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RESULTS: Social entrepreneurship will be accepted as a new form of entrepreneurship; a network of social projects/enterprises will be created; a new model of cooperation agreements will be created which will be based on partnership instead of employee-employer -model; unemployed people will be given a possibility to participate development work of the society.

Objective

THE QUALITATIVE GOALS (primary): to test and develop social entrepreneurship in associations and in work cooperatives; to test and develop new practices to be used by authorities which would dissolve obstacles from social entrepreneurship; to develop a model through which an unemployed person or a group of unemployed can found a social enterprise; to test a new financing model in a project or in social entrepreneuship; to create a regional development network in the third sector which could be in charge of the administration or implementation of projects promoting social entrepreneurship; to develop indicators for social well-being; and to offer a new way of preventing structural unemployment.
MEASURES: to found Social Entrepreneurship Centers, to hire project innovators, to organise social entrepreneurship training, to employ and rehabilitate unemployed people, to offer services to companies and the public sector, to consolidate the third sector, to create a new network and a way of providing social services, to raise awareness and change attitudes, to draft motions in order to promote social entrepreneurship, to prepare associations and cooperatives for social entrepreneurship, to turn ideas into service products, to give the clients a possibility to directly particpate in the development of services etc.

Innovation

Nature of the experimental activities to be implemented	Rating
Integrated measures (pathway to integration)	***

Type of innovation	Rating
Process-oriented	***

Budget Action 2

500 000 – 1 000 000 €

Beneficiaries

Assistance to persons	M	F
Unemployed	50.0%	50.0%
Employed	0.0%	0.0%
Others (without status, social beneficiaries...)	0.0%	0.0%
	100.0%
	M	F
Migrants, ethnic minorities, …	0.0%	0.0%
Asylum seekers	0.0%	0.0%
Population not migrant and not asylum seeker	50.0%	50.0%
	100.0%
	M	F
Physical Impairment	0.0%	0.0%
Mental Impairment	0.0%	0.0%
Mental Illness	0.0%	0.0%
Population not suffering from a disability	50.0%	50.0%
	100.0%
	M	F
Substance abusers	0.0%	0.0%
Homeless	0.0%	0.0%
(Ex-)prisoners	0.0%	0.0%
Other discriminated (religion, sexual orientation)	0.0%	0.0%
Without such specific discriminations	50.0%	50.0%
	100.0%
	M	F
< 25 year	10.0%	10.0%
25 - 50 year	20.0%	20.0%
> 50 year	20.0%	20.0%
	100.0%

Assistance to structures and systems and accompanying measures	Rating
Support to entrepreneurship	***
Discrimination and inequality in employment	***

Promoting individual empowerment

Empowerment

With beneficiaries

Participation

Developing collective responsibility and capacity for action

Participation in the project design

Participation in running and evaluating activities

Changing attitudes and behavior of key actors

Between national partners

N.C.

Transnationality

Linguistic skills

suomi
English
italiano

Percentage of the budget for transnational activities

18.0%

Transnational Co-operation Partnerships

Transnational Co-operation Agreement	DPs involved
212 For the Social Enterprise	IT IT-G-PUG-110

Background

Involvment in previous EU programmes

Nobody involved in A&E

Networking

Interest in networking

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-University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
-University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
-Consorzio di Cooperative Sociali Elpendù scrl, Mola di Bari, Italy
-Social Cooperative Obiettivo, Bari, Italy
-Idekoop, Helsinki, Finland

Events

Last update: 15-05-2002 Top

-social enterprice management training-model for unemployed
-Third Sector’s finance model
-Monthly payment-system created together with the Employment and Economic Development Centre of Lapland
-Financial assistance for founding projects and social enterprices

Products

N.C.

National Partners

Partner	To be contacted for
Rovaniemen seudun sosiaalitalousyhdistys ry.	Co-ordination of experimental activities Design of the project DP managing organisation Evaluation Monitoring, data collection Transnational partnership
Kemi-Tornio seudun sosiaalitalousyhdistys ry
Lapin Yliopisto
Oulun seudun sosiaalitalousyhdistys ry
Raahen Kansalaistalo JYTY ry

Agreement Summary

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The partnership aims to elaborate a transnational model of social enterprice, to create tools to deliver real services specialized for social enterprices, to create a training model for the board of directors of social enterprice and to prepare and experiment a model of practical work training on grass-root level.

Project Centre, Kansankatu 17
FIN-96100 Rovaniemi

Rovaniemen seudun sosiaalitalousyhdistys ry.

