The role and involvement of local authorities in the creation of employment

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1 The role and involvement of local authorities in the creation of employment

2 Project Acronym: SolidarCity Project Title: The role and involvement of local authorities in employment rate increase Main funder: INTERREG IV C Priority 1: Innovation and the knowledge economy Sub-theme: Employment, human capital and education

3 Main objective of the SolidarCity project, is to improve the effectiveness of regional development policies by enhancing the role and involvement of local & regional authorities and civil society in employment rate increase through exploring the parameters which burden the active participation into the local labor market and finding ways to create more and better jobs at local level

4 How it Works The SolidarCity project partnership has brought together local authorities, universities, municipalities and national town centre management associations from Greece, Bulgaria, Finlanda, Italy, Romania and United Kingdom to investigate existing and innovative ways of creating employment across Europe

5 This involves traditional top-down trainingbased approaches as well as bottom-up entrepreneurship-based ways of making towns and locations more attractive to live, work and invest in by involving local authorities and key local stakeholders from civil society organisations across the community

6 Approach and Methodology Partners from different EU Member States worked and will continue to work together on a shared regional policy issue which is to improving the effectiveness of regional development policies by enhancing the role and involvement of local & regional authorities and civil society in employment rate increase through exploring the parameters which burden the active participation into the local labor market and finding ways to create more and better jobs

7 Methodology - 4 Main Pillars Exchange of policies, practices & strategies referring to local employment rate increase Characterizatio n and mapping of non active inclusion parameters, local dimension of more and better jobs Establishment of Banca Tempo Establishment of "SolidarCity Pilot Houses. Forming solidarity groups for creating jobs

8 Activities ESTABLISHMENT OF 3 WORKING GROUPS Establishment of a WG on the thematic of local employment rate increase, on non active inclusion and on the role and involvement of local authorities, civil society Establishment of SolidarCity Houses Working Group and Organization of 2 WG Meetings in Italy Establishment of Banca Tempo Working Group and Organization of 2 WG Meetings in Bulgaria

9 2 STUDIES Comparative study Comparative study in different ways of characterization and mapping of non active Study on the role and involvement of local authorities Study on the role and involvement of local authorities, civil society and citizens at the employment rate increase, to the more and better jobs concept and to entrepreneurship spirit and culture creation

10 4 GUIDES Civil Society Organisation guides Good practices guide Good practices guide on local employment rate increase Guide for solidarcity houses Production of a guide of creating and functioning SolidarCity Houses Guide for banca tempo Production of a guide of creating Banca Tempo structures

11 9 BROCHURES 1st & 2nd SolidarCity brochure, brochures on: local employment rate increase for local dimension of more and better jobs of banca tempo of SolidarCity policy groups of SolidarCity Pilot Houses for inactive citizens Good Practices

12 8 PRESS CONFERENCES FUNCTION OF SOLIDARCITY HOUSES IN ITALY AND GREECE SolidarCity policy groups will test the possibility of creating jobs in local and regional level by promoting the locality to inward investors, by encouraging the creation of new businesses and social enterprises, by motivating a local culture FUNCTION OF BANCA TEMPO IN BULGARIA AND GREECE Groups of individuals such as entrepreneurs, educators, artists, etc will offer in banca tempo time and knowledge of education, training, counselling, childcare facilities, etc. to inactive citizens

13 3 POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS: for horizontal integrating equal opportunities for environmental sustainability in all activities on local employment rate increase 2 STRATEGIC GUIDELINES strategic guidelines on role and involvement of local authorities, civil society and citizens, strategic guidelines on forming SolidarCity policy groups; 6 NEWSLETTERS 6 Newsletters on SolidarCity Policy Groups

14 WEB-SITE AND MANUAL OF CORPORATIVE IDENTITY the Web-site includes an Intranet part reserved to the project's partners the Manual of Corporative Identity includes the design of the communication material of the project 1 TV SPOT 1 TV Spot for awareness increase to be transmitted in all partners' countries

15 SolidarCity Brochure

16 Brochure Increase in Local Rates of Employment

17 BANCA TEMPO Banca Tempo: is a structure where volunteers from the community offer time and knowledge to other citizens in order to burden the parameters of non inclusion. time New skills Banca Tempo Banca Tempo time knowledge

18 FUNCTION OF BANCA TEMPO How Banca Tempo services work? Support of: Local authorities NGO s Local labour office groups of individuals offering in banca tempo time and knowledge inactive or non / under qualified citizens

19 SolidarCity pilot houses In order to test the possibility of creating jobs in local and regional level by promoting the locality to inward investors, by encouraging the creation of new businesses and social enterprises, by motivating a local culture of enterprise, by identifying job vacancies in neighbouring localities, SolidarCity pilot houses will be established.

20 SolidarCity policy group A policy group consisted of people at decision making level (Mayors, members of municipal council), entrepreneurs, educators, artists, representatives of non active citizens unemployed, women, migrants, roma will be created under the title SolidarCity policy group. The SolidarCity policy group will exchange experience, knowledge and practices for their role to active inclusion, to the more and better jobs concept and to entrepreneurship spirit and culture creation.

21 exchange experience, knowledge and practices SolidarCity policy group will: produce strategic guidelines in forming solidarity groups for creating jobs produce a guide of creating and functioning SolidarCity Houses

22 organize 1 interregional workshop in Italy for SolidarCity policy groups where they will exchange experiences and knowledge in testing the possibility of creating jobs in local and regional level establish SolidarCity pilot houses SolidarCity policy group will: monitor the function of SolidarCity pilot houses

23 R E S U L T S

24 Thank you for your attention! Vanya Tsakinska Chairperson Regional Agribusiness Center- Vidin, Bulgaria