Background and overview Dr Haroon Saad Director Qe
Background and overview Dr. Haroon Saad Director Qe. C-ERAN Maribor 23/24 February 2010
Background and Overview Background: the call SOCIAL EXPRIMENTATION -Pilot (small scale)innovative action -evaluation of pilot -connecting to mainstream
Background and Overview Background: Policy • Lisbon/goteborg • Agenda 2020 • Health, pensions and long-term care • Active age-active inclusion
Background and Overview Background: Socio-Economic • Weakening of intergenerational solidarity • Living longer-working longer • Unsustainability of current models of care • More one person households of older people
Background and Overview Background: Causes • Demographic ageing(baby boomer generation) • Growing poverty and exclusion • Economic Crisis
Background and Overview: Aim The overall aim of this proposal is to improve social policy in relation to the social and economic activation of older people who are not being reached by current policy measures.
Background and Overview: Objective 1 To undertake four pilot social experimentation actions In each of the four partner locations
Background and Overview: Objective 1 Key Actions: • Establish a Local Action Research Group(LARG) • Undertake a baseline study in each location • Implement a small scale action
Background and Overview: Objective 2 To undertake an evaluation of the pilot action -involving end target group
Background and Overview: Objective 2 Key Actions • Appointment of local evaluator • Development of common evaluation framework • Production of evaluation report • Transnational workshops(two)
Background and Overview: Objective 3 To connect with the mainstream
Background and Overview: Objective 3 Key Actions • Local/Regional dissemination • Transnational workshop • Transnational evaluaion report • LARG activities and composition
Background and Overview: Objective 4 Effective management and communication
Background and Overview: Objective 4 Key Actions • Steering group meetings • Online project management • Telephone conferencing
Background and Overview: Pilots Edinburgh: age management policies
Background and Overview: Pilots Edinburgh: Czech Republic: self employment and older people
Background and Overview: Pilots Edinburgh: Maribor: Developing self help capacity
Background and Overview: Pilots Edinburgh: Herefordshire: employment and enterprise
Background and Overview: Outcomes • 4 LARGs • Four base line study reports • Common evaluation framework • Four pilot evaluation reports • Transnational Exchange Involving at least 60 actors
Background and Overview: Outcomes 2 • Online project management and development platform • Final transnational report • Dissemination(local/regional/EU)
Background and Overview: Partnership 1 • Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce • The Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs in Prague; • The Economic Institute of Maribor, Slovenia The Association of Societies for Social Gerontology(Slovenia)
Background and Overview: Partnership 2 • PISCESwm – Partnerships in Social and Community Enterprise • in Social care, Wolverhampton, UK; • Qe. C-ERAN – European Regeneration Areas Network, Brussels
Background and Overview: Budget TOTAL: € 443, 150. 00 Co-financing: 88, 630 EC grant: 354, 520
Background and Overview: Budget Four pilots co-finance 22, 157 -50 each over 2 years
Background and Overview: Budget Each of the four pilots gets: • 12, 000 for local co-ordination • 4000 for base line study • 9000 for local evaluation report • 12000 for local evaluator
Background and Overview: Budget Each of the four pilots gets: • 4000 local dissemination • 26, 250 for pilot action • Total 67, 250. 00
Background and Overview: Management Lead partner: Edinburgh Transnational management: Qe. C-ERAN Project Steering Group Sub-Grop linked to evaluators
Background and Overview Thank You hsaad@qec-eran. org
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