; to raise awareness, inform and notify the general public about the burning issues as well as to raise the level of knowledge about drugs and addiction among professional workers through the activities of lifelong learning; to freshen legal acts in school or at work with partners and to prepare appropriate proposals which will give drug users the opportunity to be included in various rehabilitation programs under certain conditions and in this manner prevent job loss or loss of student status; to take care of the promotion of products and a heterogeneous offer of programs, projects for target groups, as well as to notify and inform the general, specific and professional public about the situation in connection with drugs, serious problems as well as other issues; to permanently measure the results of executed plans of the activities and applications of created products, which dictates appropriate and effective cooperation in the net of professional workers on the local, national and TN-level; to take care of coordination of all the activities and obligations among national partners in DP Feniks; on TN-level: to learn good practices, exchange experience and take care of coordination and execution of scheduled activities and obligations among TN-partners. Target group The coordinator derived a base target group from those that are directly involved and discriminated against. It is composed of a group of treated individuals, users of illegal drugs and addicts. An indirect group is represented by professional workers from three spheres – professional, economy based and political, who were invited to plan the Report of the Co-Financed Projects 91 programs and activities through DP partners. Within Project Feniks itself, professionals of various professions who are connected with the target group of people involved in the world of drugs, create the direct target group. It was discovered that professionals in the work sphere do not have enough appropriate knowledge regarding the above-mentioned field for engagement in the proceedings. Achieved results Products from the field of lifelong learning for professionals: • Mirror – the cycle of educational workshops on the topic of drugs – product of the coordinator of DP Feniks. o Three pilot performances and inclusion into a common product NTM – Employment and addicts • Drugs Are No Game – product of the coordinator of DP Feniks; one informative workshop, directed towards the partners or the seat of the coordinator. • New Challenges for the Employed – product of the coordinator of DP Feniks and The Public Health Institute of Celje – partner of the DP; a cycle of educational workshops regarding various hot topics in society: drugs, mental health, eating disorders, stress, alcohol abuse, and others. • Informative Education – product of the coordinator of DP Feniks from the field of drug rehabilitation program– adapted education, which is specifically created for every target group who could require such a presentation including a lecture and workshop (also time limited). • Products from the field of adaptation. • The Unit Partner – cooperation between the law-enforcement agency (The Police Directorate in Celje) and the program of drug rehabilitation (VIR Institution) – offering some assistance to those dealing with legal offences connected to the use of illegal drugs with the additional possibility of re-entrance into normal life. Along with this, informative education for police officers took place. • The change of internal legal acts in order to achieve a more appropriate treatment of the worker or student – coordinator of DP in partnership with working organization Pivovarna Laško, d.d. and The Secondary School of Economics in Celje – we strived to reach a more equal treatment of individuals who have slipped into the world of drugs, with the opportunity of rehabilitation under special conditions and reintegration without the loss of job or student status. We achieved a change of the act and amendment of the articles in economic organization as well as preparation of the proposals of the changes to the act in school which shall most likely be included in the year 2008. • Guidelines for the written strategy for drugs and addiction in The City Municipality of Celje – Along with the partners The City Municipality of Celje, The Public Health Institute Celje, the coordinator of DP Feniks prepared the guidelines for a more appropriate political strategy regarding drugs and addiction at the local level of the city municipality. The coordinator conducted an opinion poll and presented the results of the poll in the guidelines. Fourteen institutions were invited to participate in the research, which, at the moment, deal with the problems of drugs and addiction in The City Municipality of Celje. The project incentive shall probably be dealt with during the session of the City Council of The City Municipality of Celje in November 2007. • NTM – Employment and addicts – partnership with DP DC Most (measure 1) and DP Feniks (measure 5) – the product was prepared because of a clearly expressed need to solve the serious problems of employment, work, methods of treatment and approaches to the population with regards to the field of illegal drugs. The product was performed extremely successfully in Celje at the Employment Service of Slovenia OS Celje, partner of DP Feniks. • Products from the field of informing and notifying the public. • Organization and participation in different events at the local, national and TN-level with mostly active participation of the coordinator of DP Feniks. • An active cooperation with the media by giving interviews, publishing newspaper articles, issuing public statements, etc. • Performance for the promotion for providing better information , awareness of professionals and the general public with transparent and permanent contact with the media – preparation of materials: fold-outs for the products of education, fold-outs of the Feniks project, fold-outs of the basic program, business cards, documents, brochures, etc. in both Slovene and English. • Preparation of different presentations in Power Point form and in printed versions of the documents for different target groups regarding the needs of DP Feniks, government agency – Ministry of Labour, Family and 92 Report of the Co-Financed Projects Social Affairs in Slovenia and ECDB in the EU. • Permanent work with domestic web page as well as work intended for EQUAL and DP Feniks. The continuation of the project Especially for its innovation all products of DP Feniks have great opportunities to spread quickly on the local, national and some in TN-level, under conditions of appropriate support. Products of education are permanent and can spread. They can be modified with regards to the needs of a specific target group. The needs of the environment are clearly expressed. In order to continue professionally, some new sources of financing will have to be found. The products of changes of legal acts in working organization Pivovarna Laško d.d. – partner of the DP were quickly applied to the valid legal act, against expectations. The continuation in the direction of preparation of additional acts regarding treatment of the worker – employee, as well as in the direction of the method of control over drugs in the work place is already agreed. We started to cooperate with the law enforcement agency, the Police Directorate in Celje at the beginning. Despite the readiness of the leadership, evaluations, those seeking reasons and adaptations in each case the Unit Partner did not come to life as such. Therefore, we chose completely a different path and approached individual police stations, where the response was great and satisfactory from the commanders as well as police officers in the field. By all means, a continuation is ensured and in this manner also a constructive, transparent and very collegial relationship with all the agencies of the Police Directorate Celje. Report of the Co-Financed Projects 93 SINTEZA Coordinator of Development Partnership: RACIO SOCIAL, Institution for the Development of Social and Employment Programs The title of Development Partnership: SINTEZA Address: Kersnikova ulica 19, 3000 Celje Telephone: +386 (0)3 42 85 060 Fax: +386 (0)3 42 85 065 E-mail: [email protected] Project Head: Tatjana Dolinšek, MA Contracting value of the project: 286,888.67 EUR (68,750,000 SIT) Sources of EQUAL (75%): 215,166.50 EUR (51,562,500 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 71,722.17 EUR (17,187,500 SIT) Project Website: http://www.zavod-ips.si/si/equal/index.html Partners ZIPS, The