Consortium of Social Cooperatives Elpendù 10 years of experience in Social Cooperation in Apulia

1. Consortium of Social Cooperatives Elpendù 10 years of experience in Social Cooperation in Apulia and in European Planning

2. Headquarter and Offices 70042 Mola di Bari - Via R. Canudo n.12 Phone number: +39 (0)80 47.37.580 Fax number: +39 (0)80 47.31.042 E-mail address: elpendu@elpendu.it Web site: www.elpendu.it

3. Purpose and Title The Consortium's purpose may be inferred from the name itself: as a matter of fact, ELPENDÙ is an Italian acronym sounding like the English verbal expression “ to Help and Do". Help: whom and why? Article 3 of the Statute states: "The Consortium is supposed to be a useful tool intended to increase the general interest of common people for human advancement and social integration …“ Do: what? being a tool able to match professional abilities, planning activities, entrepreneurial and social spirit, “launching on the market" a particular form of "Social Private Organisation": the social enterprise.

4. ELPENDÙ’s activities • designing and implementing pilot projects. These latter are completely innovative in the field of human assistance and promotion and of social and labour integration of underprivileged people; • Carrying out research in the social field • taking on, from public and private authorities, commitments concerning: management of social, health and educational services; realization of works intended to promote the working integration of socially underprivileged people; • organising and managing professional training courses as well as qualification, re-training and refresher courses;

5. ELPENDÙ’s activities • creating Agencies and Monitoring Centres intended to study, monitor and promote the way how social Co-operation develops in different fields where intervention is required. They are also intended to supply services also including the planning of interventions supported by regional, national and community aids; • promoting, organising and holding conferences, studies and surveys concerning human advancement and social integration of citizens; • disseminating informative tools,as well as scientific textbooks dealing with institutional issues and research in the social field.

6. The Elpendù’s network ESCOOP European Social Cooperative L’APE Agency for Promotion of social Cooperation LEGACOOP DROM National Consortium for Social Cooperation NATIONAL PARTNERS ETHIC BANK Elpendù Consortium TRANSNATIONAL PARTNERS PROJECT’s SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES THEMATIC WORKING GROUPS Associated Social – Cooperative

7. COUNTRIES WHICH ELPENDU’ COLLABORATES WITH Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Elpendù Partner Partner Partner Partner

8. Elpendù’s Projects • Project for an intervention dedicated to female cooperators working in social enterprises. Financed within the framework of the Italian Law n. 125/91 - “Positive actions for the realization of man-woman equality at work” The project, after having analysed the working condition of women working in social Cooperatives and their demand for professional growth, has realized a training pathway, aiming to their managerial advancement. • HAND Project Financed within the framework of the EMPLOYMENT Community Initiative, Youthstart sector The project has been realized in six Italian regions. Even if it was designed, submitted and led by Elpendù, the Apulia Region (the region where the Consortium’s office is situated), did not financed the projectual aspect that should have been realized in its region. The project realized a training pathway and for enterprise formation in the field of construction, by using biocompatible techniques, respectful for the environment and the local building tradition.

9. FUTURE KEEPING Project Financed within the framework of the ADAPTCommunity Initiative • The project realized a map of the Apulian families’ demands, through a research that involved 1500 families, living in 101 towns and analysed the professional profiles required to satisfy the emerged needs, predisposing and testing the training pathway for some professional profiles. The research had been published and used by the University of Lecce as a didactic tool. • HOME Project, The House of Man for a New Wellbeing Financed on base of the Article 10 ERDF, REGIONAL AND LOCAL INNOVATIVE ACTIONS • The project experimented the cooperation between different Public Corporations and enterprises, of both private and no-profit making nature, aiming at reclaiming the building patrimony applying biocompatible techniques and at employing socially underprivileged workers, strongly involving the citizens living in the neighbourhood where the intervention was realized, both in the planning and operative phase.

