Consortium of Social Cooperatives

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

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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_at_elpendu.it
• Web site www.elpendu.it

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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.

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ELPENDÙs 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

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ELPENDÙs 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.

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The Elpendùs network
ESCOOP European Social Cooperative
LAPE Agency for Promotion of social Cooperation
LEGACOOP
DROM National Consortium for Social Cooperation
NATIONAL PARTNERS
Elpendù Consortium
ETHIC BANK
TRANSNATIONAL PARTNERS
PROJECTs SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES
THEMATIC WORKING GROUPS
Associated Social Cooperative
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Elpendùs 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 Consortiums 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Project for Burn-Out prevention in psychiatric
  therapeutical-rehabilitative 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 theBurn - 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 dellImpresa 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.

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• 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 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.

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• 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 furnitures
  reclaim, by the adoption of bio-compatible
  techniques. The Elpendù Consortium led the
  training processes and, through the social
  cooperative Lobiettivo (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.

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EQUAL COMMUNITY INITIATIVE II Turn

• IT-G2-PUG 038 Project - Per lImpresa 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.

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EQUAL COMMUNITY INITIATIVE II Turn

• IT-G2-PUG 080 Equal Time Project
• The Projects 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
  Projects 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.

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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
  selfentrepreneurship, 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.

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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.
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Associated Cooperatives - Activities and staff
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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 loccupazione 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

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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
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• Home la casa delluomo, nuova qualità per un
  nuovo benessere (Home the house of man, new
  quality for a new wellbeing) - ERDF - Home
  Project n. 101 Article 10

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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

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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/rehabilita
  tive activities

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PUBLICATIONS EQUAL Community Initiative I Turn

• Malattia e Cura nella provincia di Brindisi,
  (Disease and Cure in the Brindisi District), by
  Luigi Za - CureCare Project (IT-G-PUG-109)
• Manuale operativo per lintegrazione delle
  politiche sociali locali (Operating handbook for
  the integration of local social policies) Nodi
  territoriali per la formazione e sviluppo
  dellimpresa sociale Project (IT-G-PUG-110)

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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
  dellimpresa 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)

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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-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)

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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 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)
• LInnovazione 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

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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.

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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.

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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 CEGD 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
  peoples 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.

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RESEARCH

• Malattia e Cura nella provincia di Brindisi
  (Disease and Cure in the Brindisi District), by
  Luigi Za - CureCare Project (IT-G-PUG-109)
• 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.

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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
  ones 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-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 researchs results have
  been published on the web site www.elpendu.it