Alliance of Companies Employing Disabled People of Slovenia; CRI Celje, Rehabilitation, Production, Services, d. o. o.; DDS, The Muscular Dystrophy Association of Slovenia; ZDIS, The Federation of Disabled Workers of Slovenia; ŽELVA, Company for Training and Employment of Disabled Persons, d. o. o.; ANIMACIJA, d. o. o.; IPP, Company Employing the Disabled, d. o. o.; IC Štore, Educational Center Štore, d. o. o.; DART, Human Resources Development, Services and Production, d. o. o., Lendava; The Institute for Rehabilitation of Slovenia. Trans-national partners DP Sinteza is a partner in the trans-national partnership EN-POWER, which unites two more development partnerships from Italy (DP F. L. E. S. and DP Investing in people), one from France (DP O. D. E.) and one from Holland (DP EMU – PASS). Project Purpose Companies employing the disabled play an important role in the field of the employment of the disabled and other vulnerable groups in Slovenia. Currently there are one hundred sixty-six and they have to employ at least 40 % of disabled individuals. Educational structure in companies employing the disabled is fairly low: more than one third of employees may or may not have finished elementary school, approximately the same number of employees have only finished two- or three-year vocational school. This influences the competitive ability of companies employing the disabled in the market significantly. By means of networking cooperation and connecting the partners on the national and trans-national level, we have engaged in developing, testing and building conditions for the establishment of the model of life-long learning, personal and professional development of individuals and supporting measures, as a remedy against the above-mentioned problem. Goals • To establish firm and effective partnership on a national as well as international level • To establish conditions for the introduction of the model of lifelong learning • To test the model and then to incorporate it into broader politics and practice Target groups In the project, workers employed in companies employing the disabled are: a. Workers with low education (mostly 10 years of schooling), low qualifications, reduced employment abilities and other limitations b. Professional staff who are responsible for the development and subsequent work with the employees c. Other vulnerable groups in the labour market Achieved results Within the project, we have achieved the following results: • By establishing firm partnership, we have started to realize the vision of gradually connecting the providers of educational programs on one side and working environments, where the process of lifelong education takes place on the other side. 94 Report of the Co-Financed Projects • We have developed and tested the model of life long learning, which has a great significance for employees and for the companies employing disabled. The employees are primarily ready to invest in their own development in order to achieve a higher personal goals, as well as higher organizational goals for the businesses for which they work. • We have developed and tested two educational programs: Modularly organized educational program for professional workers, responsible for the development and work with the employed, Modularly organized educational program for workers with low qualifications. • The model of lifelong learning and both programs were proposed and partially included into existing policies and systems, mostly in the field of education and educational rehabilitation as well as for employing the disabled. • Acquired knowledge, experience and good practices from the field of lifelong education, personal and professional development of individuals as well as supporting measures in employment of vulnerable groups were exchanged with the partnerships of other countries of the EU. Among other things, the added values of the developmental partnership Sinteza are considered to be: • An increase in the value of human capital – higher education/qualification of the employees, greater opportunities for their professional development and last but not least, greater opportunities to preserve employment, • Improvement of interpersonal relationships, • The embracing of a strategy of development of a learning culture Taking all these goals into consideration, they will have the effect of increasing the success of the operations of companies employing disabled in the market as a whole The continuation of the project Business strategy of each company must pay respect to the needs of employees and ensure the conditions for their development. In the partnership, we shall, therefore: • Further motivate and raise public awareness, especially management and employees in companies employing disabled and in other companies, regarding the necessity and significance of life-long learning. Investment in the development of human resources must become equivalent to investment in capital and as such necessary for the further development of the companies. • Seek opportunities for the performance of qualitative and goal-oriented educational programs adapted to target groups, considering educational needs of the company and individual, also by responding to different tenders on a national and EU level. • To further connect and upgrade the knowledge and products, developed in the project on a national and transnational level, as well as to apply to different tenders on the EU level with future projects . The development partnership Sinteza shall deal with annihilation of obstacles that have placed disadvantaged groups in an unfavorable position in the market, even after the project end. We are certain that there are many more opportunities and challenges for upgrading, and disseminating forms of professional and personal employee development, both previously and newly developed. All employees should realize that learning is a continual process. The obligation of the employer is, in accordance with the strategy of the development of the company, to ensure them that learning. 95 WITH COACHING TO SAFE OLD AGE Coordinator of DP: Labour Fund Zasavje - Institute for the Implementation of the Active Employment Policy Title of DP: WITH COACHING TO SAFE OLD AGE Address: Podvine 36, 1410 Zagorje ob Savi Telephone: +386 (0)3 56 60 532 Fax: +386 (0)3 56 60 540 E-mail: [email protected] Project Head: Franci Čeč, MA Contracting value of the project: 170,614.25 EUR (40,886,000 SIT) Sources of EQUAL (75 %): 127,960.69 EUR (30,664,500 SIT) National co-financing (25 %): 42,653.56 EUR (10,221,500 SIT) Project Website: http://www.rcr-zasavje.si/coaching Partners Regional Development Centre, d. o. o., Zagorje ob Savi; Fast Forward International, d. o. o., Velike Lašče. Trans-national partners 1. APRIL: Italy: Impresa di Comunitŕ; Spain; TANDEM Acceso a la empresa de personas con transtornos mentales graves; 2. MOBILITY: Italy: Mobilita e Conoscenza – Sistema locale per la formazione continua e permanente; Greece: Delta Singular Software; Poland: Modelowy system przystosowania kadr przeds. do zmian strukturalnych w gospodarce. Project Purpose Through the activities of this project, we wish to help older workers to improve the possibility to maintain employment positions by means of acquired knowledge and motivational training and in this way to prevent a transition into open unemployment. Goal • To develop and promote the innovative approach of coaching for individual work with older people, employed within the framework of life-long learning. Target groups Potentially redundant older workers in organizations, coaches of the labour funds, management in organizations. Achieved results 1. Produced model of coaching The fruits of cooperation of a partnership between Fast Forward International, Regional Development Centre as well as Polish and Italian partners within the framework of trans-national activities has produced model of coaching. 2. Four performed coaching workshops– qualification of the coaches in the labour markets regarding the role and significance of coaching. In the period of the duration of the program, four workshops were performed by the Fast Forward International Company. It was organized by the Labour Fund Zasavje. Forty participants of Slovene labour funds were included in the workshops, who attended the workshop for two days. None of the coaches of the labour fund had ever trained in such workshop prior to this experience. Some managers of the labour funds were also included in the workshop. All the participants successfully finished the workshop. Effects of the workshops Training in this workshop had positive effects for the participants, especially with regards to: Greater engagement in seeking opportunities for further training in the direction of coaching, Gaining important experience in relationships with a famous lecturer, 96 Report of the Co-Financed Projects - Changing behaviors in the field of human resources management. 