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Social Cohesion Days

Social Cohesion Days is an International Festival started in 2014, which aims to raise awareness on the relevance of social cohesion issues to promote human progress and a sustainable development, through institutional and civil debates. The Festival is an opportunity for mutual learning and understanding of policies, ideas, experiences, projects, researches among different actors: policy makers, institutions, civil society, experts, researchers, third sector organizations, citizens and more.

The second edition of the festival was held from the 26th to 28th of May 2016 in Reggio Emilia and gathered over 70 speakers from the research community, public authorities and civil society organizations.
About 3.000 visitors attended 17 events, including many students, on current social topics of national importance such as migration, citizenship policies for second generations, media education, innovation and quality in ECE services, reconciliation policies for family welfare, social communication, minimum income, attendance allowance.

On the opening day of the Festival was launched the first analytical work produced by the International Observatory for Social Cohesion and Inclusion (OCIS), titled: “Measuring social cohesion: a comparison of Italian regions”. The research is currently available only in Italian at the following link http://www.socialcohesiondays.com/osservatorio/social-cohesion-paper-misurare-la-coesione-sociale-comparazione-le-regioni-italiane/

This year again, the Festival aimed to promote a shared consideration on modern society needs and policies. Therefore, the 2016 opening theme was “The Politics of Happiness” to remind us that the welfare state is something that should be designed with foresight and attention by all social entities within societies. In addition, the program was strengthened by plays, concerts and screening of documentaries that involved audiences.
Furthermore, the Social Cohesion Days Festival 2016 was an opportunity to present a selection of concrete experiences on social cohesion in Italy: there are around 60 projects in total, ranging from the vulnerable groups protection to innovative ways for community needs and the provision of welfare services, to the promotion of intercultural dialogue and the reception of refugees. The goal was to start an incubation process of social cohesion projects, connecting the protagonists of the experiences and developing sustainable and innovative ideas.

As in the first edition, the communication campaign reached 2 million views online, and its goal was to raise public awareness on the importance of social cohesion for collective welfare. In particular, one of the most effective communication means were the 21 video interviews to the main speakers of the Festival, which are available in the video section on www.socialcohesiondays.com or on the Festival YouTube channel. Some of the main speakers are Romano Prodi, François Bourguignon, Luigi Bobba, Francesca Puglisi, Benjamin Radcliff, Alexander Pacek, Ferruccio De Bortoli, Gad Lerner, Riccardo Iacona, Lorella Zanardo, Nina Daita, Marco Ghersevich, Alessandro Leogrande and Alaa Arsheed.

Watch the video of the 2016 edition

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Easy Care conversations

A review of events to promote discussion and dialogue with key stakeholders and to raise awareness within the civil society on social cohesion, solidarity and welfare issues.

Latest appointments:

10 May 2016, Fondazione Internazionale Don Luigi Di Liegro, Roma
Dialogues and proposals on Attendance Allowance, starting from the analysis research "La dote e la rete: un modello di policy per le non autosufficienze"

26 November 2015, Forum Risk Management in Sanità, Arezzo
“15 billion euros for the cash allowance programme: limits and opportunities of the riform”

5 June 2015, Centro Loris Malaguzzi, Reggio Emilia
Social cohesion lights and hopes: policies and actions from UAE, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Mozambique, Morocco, Vietnam
Event within the Social Cohesion Days 2015

4 June 2015, Centro Loris Malaguzzi, Reggio Emilia
The social cohesion economy: promoting human progress and economic growth
Event within the Social Cohesion Days 2015

6 October 2015, Università Bocconi, Milano
“Think Coesive! Why promoting the debate on social cohesion?”

28 November 2013, Forum Risk Management in Sanità, Arezzo
“Welfare in modern times: the value of the occupational welfare in Italy”

Connected parents

Promoting the awareness of web 2.0 new tools to facilitate the development of an aware digital citizenship, guaranteeing all citizens new opportunities for participation through technological innovation. The objective of “Connected Parents” is to begin a learning path addressed to parents, professionals and teachers of Reggio Emilia to make them take more control of digital tools at school and at home, in order to educate young people to use them consciously. The idea of “Connected Parents” has been developed by Easy Care Foundation in collaboration with the Municipality of Reggio Emilia and with the support of the social cooperative Coopselios.

