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During the ESIP Board meeting on 12 March 2009 it was agreed to move the offices of ESIP to Lublin, Poland. Arrangements to formalise this decision are now under way.


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Steering Group Meetings

 

ESIP Board meeting, 12 March 2009

This year’s first ESIP Steering Board meeting took place in Lisbon on the 12 th of March. During the meeting it was formally decided to move the ESIP office to Lublin, Poland. ESIP Board Member, Nasza Szkola, a non-governmental organization specialized in vocational training, will be providing the office space. Other points discussed concerned the newsletter, membership recruitment, and ESIP’s activities for the coming months.



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ESIP Board meeting, 1 October 2008

The ESIP Steering Board met in Prague on 1 October 2008. Members of the Board were introduced to the new ESIP coordinator, Janneke Draaisma, who suggested some changes to the ESIP newsletter. The ESIP work program for the coming 6 months was discussed and actions were agreed concerning a strategy for securing funding for ESIP in the coming months.

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ESIP Board meeting, 7 May 2008

The ESIP Steering Group met prior to the first Laps and Raps 2 workshop on the 7 th of May in Bratislava. Discussions were centred around increasing the network and making its activities more widely known to interested stakeholders.

 

 

ESIP Board Meeting, 19 June, 2008

The first ESIP Steering Board meeting took place in Bratislava on 19 June 2007. ESIP Steering Board members discussed and agreed on a strategic plan and work programme for the coming months.

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Seminars and Workshops

2009:

LAPS and RAPS 2, Celje, 16-18 September

"Monitoring the Urban Dimension in EU Cohesion Policy: EU 12 perspectives", Prague Conference 18-19 March

LAPS and RAPS 2 Lisbon, 12-13 March

 

2008:

LAPS and RAPS 2, Prague

LAPS and RAPS 2, Bratislava

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LAPS and RAPS 2

 

ESIP is a partner in the Laps and Raps 2 project - leadpartner Celje, Slovenia. A series of four workshops will be organized in this context, wich aim to provide training in making use of the Laps and Raps framework methodology that was developed under the Laps and Raps I project. Each of the project partners have appointed local action groups that consist of key actors who are responsible for service planning, delivery and review in relation to the four chosen themes. Following the transnational training and planning workshop, members of the action learning group will participate in an online coaching and peer learning programme which will support them in the development of local action plans relating to their specific theme and eventually assist them with the elaboration of specific project proposals on their chosen theme.

For more information please contact Suzi Kvas (Celje lead partner) or the Laps and Raps II project website>>

 

2009

ESIP at Fourth Workshop LAPS and RAPS 2

ESIp participated in the final workshop of the Laps and Raps II workshop which took place from 16-18 September 2009 in Celje, Slovenia. The theme of the workshop was on child poverty including several case study presentations from project partners, presentations from the European Commission and the European Cities Against Child poverty network. The following workshop sessions focused on introducing and training participants on how to use the framework and methodology for local/regional action planning for social inclusion that were developed during the Laps and Raps I project. The workshop was preceded by an ESIP Steering Board meeting that took place on 17 September.

For more info please visit the Laps and Raps II project website>>

 

"Monitoring the Urban Dimension in EU Cohesion Policy: EU 12 perspectives", Prague Conference 18-19 March

 

This conference took place in Prague on 18 and 19 March 2009. The event formed part of a series of events that wQEC ERAN is organising on the theme of the "urban dimension in EU Cohesion Policy".

The European Commission has consistently emphasised the need to ensure that an "Urban Dimension" is mainstreamed within Operational Programmes. In the case of the EU 12 Member States, this "mainstreaming" in fact means that they are asked to use the "integrated approach", while never having been involved in the practice that generated the methodology.

Nevertheless it is clear that some EU 12 member states have sought to develop an urban dimension into their Operational Programmes and National Strategic Reference Frameworks and to encourage "integrated working".

The conference programme addressed several crucial questions as concerns the urban dimension in cohesion funds. It included speakers from DG Regio, the EP and Managing Authorities from Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Poland.

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Dirk Ahner, Director General, DG Regional Policy, European Commission


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Governance and Structural Funds, Jean Marie Beaupuy , President of European Parliament Intergroup on Urban Policy and Housing


MEP Jan Olbrycht, Vice President of the European Parliament Intergroup on Urban Policy and Housing and


 

 

ESIP at Third Workshop LAPS and RAPS 2

The third transnational Action Learning Set of the Laps and Raps 2 project took place on the 12th and 13th of March in Lisbon, Portugal. The theme this time was demographic c hange and services for older people.

