After an extensive participatory process and approval by the Metropolitan Council, the Metropolitan Plan for the Social Economy has been officially presented. This pioneering initiative at the national level redefines the trajectories of economic and social development in the region, promoting more sustainable, inclusive, and equitable models. The Plan, promoted by the Metropolitan City of Bologna together with the Municipality of Bologna and developed with...

AICCON is a partner in the European project IT-Bridge: Empowering Migrant Youth for Employment, an innovative initiative involving Italy and Spain that aims to improve the employability of young people with a migrant background through technical training in the IT sector and personalized support. A Project to Bridge the Skills Gap Young people with a migrant background are a particularly vulnerable group in the labor market:...

On October 11, 2024, AICCON organized the GDB OFF workshop as part of the 24th edition of Le Giornate di Bertinoro per l’Economia Civile. This interactive event brought together around 40-50 young students, researchers, and co-operators from the Italian Cooperative Alliance in Bertinoro to explore key themes in social economy. The workshop focused on two main topics: SE and Sustainability – Participants examined how social economy practices...

Blueprint for advanced skills & trainings in the social economy (2022-2026) The baSE project is a Blueprint Alliances selected by the EU Commission through the Erasmus+ Programme. The European Skills Agenda 2020 has confirmed the Blueprint as a key initiative to create new strategic approaches and cooperation for concrete skills development solutions in the industrial ecosystems, including Proximity and social economy ecosystem, as introduced by...

The country reports seek to analyse the current state-of-the-art in partner countries (SE4cses) in relation to the existing level of participation of SE organisations in teaching and in the co-creation of academic knowledge as a way to offer a pragmatic aspect by actors that implement SE approaches on the ground. The analysis carried out in Italy by the University of Bologna and AICCON highlights a...

MASP – Master parenting in work and life – is a project aimed to balancing work and private life, supporting an equal share of care responsibilities between women and men and encouraging a higher participation of women in the labour market. The main general goal is to change the perspective of work-life balance, moving to the concept of “work-life synergy”, highlighting the synergy between personal...

With greater levels of uncertainty, social inequalities and unemployment as a result of economic and socio-political forces, Social Economy has proven to be part of the solution to address the needs of people to create stable employment and promote social inclusion. Providing a workforce of over 19.1 million, Social Economy has a major capacity to create stable employment with high returns in the economic...

After two years of cooperation and input from the side of public authorities, SMEs, social economy, civil society organisations and researchers, MASP partners are glad to present final project outputs and discuss policy perspectives at national and European level in the framework of two complementary online events that can be followed both in Italian and in English: On 25 March 2021 (10 am-1 pm) participants...

  European Seminar 21 February 2020 European Economic and Social Committee (JDE 63) Despite a number of recent (policy) initiatives at European level and in EU Member States, parents – and in particular mothers – still face a number of difficulties in combining (access to) work and family life. Moreover, the general employment rate of women is still considerably lower than that of men (by 11,6% in 2018).  With...

MASP research activities on new models for the promotion of work-life balance continued also over the summer. Project partners therefore used the occasion of their second project workshop, organised by AICCON on 2 and 3 September 2019 in Bologna (IT), to update each other on actions such as a specific analysis of needs of unemployed mothers, the identification of good work-life balance (WLB) measures of...