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• ZLSP – lider of the project;
• DIESIS – partner of the project, support in range of managment;
• CECOP, Belgium;
• SCMVD, Czech Republic;
• NUWPC, Bulgaria;
• KZRSIiN, Poland;
• Legacoop sociali, Italy;
• AGCI, Italy;
• CGM, Italy;

 

• Trade unions: Solidarność, Poland; Podkrepa, Bulgaria; CISL, Italy;
• Research institutions: IRES, Italy; CESOS, Italy.

• The main goal of our project is to support and foster the development and the exchange of good practices in force across Europe concerning information, consultation and participation structures settled within undertakings,focusing especially on social cooperatives and cooperatives at all.
• We will observe and analyse possibilities of social undertakings and cooperatives in developing innovative and efficient structures for information, consultation and participation of workers within this undertakings. The focus will be done on comparison between social enterprises and cooperatives from Eastern and Central Europe and from Western Europe.
• information and innovative good practices will be changed and analysed on european level, will serve as a base for delivery to representatives of employees and employers training methods and concrete recomendations for development of participation in undertakings.

• 1 – TheExclusion of handicapped people: how the involvement (information, consultation and participation) of disadvantaged workers in social co-operatives is realised.
• 2 – TheMigrant issue, if and how positive actions and good practices are present.
• 3 – The long-term unemployment, if and how positive actions and good practices are present to foster the inclusion of unemployed people.

• To contribute to the development of good conditions for the settlement of structures within undertakings for the information, consultation and participation of employees in enterprises of different european countries.
• To bring useful tools and reflections on this topic based on the model of social enterprises and co-operatives for internal mechanisms of information and consultation of employees.
• Exchange of experiences and study of mutual solutions with cooperative sector from one hand and trade union sector from the other.

• The exchange of information and experiences and gathering of best practices from older and recent member states and their comparative analysis;
• The provision of short but targeted information and training modules;
• Joint transnational and multipartnerial analysis of the key challenges facing information, consultation and participation instruments within social enterprises and co-operatives;
• The production of a European guide containing some best practices, guidelines and recommendations for the development of structures for information and consultation within undertakings, on the model of social enterprises and co-operatives, with respect to special characteristics of people involved in establishing them, like long term unemployed;
• Creation of the European and transnational networking of actors of the social economy and co-operative movement in Europe about the issue of participation of employees within enterprises.

Date(s), venue(s) and type(s) of events
Total duration of project 12 months	From 01/08/2008 to 30/09/2009
Phases	Date(s)	Venue(s)	Type of event
- Preparatory	August 2008	Krakow / Brussels	Preparatory activities (project documents, press release, etc.), Implementation of a technical scientific committee, Preparation of the kick-off meeting
	September 2008	Krakow	Kick-off meeting (for the Steering Committee)
	October 2008 – March 2009	Poland, Italy, Bulgaria and else where in Europe	Identification of best practices and models to transfer for the information, consultation and participation of employees within co-operatives.
- Main Events	March 2009	Krakow	European open conference (with press release)
	March 2009	Krakow	Information and training seminar / study visits
	April 2009 – July 2009	Poland, Italy and Belgium	First draft of analytic reports on information and consultation mechanisms within co-operatives (Poland, Italy, transnationally)
	May 2009	Roma	Information and training seminar / study visits (with press release)
- Follow-up	June 2009	Roma	Coordination meeting of the steering committee and common draft of recommendations
	July 2009 – August 2009	Poland, Italy and Belgium	Finalisation of the final publication
	September 2009	Poland, Italy, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Europe	Dissemination activities
	August 2009 – September 2008	Belgium/Poland	Final internal evaluation of the project.

 

Activites already undertaken:

• Decision about panel of Steering Commitee (represented by partners from cooperative organisations in the project);
• Preparation and dispatch of informations of the project to external institutions;
• Preparation of kick-off meeting of the project;

• One-day seminar to start the project, exchange of information of the project and it’s actions, clarifying roles of each organisations, tasks and calendar of planned actions;
• Acceptance of detailed schedule and role of each partner in realisation of preparatory phase of the project.