10. ARTIFICIO Project, Creativity as Enterprise - EMPLOYMENT Community Initiative - II Turn, Youthstart Sector • The project has proposed a training pathway for underprivileged minors (penal area, risk of involvement in criminal activities) and has been focused on some technical works in the fields of show and of recreational activities and gamesorganisation. • CRADLE TO CRADLE Project, Creativity as Enterprise EMPLOYMENT Community Initiative - II Turn, Youthstart sector • The project, planned in two areas of the country (North and South), was financed only for the Northern one. The purpose consisted in realizing different activities (research, training and enterprises start-up), aimed at re-using building materials coming from demolitions and at turning them into new materials that could have been reintroduced in the productive process.

11. IMAGES Project EMPLOYMENT Community Initiative – II Turn,HORIZON Sector • The project had the purpose to study and design new modalities to sensitize the public opinion, aimed at making people recognize the full right to life and work of the handicapped person, and the role that the social enterprise plays through the media, by activating, among other activities, a sensitization campaign. • STARe Project Prime Ministership – Tourism Department • Survey on the accessibility conditions and realization of a map on touristic structures for people with special needs: Hotels, Museums, Restaurants; Railway Stations, Airports, Beaches, Campings etc.

12. INTER-MEDIA Project– European Union against discriminations with the support of the European Commission – General Direction of Labour and Social Affairs • The project was concerned about the spreading of non-discriminating customs in and through the media. A Local Agency for Social Communication (Alcos) was established in four European Countries (Italy, Spain, France and Greece), which realized: 1. A survey on the relation “diversity-media”, 2. Deep- interviews to people representing categories liable to discrimination (because of racial and ethnic origins, religion belief, handicap, age and sexual orientations); 3. Monitoring and analysis on what has been published by newspapers on the subject; 4. A press office in each Country; 5. Seminars involving people working in the field of Communication; 6. Publication of the results. • Euroteatro Project- “Culture 2000” Community Initiative • The project, through the organisation of workshops and the realization of a theatrical performance, has experimented and codified good practices aimed at the social integration of handicapped people through theatrical activities.

13. Project for “Burn-Out”prevention in psychiatric therapeutical-rehabilitativeactivitiesEUROPEAN AGENCY FOR SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK • It had realized training activities, structures and organisational styles and defined decision - making modalities concerning the working activities able to prevent and manage the interpersonal and organisational stress which causes the“Burn - Out” syndrome. A publication and a handbook have been published (in Engish too) available on-line on the website www.elpendu.it. • “Nodi territoriali per la formazione manageriale e sviluppo dell’Impresa Sociale” Project IT-G-PUG-110 (Territorial knots for managerial training and Social Enterprise advancement) - EQUALCommunity Initiative • “Nodi Territoriali” created a network of territorial “knots” on the Apulian territory and activated an on-line service aimed at supplying real services for social cooperatives enterprises and realized a managerial training process for the leading groups of the latter.

14. IT-G-PUG-0109 “Cure & Care”Project– EQUALCommunity Initiative • It has experimented a “Public-private territorial department” to offer socio-health services, moving from the “cure” to the “taking care”. • Starting from the analysis of the socio-health demands of the population living in the District of Brindisi and from the analysis of the socio-health workers’ training needs, the mixed public-private supply of socio-health services has been experimented on the territory, by means also of telemedicine techniques. • IT-G-PUG-0111 “Double Spiral”Project - EQUALCommunity Initiative • It was aimed at designing, starting and experimenting a socio-health service of cure, resilience, rehabilitation and re-socialization for patients suffering from “double diagnosis” syndrome caused by psychiatric disorders and problems of pathologic drugs-addiction (alcoholism included). • In Italy, the two pathologies are cured in a separate way by two specific health Services that hardly ever co-operate, while a service that takes care for the patient suffering from double diagnosis syndrome, is missing. An epidemiologic research run by the project, showed that the double diagnosis syndrome affected the 73% of the analysed patients. The results of the research can be viewed on the web site of the Consortium Elpendù.

