Agenda

1. Social Innovations – Solving the Problem of Inclusion in the Labour MarketWORKING LIFE 2013Stockholm, 26November 2013Themeetingisco-financed by theEuropeanSocial Fund under theHuman Capital OperationalProgramme.

2. Agenda • Introduction – who we are • Socialinnovations under ESF in Poland • Innovativeprojects under ESF in Poland – mainrules • Examples of socialinnovationsintheareas of: • Employment and SocialIntegration • Adaptability • Education & HigherEducation • GoodGovernance

3. National SupportingInstitution • We supportinnovative and transnationalactivitiesimplementedwithin OP HC (inc. counselling) • We organisemeetings, seminars, workshops and trainings for projectpromoters, beneficiaries, IntermediateBodies, experts, etc. • We coordinatework and informationflowbetweenthematic networks • We providetheSecretariat forThematic Networks • We monitor all TNC & Innovativeprojects and calls for proposals • We providewebsite and managedifferentdatabases (FishingPool, Products and Project, Calls for Proposals, etc.) • We supportinsearching for transnational partners • We preparedocuments and publications • And much more…

4. HC OP mainaim: Increasedlevel of employment and socialcohesion HC OP areas of support CENTRAL PRIORITIES I Employment and social integration IIHuman Resources Development and increase of theadaptabilityof enterprises, improving thehealthcondition of workingpersons III High quality of theeducational system IVTertiary education andscience VGood governance REGIONAL PRIORITIES VILabour market open for all VIIPromotion of social integration VIIIRegional Human Resources for the economy IXDevelopment of education and competences in regions Employment Socialintegration Adaptability Education Goodgovernance Health TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION & INNOVATIONS in allPriorities of HC OP

5. Innovativeprojects ThesePrio’sarealsoinlinewith EUSBSR

6. Innovativeprojects Implementation of testinginnovativeproject - 1st stage

7. Innovativeprojects Implementation of testinginnovativeproject 2nd stage

8. Employment and SocialIntegration • Title of theproject: „Innovations of the Labour Market” – testing and implementation of new methods for the promotion of employment in niche, endangered and less popular occupations.” • Project Leader: BiałostockaFundacjaKształceniaKadr (Bialystok’s Personnel Training Foundation) • Project Partners: Chamber of Crafts and Entrepreneurship in Bialystok, Applied Vocational Psychology and Policy Research Unit (Luksemburg), the Hanseatic Parliament (Germany) • Aim: the adoption / creation, testing and dissemination / implementation 9 model solutions of consulting, training and cooperation for the promotion of employment in declining, less popular and nicheprofessions • Project website:http://www.innowacjerynkupracy.pl/

9. Employment and SocialIntegration FinalProduct (social innovation): • Model of promotion of employment of people 50 + in declining occupations Craft of the Third Age: includes advisory and diagnostic tools for the unemployed 50 +, tools and new training solutions in the craft for 50 +, a tool for initiating local cooperation between crafts and labor market institutions for the promotion of endangered professions and unemployed people 50 +.

10. Employment and SocialIntegration • Model for promotion of employment of the disabled in less popularoccupations: e-Craft: includes advisory and diagnostic tools for unemployed people with disabilities, tools and new solutions training in the craft for people with disabilities, tools for initiating the local cooperation between crafts and labor market institutions to promote less popular professions and people with disabilities. • Model for promotion of employment of graduates up to 27 years old in niche occupations: Crafts (made) to Measure: includes advisory and diagnostic tools for unemployed graduates, tools and new training solutions in the craft for young people including spin-offs and spin-outs, tools for initiating the local cooperation between crafts and labour market institutions to promote niche occupations and unemployed youth

11. Employment and SocialIntegration • Users of the product: • the craft , labour market institutions (job advisors, trainers, educators in the craft, coordinators of the local cooperation) • Recipients of the product (end beneficiaries): • unemployed: • people 50 +, • people with disabilities • graduates up to 27 years old

12. Adaptability • Title of the project: Re:start • Project Leader: PolskaFundacjaPrzedsiębiorczości (Polish Entrepreneurs Foundation) • Project Partners: Oxford Innovation Ltd. (Great Britain) • Aim: to develop and implement a support tool / instrument for restarters (to increase effectiveness of support for restartes and number of companies established by them) • Project website: www.projektrestart.pl

13. Adaptability Final Product (social innovation): a comprehensive model of providing support services to restarters, which will consist of: • a set of standardized coaching, mentoring services and expert advice compiled in the Manual for providing services to coaches, mentors and experts; • database of coaches, mentors and industry experts with the system of required competences, evaluating their work and sample contracts; • on-line tool being a prerequisite for the provision of services, from registering a restarter, through diagnosis of their needs, services provision, to the evaluation thereof, used by all stakeholders, i.e. end beneficiaries, users, experts and Restart Centre • the rules of cooperation between the Restart Centre and users compiled in a Manual for providing services to users; • training programs for new participants in the service provision system, i.e. users, coaches, mentors and industry experts.

