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LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PILOT PROJECTPILOT PROJECT

Education for the start and work Education for the start and work in social firm/enterprise on a in social firm/enterprise on a farm and in the countrysidefarm and in the countryside

Happy Farm partnersHappy Farm partners

• Day Care and Work Centre Polž Maribor, Slovenia

• CPI – Institute for Vocational Education of Slovenia

• Chance B – Gesellschaft für Arbeit und Bildung der Chance B, Austria

• Büro für Integrationsprojekte, Austria • EASPD – European Association of Service Providers for Persons

with Disabilities, Belgium

• Donegal Cheese, Ireland

• Szimbiozis Foundation, Hungary

Day Care and Work Centre Day Care and Work Centre Polž MariborPolž Maribor

• Is a public-security institution financed by Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs. The centre includes 184 users and 70 employees.

• Basic day care takes place on week days from 7am to 3pm. It includes: guidance, care and employment under special working conditions for adults with intellectual disabilities.

• In employment programmes the users create products from environment friendly materials, run laundry and print shop and provide services for partner companies. Numerous additional programmes: voluntary work, experimental social enterprise project, international project Grundtvig 2, medical programme of health care, integrated employment (Baumax, Garhil), activities above standard and integrating activities: sports, culture, recreation, life-long learning etc.

• Day care activities take place on 5 locations in the region, while institutional care is organised in 3 units.

Happy Farm objectivesHappy Farm objectives• 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.

Happy Farm objectivesHappy Farm objectives• 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.

Happy Farm target Happy Farm target groupsgroups

• 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

Happy Farm resultsHappy Farm 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.

Happy Farm resultsHappy Farm 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.

Happy Farm resultsHappy Farm 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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Thank you for your attention.Thank you for your attention. Contact person:Contact person: Andra Lujić Tel.:Tel.: + 386 2 320 86 55 Fax:Fax: + 386 2 320 86 58 Email:Email: polz.project@triera.net Webpage: www.happy-farm.si www.vdcpolz.si Project responsible:Project responsible: Sabina Petek