Joining the Pact for Skills on Proximity and Social Economy, the European Social Innovation Campus (ESIC) contributes to the challenge of the upskilling and reskilling of 5% of the workforce and entrepreneurs of the sector each year to tackle the green and digital transitions in the social economy by boosting social innovation capacities. The Alliance brings together higher education and vocational education and training, social economy organizations and enterprises from several European countries as well as European level actors. Drawing on evidence regarding the skills needs of occupational profiles, the Alliance boosts the provision of new skills and addresses skills mismatches by creating a new general Core Curriculum for the social economy and curricula to different EQF levels. The Alliance designs and delivers transnational education and training content, as well as co-produce teaching and training methodologies for quick uptake of the contents at regional and local levels and for emerging occupational profiles. In addition, the project will establish a strong communication and dissemination network, promoting the social economy sector as a career choice and supporting the development of a sense of initiative and entrepreneurial mind-sets in the EU.The Alliance will establish and maintain the European Social Innovation Campus platform that distributes project results (target number of the visitors: +10 000). The dynamic Skills Monitor integrated in the platform will host skills intelligence data in an open data format, and it will be accessible to all stakeholders and researchers. Events, meetings, and co-creation will integrate diverse actors into the process and help to disseminate its results. The target number of organizations in the research and local stakeholder committees: +70, number of learners in the training programmes pilots: +375, and number of people attending the dissemination events: +500.

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT Context:-The crisis of the labour market system in Europe, in particular in Southern Europe;-The appearance of a need is linked to the socioeconomic stability of the nucleolus; -There is a system of opportunities for the socio-employment/self employment integration of disadvantaged people.Therefore, the project focused on deepening these opportunities, working on social clauses, thus widening the spectrum on interventions Therefore, the project interacted with other service systems (social and health services, social cooperation, employment services) in order to: -increase the services' reading ability of the skills and competences of the disadvantaged person that are necessary for social and labour inclusion;-extend the range of employment inclusion and training opportunities for disadvantaged people.OBJECTIVESContribute to the improvement and modernization of policies, strategies and measures related to the training and social and labour inclusion of disadvantaged people. Specific objective: increase the opportunities for training, self-employment and job placement of disadvantaged people in the context of procurements, conventions and entrustment of goods/services by the Public Administration. NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS -10 partners of the project from 3 countries: Italy, Spain and Slovenia, in the following categories: one Educational Vocational Training Centre, one NGO, one Local Public body and one research institute in Italy; two foundations (one of which is public) and one Local Public body in Spain; one foundation, one NGO and one Regional Public body in Slovenia;-32 organisations involved in various capacities during the development of the project: five Social Services; two Social and Health Services; one Regional Public body, four Employment Centres, six Associations, ten Social Cooperatives, two Training Institution, one Social Enterprise, one Religious moral body. ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT DURING THE PROJECT:Analysis of regulations and good practices related to public procurement with social clausesDefinition of a tool for training, support and social and work integration/self-employment of disadvantaged people and an easy to use compendiumInterviews with operators of social services, employment centres, administration agencies, start-up incubators in order to define the training needs of operatorsDefinition of technical and professional skills for all the operators involved at all levels in the social and occupational integration/self-employment of disadvantaged peoplePreparation of the four training modules for operators, equipped with boards, questionnaires, module development models Application of models and tools: n. 21 courses for disadvantaged users, n. 265 participants, n. 3 courses on social clauses, n. 23 participants, n. 9 procurement with social causesElaboration of the evaluation plan and evaluation of the models. EXPECTED RESULTS:Increase the employability through the application of social clauses in public procurementImprove and widen the network of partners and transmit the training models and guidelines prepared for their application even in areas that are not involved in the partnershipImprovement of the design and management skills of the training to support the social/work/self-employment integration of disadvantaged people in relation to the work of contamination and permeation of different cultures of reference. METHODOLOGY USED IN THE PROJECTThe project involved the comparative analysis and the elaboration and, therefore, the sharing of guidelines, tools, training models, evaluation models aimed at increasing the possibilities of integration into the world of work of disadvantaged people. EXPECTED IMPACT AND LONG-TERM BENEFITS Output O1 created a theoretical operational product that can potentially be spread and applicable not only among PMT members, but also in the European context. Enhancement of the opportunities for social and working inclusion of disadvantaged people and at the same time improve the quality and effectiveness of training programmes for operators. Models for training operators will continue to be used after the trial, which will allow them to be further disseminated.A system-wide, long-term impact was also provided in terms of improving the network of services for training, inclusion and work in order to significantly increase the effectiveness and efficiency of all services involved in the training and integration of disadvantaged people.

Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) target different disadvantaged groups of people with a distance to the labour market. Skills shortages and mismatches currently affect WISE’s in several dimensions, especially regarding digital skills. In this context, there is a clear need of developing a comprehensive European strategy to tackle the skills gaps in the WISEs sector, covering the skills needs of disadvantaged workers, their supporters (e.g. job coaches) and of those who can enable an adequate working environment (e.g. managers). The aim of the B-WISE project is to develop and implement a new strategic approach (Blueprint) to sectoral cooperation on skills needed to reinforce the empowering work of WISEs and to sustainably tackle the digitalisation challenges they face. We plan to achieve it by building a sustainable alliance which pursues the following specific objectives:- To develop a common methodology for assessing the current situation and anticipating future needs- To identifying sector-specific labour market needs and to analyse the responsiveness of existing VET systems - To identify, document and promote good practices at national and regional level - To identify occupational profiles that need to be revised or created - To respond to identified skills needs (especially in digital area) through recommendations to create/update transnational vocational training content - To produce a credible & sustainable plan on how to match demand and supply of identified skills - To build a strong and sustainable community supporting appropriate quality and level of skills growth, innovation and competitiveness in the sector- To design a long-term action plan for the progressive roll-out of the strategy after the project has finished- To promote the attractiveness of the WISE sector as a career choice and to raise awareness on the importance of the use of digital technologies to support disadvantaged groups in work placement