In the EU there is a general contraction in marginal areas of local economic activity in favour of their concentration in more densely populated areas, which of course leads to higher unemployment and poverty. These are conditions that also lead to the depopulation of these areas, with flows concentrating on larger urban areas. This socioeconomic gap means that large areas lack the ability to manage essential services, enhance or protect the environmental heritage (also mitigating the damage caused by climate change), commons and cultural assets.The reduced capacity of the territories is also due to a reduced entrepreneurial competence in the population that prevents the full realization of this potential, and the most difficult entities such as young adults and women; for both the cause is to refer to a reduced awareness of their entrepreneurial skills. Ultimately, in these territories there is a lack of endogenous capacity for participation in collective life, and therefore also reduced competences in the field of participation.One possible response to this scenario are Community Enterprises. They are socioeconomic entities that rely on the production of benefits for the reference communities through the involvement of citizens in the planning, production, financing and exploitation of activities. The CEs are therefore ideal places where renewed participation and responsible citizenship are expressed and enhanced.The project intends to invest in policies and instruments that facilitate these developments, while fulfilling a dual objective: to promote the employability of young people and women, at a disadvantage because they are lining in internal areas, and to respond to shared local needs. The aim is to provide support for the learning of skills needed to combat depopulation and impoverishment of marginal areas through the start-up of CEs.Young adults and women living in marginal areas who want to get back in the game in order to achieve greater social and work integration with a view to self-enterprise will be involved in the project as main target groups, with a particular focus on disadvantaged people; the target communities will also participate in the process.The project results will benefit to adult guidance and vocational system, which will have new tools available for this type of development.The project will produce:1. Community Enterprise start-up form. It will be a path of skills development and active accompaniment at the start of a CE that will include a tool for self assessment of skills, a training path for the enhancement of entrepreneurial, vision and relationship skills, and operational models for Start-up phase.2. Portal for Community Enterprise development. It will be an accessible and free online tool that allows to implement and use the tools referred to in the previous point.The methodology followed will be based on a rigorous scientific approach which, from the teaching point of view, will favor interactive and involvement methodologies, considering also the non- formal aspects and closely linking learning to concrete developments. An experimentation phase is foreseen to validate the processes.Up to now, the theme of the development of civil commitment and democratic participation in the life of the territories has been more developed on the activism level, often triggering subsidiarity processes which are mostly located in the voluntary sector. The project, on the other hand, intends to enhance the impact that these practices can have, placing them within a new economy that can promote, in addition to the growth of social and civil commitment, sustainable development, the theme of ECs, is, between the other, still underdeveloped in the EU, and therefore this proposal can make important contributions.Through the project it will be possible to increase the participatory skills and entrepreneurial skills of the target groups, in the CEs sector in particular by supporting their creation and diffusion, also thanks to the tools that will be made available, generating positive externalities both in terms of integration of people in difficulty and of creation fo jobs and sustainable development. In the long term, the project will be able to contribute to the strengthening of sustainable growth in the EU, inparticular in internal areas, through the growth of ECs (the quality of the accompaniment of which will have been improved) which will lead to full entry into law enforcement policies to marginality.

Context EnterpriseThe perspective within which contextualizes the project adopts a logical system and promotes networking of resources, institutional, professional and territorial, through a strategy that includes:the development of coordination and methodological improvement of the interventions of the design and implementation of training courses and support to self-employment of disadvantaged persons by the local services that deal in various ways, of social inclusion and employmentthe expansion of the accompanying instruments and facilitating access to finance for the start-up of self-entrepreneurial projects by disadvantaged persons.GoalsGENERAL OBJECTIVE: To contribute to the improvement and modernization of policies, strategies and measures on training and social and labor inclusion of disadvantaged persons.SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To enhance the entrepreneurial training and self-employment as a strategy for social and labor integration of disadvantaged persons.Participants and beneficiariesDisadvantaged persons in charge to the various services -> 16 participants, about 2,000 interested as catchmentOperators of local services (VET, social cooperation, social services, health services and employment services) -> at least 14 participants and about 200 involvedOperators and representatives of trade unions and the local development of the enterprise system, crafts, industry, trade and cooperation -> at least 4 participants and about 40 involvedExecutives and managers of the territorial system of services, policy and decision makers of the local and the PA -> at least 9 and about 30 participants involvedActivityAnalysis of existing practices and arrangement of methodologies for the analysis and evaluation of motivations, attitudes and skills necessary for starting a businessAnalysis of existing practices and provision of methodologies for the evaluation and improvement of the quality of the business idea and business planDefinition of tools and procedures for the analysis of training needs related to business and to start preparation of a model for the development of individualized plans of professional training aimed at starting businessAnalysis of existing opportunities and facilities for business creation (eg. the system of micro-credit), good practices and methodologies useful advice to support the process of business creationDefinition of the technical and professional skills needed, establishment of a program of training and teaching aids for professionals who deal with planning and accompany the paths of self-enterprisePreparation of a shared model of support and assistance to the start up of enterprise of disadvantaged personsApplication of models and the instruments provided with experimentation of the accompanying the start-up enterprise of selected subjects (with access to the system of micro-credit)Processing of the evaluation plan and evaluation of models and experimentationMethodology used in the projectThe project involves the comparative analysis, processing, and then shared the empirical testing of models, tools, methodologies and procedures for the design and the accompaniment of training courses and support to self-employment of disadvantaged people. Ample space is given to raising awareness and involvement of stakeholders as well as to the enhancement and dissemination of outputs and outcomes.Expected Results1. Increase chances of success of the business ideas and opportunities for self-employment of disadvantaged persons2. Enhanced capacity of VET, local services for the work and the inclusion of design and manage training and guidance to support self-employment of disadvantaged persons3. Increase opportunities for self-employment of the target group of selected disadvantaged peoples and accompanied part of the trial in the projectExpected impact and long-term benefitsEnhancement of entrepreneurship opportunities in key of social and work inclusion of disadvantaged people and at the same time improving the quality and effectiveness of training programs and support designed to self-employment of disadvantaged persons.It 'also provided an impact at the system level, in the long run, in terms of improvement of networking between services for training, inclusion and work in order to significantly increase the effectiveness and efficiency of all the services involved in the training and work integration of disadvantaged persons.