14. Adaptability The innovation will also result in the establishment of a Restart Centre that will provide services for restarters according to the service provision model. • Users of the product: labour market institutions / business environment institutions, whose regular offer includes the support for entrepreneurs, individuals planning to start a business, or the unemployed • Recipients of the product (End beneficiaries): restarters, i.e. adults, who due to various reasons ceased running business and are planning to start it again.

15. Education & HigherEducation • Title of theproject: Wielkopolska monitoring and forecasting system • Project Leader: Politechnika Poznańska (Poznań University of Technology) • Project Partners: Central Ostrobothnia University of Applied Sciences(Kokkola, Finland) • Aim: to satisfy the information needs in the scope of adapting vocational education to labour market requirements. • Project website:www.zawodowcy.org Follow up: Project „Time for professionals – wielkopolska vocational education” (Leader: Local Government of the Wielkopolska Region, Partners:Poznań University of Technology, Teacher Development Center in Piła)

16. Education & HigherEducation Final Product (social innovation): the “Wielkopolska monitoring andforecasting system” in the field of vocational trainingis an organizational and technical solution that will enable accessand sharing of information to all stakeholders. Monitoring and forecasting includes, inter alia, demand for skills and qualifications among employers and the supply of professional skills among students of vocational schools and educational institutions engaged in vocational training. The product may become the basis for the creation of the modern labour market observatory. The core of this solution is dynamic, updated by the parties (i.e. labor market institutionsdatabase, schools, businesses and students, enabling the generation of information desired by certain customers. The “Wielkopolska monitoring and forecasting system” consists of three subsystems: • monitoring and forecasting; • IT; • management.

17. Education & HigherEducation SCHEME OF SYSTEM FUNCTIONING* Student knows what he/she should learn EMPLOYER STUDENT Registration Registration Job offer descriptions according to accessible list of skills Creation of the profile according to accessible list of skills Employer will find the employee quicker Student will find the job/practice/apprenticeship quicker Generation of the list of job offersthe most suitable to the profileby the system INFORMATION ON STUDENTS' COMPETENCES Generation of the list of students' profiles themost suitable to the offered jobs INFORMATION ON PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES NEEDED BY EMPLOYERS LABOUR MARKET INSTITUTIONS , EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATIONS, SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTIONS PROVIDING VACATIONAL EDUCATION Logging into the system *Scheme based on presentation „Wielkopolski system monitorowania i prognozowania – stan obecny i przyszły” by Dr. Eng. Maciej Szafrański, Poznań University of Technology, 2013 Generation of reports at different levels of detail, monitoring and forecasting for vocational education on the labour market

18. Education & HigherEducation • Users of the product: • labour market institutions (poviatlabour offices in particular); • schools and educational institutions conducting vocational education (excluding vocational education) • Recipients of the product (End beneficiaries): • employers; • students (except adults), learning in schools and other educational institutions engaged in vocational training.

19. GoodGovernance • Title of theproject: Equality as standard of good government • Project Leader: Feminoteka Foundation • Project Partners: Polish Society of Anti-Discrimination Law, Institute Laudator (Poland), City of Vantaa, Finnish Human Rights League(Finland),University of Macerata (Italy) • Aim: is to improve the implementation of equality and anti-discrimination policies in the provision of public services by local government authorities • Project website: http://rownoscwsamorzadzie.pl/

20. GoodGovernance Final Product (social innovation)includes: • Training Programme for officersconsisting of 6 modules divided into awareness part (concerning the issue, mechanism, and anti-discrimination actions) and practical part (with methods of applying Equality Standard and Equality Index in the public office) • EQUALITY STANDARD is a description of the target situation (the desired state of equality in local government). Standard consists of 10 elements (indicators of equality), whose combined performance and proper application will ensure effective implementation of equality policies in the office. Adoption of the Standard is an expression of commitment of local authorities in promoting the principle of equality and non-discrimination, as well as the declaration of the implementing it on its territory. Standard answers the question: How it should be? What to do to achieve desired state of equality?

21. GoodGovernance • EQUALITY INDEX is a tool with which each office can examine and achieve equality standard. It is a comprehensive system for measuring the implementation of quality policy in the public services provided by local government, based on identified in EQUALITY STANDARD indicators. Index answers the question: how to test and measure the current state of implementation of equality and how to reach a higher level of the Standard?

22. GoodGovernance • Users of the product: local government units and their employees in Poland • Recipients of the product (end beneficiaries): all people - users of public services provided by the offices

23. Otherprojects • Database of Products and Projects on the NSI website(in Polish): http://kiw-pokl.org.pl/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=33&Itemid=297&lang=pl • Publications(in Polish and English): http:/111/kiw-pokl.org.pl/images/biblioteka_kiw/materialy_kiw/podreczniki_poradniki/czas_innowacji_2.pdf http://kiw-pokl.org.pl/images/biblioteka_kiw/materialy_kiw/podreczniki_poradniki/czas_innowacji.pdf

24. Thank you very much for yourattention! Magdalena Karczewska Paulina Chodyra National SupportingInstitution Center of EuropeanProjects magdalena.karczewska@cpe.gov.pl paulina.chodyra@cpe.gov.pl www.kiw-pokl.org.pl