Tel:+358 40 577 95 09
Fax:+358
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:	Co-ordination of experimental activities Design of the project DP managing organisation Evaluation Monitoring, data collection Transnational partnership
Type of organisation:	Other
Legal status:	Non-profit private organisation (including NGO...)
Size:	Staff 10-50
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-11-2001 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Koskiniemi	Hemmo Mr.	+358 40 577 95 09	hemmo.koskiniemi@pp.inet.fi	DP coordination

Kaivokatu 5
FIN-94100 Kemi
www.pohjoinenequal.info

Kemi-Tornio seudun sosiaalitalousyhdistys ry

Tel:+358 40 5194840
Fax:+358
Email:hipu.li@pp.inet.fi


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Social services
Legal status:	Non-profit private organisation (including NGO...)
Size:	Staff 10-50
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-05-2002 / 31-12-2004

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Grönroos	Jani Mr.	+358 40 5194840	hipu.li@pp.inet.fi	project implementation

Yliopistonkatu 8
P.O.Box 122
FIN-96101 Rovaniemi
www.urova.fi

Lapin Yliopisto

Tel:+358 16 341341
Fax:+358
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	University / Research organisation
Legal status:	Public organisation
Size:	Staff 50-250
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-05-2002 / 31-12-2004

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Lehtinen	Pirkko Ms.	+358 16 341341	pirkko.lehtinen@urova.fi	project implementation

Tarkka-ampujankatu 14
FIN-90120 Oulu
www.pohjoinenequal.info

Oulun seudun sosiaalitalousyhdistys ry

Tel:+358 50 3579505
Fax:+358
Email:juha.valtanen72@luukku.com


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Social services
Legal status:	Non-profit private organisation (including NGO...)
Size:	Staff 10-50
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-05-2002 / 31-12-2004

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Valtanen	Juha Mr.	+358 50 3579505	juha.valtanen72@luukku.com	project implementation

Kirkkokatu 22 L 3
FIN-92100 Raahe
www.pohjoinenequal.info

Raahen Kansalaistalo JYTY ry

Tel:+358 44 5220455
Fax:+358
Email:ari.tokola@kotinet.com


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Social services
Legal status:	Non-profit private organisation (including NGO...)
Size:	Staff 10-50
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-05-2002 / 31-12-2004

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Tokola	Ari Mr.	+358 44 5220455	ari.tokola@kotinet.com	project implementation

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Rationale

TULOKSET: Sosiaalinen yrittäjyys hyväksytään uudeksi yrittämisen muodoksi, syntyy sosiaalisten hankkeiden/yritysten keskinäinen DP -verkosto, syntyy uusi yhteistyösopimisen malli, joka perustuu työntekijä-työnantaja asetelman sijaan kumppanuuteen, sekä syntyy työttömälle uusi mahdollisuus osallistua yhteiskunnan kehittämistyöhön.

Objective

LAADULLISET TAVOITTEET (ensisijaisia): kokeilla ja kehittää sosiaalista yrittäjyyttä yhdistyksissä ja työosuuskunnissa, kokeilla ja kehittää uusia viranomaiskäytäntöjä, jotka raivaavat esteitä sosiaaliselta yrittämiseltä, kehittää toimintamalli jolla työtön tai työttömien ryhmä voi perustaa sosiaalisen yrityksen, kokeilla uutta projektin ja sosiaalisen yrittämisen rahoitusmallia, luoda alueellinen kolmannen sektorin kehittämisverkko, joka kykenee hallinnoimaan ja toteuttamaan sosiaalista yrittämistä edistäviä hankkeita, kehittää sosiaalisia hyvinvointimittareita sekä tarjota uusi keino rakennetyöttömyyden ehkäisemiseen.
TOIMENPITEET: Perustetaan sosiaalisen yrittämisen Centereitä, palkataan hankeinnovaattoreita, järjestetään sosiaalisen yrittämisen koulutusta, työllistetään ja kuntoutetaan työttömiä, tarjotaan palveluja yrityksille ja julkiselle sektorille, vahvistetaan kolmatta sektoria, synnytetään uusi sosiaalisten palvelujen verkosto ja tuottamistapa, vaikutetaan asenteisiin ja muutetaan niitä, tehdään esityksiä sosiaalisen yrittäjyyden edistämiseksi, valmennetaan yhdistyksiä ja osuuskuntia sosiaaliseen yrittäjyyteen, tuotteistetaan ideoita palveluiksi, annetaan asiakkaille suora mahdollisuus osallistua palvelujen kehittämiseen jne.