Rationale

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The creation of DP is necessary for strengthening of the tertiary sector and its use within the support of disadvantaged groups on a labour market, in the including of physically (health) handicapped to the society and in the use of the turistic potential of the Beskydy region for the social tourism development.In Czech Republic, the tertiary sector is only starting to develop. On total employment it deals only 3-4%, however a dynamic development is expected.Further intensive social economy development is limited by unsufficient legislative framework, unsufficient human resources and other capacities. For the tertiary sector is typical low ability to create partnerships on regional/ local level or on the same professional aim, communication and representative platform in individual places (as local coalition, discussion forum, legal subjects cooperatives, etc.). It is a financially weak sector with insufficient amount of programmes, which would support it.
Project is aimed at strenghtening of the terciary sector, with a special impact on the sector of social tourism development (=tourism for everybody). There are few reasons for that:
1) Social tourism is one of the directions to which the services will be moving
2) Tourism has become an essential part of our lives and lifestyles, but not everyone is able to travel. Especially the handicapped are significantly discriminated.
3) Tourism is a sector, to which other sector are tied up, and it stimulates their development, brings new entrepreneurship possibilities and at the same time new workplaces creation
4) Place of the product realisation - Region of Moravskoslezsko, especially Moravian- Silesian Beskydy mountains enable vast possibilities of tourism development. Except for the social tourism development is this region characteristic for its high unemployment (the longterm unemployment create 50% of total).

Objective

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During the action 1:
- To strenghten a high-quality and functional partnership among cooperating organizations, which will lead to finding of an innovation solving-mode for existing forms of a discrimination and disparity at the job market and in society. That aim will be achived by a careful selection of partner-organizations, through their radical analysis, drawing up of a detailed program for action 2 and through a time-schedule with a clearly determinate characters, aims, strategies and rules of a comunikation
For a fullfilment of that aim will answer a management group, that will be formed by representatives from the all partner-organizations and workgroups-leaders.
- The transnational linking-up, which will bring the project an added value (an innovation element for DP, an inter-enrichment between the partners - new knowledge, progressions, solutions). That aim will be achived, if the DP make clear all aims, problems and activities, that it want through the transnational cooperation to solve, before the own finding of transnational partners. There has to be a role and a responsibility of each partner, a work program and a metodology of an information sharing characterized in the TCA.
Fro a fullfilment of that aim will answer a workgroup for the transnational cooperation. Its structure will be specified during tha action 1.

During the action 2:
- To enforce new resources for a control of the discrimination and the disparity, that bear on a job market, through the multinational cooperation.
- To enforce the social economy (the third sector), mainly community services with an oriantation at an quality-increase of work places and an increase of the third sector-capacity through a stakeholders - cooperation
- To extend opportunities of working exercise in the social economy - sector, to increase competitions of the participants for a pursuit in social companies.
- To support a creation of new social companies and a develompent of existing social companies
- To open up the region Beskydy to all - also to the handicapped people (health-handicapped), who - for an innate reason - are not able to satisfy their needs of travelling and holidays.

During the action 3:
- To extend the best outcomes and experience from the action 2 (checked in practice) into others regions, optionally into others sectors and their enforcement into regional and national policies and at transnational level with a joint on national and transnational subject networks. A sustainable yield of the outcomes will be guaranteed by a fulfilment of that aim.

The needs of the beneficiaries will be taken into consideration in all project phases. Activities aimed at the described goals fullfilment wil come out of the needs of the beneficiaries (will be detected during Action 1 and 2). The beneficiaries and their representatives will contribute to the project realisation (the involvement of the beneficiaries in the output creation and its practical testing), so that the project results would be "fit" exactly to their needs.