15. IT-G-PUG-093 Project “Eco Canoni: training principles and reclaiming techniques in bio-building” - EQUALCommunity Initiative • The project “EcoCanoni” allowed, apart from editing a handbook of best practices for Public Administrations, to train and start socially underprivileged people in work in the field of building patrimony and street furniture’s reclaim, by the adoption of bio-compatible techniques. The Elpendù Consortium led the training processes and, through the social cooperative “L’obiettivo” (member of the Consortium), it started the trained socially underprivileged people in work. • IT-G-PUG-012 Project Innovative pathways of the social economy in the environmental field - EQUALCommunity Initiative • The project, carried out by a partnership composed by members representing different Public Bodies, had the purpose to promote the social enterprise in the field ofenviromental protection.

16. EQUAL COMMUNITY INITIATIVE II Turn • IT-G2-PUG 038 Project - “Per l’Impresa Sociale” (For the Social Enterprise) The project aims to realize innovative Actions for the advancement of Social Co-operation. • IT-G2-PUG 043 Project - “Social Crafts” The project will develop actions aiming at the working integration of underprivileged people in the field of high quality and artistic handicrafts.

17. EQUAL COMMUNITY INITIATIVE II Turn • IT-G2-PUG 080 “Equal Time” Project The Project’s objective is to develop actions aiming to create the conditions to realize gender equal opportunities, particularly in the agricultural field. • IT-G2-PUG 002 Project “Vivo di Spettacolo”The Project’s aim is to allow the underground work in the field of show to emerge and promote the employment of all the professional profiles linked to show.

18. POR PUGLIA 2000-2006 – Measure 3.4 Training course for socio-cultural worker Project “LA COMPAGNIA DEI CELESTINI” The project “La Compagnia dei Celestini” is focused on a training pathway aiming at promoting social integration, job creation, support to self–entrepreneurship, particularly in the Third Sector and in new employment fields - by defining the professional profile of the socio-cultural worker competent in recreational, cultural and sports activities. The role of the socio-cultural worker implies the acquisition of skills in fields such as communication, promotion of the participation in groups and communities, technical/relational abilities and competences, based on game and creative organisation and experimentation.

19. POR PUGLIA 2000-2006 Measure 3.4 Project “ARTEINCORSO” Training course for actors The action consists in training “actors”. The project is intended to favour the enhancement and development of proper skills necessary to allow the underprivileged person to acquire an artistical professional profile. The theatrical experience offers the opportunity to build a symbolic dimension where the individual can live relational, emotional, behavioural, imaginative experiences and then relate and report them outside the theatrical experience, within the “real life”.

20. Associated Cooperatives - Activities and staff

21. PUBLICATIONSHAND Project (IC/0286/Y) – Employment C. I. – Youthstart Sector • La strada verso OZ: Cantieri possibili (The road to OZ: possible yards) • Sviluppo e sperimentazione di modello integrativo transnazionale per la formazione, la qualificazione e l’occupazione di giovani in situazione svantaggiata come operatori edili esperti in tecniche ecologiche e artigianali tradizionali (Development and experimentation of a transnational integrative model for training, qualification and employment of underpriviledged young people in the field of building with expertise in ecological and artisanal traditional techniques) • Atti del convegno conclusivo del progetto HAND(Proceedings of the final conference of the HAND project) – Ravello, December 18 1998 “Bioarchitecture, training and new jobs. The results of an experimentation”

22. PUBLICATIONS • Famiglia e qualità della vita in Puglia, (Family and quality of life in Apulia),byLuigi Za – Future Keeping Project (IC/009/A) - ADAPTC. I. • Prove aperte di cittadinanza. Strategie di partecipazione e pratica dei Diritti di Cittadinanza nel Progetto Home (Open tests of citizenship. Strategies for participation and exertion of the Citizenship Rights in the Home Project) – ERDF - “Home” Project n. 101 Article 10 • “Home”: la casa dell’uomo, nuova qualità per un nuovo benessere(“Home”: the house of man, new quality for a new wellbeing) - ERDF - “Home” Project n. 101 Article 10