3. One workshop focused on raising awareness of management to the role and significance of coaching The company Fast Forward International performed one workshop – raising awareness of management on the role and significance of coaching. Eight participants were involved in the workshop. With respect to the feedback received, it has been established that the target group responses were extremely positive, especially because the representatives of this target group were also actively involved in the formation and performance of the activity from the project stage. 4. Established portal e-coaching The program includes the following topic complexes: myths about coaching, definition of coaching, training (teaching, learning), mentorship, counseling, the manager as a coach, types of coaching, skillfulness for the performance of coaching, benefits of coaching, obstacles of coaching as well as concrete examples of reduction of absenteeism through the assistance of coaching. E-coaching is a program of qualification, intended for improvement of individual effect of labour, increasing the profit and competitiveness of the company, development of employees as well as improving the relationship of between employees and management. The program is intended for the leaders of a company (upper and middle management), heads of personnel services, social and educational workers in organizations, experts, who are in any kind involved in development of human resources, directors of small and medium sized companies as well as the other interested public. By establishing the portal e-learning with the topic of coaching, interested individuals are given additional training through an e-portal, which contributes to a more efficient performance and the promotion of coaching in Slovenia. 5. Established publication on the topic of coaching Coordinator of the development partnership Labour Fund Zasavje prepared the publication with the topic of coaching with the partner Regional Development Centre d. o. o. One thousand copies of the guide »With Coaching to Greater Business and Personal Achievements« were published. In the publication, the basic definition of coaching, the history of coaching, models of coaching, skills for the performance of coaching, benefits of coaching, confrontation with change, comprehension of the individual as well as a practical example of solving the problem of absenteeism by means of coaching is described in condensed form. The publication is a useful document for all the participants of coaching workshops, for the target group of the project as well as for the broader public. 6. Performed seminar on the topic of social entrepreneurship The coordinator of development partnership organized and performed an international seminar entitled “Social Entrepreneurship – The Source of Local Development” in June 2006. Representatives of the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, project partner Regional Development Centre, d. o. o., as well as trans-national partners EQUAL from Spain and Italy were present at the seminar. 7. Performed model of social entrepreneurship with an emphasis on seniors The model covers the following complexes of contents of the entrepreneurship: revision of the development of this economic activity in Slovenia and possibilities for its further development in Zasavje also; review of the cases: Slovenia, Europe, with an emphasis on Italy and Spain as well as Zasavje, and definition of the problems associated with this activity. When producing the model, the method of analysis of written sources, web material, and the materials from the conferences with the topic of social entrepreneurship were used. After the review of literature and sources, the contents necessary for the discussed topics were established. 8. The program of training for social management performed The program enables managers to gain knowledge of individual business functions from the social sphere, where the value of the program is an emphasis on pragmatism and not as much on theoretical knowledge. 9. Performance of international conference on coaching International conference on coaching took place in Zagorje on 8th June 2007 and was one of the trans-national activities. The representatives of transnational partnership from Poland and from Italy also collaborated actively 97 there. They also presented their experience from the models that were implemented in their environments. The conference was intended for the managers for the development of human resources within companies who then assessed the performance of the conference as being very positive. The continuation of the project The coordinator and the partners of the project DP “With coaching to safe old age” prepared appropriate activities for durability and continuance of the project. Therefore, the Labour Fund Zasavje shall perform the activities in the field of social entrepreneurship and coaching. Within the framework of Regional Development Program (in its performance part), an Institute for coaching was identified, which shall ensure with its mission, the performance of some of the activities of this present project. 98 Report of the Co-Financed Projects YOUNG MOTHERS/FAMILY FRIENDLY EMPLOYMENT The DP coordinator: Institute for Economic Research The DP title: Young mothers/family-friendly employment Address: Kardeljeva ploščad 17, 1109 Ljubljana Telephone: +386 (0)1 53 03 864 Fax: +386 (0)1 53 03 874 E-mail: [email protected] Principal investigator: Dr. Nada Stropnik The contractual value of the project: 436,751.27 EUR (104,663,076 SIT) Funds EQUAL (75%): 327,563.45 EUR (78,497,307 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 109,187.82 EUR (26,165,769 SIT) Project Webpage: www.equal-mladematere.si Partners Ekvilib; Faculty of Social Sciences; The Association for Information and Assistance to the Unemployed and Job Seekers; the Association of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia; The Confederation of Trade Unions of Slovenia Progam; the Association of Employers of Slovenia. Trans-national partners P.O.N.T.I. Pari Opportunitŕ Nei Territori e nelle Imprese, Italy Por la Diversidad Activa en el Mercado Laboral, Spain; Partnerstwo-Rodzina-Równość-Praca, Poland; Young mothers/family-friendly employment, Slovenia. Project Purpose The basis of our project was the claim that parents of small children (especially women) are discriminated against in the labour market due to their specific need to adjust to both professional and family duties. The goal of the project was to find out what the situation in Slovenia is and to try to influence (a) the employers, so that they will understand this problem and solve it together with employees, and (b) the wider public that they should have positive attitude toward such an approach through public opinion. In this context, the emphasis was on the reduction of hidden discrimination against employed young mothers (potential mothers) as a result of their motherhood. Goals • Better knowledge of the problems of young parents in Slovenia which arise from the need to adjust to professional and family duties and a lack of understanding within the working environment • Better information on the practice of Slovene companies in relation to an adjustment of professional and family duties • Implementation of “The Family-Friendly Company” certificate • To better inform and make aware the employers and public in general as well as individuals who are discriminated against in the labour market due to parenthood, Target groups · Persons who are discriminated against in the labour market due to parenthood (especially mothers of young children and young women in general) · Employers, because they can influence the improvement of opportunities for an easier adjustment of professional and family duties of their employees · Young people who are finishing their education, because shortly they will encounter problems of adjusting to both professional and family duties · The wider public, because informed people and positive public opinion can improve the condition of parents (especially those with small children) within the labour market Achieved results • The opinion poll regarding the adjustment to work and parenthood/private life of youth in Slovenia • The case studies of