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TÁMOP-2.4.3/B/1-09/1 CoopeRation Project

- professioanl services of Network of Hungarian Employment Non-profit Ltd. (OFA) for long-term sustainability of social cooperatives

A - DESCRIPTION OF THE GOOD PRACTICE

A1 - Title in original language
TÁMOP-2.4.3/B/1-09/1 KoopeRáció Projekt – OFA Hálózat szakmai szolgáltató tevékenysége a szociális szövetkezetek hosszú távú fenntarthatósága érdekében

A2 - Title in English
TÁMOP-2.4.3/B/1-09/1 CoopeRation Project - professioanl services of Network of Hungarian Employment Non-profit Ltd. (OFA) for long-term sustainability of social cooperatives

A3 - Location of GP (national)
Hungary

A4 - Location of GP (regional)
West-Transdanubian region and whole Hungary

A5 - Economic field of activity
N Administrative and support service activities

A6 - Ultimate purpose of GP
To enable adaptation to new realities
To practically facilitate or enable social enterpreneurship

A7 - Spatial scale
National

A8a - Start date
02.2010

A8b - Anticipated end date (if applicable)
December 2011

A9 - Short description of the GP
The network provides professional supporting services, professional consultancy, professional customer service, professional events in topic legal, financing, business plan, business development and marketing as well as adult training for social cooperatives and for those people who are interested to establish a social cooperative. It encourages the creation of partnerships and organises events which generate network cooperation. It offers advisory for market extension and common media appearances, website and newsletters. It published information and methodology handbooks.

A10 - Key words relating to the GP
supporting services
consultancy
partnership
network creation
PR

A11 - Objectives of the GP
The main objective of OFA is to support the social cooperatives in order to facilitate the economic and labour market activity of the disadvantaged unemployed people. It encourages establishing social cooperatives through strengthening the employment which is based on local needs and demands as well as solidarity. Furthermore it aims to develop the professional knowledge of the social cooperative's operator or actors who contribute in it and on other hand it offers an extension of their management knowledge. It focuses to generate and develop cooperation between social cooperatives. Finally the experiences of the practices could be integrated by OFA into the employment policy.

A12 - Activities that have taken place

  • consultancy network creation and maintenance
  • organisation of info days
  • broad public information (marketing, PR)
  • network building
  • local consultancy
  • exchange and extension of experiences
  • provide information
  • integration of the experiences into the employment policy decisions

A13 - Achievements of the GP

  • approx. 300 registered social cooperatives were born nationwide
  • professional events with cc. 1000 participants
  • cc. 1000 consultancies
  • Handbook for social cooperatives
  • Training and informational videos on the OFA's website
  • PR films which were broadcasted in national TV during prime time
  • study about the social cooperatives
  • cooperation agreement between the 7 regions
  • recommendations, legislation modification suggestions were provided for policy makers

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