Educational Centre for New Opportunities

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Educational Centre for New Opportunities

Fundació El Llindar

A project to guide, accompany and support the transition of young people into adult life, their return to the formal educational system and to increase their employability to improve their chances of finding employment.

It proposes unique and customised plans and approaches to mixed scenarios that combine training and work with the assistance of other agents, particularly in companies that provide real-life working environments. The project is designed to help to build up the life, training and professional outlook of young people and adolescents through subjective accompaniment, personalised education and accompaniment spaces and moments. It received the Blanquerna Award as an education proposal committed to generating an ongoing improvement in education.

Fuel Poverty Group, defending the right to energy

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Fuel Poverty Group, defending the right to energy

ABD, EcoServeis

A network of people and organisations from the engineering, environmental sciences, social sciences, volunteer work and activism areas that fights against energy poverty.

It provides tools to reduce the gas and electricity bill by helping users to understand all the items that appear on their bills, also providing some practical tips related to everyday life in order to promote a rational and efficient use of energy.

It provides personalised guidance for anyone who finds it hard to both understand and pay these bills and also to detect possible situations of severe energy poverty in the home.

Housing and accompaniment services for the disabled

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Housing and accompaniment services for the disabled

Fundació Amadip Esment

Individual housing for people with intellectual disability who jointly define their own support programme depending on their own needs, preferences and the life stage, with the help of professional services and each person’s the own informal support network. A reference professional coordinates and supervises each case.

IPS methodology for the job placement of young people with mental diseases

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IPS methodology for the job placement of young people with mental diseases

Fundació Joia

A ground-breaking job placement methodology specialised in helping people with mental health difficulties, preventing chronicity in these people, turning access to the job market an active part of the recovery, thus increasing the job insertion rate.

This methodology has been imported from United States by the Institut Universitari Avedis Donabedian with the support of the Government of Catalonia. It has been implemented in different European cities, and the Fundació Joia was selected by the Government of Catalonia to lead the deployment of this methodology in Barcelona. IPS applied to the job placement services of the Fundació Joia is based on 3 main axes: the Community, the Health and Social Agents and the Business Fabric. The IPS methodology has yielded exponential improvements in the Fundació Joia’s job placement results.

Fundació Joia

Èpica i Singular (Epic and Unique), a new employment experience for young people at risk

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Èpica i Singular (Epic and Unique), a new employment experience for young people at risk

La Fura dels Baus, Ajuntament de Badalona, FLC

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A project to help young employment-seekers at risk to learn and hone professional skills and competencies. All the participants will develop a stage set design and artistic project with the help of La Fura dels Baus and other professionals, in a highly attractive and different way, including the learning of audiovisual and construction techniques related to the performing arts.

Promoted by La Fura dels Baus, through its Èpica Foundation, the Fundació Laboral de la Construcció – Catalunya (FLC) and the Institut Municipal de la Promoció de l’Ocupació [Municipal Institute for the Promotion of Employment] (IMPO) of the City Council of Badalona, and with the support of the Employment Service of the Government of Catalonia in the framework of the Garantia Juvenil [Juvenile Guarantee] programmes. The project also includes guidance and assessment in job-hunting, as well as contracts of employment with companies for practical experience or recruitment, and offers a set of resources to facilitate the implementation of business and self-employment projects.