Consortium of Social Cooperatives
Elpendù
10 years of experience
in Social Cooperation in Apulia
and in European Planning
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: [email protected]
Web site: www.elpendu.it
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.
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;
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.
The Elpendù’s network
L’APE
Agency for Promotion of
social Cooperation
ESCOOP
European Social Cooperative
LEGACOOP
DROM
National Consortium for
Social Cooperation
NATIONAL PARTNERS
ETHIC
BANK
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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.
•FUTURE KEEPING Project Financed within the framework of the
ADAPT Community 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.
• 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 games organisation.
• 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.
•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.
•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.
•Project for “Burn-Out” prevention in psychiatric therapeuticalrehabilitative activities EUROPEAN 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) - EQUAL Community 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.
•IT-G-PUG-0109 “Cure & Care” Project – EQUAL Community 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 - EQUAL Community 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 drugsaddiction (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.
•IT-G-PUG-093 Project “Eco Canoni: training principles and reclaiming
techniques in bio-building” - EQUAL Community 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 - EQUAL Community 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 of enviromental protection.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
Associated Cooperatives - Activities and staff
Members Employees
Cooperative
office
type
Activities
Progetto Città
Bari
A
Game-recreational activities, minors
22
Questa Città
Gravina
A
Psychiatric rehabilitation
75
CSISE
Triggiano
A
Psychiatric rehabilitation - Minors
37
Alba
Mesagne
A
Rehabilitation for handicapped people
90
Cresciamo Insieme
Mesagne
A
Nursery school - Kindergarten
20
CAPS
Bari
A
Prevention of drugs–addiction
45
Demetra
Palagiano
A
Services to the people
198
L'Arca
Foggia
A
Services to the people
20
Luceria Servizi
Lucera
A
Services to the people
9
Ghenos
Mola di Bari
A
Services to the people
9
L'Obiettivo
Bari
B
Green areas maintenance, cleaning, etc.
130
Eureka
Martina Franca
B
Green areas maintenance, cleaning, etc.
25
Europa
Lucera
B
Green areas maintenance, cleaning, etc.
50
Il Girasole
Massafra
B
Green areas maintenance, cleaning, etc.
29
Ecopolis
Bari
B
Environment
15
Primavera
Taranto
B
Various services
9
L'Adelfia
Alessano
A
Services to the people
130
Oasi
Mesagne
A
Management of residential
communities for minors
20
Total
933
PUBLICATIONS
HAND Project (IC/0286/Y) – Employment C. I. – Youthstart Sector
• La strada verso OZ: Cantieri possibili (The
yards)
road to OZ: possible
• 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”
PUBLICATIONS
• Famiglia e qualità della vita in Puglia, (Family and
quality of life in Apulia), by Luigi Za – Future Keeping
Project (IC/009/A) - ADAPT C. 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
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
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”
PUBLICATIONS
EQUAL Community Initiative – 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 (ITG-PUG-110)
PUBLICATIONS
EQUAL Community Initiative – 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-PUG093)
PUBLICATIONS
EQUAL Community Initiative – 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-PUG111)
• Risultati di una ricerca epidemiologica nei Ser.T e
nelle CT della provincia di Bari (Results of an
epidemiological research in Services for drugsaddiction cure and Terapeuthical Communities in the
Bari District) – Psychiatric comorbidity in drugsaddiction phenomena: the results of an epidemiological
research - “Double Spiral” Project (IT-G-PUG-111)
PUBLICATIONS
EQUAL Community Initiative – 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 drugsaddiction cure and Terapeuthical Communities in the
Bari District) – Psychiatric comorbidity in drugsaddiction 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
RESEARCH
• Famiglia e qualità della vita in Puglia, (Family and quality of life in
Apulia) by Luigi Za – “Future Keeping” Project (IC/009/A) ADAPT C. 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 “Regional Map 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.
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.
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.
RESEARCH
•
Malattia e Cura nella provincia di Brindisi
Brindisi District),
109)
(Disease and Cure in the
by Luigi Za - “Cure&Care” Project (IT-G-PUG-
The research implied an analysis of the networks of social
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.
RESEARCH
• Il laboratorio Ecocanoni: la ricerca (The Ecocanoni yard:
research) – “Ecocanoni: principi formativi e tecniche di
recupero in bioedilizia” Project (IT-G-PUG-093)
The workshop 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.
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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-GPUG-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:
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To quantify the problem of “Double Diagnosis” on the territory;
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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 sociohealth 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