Social Enterprises Sustainability Network
SENSENET - Social Enterprises Sustainability Network is a project focused on creating a Learning Network Model to support Social Economy Enterprises managers and human resources, who face challenges in dealing with the recruitment, welcome and retention of vulnerable people.
SENSENET aims to raise awareness on social economy and its importance as an engine of social innovation and to foster mutual learning and exchange of good practices among different European countries on diversity management in social economy. Furthermore, SENSENET stands to build capacity of SEE's and SEO's managers and human resources to include diversity in their recruitment and management processes and to improve their performance in terms of social innovation and cohesion. |
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Check out the videos released by the SENSENET partners in which they present you all the project outcomes!
(IO1) “Enhancing diversity in social economy organisations and enterprises across the European Union – a state-of-the-art on existing practices”
Clémence PÉCAUT, Fondation Agir Contre l’Exclusion
(IO2) "SEO's Performance Assessment Tool"
Stefania Salaris, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini
(IO3) "SEOs’ Managers and Human Resources Learning Programme"
Joana Portugal, Aproximar
(IO4) "SEOs’ Learning Network Model"
Kate Maria Vinther, Det Lærende Fængsel
(IO1) “Enhancing diversity in social economy organisations and enterprises across the European Union – a state-of-the-art on existing practices”
Clémence PÉCAUT, Fondation Agir Contre l’Exclusion
(IO2) "SEO's Performance Assessment Tool"
Stefania Salaris, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini
(IO3) "SEOs’ Managers and Human Resources Learning Programme"
Joana Portugal, Aproximar
(IO4) "SEOs’ Learning Network Model"
Kate Maria Vinther, Det Lærende Fængsel
Short-term Joint Staff Training Event organized by DLF
The Joint Staff Training Event was hosted by SENSENET partner DLF in June 2020.
The SENSENET partners agreed on the goal of the Join Staff Training to test the viability of the Coaching Module and collect data on the possible use of SENSENET while enabling the participants to use and promote the usage of the SENSENET tools. Due to the ongoing pandemic in Europe a physical meeting in Denmark, as anticipated, was not possible and therefore the workshops were hosted online. The participation for the three workshop days (6 hours in total) was supported by a Learning Management System as well as a video conference tool. The facilitation was carried out by Kate Maria Vinther, Dr. Glenn Frommer, Jan W. Andreassen and Robert Vollstedt and supported by the SENSENET partner organizations. About 33 people participated during the workshop days (03/06, 09/06 & 12/06), averaging on about 25 people per day. Read the summary report here. |
Portugal - Pilot training on the topic "Performance and Inclusion of the Social Economy" under the SENSENET program
The mission of Aproximar (one of the Portuguese partners) is to value the social and human capital of organizations as a strategy to sustainably respond to challenges and opportunities raised by the environment. In this sense, Aproximar has worked in the past years to the growth of the social economy in Portugal, namely through the capacity-building of managers and social entrepreneurs. The main focus has been on strategic planning, creation of social business plans or organizational management, introducing interactive methodologies that encourage participants to self-reflect and go deeper into their work. Several sessions have already been held, the most recent one being a pilot training on the topic "Performance and Inclusion of the Social Economy" under the SENSENET program. This training took place between January and February 2020 and aimed to empower Social Economy organizations in terms of performance and diversity management. We counted with 11 participants from 8 organizations across the Lisbon area. To find out more about Aproximar's work in this area, contact us: [email protected] or visit our website www.aproximar.pt |
SENSENET Performance Assessment Tool is now available!
This tool acts as a wake-up call for users! It helps managers and human resources integrating diversity in their processes, enabling them to diagnose their knowledge and learning needs and providing them a set of recommendations, in terms of recruitment and management. It is composed by an online questionnaire, to be used whenever and wherever the organisations are, offering additional resources, including a glossary.
Please use the questionnaire to discover your own organizations level of D&I practices and reflect on challenges to improve:
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French
Dansk
Portuguese
Romanian
Italian
This tool acts as a wake-up call for users! It helps managers and human resources integrating diversity in their processes, enabling them to diagnose their knowledge and learning needs and providing them a set of recommendations, in terms of recruitment and management. It is composed by an online questionnaire, to be used whenever and wherever the organisations are, offering additional resources, including a glossary.
Please use the questionnaire to discover your own organizations level of D&I practices and reflect on challenges to improve:
English
French
Dansk
Portuguese
Romanian
Italian
4th March 2019: Launch of the report “Enhancing diversity in social economy organisations and enterprises across the European Union – a state-of-the-art on existing practices”
Evidence review on best practices to assess the SEOs’ needs and existing learning programmes is the first intellectual output of SENSENET project and its result, the report Enhancing diversity in social economy organisations and enterprises across the European Union – a state-of-the-art on existing practices, is now available to be consulted.
The present publication is an exploratory research at the national and European level on existing best practices to support micro, small or medium social economy enterprises and organisations. The identified practices are focused on improving SEOs’ managers and human resources performance by enhancing the potential of disadvantage workers. This report is the result of all the outcomes gathered by SENSENET partners which have approached several stakeholders at the local level and collected their practices but also their needs. It will present encouraging practices, on which basis SENSENET partners formulated recommendations to build accurate and efficient tools, sticking to SEOs and SEEs needs in terms of recruiting and managing diverse human capital to foster their performance. |
GLOBAL SOCIAL ECONOMY FORUM
October 1-3, 2018, Bilbao, Spain |
European Day for Social Economy Enterprises
June 4th 2018, Brussels, Belgium |
The 4th edition of the Global Social Economy Forum GSEF2018 will take place in Bilbao.
The Global Social Economy Forum GSEF is an international network that brings together local governments and civil society stakeholders committed to supporting the development of the Social Economy (SE). Based on the collaboration between social economy organizations and local governments, the GSEF supports creation of quality jobs, fair growth, progress of grassroots democracy, and sustainable development. "GSEF aims to serve as a hub for sharing visions and experiences through cross-border collaboration and cooperation based on multilateral partnerships for an inclusive, equitable and human centered world for all of us." For more information, please check the official website: https://www.gsef2018.org/gsef/ |
On June 4th 2018, the third edition of the European Day for Social Economy Enterprises took place in Brussels.
Organized by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), it gathered policy makers and social economy actors who discussed the progress in terms of building a European ecosystem for social economy enterprises and worked on the next steps to ensure this sector’ scaling up. For more information visit: www.vitainternational.media/en/article/2018/06/11/social-enterprises-it-is-time-to-be-recognised-and-scale-up/733/ |
International Diversity Forum
January 22nd 2018, France, Paris
January 22nd 2018, France, Paris
On January 22nd 2018, the International Diversity Forum took place in Paris. Organized by the OECD Centre for Opportunity and Equality, and in cooperation with the Club XXIème siècle, the conference gathered policy makers, economic leaders and around 1000 participants from more than 70 countries to discuss and share good practices in terms of diversity.
Here is the full programme of the conference: https://www.oecd.org/inclusive-growth/inequality-and-opportunity/events/international-diversity-forum-2018/Full-programme-guide.pdf Here are some issues notes on the following topics :
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Here, you will find all the videos recorded during the speeches and plenaries:
oecd.org/inclusive-growth/inequality-and-opportunity/events/international-diversity-forum-2018/videos-from-the-international-diversity-forum.htm
oecd.org/inclusive-growth/inequality-and-opportunity/events/international-diversity-forum-2018/videos-from-the-international-diversity-forum.htm