23. PUBLICATIONS • Nessuna Pietà (No mercy) – “IMAGES” Project (0330/E2/H/M) – Horizon Programme – II Turn • Essere Dire Vendere, i fabbisogni di Immagine, Comunicazione e Marketing delle cooperative IMAGES (Being Say Sell, the needs of Image, Communication and Marketing of the IMAGES cooperatives ) – “IMAGES” Project (0330/E2/H/M) – Horizon Programme – II Turn • La ricerca in Inter-media: approcci sperimentati e risultati ottenuti(The research in Inter-media: experimented approaches and obtained results) – “Inter-media” Project - Grant Agreement VS/2000/0698 CE – GD IV Employment and Social Affairs - Preparatory measures to fight and prevent discrimination

24. PUBLICATIONS • Manuale di teatro per persone con handicap(Handbook of theatre for handicapped people) –“Euro theatre” Project – Cultura 2000 C.I. • “Teatro e Disabilità”. Manuale di Buone Prassi (“Theatre and Disability”. Handbook of good practices)– “Euro theatre” Project – Cultura 2000 Programme • Vademecum ad uso degli operatori dei servizi terapeutici/riabilitativi psichiatrici(Vademecum for people working in psychiatric therapeutical/rehabilitative services) - “Burn out” Project – SME2002/4886/IT “Burn-out prevention in psychiatric therapeutical/rehabilitative activities”

25. PUBLICATIONS EQUAL CommunityInitiative – I Turn • Malattia e Cura nella provincia di Brindisi, (Disease and Cure in the Brindisi District), by Luigi Za - “Cure&Care” Project (IT-G-PUG-109) • Manuale operativo per l’integrazione delle politiche sociali locali(Operating handbook for the integration of local social policies) –“Nodi territoriali per la formazione e sviluppo dell’impresa sociale” Project (IT-G-PUG-110)

26. PUBLICATIONS EQUAL CommunityInitiative – I Turn • Guida al Manuale della Qualità per le imprese sociali(Guide to the Quality Handbook for social enterprises), University of Lecce, Department of Philosophy and Social Science –“Nodi territoriali per la formazione manageriale e sviluppo dell’impresa sociale” Project (IT-G-PUG-110) • Il laboratorio Ecocanoni: la ricerca(The Ecocanoni yard: the research) – “Ecocanoni: principi formativi e tecniche di recupero in bioedilizia” Project (IT-G-PUG-093)

27. PUBLICATIONS EQUAL CommunityInitiative – I Turn • Comorbidità fra disturbi mentali e dipendenze patologiche: il problema della cosiddetta “Doppia Diagnosi” (Comorbidity between mental disorders and pathologic drugs-addiction: the problem of the so called “Double Diagnosis”), by Guido Di Sciascio and Marcello Nardini – “Double Spiral” Project (IT-G-PUG-111) • Risultati di una ricerca epidemiologica nei Ser.T e nelle CT della provincia di Bari (Results of an epidemiological research in Services for drugs-addiction cure and Terapeuthical Communities in the Bari District) – Psychiatric comorbidity in drugs-addiction phenomena: the results of an epidemiological research - “Double Spiral” Project (IT-G-PUG-111)

28. PUBLICATIONS EQUAL CommunityInitiative – I Turn • Metodologia di una ricerca epidemiologica nei Ser.T e nelle CT della provincia di Bari (Methodology of an epidemiological research in Services for drugs-addiction cure and Terapeuthical Communities in the Bari District) – Psychiatric comorbidity in drugs-addiction phenomena: the results of an epidemiological research - “Double Spiral” Project (IT-G-PUG-111) • L’Innovazione nei Servizi Socio-Sanitari: sperimentazioni a confronto”(The innovation within Caring Services: comparison among experimentations) –A.S.C.E.S.A. Project (022-PUG-109/111) – Action 3

29. RESEARCH • Famiglia e qualità della vita in Puglia, (Family and quality of life in Apulia)by Luigi Za – “Future Keeping” Project (IC/009/A) - ADAPTC. I. The reasearch, inspired by the consideration that the needs of people and the social demands expressed by a society which is permanently in progress, are continuously changing, led to the design of a “RegionalMap of needs”, a tool by means of which the services suppliers can orienteer their training pathways and professional activity. The reasearch has, indeed, allowed to identify the specific skills and professional profiles required to satisfy the emerged needs and design an innovative training model to qualify the workers involved that has been tested in the implementation of the project. Finally the map, if properly updated, may represent a point of reference for public administrations to plan their activities.

