HAPPY FARM WELCOME VDC Polž Maribor CPI Chance B Büro für Integrationsprojekte EASPD Donegal Cheese Szimbiozis

Aims To prevent social exclusion and to increase job opportunities for the unemployed. To raise the quality of life the target groups disadvantaged in the labor market. To ensure new jobs, new forms of employment for the unemployed people disadvantaged in the labour market. To develop a new model of social enterprise on the farm and thus to contribute to the revival of the countryside.

Aims The created programs will be based on ecological farming, which will be a small contribution in raising the public’s ecological awareness. The farms will provide quality services for the wider community and promote healthy and quality leisure activities – touristical, recreational and educational To strengthen the European dimension and to exchange knowledge and experience between the partner countries. To inform the wider public about the project’s results and to spread the examples of good practice.

Target groups people with disabilities and people with decreased working abilities the unemployed elderly the youth without completed formal education and the unemployed (people with elementary or vocational school diploma or without completed elementary or high school education) other groups, defined as disadvantaged in the labour market

Who works with whom? VDC Polž Maribor CPI Chance B Büro für Integrationsprojekte EASPD Donegal Cheese Szimbiozis

Results To educate and train project group members and potential management staff in order to set up and run a social firm on a farm and offer tourist, recreation and education activities and ecologically produced food. To prepare a new quality educational programme - vocational programme until the 3rd level of complexity for the new occupational profile. It shall be made in a way that allows certification. To do and publish the analysis of the existing certified vocational systems for people with reduced abilities.

Results To check if the transfer of the existing programmes is possible between the partner countries. To check if the certification of the prepared vocational programme is possible in partner countries. To create 3 concrete social enterprise programmes on a farm, adapted to help in the integration of disadvantaged groups in the labor market. The programmes will provide a basis for the start and work of the social firm.

Results To carry out social enterprise programmes partly on farms (valorization). To check the economic feasibility of the social enterprise models. To carry out parts of education vocational topics within the experimental groups. Webpage, handbook with results, CDs, leaflets

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