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Milan
Milan – Conclusions

The cases of innovations presented here cover three areas of policy: income support and professional reintegration; early child care and education; and housing. A few elements emerge as relevant in all cases considered. A first major issue at stake appears to be the amount of available resources as opposed to increasing and changing needs, a…

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Stefania Sabatinelli and Giuliana Costa (Politecnico di Milan)

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Nijmegen
39. Work corporations

39.1. Short description In the summer of 2011, several so-called “work corporations” (werkcorporaties) started operating in the municipality of Nijmegen. These work corporations aim at re-employing social assistance (Wet Werk en Bijstand, or WWB) receivers with a considerable distance from the labour market by offering them a place where they can combine work and education.…

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Joost Fledderus, Francesca Broersma and Taco Brandsen (Radboud University Nijmegen)

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Nijmegen
40. A Future for Everybody

40.1. Short description Housing corporation Portaal, together with the municipality of Nijmegen, started the project “A Future for Everybody” in 2009 because the province (Gelderland) reserved money for the development of “innovative living arrangements” within a larger programme. It was not stated clearly what was meant by “innovative living arrangements”, but the focus had to…

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Joost Fledderus, Francesca Broersma and Taco Brandsen (Radboud University Nijmegen)

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Nijmegen
41. Sirocco

41.1. Short description In 2009, three Moroccan fathers in Nijmegen saw that successful “neighbourhood father” projects were running in other cities in the Netherlands. Together with a local welfare worker from Tandem Welfare they visited such a project in The Hague to see how it was organised. The fathers thought that such an initiative could…

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Joost Fledderus, Francesca Broersma and Taco Brandsen (Radboud University Nijmegen)

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Nijmegen
Nijmegen – Conclusions

Sustainability Although all innovations were, at least at the start, dependent on public funding, an explicit wish exists among members of all three projects to continue even if financial resources dry up. However, this urge to be self-sufficient was driven by different logic. Work corporations would prefer to earn revenues of their own because the…

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Joost Fledderus, Francesca Broersma and Taco Brandsen (Radboud University Nijmegen)

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Milan
Milan – Introduction

Local background of the social innovations Milan is the capital city of the Lombardy region. The economic and financial capital of Italy, it is a rich and economically dynamic context (see Costa and Sabatinelli 2012). One of the vertexes of the former industrial triangle with Gène and Turin in the Fordist era, it was one…

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Stefania Sabatinelli and Giuliana Costa (Politecnico di Milan)

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Malmö
61. Områdesprogrammet in Holma-Kroksbäck

61.1. Short description We visited Holma-Kroksbäck, in the district of Hyllie, where the Head of the Department of Integration and Sustainable Development, is responsible for the programme, together with the programme coordinator. They are, together with a secretary and a business consultant, employed to work on Områdesprogrammet. Områdesprogrammet in Holma-Kroksbäck is not directed at the…

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Anna Carrigan and Marie Nordfeldt Ersta Sköndal University College (Sweden)

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Malmö
62. Coompanion Inkubatorn

62.1. Short description Coompanion is an organisation providing advice and education to people in the process of starting their own business. Coompanion is a national organisation. However, the national office is more of a service office for the relatively independent regional organisations (interview 3). Before the Incubator initiative the Coompanion Skåne (Skåne being a county…

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Anna Carrigan and Marie Nordfeldt Ersta Sköndal University College (Sweden)

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Malmö
63. Yalla Trappan, Rosengård

63.1. Short description Yalla Trappan is a labour-integrated social enterprise. The general aim of Yalla Trappan is to provide work for women who would otherwise have severe difficulties entering the labour market. Yalla Trappan is organised by integrating permanently employed workers with workers who are there on an internship, through the social services administration. Yalla…

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Anna Carrigan and Marie Nordfeldt Ersta Sköndal University College (Sweden)

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Malmö
Malmö – Conclusions

Deregulation within the field of social welfare, a political interest in alternative providers, and a high degree of self-governance in the Swedish welfare system would open opportunities for social innovation. The case study of the local policy context in Malmö indicates a favourable local context in relation to social innovation. It was stated in the…

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Anna Carrigan and Marie Nordfeldt Ersta Sköndal University College (Sweden)

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