Public and International relations

Easy Care Foundation develops partnerships with other organizations, public and private, national and international, who operate in the same fields of interest or share the identical spirit and purposes. In particular, Easy Care Foundation researches and develops opportunities to co-design welfare models in Italy and abroad, taking care of the relationships with local and international partners and contributing to spread projects and initiatives of its members.

Latest collaborations:

Technical Assistance for developing an Early childhood Educational Programme in the United Arab Emirates.
Since 2014 Easy Care Foundation has contributed to a major international project with a high symbolic value called Early Childhood Educational Programme, providing technical assistance in institutional relations, development and start up of the project in collaboration with the Founder Promoter partner Coopselios. The local counterparty is the Family Development Foundation of Abu Dhabi (UAE), a government organization whose institutional purpose is to support the central role of the family within UAE society by promoting the role of women in the promotion of socio-economic progress of the country. The project will lead to the development and construction of a pre-school inclusive education system in Abu Dhabi, through the creation of an international research center with a nursery and a kindergarten.

Corporate Welfare

Easy Care Foundation promotes the fundamental values of the modern welfare systems through the study and development of welfare models for organisations and public authorities.
As a member of BeWelfare network, Easy Care Foundation collaborates on the design of corporate welfare plans capable of providing an effective response to care, educational and reconciliation of work and private life needs, in line with resources, ethic, mission and customer strategies.
BeWelfare network provides specific expertises to organisations within the design of corporate welfare, such as:
-   Management of services to people, like supportive instruments to income and reconciliation of work and private life;
-   Detection and control of the quality of the services provided.
-   Modulation (design, implementation, communication and follow-up) of the services produced in order to obtain a larger value perceived by people than the monetary cost of the investment.

More information: www.bewelfare.com

Pronto Serenità Project

Prontoserenità® project was dasigned from the study and research on the role of private actors within the subsidiarity field, based on the organization of a Social Advisor for the promotion and coordination of solidarity networks, and was implemented in collaboration with CERGAS - Bocconi University. The aim of the project is to achieve, through one or more networks of providers, the most complete network of services and offer to families coherent, effective and economically sustainable responses, in relation to the evolution of health and care needs of the fragile person. In particular, Prontoserenità® project searches needs, setting up and coordinating a territorial network of operators, even mixed together, who can offer qualified expertise and suitable services to satisfy many different care profiles. As a result of doing so, Prontoserenità® model is able to guarantee the continuity of the assistance services to families, in line with the needs expressed by the fragile subject, allowing them to report and offer new services that might need a care intensity upgrading over time. Prontoserenità® develops and manages assistance procedures following an approach based on the innovation and facilitation of the relationship between public planning and private provision, and on the coordination and integration between public and private resources and expertise.

Contacts:

Annalisa Lusuardi, Public Relations
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Work notebook “La dote e la rete”

Easy Care Foundation gained a lot of experience from Prontoserenità® model and became aware of the need to analyze and propose innovative solutions to face the ongoing social and demographic changes, following the resizing and weakening of the welfare state response.
Since 2015 the research and study activities of the Foundation have been focused on standards and services designed to face specific needs, which nowadays are used inaccurately to give answers that in most cases are insufficient and inappropriate.
The work notebook “La dote e la rete” designed with the Technical Scientific Committee, represents a reflection path about some measures, in particular on the cash allowance, which nowadays account a large part of the public resources available.
The notebook contains insights on inefficiencies and inadequacies of the current system, together with a proposal of innovation focused on the principles of subsidiarity and the development of unexpressed potential from the public-private integration.