companies/organizations in Slovenia regarding the aspect of adjustment to professional and family duties of employees Report of the Co-Financed Projects 99 • The research about the economic aspects of family-friendly policies • The issued “Family-Friendly Company” certificates to 32 companies/organisations with more than 20,000 employees (together they selected 305 measures for easier adjustment of family and work and on average 9.5 measures for company/organization respectively) and a media campaign in connection with the above mentioned • The international conference about the social responsibility of business • The international conference of the “Adjustment and Responsibility” trans-national partnership • The lectures and workshops for target groups • The presentations of the topic and the results of the development partnership at public events (fairs, conferences, professional meetings, round table discussions etc.) • The articles and interviews in public media (newspaper, radio, television). Developed products: • “The Family-Friendly Company” certificate (the transfer of new methodology and the adaptation to the Slovene situation and the physical form of a certificate) • The television advertisements which raise awareness of employers about their social responsibility towards employed parents • The book about the results of the sociological and economic research (adjustment of professional and family duties in Slovenia, economic aspects of family-friendly policies in companies and organisations, the social responsibility of companies to their employees) • The information leaflet for employees (“The Family-Friendly Company - Family and Professional Life Hand in Hand”) • The information leaflet for employers (“The Family-Friendly Company - Family and Professional Life Hand in Hand”) • CD with material on equal opportunities for men and women with the emphasis on the adjustment of professional and family duties (as an accessory to employers) The innovative elements and strategy for achieving results: · The first in-depth Slovenian national research conducted on the experience of parents and potential parents and about the attitudes toward motherhood and parenthood respectively in the Slovene workplace. · Launching of a discussion in Slovene society about the social responsibility of companies towards their employees · “The Family-Friendly Company” certificate (the adaptation of a new methodology to the Slovenian situation, its application in the Slovene environment, the media strategy for the promotion of the certificate and the physical form of the certificate) · The creative solution of the television advertisement for raising the awareness of employers and the wider public regarding the needs for taking into consideration the family duties of employees The added value of the project: · Better knowledge of the Slovene situation with regards to the adjustment of professional and family duties of employees and the presentation of the acquired information and knowledge in the book · An increased awareness of the need for solving the problem of adjustment of professional and family duties of employees with (small) children in the context of the social responsibility of companies to their employees · The implementation of “The Family-Friendly Company” certificate (including the adapted methodology) The continuation of the project The Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs gave an informal guarantee that it would seek the continuation of awarding of “The Family-Friendly Company” certificate (probably in the scope of the Structural Funds of the European Social Fund, the operative programme for the development of human resources). The development partnership estimates that the continuity, the quality of performance and evaluation of the procedure of certification will have an important contribution to the realization of necessary changes in the field of the balance of professional and family duties. 60 other companies/organizations have expressed an interest in acquiring “The Family-Friendly Company” certificate. 100 Report of the Co-Financed Projects WITH EXCELLENCE TO GENDER EQUALITY The coordinator of the DP: Oria Computers d. o. o. The title of the development partnership: With excellence to gender equality Address: Podvine 36, 1410 Zagorje ob Savi Telephone: +386 (0)3 56 58 450 Faxs: +386 (0)3 56 64 060 E-mail: [email protected] The principal investigator: Neva Marn The Contractual value of the project: 184,992.35 EUR (44,331,570 SIT) Funds EQUAL (75%): 131,763.60 EUR (31,575,830.25 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 43,921.20 EUR (10,525,276.75 SIT) Project Webpage: http://www.equal.oria.si/ Partners Regional Development Centre, the Social Work Centre Trbovlje Trans-national partners The Spanish partnership, Instituto Canario de la Mujer (ICM); the Italian partnership, CRAMARS; the Austrian partnership, the Netzwerk Österreichischer Frauen- und Mädchenberatungsstellen; the Slovak partnership, Aspekt. Project Purpose The development partnership consists of three members - Oria Computers d.o.o., the coordinator; the Regional Development Centre and the Social Work Centre. The aim of the development partnership is to identify the limitations which occur in the development of the professional careers of women, to create a strategy to eliminate boundaries and to actively encourage increased representation of women in key employment positions in the economic sector of the Zasavje region. Goals Our goal is to identify the limitations which prevent the equal development of professional careers of men and women on the basis of the analysis of the acquired data and the comparison of theoretical models from professional literature and the practice and results of trans-national partners. With the help of the information about causes and consequences of those limitations, we created a strategy, recommendations, and tools with which to eliminate those boundaries. These tools will be useful for businesses as well as for the women to whom they are directed. The strategy includes the recommendations for the elimination of limitations, concrete suggestions for increasing employee motivation, the action plans for the development of key places of employment and career plans of key personnel within these workplaces, with which we would contribute to the more equal distribution of men and women in the workplace and to launch the mentorship network for the assertion of women in their professional careers. Target groups The target groups included in the project are women with the potential for promotion to the key employment positions, women who are seeking their first jobs, and the companies and potential employers respectively. Achieved results Due to the fact that in Slovenia and the Zasavje region respectively, the topic of gender equality in the workplace has not been separately dealt with, we wish to raise the standard of social responsibility, which is the only document that guarantees an ethical attitude toward employees, with a new and innovative approach. The first goal in the scope of the project was the identification of limitations which prevent equal opportunities for the development of the professional careers of women and men in the economic sector. With the study of existing literature in the field of career building, the business environment, the glass ceiling and the ways how women cope with them, we made an analysis and a description of limitations which women encounter in their workplace and business field in general. The result of the analysis of literature is the expert report which defines and represents existing examples of solving the problems of women in the workplace and career-building in general. The expert report defined the basis for further steps taken by the business which were to motivate companies to participate in the collaboration of the analysis of the condition in the Zasavje region and to raise awareness of the companies about this topic. We informed the companies about the project in advance, acquainting them with the goals, and we then requested Report of the Co-Financed Projects 101 from them data regarding the representation of women in leading and key positions in supervisory boards and business management. Later on, we invited them to participate in our interviews. Before we created a base of companies with at least 50 employees whom we subsequently invited to collaborate with us. When we received a positive response from 10 companies (we decided about the number in the Agreement on the development partnership), we explained to them a procedure