The reports and video recording of baSE events are now available!
During the events, the partners of baSE presented the project in their home countries, making its aims known, thus to reinforce the human capital of social economy, by forming an alliance based on skills needed for the twin transition, digital and green.
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Ireland
The event was organized by The Wheel and it included three sessions. One focused on skills needed in SE, and how to identify them, a second, led by experts in the sector, researched the future-ready skills for Social Economy. To conclude, the keynote final speech included an intervention from Social Economy Europe, their plan and democratic participation program.
Spain
The event was led by Mondragon University and Corporation. It introduced which strategies for education and training exists to respond to challenges in the Social Economy sector in Spain. The main fields over which the event focused on are digital, green, and inclusiveness. Different stakeholders from universities, Spanish government, and Mondragon Corporation intervened, and they discussed about the current and future perspectives for the mentioned topics.
Poland
During their launch event, the Polish organizations FISE (FUNDACJA INICJATYW SPOŁECZNO-EKONOMICZNYCH) and SZOWES invited authorities in the SE sector in Poland to intervene about the training needs of workers into SE. The launch event laid the ground for discussions on the law on SE and social organizations, and its negative and positive effects on local economy, with the participation of regional and municipal stakeholders and representatives.
Slovenia
DOBA Business School organised a round table on the needs for standards in the Social Economy in Slovenia. The event discussed the engagement of Slovenia in SE and which issues arose in the field, in particular over the standards of education and of a supportive environment. This issue of the need for standardization mainly focuses on creating uniform criteria to guide the development of the social economy, and it was the key topic of the conference.
Greece
The Greek event, led by AKMI International, offered a targeted presentation about the project and explain to the SEO representatives how they can be involved in the project and about the future steps. Moreover, they gave specific insights from the WP2- research phase and presented the key points from the national report. Additionally, SocioComp was presented with the chosen methodology, so to discuss with the participants the applicability and possible improvements related to the Greek realities.
Romania
The two Romanian partners shared the project in their respective events, in Bucharest and Iasi.
The event “SocioComp: skills for social economy professionals. The need to redefine the skills of current occupational standards” was organized by CLNR. It focused on the development of SocioComp, the skills’ compass for social economy professionals, and on the need to redefine the skills of current occupational standards. There were discussed the project’s results in the context of the Romanian social economy sector and how it would contribute to the development of social economy in Romania.
The second one, “Skills and knowledge for social economy professionals” was led by ADV Romania. It brought together managers and support personnel from various social enterprises, who discussed how to align competencies required for social economy with the current market requirements and challenges.
Germany
The german partners (University of Hildesheim, Innova eG) presented baSE in two key events: at the “Shaping rural areas with citizens’ cooperatives” conference, and with a workshop on the fields of action and funding opportunities for cooperative economics, as part of the start-up week with the “KET-Competence Workshop for Entrepreneurship and Transfer”. The topics over which they discussed were how to deal with public housing projects, and how to realize social-based ideas in a startup context, and, on the wider perspective, which skills are useful to have success in this kind of projects.
Italy
The Italian partners discussed baSE during two events.
“The challenge of skills: the Third Sector among social innovation and new technologies”, was dedicated to Tranining, Education, and Employment. Organised by ENAIP NET, it illustrated the blueprint strategy within the research for needs and vital competencies in the labour market for the next years. Authoritative stakeholders in the sectors, from the partnership and local universities have contributed to the event.
Secondly, AICCON presented the project during the “Bertinoro Days for Civil Economy”. Different stakeholders participated, coming from the Italian social economy sector, particularly presidents and directors of cooperatives and associations, and students at graduate level.
Belgium
The Belgian partners (ConcertES, Université de Liège) organized an event on skills and competencies for social economy and how to plan trainings and job profiles for their development. The event involved SE organisations of no-profit and consulting kind, and enterprises. The general objective was to lay together the ground for a training apt for practical needs of workers within Social Economy and how to support them better in the green, inclusive, and digital sector.
France
The French partners (ESS, Agroparistech) organized their launch event on the topic of ecological transition within the group “Economie Sociale et Solidaire” (Social and Solidarity Economy). It is composed by ten countries and aims at supporting their organisations by providing economic models in the perspective of creating added social value by delineating the needed skills for the sector. During the event, SEOs experts and scholars explored which are the vulnerabilities and openings in Social Economy for the training of young professionals and in a climate of economic crisis.
