(G)Local Return - Employability and Skills Anticipation Policies: a Social ROI Approach

Objective

The project will create value through inclusive growth based on knowledge, ensuring lifelong skills and acquisition of more competitive qualifications, adjusted to the new market demands.

The project is also intended to promote debate about: the jobs crisis from the countries involved in the partnership perspective; the emerging skills, oriented to the labor market needs; the stakeholders’ role as "facilitators" for a better coordination between the supply and the demand.

The project's main objective is, thererefore, to calculate the social return on investment of measures within active labour market and vocational education and training (VET) policies, providing a mechanism for skills forecasting and training needs assessment within a local/regional framework and focused on learning outcomes.

Specific aims

• To conceive reports in each partner country (Portugal, Spain, Check Republic, United Kingdom and Latvia) describing active labor market/employment and VET Policies, contributing to a greater relationship between the education and training systems and the qualifications (offer), and the needs of the labor market (demand);
• To transfer and adapt the Social ROI Methodology to Portugal, Spain, Check Republic and Latvia). The SROI Methodology will be transfer using the SROI Network Ltd (UK) methodological approach and experience as source of innovation;
• To engage stakeholders, namely through the establishment and the development of a methodology allowing the promotion of national committees (SCC) for strengthening social dialogue, and at the same time, fostering the possibility of transnational discussion around employability and skills forecasting, providing guidance regarding the project implementation and impact evaluation, contributing also to the validation of the final products;
• To contribute to the analysis of training needs and to the process of gathering information regarding the skills and the qualifications required by companies/labor market from the services sector, as well as to contribute to the forecasting of the future skills required by the future jobs;
• To disseminate the project results, in particular, with a view to emphasize the potential of the SROI methodology and to encourage the use of this methodology by all relevant stakeholders and by national and transnational partners’ networks.
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Partnership

Promoter:
Câmara Municipal de Loures (Portugal)
Website:

Website:

www.cm-loures.pt
Contacts: Maria José Azevedo (maria_azevedo@cm-loures.pt); Vera Velhinho (vera_velhinho@cm-loures.pt)

Partners:
Centro de Formação Profissional para o Comércio e Afins – CECOA (Portugal)
Website: www.cecoa.pt
Contacts: Cristina Dimas (cristina.dimas@cecoa.pt) and Vanda Vieira (vanda.vieira@cecoa.pt)

Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Centro de Estudos dos Povos e Culturas de Expressão Portuguesa (Portugal)
Website: www.ucp.pt
Contacts: Ana Cláudia Valente (anaclaudia.valente@sapo.pt)
Cândida Soares (candida.soares2@gmail.com) and José Sousa Fialho (jasousafialho@gmail.com)

The Social Return on Investment Network Limited (United Kingdom)
Website: www.thesroinetwork.org
Contacts: Jeremy Nicholls (jeremy.nicholls@thesroinetwork.org)

Fundación Metal Asturias (Spain)
Website: www.fundacionmetal.org
Contact: Maria José Álvarez Suárez (majoseal@fundacionmetal.org)

Tempo Training & Consulting (Ckeck Republic)
Website: www.tempo.cz
Contact: Tereza Kolá?ová (kolarova@tempo.cz)

R?ga Tehnisk? Universit?te (Latvia)
Website: www.rtu.lv
Contacts: Elina Gaile-Sarkane (elina.gaile-sarkane@rtu.lv) and Inga Lapina (Inga.Lapina@rtu.lv)

Products/Results

• Active Labor Market/Employment and VET Policies Report in each partner country (Portugal, Spain, Check Republic, United Kingdom and Latvia)
• Active Labor Market/Employment and VET Policies Synthesis Report
• Social ROI Methodology: Training Program
• Social ROI Methodology: Practical Recommendations
• Sustainable Committees of Stakeholders (SCS) Meetings
• SCS Summary Report
• Reflections and recommendations regarding Employability and Skills Anticipation
• National Seminars
• International Conference

Duration
February 2012 – January 2014

Framework
Lifelong Learning Programme
Leonardo da Vinci Sub-Programme
Multilateral Projects - Transfer of Innovation

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

More Info
inova@cecoa.pt