regarding the implementation of these interviews. We did interviews with three different groups; men in leading positions, women in leading positions and women who have the capacity, motivation, ambition, or at least an educational level which defines them as potential candidates for promotion. We interviewed two employees from each group. In order to implement the interviews we wrote four different questionnaires for four different groups of interviewees. We have already mentioned men and women in leading positions and potential female candidates, the last group was made up of women who were seeking their first job. In the first three groups we applied more open questions, because we wanted to conduct the interview more in the manner of a conversation because the this method usually discloses more information than strictly questioning and receiving answers. We used the questionnaires of more closed type for the fourth group - for women, first job seekers. Here we limited ourselves to the group of women with at least the 6th level of education. The Employment Service Trbovlje helped us send the questionnaires for this group, they kindly assisted us in sending the questionnaires and collecting the answers. The statistical analysis and the content analysis of the results followed the interviews and the transcription of those interviews. The Social Work Centre later prepared workshops, which were intended for men and women of different ages with which we were about to alert and raise awareness about the stereotypes which people hold. A part of the workshops was also implemented in the scope of the international conference which we organized in June 2006 in Zagorje with the title “Achieving Gender Equality With Good Practices”, which was also intended for international partners. In the scope of the international conference, we prepared a press conference and various promotional materials equipped with all the necessary logos which we distributed to the participants of the conference. We also organized a round table discussion on the topic of career building and problems that women encounter in connection with this, which was one of the most interesting events organized in the during the conference. In order to reach this goal, we invited some well-known and successful female managers to cooperate with us, who made the first step in the mentorship network. The round table was moderated by Sonja Šmuc, an executive director of The Managers’ Association of Slovenia, however, the opinions were expressed by Aleša Kandus (the Medex), Gordana Tekavčič (the InterINA), Ajša Šunjič (the TV Paprika), Metka Wachter (the Krka Cosmetics, the Slovenian International Ladies Association, SILA) and Sonja Klopčič, M. Sc. (the Oria Computers). We presented a part of the recordings from the conference in the video, which partly served to inform the Slovene public, however, it was also one of the constituent parts of the video, which we prepared in the scope of the WEGA international partnership. In the video, we included the statements of the participants of the round table discussion who we recorded later on in their working environment, and which included the advice and instructions directed to youths (especially to women) in their passage from studying to working relations and the start of career building, respectively. In the scope of our cooperation with the professional task group, we defined in detail the limitations on the basis of the implemented interviews and thus we defined the basic fields, which the strategy for the elimination of limitations should include. According to the defined fields we finished the agreements with the company for cooperation in the pilot project. In close cooperation with the professional task group we created a strategy for the pilot company of this business. This strategy includes the following fields: besides the strategy for the pilot company, we formed a more general strategy in parallel. The companies can use the latter for themselves with appropriate modifications and adaptations. We performed motivational workshops and workshops for performing annual meetings with leaders and those who perform assessments and annual meetings respectively. Beside the implementation of interviews, one of the innovations of the project is also the strategy which offers a comprehensive development of leaders and at the same time it also deals with self-motivation, motivation and work, as well as the assessment of subordinate leaders. This strategy, implemented in such a way, was the first in the Zasavje region and even in Slovenia. The indicators, which we (beside the model of competencies) compared and later on complemented in cooperation with other international partners, especially with the Italian partnership, with which we organized a bilateral meeting in April of this year, are indeed innovative. These indicators represent the measures and the examples of solutions, decrees and practices which guarantee the equal position of employees regardless of gender and age. The continuation of the project In continuation, it would be sensible to upgrade the project's results in such a way to support and enhance the process of changing the thinking among the target groups, defined in the scope of our development partnership. It would also be sensible to connect the project to broader fields. 102 Report of the Co-Financed Projects EQUAL VESNA The coordinator of the DP: META, The Institute for the Development of Family and Female Enterpreneurship The title of the DP: EQUAL VESNA Address: Svetovalna pisarna (Counselling office), Dimičeva 9, 1000 Ljubljana Telephone: +386 (0)1 54 43 678 Free counselling telephone: +386 080 11 50 Fax: +386 (0)1 54 43 680 E-mail: [email protected] The Principal investigator: Marta Turk The contractual value of the project: 312,969.45 EUR (SIT 75,000,000) Funds EQUAL (75%): 234.727,09 EUR (56.250.000 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 78.242,36 EUR (18.750.000 SIT) Project Webpage: www.equal-vesna.si Partners META, The Institute for the Development of the Family and, Female Entrepreneurship; the Animacija, d. o. o., Ptuj; the Employment Service of Slovenia; the SVOP Inženiring, d. o. o; the Majšperk Municipality; The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, the Ljubljana Chamber of Commerce and Industry; the Emona Tiskarna, d. o. o.; The Municipality of Ljubljana, the Department for Economy and Tourism; the Regional Development Agency – of the Ljubljana urban region. Trans-national partners We will receive examples of good practice from trans-national partnership and we will introduce them to the work and procedures of the project in an innovative way. In the phase of the widening of the programme we will endeavour to move towards a new approach to national and trans-national policies. We named the trans-national partnership »Hackers For Equality«. The partnership consists of experienced coordinators of the following projects: the EQUAL from Sweden (GENDER SCHOOL, Dalarna County) and Scotland (HI HOPES, Inverness) and the EQUAL Vesna. Project Purpose The aim of the DP is to research and test innovative approaches to support and develop groups of women for their incorporation in entrepreneurship by taking into consideration the seven guidelines of EQUAL. The goal is to increase the number of women from various social groups who establish and develop their own companies. The participation of women in entrepreneurship, craft, economy and high management is still too low. According to the GEM “one of the best ways for improvement is for Slovenia to increase the level of entrepreneurship, to encourage and support higher number of women, who should be included in entrepreneurship.” The EQUAL Vesna development-partnership focused on the female population and their possibilities and opportunities in the field of the economic assertion of women, employment, self-employment and on female entrepreneurship as a possibility, which especially in some regions represents the method adequate for guaranteeing the inclusion of female intellectual and employment potential into local societal and economic development. In order to form those target groups we were informing and motivating Slovene inhabitants, especially in the area of Majšperk and Ptuj, during the period of preparation (until April 2005) as well as during the whole period of the project implementation. The EQUAL VESNA development partnership with its activities called attention to the urgent problems of increasing unemployment of women, especially in less developed municipalities, where mainly