30. RESEARCH • Essere Dire Vendere, i fabbisogni di Immagine, Comunicazione e Marketing delle cooperative IMAGES(Being Say Sell, the needs of Image, Communication and Marketing of IMAGES cooperatives )–“IMAGES” Project (0330/E2/H/M) – Horizon Programme– II Turn The research actions planned by the project implied the organization of proper communication workshops, where contents have been confronted and productive techniques experimented, to create new services and supporting activities for institutional communication in cooperatives. This committment has allowed to enrich the professional abilities of the people involved, to provide social enterprises with technical-operating tools and bring a new entity to life, in the form of a national agency that will continue to propose and organize campaigns, events, services for the social communication.

31. RESEARCH • La ricerca in Inter-media: approcci sperimentati e risultati ottenuti – (The research in Inter-media: experimented approaches and obtained results)– “Inter-media” Project-Grant Agreement VS/2000/0698 CE–GD IV Employment and Social Affairs Preparatory measures to fight and prevent discrimination Aim of the research has been that of detecting a possible critical behaviour in citizens towards the media, for what concerned the image of social categories at risk of discrimination, diffused by the latter Thus, a first opinion survey has been carried out, in order to detect the level of discrimination in media towards the before mentioned social categories, according to people’s impression. The obtained data have been completed with targeted interviews, to supply a more articulate framework of information and knowledge. The results of the survey have highlighted differences in the meanings that the used words, such as “minority” and “discrimination”, have acquired in the different local communities. From this evidence, the need has arisen to deepen on the theorical level and standardize the meaning of the words themselves.

32. RESEARCH • Malattia e Cura nella provincia di Brindisi (Disease and Cure in the Brindisi District), by Luigi Za - “Cure&Care” Project (IT-G-PUG-109) The research implied an analysis of the networksofsocial relationships and of the emotional and caring needs of the people living in then territory of reference. Then an assessment of resources, needs, interests and availability both of those who make use of the service and of the parties that form the network supplying the latter has been carried out. The results have allowed to tailor the training pathway for people working both for public and in private bodies and to adapt the experimental socio-health activities to that of welfare. In this way, supporting networks may be activated for improving the quality of life and creating a new job of cure.

33. RESEARCH • Il laboratorio Ecocanoni: la ricerca(The Ecocanoni yard: research) – “Ecocanoni: principi formativi e tecniche di recupero in bioedilizia” Project (IT-G-PUG-093) Theworkshop was intended to promote a culture of quality inspired by higher environmental sustainability, thanks to the rediscovery of one’s own cultural identity. The starting point has been the research on the urban inhabitants of the towns of Mola di Bari and Taviano, involved in the project, concerning “ideological” guidelines, both formal and qualitative, which an action of reclaim of the urban context could have been inspired by and a training pathway of those working in the sector.

34. RESEARCH • Risultati di una ricerca epidemiologica nei Ser.T e nelle CT della provincia di Bari (Results of an epidemiological research in Services for drugs-addiction and Terapeuthical Communities in the Bari District) – Psychiatric comorbidity in drugs-addiction problems: the results of an epidemiological research - “Double Spiral” Project (IT-G-PUG-111) The “DOUBLE SPIRAL” project has hypothesized the possibility to face the problem of “Double Diagnosis” (disorders caused by psychiatric disorders and problems of drugs-addiction) by means of a preliminary epidemiological research, carried out by the Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Science of the University of Bari, that involved the users of all the Services for drugs-addiction cure in the District of Bari and has been addressed to the following aims: • To quantify the problem of “Double Diagnosis” on the territory; • To describe the personal data, the psychopathologic, psychosocial characteristics and those concerning the health of patients, in order to design both services and training plans for a wide range of professional roles and competences that are already employed in the sectors of psychiatry and drugs-addiction cure. • The results of the research have confirmed the seriousness of the socio-health problem, thus the Partnership of the Project has decided to pursue the training activities addressed to the workers involved and to experiment a proper service, that would have been interrupted in the case of non meaningful results. The research’s results have been published on the web site: www.elpendu.it