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Warsaw
42. MaMa Foundation

Child care is important in Warsaw due to recent demographic trends. As a result of demographic changes, the number of children at kindergarten age has increased, while the number of those older than grammar school students has been low; the number of the elderly has increased as well. In addition, migration between districts can be…

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Renata Siemieńska, Anna Domaradzka and Ilona Matysiak (Warsaw University)

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Warsaw
43. The Foundation for Development Beyond Borders

Warsaw, as the capital city and a metropolitan area, is a city in which many foreigners stay, live, work and study. Warsaw and Mazowieckie Province are the main areas of concentrations of immigrants in Poland, assembling more than 30 per cent of all foreigners who have been issued a residence permit in our country. Their…

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Renata Siemieńska, Anna Domaradzka and Ilona Matysiak (Warsaw University)

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Warsaw
44. Team for Solving Social Problems in the Field of Housing

As already mentioned, after the political transformation in 1989, an attempt was made to return real estate property to pre-war owners or their successors, as well as to privatise the new buildings. This resulted in numerous problems, which are now influencing the situation of the inhabitants of the city. These factors led to the emergence…

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Renata Siemieńska, Anna Domaradzka and Ilona Matysiak (Warsaw University)

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Warsaw
45. Project “Become your own Boss in Poland”

One of the problems that Warsaw faces in terms of labour market policies is the insufficient use of young people’s potential, and a high risk of unemployment among them. About 50,000–60,000 people encounter problems of this kind in Warsaw. The employment services of Warsaw, coordinated by the Labour Office of the Capital City of Warsaw,…

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Renata Siemieńska, Anna Domaradzka and Ilona Matysiak (Warsaw University)

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Warsaw
Warsaw – Conclusions

Factors that influence local welfare policy in Warsaw include (1) historical heritage of the second world war and legal decisions made during 1944-90 (the period of so-called socialist rule); (2) present conflicts between the governing liberal party Civic Platform and parties in opposition: the populist Law and Justice party and the leftist Democratic Left Alliance…

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Renata Siemieńska, Anna Domaradzka and Ilona Matysiak (Warsaw University)

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Bern
Bern – Introduction

Local background of the social innovations Bern is trying to identity itself as a social and innovative city. Although it is the capital, Bern is only the fourth largest city in Switzerland. The head trio is Zurich, often identified as the financial capital, Geneva known for its banks and its numerous international organisation, and Basel,…

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Maxime Felder with the collaboration of Sandro Cattacin and Patricia Naegeli

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Bern
64. Primano

64.1. Short description Primano is a pre-school education programme targeting disadvantaged children and their families in selected districts. It started in 2007 with a home-visit programme. Bern was the first commune to implement a Dutch programme named Opstapje. The idea of a pre-school programme arose as school nurses noticed that some children had difficulties in…

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Maxime Felder with the collaboration of Sandro Cattacin and Patricia Naegeli

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Bern
65. Integration guidelines

65.1. Short description In the second half of the 1990s, Swiss cities started taking charge of the challenges of migrant integration. Until then, right populist parties were alone on this ground. Schönenberger and D’Amato (2009) attribute this change first to the growing heterogenisation and fragmentation of the social and urban structure, and to the arrival…

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Maxime Felder with the collaboration of Sandro Cattacin and Patricia Naegeli

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Bern
Bern – Conclusions

To conclude, we will highlight some characteristics of the selected innovations. Then we will review some conditions and challenges for the appearance and success of innovations in Bern. Characteristics of innovations in Bern: For Chambon and his team, the State can have three roles regarding innovation. It can be a barrier to social innovation or…

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Maxime Felder with the collaboration of Sandro Cattacin and Patricia Naegeli

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Bern
66. Professional integration and education for young mothers

66.1. Short description The project for young mothers is a pilot project aiming to improve the employability of women between 16 and 25 years with young children, no professional training and dependent on social assistance. Although it is a typical case of a management programme aiming to motivate, this project has some innovative features. These…

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Maxime Felder with the collaboration of Sandro Cattacin and Patricia Naegeli

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