technical workplaces and those involved in production are opened. Those are the workplaces in which it is hard for women to compete. The development partnership mentioned to a great extent contributed by its activities to the raising of general sensitivity and awareness about facts that the general employability of women is directly connected to their education. At the same time, there is the possibility for permanent training and broadening of employment adaptability, which depends on the access and a further acquiring of new knowledge in formal (education) and nonformal ways (workshops, interpersonal exchange of knowledge, social networks). Report of the Co-Financed Projects 103 Goals Among its goals the Equal Vesna development partnership especially endeavoured to • Show the effects of social capital in the development of female entrepreneurship and the influence of female entrepreneurs on the development of the social environment (the forming of special areas of social services in the local environment, discovering employment and self-employment opportunities and with that to reduce the level of unemployment of women in the local environment, raising of the culture of solidarity and cooperation through innovative pilot actions), • To describe and show how easy access to good models and the examples of good domestic and foreign practices can influence women and motivate them to enter the entrepreneurial market and the employment market (models and mentors, conversations, motivation meetings, networks, interpersonal collaboration and reciprocal works and self-education). • To describe and promote the functioning of non-formal networks as a bridge for the passage of the male or female individual from the group of “endangered” to the group of “independent and self-supporting”. Subsequently: To assure the model of access and high quality entrepreneurial support, adapted to women and to call attention to the specific needs of women who decide for entrepreneurship and self-employment (adjustment of responsibilities due to family duties, caring for children, aged family members and entrepreneurial growth) and especially for the specific needs of socially at-risk groups of women with the use of innovative models (mobile counselling office, free counselling telephone, regular meetings of local female networks). Concrete goals Development and maintenance of mechanisms for the incorporation of target groups, the trans-national cooperation and the transfer of good practices, the establishment of target groups, the development of models, raising awareness, informing and the promoting of topics, equal opportunities and the environment, equal opportunities and (fe)male individuals within the public. Target groups For this purpose we formed the following four target groups: • Unemployed women who opt for self-employment or seek opportunities to improve their economic position (various ages and educational structures) • Students and youth who are about to become job seekers • Female managers within the Slovene economy • Female entrepreneurs and craftswomen Within those target groups in the scope of mobile counselling office and our motivation workshops and individual conversations and counselling, we encountered people with quite varied status and search for better economic and social positions. All the individuals stated that they encountered numerous problems and obstacles when they wanted to assert themselves economically, due to a lack of available jobs, their inadequate or low level of education, due to a lack of work experience and modern knowledge. All the people who were included in whichever form of operations of the EQUAL Vesna DP also stated in anonymous questionnaires and conversations that their basic obstacle was the fact that employers considered them as less reliable and less employable, because they were in one or the other way involved in carrying out family duties. Achieved results • The establishment and operation of the counselling office EQUAL Vesna in Ljubljana, which is a functioning office with the information technology and the staff for personal counselling and guiding female candidates • The establishment and operation of the counselling office EQUAL Vesna in Ptuj and Majšperk • Free counselling telephone 080 11 50 • Motivational workshops, training, personal counselling, individual conversations, opinion polls • The establishment of the video-conference system for trans-national cooperation and the transfer of good practices on locations, the implementation of 7 video-conference connections among the partners from Scotland, Sweden and Slovenia, getting to know various technologies and the possibilities for CT-connection, the introduction of Skype and MSN communication technology • The development of the model of mobile counselling office for the pilot implementation in Ptuj, Majšperk, Kočevje and Ilirska Bistrica, the transferable model of mobile counselling office - direct counselling help and information, 104 Report of the Co-Financed Projects • • • • the use of the model: motivational workshops, training, personal counselling, individual conversations, opinion polls The introduction of the independent portal www.equal-vesna.si The work of the group for the professional assertion of women in the National Council, the cooperation with the trade union of employees in the textile industry (stupis) The project of the bulletin “Vesna’s topics” The co-operation in international conferences and workshops in Slovenia and abroad The continuation of the project The principles of the European programme EQUAL and domestic and foreign experience which we acquired during the implementation period of the project confirmed that we have enough knowledge and experience - which are also of interest to the international European environment - for the foreign partners to share with us. At the same time these insights oblige us to develop our programmes and activities in the future with which we will encourage the assertion of women in the labour market and especially to encourage the entrepreneurial competence as characteristic for the individual, who does not permit passive observation and acceptance of reality, but demands movement, changes and investment into his/her own personal development. This represents an obligation for the institutions and the representatives of civil society to cooperate in the development of social networks and the development of human capital for a modern society of prosperity and sustainable development. Report of the Co-Financed Projects 105 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF DOMESTIC HELP - SIPA The coordinator of the DP: The Peace Institute, Institute for Modern Social and Political Studies The title of the DP: Development of the system of domestic service - SIPA Address: Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana Telephone: +386 (0)1 23 47 720 Fax: +386 (0)1 23 47 722 E-mail: [email protected] The principal investigator: Dr. Majda Hrženjak The contractual value of the project: 309,778 EUR (74,315,800 SIT) Funds EQUAL (75%): 232,334 EUR (55,736,850 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 77,444 EUR (18,578,950 SIT) Project Webpage: http://sipa.mirovni-institut.si Partners The Employment Service of Slovenia; Ninamedia, d.o.o.; Center Kontura, d.o.o. Trans-national partners The trans-national partnership HOME MANAGING: Belgium: Home Managers; Hungary: Modellértékű Nő Támogató Rendszer kiépítése; Italy: Nuovi orizzonti per l'economia sociale; Netherlands: Women @ Work in Action. Project Purpose In the SIPA DP we focus on household and domestic work respectively, within this term we would like to especially emphasize household work, child care, and family work respectively. In capitalist societies, unpaid domestic work is defined as “non-work”, which has a status of private unpaid, consumer work which generally women perform “out of love”. The perception of unpaid domestic work as “non-work” leads to the invisibility of the double burden of contemporary women, namely that of paid productive work in the public sphere and unpaid domestic work in the private sphere. The perception of domestic work as “non-work” leads to the invisibility of paid domestic work - which is, according to the results of research, in contemporary society spread exactly to the same degree as in the past, and this trend is on the increase. The perception of domestic work as “non-work” also leads to the invisibility of contemporary domestic service. This is especially problematic, because this invisible work in non-formal conditions is performed especially by