ENSIE a.s.b.l. European Network of Social Integration Enterprises

Réseau Européen des Entreprises Sociales d’Insertion

FIGURES IN 2004:

• 14 national and regional networks of Social Integration Enterprises

• 10 E.U. Member States open to all proposals for new members

• 1,500 enterprises

• 220,000 salaried people

ABOUT ENSIE

ENSIE is the European Network for Social Integration Enterprises.

• ENSIE wants to contribute to opening up opportunities for all men and women to exercise their rightful claim to participation in social life and be part of the economic changes across the whole spectrum of employment and the scope of retraining facilities.

• ENSIE is designed to actively contribute to the permanent prevention of a long-term exclusion.

• ENSIE advocates in favour of an equitable reallocation of emplyment opportunities between men and women.

ENSIE: what is it?

1. Enterprises whose social objective is social integration and citizenship.

2. Enterprises at the core of the economic system.

3. Enterprises of a strong pedagogical dimension.

The “identifying principles” of the “Social Integration Entreprises”

1. To reinforce the power of the actors in economic social integration enterprises through the interchange among the members.

2. To stimulate cooperation and partnerships by promoting good practices, research results, new applications.

3. To organise the exchange of information on the national law and local policy among member organisations.

The objectives

4. To represent the network and to promote all of its activities on all pertinent European levels.

5. To elaborate on the contributions and propositions in order to participate in the definition of a European policy against social exclusion.

6. To develop with other European networks active in the social economy a close and solid collaboration with the objective of obtaining synergies.

• ACEI, SPAIN

• ANIMAR, PORTUGAL

• BAG ARBEIT, GERMANY

• BDV, AUSTRIA

• CESI, UNITED KINGDOM

• CO-LABOR, LUXEMBURG

The members

• CNEI, FRANCE

• CONFEI, SPAIN

• CECOP, EUROPEAN CONFEDERATION

• DBD, IRELAND

• FEEDEI, SPAIN

• Consorzio Sociale Abele Lavoro, ITALY

• RES, BELGIUM – Wallonia

• SST, BELGIUM – Flanders

Garebtt – Besançon (France)PRODUCTS:•Buildings construction•Buildings renovation•Masonry, painting and inside partition walls

MISSION:•Reintegration of vulnerable people on the work market•Management of people outside of work

TARGET PUBLIC:•Very vulnerable people •People in detention •Beneficiaries of the Minimum Income Support •People without ressources…

TYPES OF CONTRATS:•Integration work contract with limited duration

Terre – Herstal (Belgium)

PRODUCTS:•Textiles collection•Sorting of textile•Second-hand boutiques

MISSION:•To give people their dignity back by work•To favour the economic and social integration of people•To promote a participative management in the enterprise•To aim at a solidarity with countries from the Southern hemisphere

TARGET PUBLIC:Vulnerable people on the work market: •unskilled people•single-parent families•people with a handicap•people with problems of dependency...

TYPES OF CONTRACTS:•Work contract for unlimited duration

Cafe-Restaurant FROEHLICH - Fuerstenfeld

(Austria)PRODUCTS:•Restaurant•Home services

MISSION:•Qualification of women and their integration within the regular work market

TARGET PUBLIC:•Women in unemployment for more than a year•Women with no professional education

TYPES OF CONTRACTS:•One year maximum, salaries established according to the work convention of the hotel industry

Cooperativa Arcobaleno – Torino

(Italy)PRODUCTS:•Paper collection •Cardboard collection•Electronic wastes collection

MISSION:•Reintegration of very vulnerable people on the work market •To allow those people to become usuful to the collectivity•Environment et recycling

TARGET PUBLIC:« people in the street »: •drug-addicted people•homeless people (people with no fixed address)•very long-term unemployed people•people in detention•people with an handicap, affected by HIV, with hepatitis C...

TYPES OF CONTRACTS:•Conventional national contract of social cooperatives

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