Intergenerational Social Innovation Support Scheme
The economic and financial crisis a decade ago has left behind still very crucial socio-economic and demographic challenges. Especially the continued increase of unemployment resulting in poverty and social exclusion demands urgent sustainable solutions. Unqualified younger and older unemployed (50+) women and men are mainly affected. All partner regions have this ‘new’ disadvantaged group – the long-term unemployed.
Social innovation could offer answers but there is a lack of expertise and specialist business development services and support in the public and private sectors. And there is a lack of funding. The objective therefore is to jointly develop and implement a tailored business development service and support scheme to promote the integration of the disadvantaged groups into the labour market through social innovation and new social enterprises. The enterprises will be the result of specially developed trainings.
The scheme will have at its core regional triangles of key players coming from expert support, care and third sector organisations, social innovation and entrepreneurship experts and public/private funding initiatives. The reg. triangles will form an overarching joint triangle enabling a transnational approach to tackling intergenerational unemployment and social exclusion.
To reach the project’s objective, reg. pilot actions to test and validate the support scheme and the strategy behind it will be implemented. This will lead to sustainable schemes in the six PP regions.
The project will bring together younger and the older (50+) unemployed citizens so that these two generations can learn from each other by exchanging experiences, bridging missing skills and competences. Also the key players in the reg. triangles will learn from each other and a dynamic capacity building process will take place throughout the project at different levels. IN SITU will be in every respect a learning project.