those groups of women who are already socially excluded (migrants, older women, women who have been unemployed in the long-term, young women as first job seekers and the workers whose personal income does not provide a sufficient amount for survival). Thus, on the one hand we have a story of women whose double burden of the productive and domestic work causes partial allocation of paid domestic work to the illicit market, on the other hand we have a story of women who in a situation of such or other existential hardship decide that besides their own unpaid domestic work, to also perform for money the domestic work of another woman, however, it occurs in totally undefined working conditions, without the rights and obligations which arise from labour relations. Goals The research project is an applied one. The contention was that the uneven burden between men and women regarding domestic work and child-care in households with small children is one of the reasons for the inequality of men and women in the labour market and that with the system of help in housework in households with small children we could enable women more time for their career. The goal of the project was to prepare the recommendations for the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs how to make a system of paid domestic work in households with small children regulated and affordable to a wider circle of those who require these services and that this will provide quality new workplaces for persons who encounter difficulties in finding employment, among them also women who have a long history of unemployment. Target groups We researched two target groups: households with small children (according to the statistical data from 2006 there are 87,547 such households in Slovenia), those households which are burdened with unpaid domestic work to a great extent and they often pay for domestic services on the black market and women who have been unemployed in the long-term. (In Slovenia there are approximately 23,000 of these women and a half of all the 106 Report of the Co-Financed Projects unemployed women who represent the structural problem of increasing unemployment) It is these women for whom the field of informal, paid domestic service represents a possibility to obtain the necessary resources needed for survival. If regulated and subsidized, this field could possibly create new employment and regulated work conditions. At the same time the services could become more accessible to those who need them. The innovation of the SIPA DP is a suggestion for subsidization of paid domestic service for a new target group – households with small children. Those individuals employed in the long-term who are interested in this field could perform such domestic service through social companies. Achieved results Because there is no research in Slovenia in the field of informal paid domestic service, the theoretical part of the project included the analysis of studies, research and examples of regulation of paid domestic service, which have been done in this field around the world, especially in Europe. The empirical part of the research comprised the application of two questionnaires for two target groups (households with small children and women dealing with long-term unemployment, in the area of Ljubljana). On the basis of these two target groups we found out the need for paid domestic service and the interest for the employment in this field. After the analysis of the questionnaires we organized a pilot experiment of paid domestic service as a regular employment in 30 households with small children in Ljubljana. In the scope of this regular employment we employed five women in Ljubljana who had been unemployed for significant period of time. After the conclusion of the pilot experiment we discovered both good and bad points of such a system of paid domestic service on the basis of quantitative and qualitative evaluation in both groups. We implemented three target groups with women who had been umemployed in the long-term , we analysed the structure of this social group and we gained experience and the opinions of the counsellors of the Employment Service of Slovenia regarding working with them. In the area of Sežana and the surrounding we conducted five interviews with informal household workers in Italy, who are registered as having been unemployed for a long period of time in Slovenia. In this way, and also with the interviews in the households, we unexpectedly managed to uncover some veils about the informal paid domestic service in Slovenia, although this was not the primary intention of the project. In order to test in practice the contention about paid domestic work as a way of unburdening households with small children, those which carry the most of the burden of the unpaid domestic work in society, we organized a 6 month long pilot experiment in the scope of the SIPA project with the means of the Programme of the EQUAL community initiative. At the same time, we offerred the opportunity for creating new employment for those persons dealing with long-term joblessness. During this period we organized assistance in domestic work with five household workers in 30 households with small children in Ljubljana. The pilot experiment of the SIPA development partnership can contribute to the discussions on how to organize the field of paid domestic service in Slovenia with the following findings: • The subsidization of the offer, which means the creation of new employment in the approximate amount of 50% of gross salary of a household worker and the expenses for the coordination and training, would on the one hand cause the service to become cheaper on the market and enable wider accessability, on the other hand it would enable domestic workers a regular and regulated labour relation. The subsidy would enable that those social companies, who would perform the selection, training, the employment of household workers and the offer on the market, would survive. • The income of domestic workers should be stimulating, otherwise they will not be competitive against the earnings on the illicit market. At the same time, earnings should be limited reasonably in order for the service to be accessible to the wider circle of users, not only to a wealthy social strata. In connection with this goal we should think about the selective subsidization of the demand (for example in the scope of family policies). • The services of paid domestic work should be exactly determined with regards to the content, working time and price. It is possible to organize specific services (as for example major cleaning) as well as integrated services (for example shopping, cooking and accompanying children to and from kindergarten). • The quality of the work place is the most important element in creating new jobs in the service sector. Regarding the fact that we deal with heavier physical work for which those women who have been unemployed long-term and who are usually older women, work should be limited to 5 or 6 hours per day. The travel between clients should be included in the eight hours of working time. • Regarding the fact that the work with people who encounter difficulties in finding the employment is envisaged, the training should include the elements of motivation for work, psycho-social integration and a special emphasis Report of the Co-Financed Projects 107 made on acquainting these individuals with their own rights and the ways how to exert them. The training should also include the segment of socializing with children, the standards of which are very high in Slovenia. • The coordination must be professional, accessible, adaptable and it should know how to deal with the contemporary communication technology. It should inspire feelings of trust and of organization in the domestic workers and in the households. It should mediate in conflict situations and connect, organize and be the advocate of domestic workers. It should enable the self-organization of domestic workers in the form of selfemployment and cooperatives. It should endeavour to provide a uniform standardization of paid domestic service, to quality working conditions and to the de-feminization of the field. The continuation of the project The households, which received this domestic service for free in the scope of the pilot experiment, would be willing to pay an average of 4.6 EUR for household assistance. The costs for offering assistance in the pilot experiment were a little more than 10 EUR per hour. The conclusion is clear enough - the project can begin to live in constant practice only with financial help from the state. 