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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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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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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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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 – 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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Warsaw – Introduction

Local background of the social innovations Innovation is defined in many ways by social scientists, people connected with business or technology. Shortly speaking, it is a way to improve the systems that already exist, making them better, faster and cheaper (Iuri and Kuhn 1998). What means “better, faster, cheaper” depends on the area of interest.…

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

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