On the first day of the workshop the focus was on the social protection system of host country Portugal. The measures concerning ageing provided in the Country’s National Action Plan for Inclusion were presented in detail, and Ms. Sofia Rasgado informed the participants of the facilities for seniors provided by the Portuguese National Network of Integrated Long Term Care. The general objective of this network is the provision of integrated long term care to people who are in a situation of dependency. After lunch participants split into smaller groups in order to visit different units of this network on a field trip.

The morning of the second day was dedicated to case studies on demographic change and the possibilities for “Active Aging” in Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Hungary. Mr. Calin Rus from the Intercultural Institute Timisoara put the focus on the social inclusion challenges related to ageing and migration . After lunch the focus was shifted to the LAPS and RAPS methodology. Expert Liz Mackie gave a presentation on developing Local Action Plans. Following the workshop, members of the action learning group will participate in an online coaching and peer learning programme which will support them in the development of local action plans and eventually assist them with the elaboration of specific project proposals.

Presentations from the Third Peer Review Workshop, Lisbon 12-13 March 2009

Case Study One: Ms. Karolina Czyz, Review of activating methods for seniors

Case Study Two: Mr. Calin Rus, Demographic and social inclusion challenges related to ageing and migration in Romania

Case Study Three: Mr.Zoltán TÓTH, Acticvity of the "Elderly Council of the Region"

Case Study Four: Ms. Lijana Simonaityte, Active ageing in Lithuania: Klaipeda's region example

Developing a Local Action Plan Ms. Liz Mackie

For more info please visit the Laps and Raps II project website>>

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2008

ESIP at Second Workshop LAPS and RAPS 2

ESIP took part in the second workshop of the Laps and Raps 2 project, which was successfully organized by lead partner Celje, Slovenia. The workshop, which had homelessness as its theme, took place in Prague from the 1 st to the 3 rd of October.

After a short overview of the project and its relation to the EU social inclusion process, participants and experts spent the first day of the workshop focusing on the Laps and Raps framework and methodology which was developed under the Laps and Raps I project.

On the second day case studies from Slovenia, Portugal, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic were presented on the subject of homelessness. Most remarkable was the contribution of Mr. Gyula Szilagyi, who reported on his undercover experiences as a homeless man trying to re-enter the Hungarian labour market. The afternoon was dedicated to applying the Laps and Raps methodology to the particular subject of homelessness.

Following the transnational training and planning workshop, members of the action learning group will participate in an online coaching and peer learning programme which will support them in the development of local action plans and eventually assist them with the elaboration of specific project proposals on their chosen theme.

 

Presentations from the Second Peer Review Workshop, Prague 1-3 October 2008

Overview of the Project - Haroon Saad, Director QeC-ERAN

Applying the Methodology - Haroon Saad, Director QeC-ERAN

Homelessness - Teresa Cairo, Expert

Integrated Intervention with the Homeless in the Municipality of Faro - José João Dos Reis Gomes da Costa, Camara municipal de Faro, Portugal

Homeless Prevention in the City of Prague - Dr. Jan Hauser, FM consulting, Czech Republic

New Routes in Homeless Services - Zsolt Keserű, Methodological center of homeless people (BMSZKI), Hungary

The Reintegration Possibility of the Homeless Population by the Labour Market - Gyula Zsilágyi, Methodological center and institute for homeless Budapest, Hungary

Shelter for Homeless in Celje: Home for Many - Tanja Lamut, JZ SOCIO Celje, Slovenia

Support Programme Action Learning Set 2

 

For more info please visit the Laps and Raps II project website>>

 

Laps and Raps 2: “Employment and Active inclusion” workshop, Bratislava 8-9 May 2008

ESIP co-organised a two-day workshop on "Employment and Active Inclusion" within the framework of the Laps and Raps II project (lead partner: Celje, Slovenia). The workshop took place in Bratislava on the 8-9th May and brought together around 30 representatives from NGOs, local authorities and Ministries/national bodies working on social inclusion, in particular on initiatives aimed at long-term employed and difficult to reach groups. Most representatives were from the “new” member states such as Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania. The workshop allowed for a lively debate and exchange of experiences in the approach of tackling social exclusion.

For more info please visit the Laps and Raps II project website>>

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2006 - 2007

In 2006-2007 several ESIP members have participated and contributed in several EU funded project seminars that are addressing the issue of social inclusion. If you would like to know more about these project please click on the relevant link:

2005

The European Social Inclusion Platform was launched at a conference on "Change and Continuity: social inclusion in an enlarged EU " which took place in Bratislava in September 2005. The conference brought together key figures involved in the preparations of National Action Plans for social inclusion in the five new Member States at a time when these were being assessed and discussed within the European Commission following the signing of the Joint Memoranda on Social Inclusion (JIM) and submission of the EU-10 NAPs. See Seminar report>>

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European Social Inclusion Platform
Európska Platforma Sociálnej Inklúzie