108 Report of the Co-Financed Projects PROGRES Coordinator of DP: until 30th April 2007 GEA 2000, from 1st May 2007 Slovene Philanthropy The development partnership title: Progres Address: Poljanska 12, 1000 Ljubljana Telephone: +386 (0)1 43 01 288 Fax: +386 (0)1 43 01 289 E-mail: Project Head: Urška Hartman Contracting value of the project: 173,240.44 EUR (41,515,338 SIT) Equal funds (75%): 129.930,33 EUR (31.136.503,50 SIT) National co-financing (25%): 43.310,11 EUR (10.378.834,50 SIT) Project Website: Partners MaTAFIR, Society for Intercultural Relations; ARX, d. o. o.; ŽIVA Consortium, Consortium for the Help to Refugees. Trans-national partners (Germany), (Italy), (Ireland). Project Purpose Five partners took part in the development partnership Progress. There were four non-governmental organizations (GEA 2000, Slovene Phlianthropy, MaTAFIR, Association for Intercultural Relations; ŽIVA Consortium) and a business organization Arx d.o.o. GEA 2000 and Slovene Philanthropy have been cooperating in the field of asylum for a number of years. They are also founding members of the Živa Consortium. The MaTAFIR Society was formed during the preparation period of the EQUAL incentive, and it unites students, young researchers and other interested individuals. It operates mostly in the field of migration and intercultural learning. Arx d.o.o. Company has been involved in developing employment programs for various target groups; previous experience working in refugee centers helped them substantially when working with asylum seekers. The abovementioned partnership cooperated with each other for the first time on this project. Assistance for asylum seekers in the area of obtaining equal opportunities in the labor market probably seems essentially a mission impossible to those who are acquainted with the conditions in the field of asylum in Slovenia. The Asylum Act, adopted in 2006, does not enable asylum seekers to acquire a work permit during the waiting period of the first year. Since the Act was adopted, only three asylum seekers have acquired a work permit. Goals The rights of refugees in the field of employment are equal to those of Slovene citizens. After acquiring asylum status, refugees are obliged to participate in a demanding course of Slovene language, as well as acquire permanent residence, settle documents, seek employment and so on. Because of this, the main goal of the Progress program was to teach asylum seekers the basics of Slovene during the waiting period, and to prepare them for the inevitable struggle with bureaucracy they are most probably going to encounter after acquiring refugee status. At the same time, another very important goal of the project was to raise public awareness in order to shatter stereotypes, as well as raise awareness of employers and the broader public on the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. In short, we have tried different ways to improve the opportunities offered asylum seekers, both current and future in their entrance to the labor market. With regards to the statistical data of the Ministry of the Interior, there were 119 refugees in Slovenia on 31st May 2007. Out of these, 15 were employed, 50 were unemployed, 19 were seniors, 10 were preschool children, 14 were schoolchildren (elementary school), 7 were secondary school students and 4 were university students. Target group Asylum seekers Report of the Co-Financed Projects 109 Achieved results Programs and products of DP Progress • Teaching of Slovene in the Asylum home • Course on the system of employment in the Republic of Slovenia (with individual concrete assistance to asylum seekers, aid provided in acquiring a work permit and a search for concrete opportunities in the labor market, practical presentations…) • Research among employees regarding the readiness employment among refugees • Raising public awareness : organization of public events, round tables, press conferences, preparation of radio shows, raising awareness of youth in schools… Products of trans-national cooperation • Manual on the methods of learning the foreign language of asylum seekers: EQUAL language • Short films for raising public awareness: EQUAL voices The principle of the quality of innovation Within the framework of the development partnership, the principle of innovation was expressed mostly in the approaches and contents of the educational processes as well in the awareness-raising activities. In the field of education, the development of new methods for the teaching of foreign language, and the formation of the workshop “Personal Presentations with Work”, should be noted. In the field of awareness, there is, by all means, an innovative approach of the engagement of the asylum seekers themselves by hosting a radio show as well as an active participation at the roundtable and other activities on the occasion of the World Refugee Day in 2006. However, we believe that an evaluation of said innovation will be possible only when it to double the current innovations and by them influence existing systems. The development partnership Progress came up with recommendations by which we will try to influence policies, and with which we shall further develop program as follows: 1 Recommendations in the field of counseling and education Information on the process of obtaining some new skills, access to language courses and education, as well as access to professional education that would also include practical work should be provided for asylum seekers. In the process, it is especially necessary to consider the needs of this deprived group. Recommendations in the field of employment Those seeking asylum should have direct access to the labor market or at least within six months after the application asylum. In this way, they would be enabled to gather some new experience, knowledge and qualifications as well as financial support for themselves and their family members. At the same time, the negative effects of passive waiting in the asylum home would be reduced. In return, society would also gain economic benefits as this is a way of reducing the tendency towards illegal work; Asylum seekers, however, would have the opportunity to cover certain costs of habitation, medical care and other expenses. It is necessary to strive for some new employment positions which will support diversity and equal opportunities. It is of vital importance that employers and unions become a part of this process too. Recommendations in the field of increasing abilities and obtaining both knowledge and experience (capacity building) The activities for increasing the influence and power of asylum seekers (empowerment) should become a part of all activities that are intended for these individuals. It would be good to consider establishing a group consisting of asylum seekers that would offer counsel to other interested asylum seekers. 2 For this work the former should be appropriately rewarded. Clear instructions should be prepared for employees who work with asylum seekers or a list of qualifications, needed by the people for the work with the asylum seekers. Recommendations in the field of struggle to stop discrimination against asylum seekers To organize an information campaign with the purpose to improve the public image of asylum seekers, as well as to increase the level of awareness of the broader public regarding the integration of the asylum seekers. 1 Summarized according to the document “Report on the Evaluation of the Performance of the Program of Development Partnership Progres” by the authors Tatjana Pezdir and Saša Zupanc. 2 Here, the subject under discussion is the asylum seekers who would already achieve a certain degree of engagement and would be prepared to counsel to other asylum seekers. 110 Report of the Co-Financed Projects Raising awareness of employers on the positive effects of the creation of a discrimination-free work environment, regardless of nationality or ethnicity. As well, it is important to raise awareness of the significance of accepting asylum seekers with certain qualifications as peer colleagues in a sensitive situation, rather than people who simply ask for help. The continuation of the project Stimulating trans-national cooperation mostly in the fields where certain activities have already proven to be a good practice. Instruments for dissemination of good practice and influencing of policies, which were developed within the framework of the EQUAL incentive, should be further developed and transferred to the new programs of the European Social Fund. 111 Beležka 112 Beležka