Innovation

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Innovativeness lies in a brandnew approach, which has not been tried in the Czech Republic yet, to solve the problems such as discrimination, unequality on a labour market and a social inclusion of handicapped.The innovativeness principle is aimed at procedure, goal and context and it will be realised on a regional level
The procedure aim - development or improvement of new or existing tools, workmethods and approaches - innovative educational programs.
The goal aim - qualification or requalification preparation of people whose placement is difficult, finding new possibilities of employment on the market - qualified help in finding one's own social company to the people from the disadvantaged groups, strengthening of the partnership with the municipalities and entrepreneurship sector on a regional level, increase of the capacity within the nonprofit organisations and communal entities in terms of social economy, strengthening and development of tertiary sector and its use in the support of disadvantaged groups on a labour market, support of new forms of social services, to provide the inclusion into the regular life of people from the discriminated or disadvantaged on the labour market groups by the help of social service organisations
The context aim: the orientation for changes enforcement in already established systems and institutional structures - stimulating the interest of local municipalities towards social economy, pursueing a communication improvement and cooperation of subjects of communal sector (regions, towns, social service providers).

Budget Action 2

500 000 – 1 000 000 €

Beneficiaries

Empowerment

 With beneficiaries

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The primary beneficiary group - Citizens threatened or affected by longterm unemployment
a) people in the age before the retirement age
Main barriers: age + often low qualification, health problems, low demand for the profession on the labour market, insufficient supply of adequate requalification courses for older age group
b) Women after maternity leave, women with small children
Main barriers: children, longer period of economical inactivity.
c) handicapped people
Main barriers - health limitations, often together with lower qualification and education, higher age, higher ratio of sickness, unsufficiently developped infrastracture among employers, demotivation from the social benefits
d) Tourism graduates
Main barriers: no experience, possibility to go to maternity leave (women) lack of the market orientation, overview or contatcs for possibility of starting an entrepreneurship.

The secondary beneficiary group
1) Health handicapped (with the exception for mentally handicapped)
They have a problem not only with labour market approach, but also with the social inclusion in general. There is lack of supply on the market, which would respect and satisfy their needs in the field of tourism.
In the Czech Republic there is more than one million of people (rough estimate 1,2 mil., accurate figure not available) with health handicap.
2) Community sector organisation
a) Social companies - organisations which associate and care for health handicapped, which offer social services to the handicapped and their family members
b) public organisations (local municipalities), private organisations (profit and nonprofit) which are active in the field of tourism, education and consulting

 Between national partners

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N.C.

Transnationality

 Percentage of the budget for transnational activities

• 10.0%

 Transnational Co-operation Partnerships

Background

 Involvment in previous EU programmes

• Two and more partners involved in A&E

National Partners

Agreement Summary

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The added value of transnational cooperation in the project aimed at social economy will be very significant. It is a field, which has been in Czech Republic only developping, whereas in the EU countries there are longterm experiences in it. Social economy came to existence in France, from where it spread to other EU countries. Today it plays a significant role and it attracts a great deal of attention in the following EU countries – Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlans, Ireland, Danemark, Finnland, Austria, Sweden (source: First European conference about social economy in the countries of middle and eastern Europe, Prague,2002).
From his own experiences, the applicant knows, that the international cooperation helps to find innovative solutions, leads to common exchange of information and experiences, enables the application of new methods, which were already created, tested and evaluated in different conditions, or to participate in training programmes.
When searching for international partners to into agreement by signing the transnational cooperation agreement, a key role will be played by the aim of the project, beneficiary groups and activities, which could be a subject to finding a solution within international partnership. Its role will be played by the length of project duration and the language.
The DP „Beskydy pro všechny“ („Beskydy for all“) does not have a specifically defined countries for the cooperation . Because of the history of social economy and the amount of financial means used in that field, it is possible to presume that the optimal results could be from the cooperation with the countries like Italy, Finnland or France or from the countries, which do have greater experiences with the social economy, and their experiences will be possible to use in finding an innovative solution.

KAZUIST,spol. s r.o.

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Destinační management Moravsko-Slezský, o. p. s.

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Hospodářská rozvojová agentura třinecka, Podnikatelské centrum, s.r.o.

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Institut Rozvoje Podnikání,s.r.o.

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Kvalifikační a personální agentura, o.p.s. Třinec

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Národní asociace pro rozvoj podnikání

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RPIC-ViP s.r.o.

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Regionální rada rozvoje a spolupráce se sídlem v Třinci

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SILVER B.C. společnost s ručením omezeným

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Slezská Diakonie

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TRIANON

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Beskydy pro vsechny