The Mediterranean library of knowledge
Explore the ENI CBC Med Programme's library of deliverables: a comprehensive digital repository of diverse resources tailored for the Mediterranean region. Discover in-depth studies, innovative strategies, and practical tools spanning tools addressing key environmental, economic, and social issues. The library is your go-to source to find valuable knowledge to inspire new collaborative projects driving fair, sustainable and inclusive development across the Mediterranean.
MedRiSSE Policy briefs in promoting social innovation led by SSE entities
Oxfam Italy, based on a cross-country analysis, constructed 5 thematic policy briefs targeting key topics in social innovation. These topics were chosen for their relevance to broader public debate and the potential to be leveraged at a country level. The themes include: promoting the role of Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) in developing the green economy in Jordan; pragmatic options for social enterprises to access blended finance mechanisms in Italy; advancing local currencies and removing implementation barriers in Spain; financial support for women-led cooperatives, contributing to women empowerment in Palestine; and enhancing cooperation between higher education, social entrepreneurs, and the SSE sphere in Tunisia’s educational system. The briefs were developed in collaboration with regional focal points and a consultant, validated through a restitution meeting, and disseminated via both offline workshops and online webinars. These briefs offer detailed and specific actions and recommendations for policy makers to effectively promote social innovation.
MedRiSSE Replication Toolkit
The MedRiSSE Replication Toolkit was developed by ARCO/PIN S.c.r.l. to provide an easy to read and practitioners-oriented toolkit aiming to inspire and provide guiding elements for SSE actors in the public and private sectors wishing to replicate public-private co-production models and SSE good practices.
MedRiSSE Replication Roadmaps for replicability on Social Innovation practices
ARCO/PIN S.c.r.l., Italian partner of MedRiSSE, conducted a literature review on replicability tools and frameworks assessing scalability of social innovation initiatives. This guided the evaluation of the replication and scalability potential of 5 good practices from the MEDRiSSE project. The framework is based on the Sustainable Human Development paradigm and the Capability Approach perspective, viewing the Social and Solidarity Economy from a territorial ecosystem perspective. It also considers contextual factors. This exchange of knowledge and experience resulted in five replicability roadmaps and a toolkit to guide potential replication of social innovation models.
MedRiSSE E-Learning Courses on Co-production and Social Innovation with SSE entities
These courses result from the knowledge and experience gained from five capitalized projects funded by the ENI CBC MED Programme. All projects aimed to enhance a collaborative ecosystem for Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) initiatives, support social business startups, and promote social innovation. In total, 5 eLearning courses have been developed and uploaded to the Med Co-production Lab: Co-production of Public Policies and Complementary Currencies, Alliances with SSE for Employment and Education, Support to Social Business Start-ups on Scaling up and Replication, Fair Trade, Rural Entrepreneurship and Women's Empowerment, and How to Develop a Local Ecosystem of SSE Based on CITESS Methodology. Once the course is successfully completed after a quick quiz, the Lab automatically generates a certificate of knowledge. All courses have been translated to Arabic and Spanish.
DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-CULTURAL, SOLIDARITY BASED SOCIAL-CARE MODEL AND TOOLS
This activity represented the second step to carry out the Action Plan. After having analysed "Understand and listen to the community", we identified the objectives that are to be achieved through a planning of an action oriented to values and missions that guides the development of work in the community that has been determined. The methodology used to structure our Action Plan was based on VMOSA: Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, and Action Plans. The VMOSA is a practical planning process that is used to help community groups define a vision and develop practical ways to implement change.
VMOSA helped the organisation set and achieve short-term goals while maintaining a long-term vision. The implementation of this planning process in the efforts of your group supported the development of a clear mission, the creation of consensus and the establishment of community dreams.
TEC-MED model
The TEC-MED project aimed to develop and pilot a socio-ethic and cross-cultural care model in 6 countries from the Mediterranean basin (Spain, Greece, Italy, Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia). As a results of the formative research carried out in the work package 3, the state of the art, which consists in three activities: analysis of the 20 most promising initiatives in Europe and the Mediterranean basin aimed to the social care of elderly, analysis of the current social care systems in the countries participants though semiestructured interviews and SWOT analysis, a gap analysis through a Delphi study, and, finaly the TEC-MED model development and validation with experts in several meetings. The TEC-MED model is an integrative person-cented model of care for dependent and/or at risk of exclusion elderly people. It has six dimensions (subject of care, social and health providers, environment and system of care, technology, financing and governance), 5 key concepts (quality, research and dissemination, ethic, gender, social inclusion, transculturality), at the three level of management (micro, meso y macro level). The operationalization of the TEC-MED model could be a catalyst to promote quality services based on a socio-ethical and cross-cultural model for the elderly in the Mediterranean basin.
STATE OF THE ART – ANALYSIS AND CROSS-CULTURAL MODEL DEFINITION (WP3)
The WP3 “State of the art” was aimed to develop the foundation of the TEC-MED Model. It was composed of 3 activities sequenced over time. These activities were linked together, so that the result of the first activity allowed the development of the second and the third one. A.3.1.1. consisted in an integrative literature review in order to: 1) Analyze case studies about the most promising social care initiatives in Europe and the Mediterranean basin to elderly people with dependence and risk of social exclusion, and 2) analyze the social care models in the participants countries. A state of the art was developed and a checklists and semi-structured interview guide, in different languages, to be use in the next activity. A.3.1.2. consisted in the development of qualitative research based on semi-structured interviews and focus groups. With the results of these interviews and analyzing the background with the previous literature review a SWOT analysis to diagnosis the Social Care Practices in the participant countries was developed (Egypt, Greece, Lebanon, Spain and Tunisia). Finally, in A.3.1.3, first, a consultation online technical Delphi panel was developed with expert from the participants countries. With all the previous information, the TEC-MED model, and them validated with expert in an international online workshop. Thanks to a deep literature review and to the consultation with 207 stakeholders related with vulnerable elderly population at micro, macro y mesolevel, as well as final beneficiaries.
VALIDATION OF TEC-MED SOCIAL CARE MODEL (WP5)
At the beginning, each country identified the professional profiles of the training agents based on information and professional experience, taking into account the sociocultural characteristics of their countries. The project ended with an evaluation of the training. Once the social care professionals (6 per country) have been trained, these capacities are expected to generate an action gap, determining the impact of new labor and social services. This training helped to strengthen the capacities of these professionals and to turn them into trainers of future social care professionals by giving them tools and knowledge to increase their skills and competencies related to the care of the elderly.WP5 was coordinated by the Institute for Development, Research, Advocacy & Applied Care (Lebanon) who was the leader of these activities:
- A.5.1.1. Implementation of TEC-MED model
- A.5.1.2. TEC-MED Model validation where PP5 led the validation and certification process of the model. The final revision of all documents was done by the LB.
COMMUNITY BUILDING, STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENTAND CAPACITY BUILDING (WP6)
In this document three activities are developed: A.6.1.1. Identification of stakeholders and planning of networking activities, A. 6.1.2. Community participation and network expansion and strengthening activities. A.6.1.3. Dedicated events, results validation and capacity building activities. All this in the framework of TEC-MED for Mediterranean elderly dependent people.
Our elders matters: their stories.
The result of an initiative of the European Commission and the University of Seville, it combines stories and illustrations, and is based on real stories of older people like Katerina, from Greece; Manuel, from Spain; Fatema, from Egypt; Hassen, from Tunisia; Sami, from Lebanon, and Alfonsina, from Italy. They have told us about their lives, their current circumstances, how they are and how they are at the moment. And we have narrated and illustrated them through micro-stories.