Day: 18 March 2024

Meeting to summarize the Dragging project

On March 6, 2024, PCG Poland co-hosted the Dragging event with the Fundacja Inicjatyw Społeczno-Ekonomicznych.

During the meeting, Agnieszka Sokolnicka – project coordinator – talked about the project results:

• Database of business ideas
• Online course on entrepreneurship, which was created on the basis of the manual

During the workshop part, male and female participants in groups searched for solutions to social problems identified in their communities. A lot of creative ideas were born and a lot of opportunities to exchange experiences.

The event was an opportunity to meet people involved socially at different levels of social action: social welfare centers, labor office, local authorities, representatives and representatives of social economy entities, NGOs, academic centers. A truly networking meeting.

Participants of the meeting:

• Środowiskowy Dom Samopomocy w Nowym Dworze Mazowieckim
• OPS Grodzisk Mazowiecki
• Powiatowe Centrum Pomocy Rodzinie w Nowym Dworze Mazowieckim
• Stowarzyszenie na Rzecz Rozwoju Gminy Czosnów
• Fundacja “A kuku”
• Gmina Czosnów
• Ośrodek Pomocy Społecznej Dzielnicy Praga Południe m.st. Warszawy
• Skafander Stowarzyszenie Artystyczno-Społeczne
• Społeczny Instytut Ekologiczny
• SPÓŁDZIELNIA SOCJALNA NASIELSZCZANIE
• Powiatowy Urząd Pracy w Nowym Dworze Mazowieckim
• Warszawskie Centrum Pomocy Rodzinie
• Stowarzyszenie Kulturotwórcze Nie z tej Bajki
• Gmina Leoncin
• Urząd Miejski w Nasielsku
• Miejski Ośrodek Pomocy Społecznej w Nasielsku

Second multiplier event under project DRAGGING

New business opportunities are offered by the DRAGGING project of the Regional Development Agency with the Business Support Center for Small and Medium Enterprises (RDA BSC SMEs).

“The connection between the local administration and social organizations is becoming stronger with the help of the DRAGGING project, supporting entrepreneurship with the public administration,” said the executive director of RDA BSC SMEs Velizar Petrov, during the second multiplier event of the project. It was held on February 28, 2024 in front of over 40 representatives of regional and municipal administrations, public institutions, non-governmental organizations, regional centers of the social and solidarity economy under the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, people at risk of exclusion.

The project activities and final products were presented:

• Report on the training needs of people at risk of exclusion;
• Report on entrepreneurship training courses at European Union level;
• Business Manual – curriculum for training persons at risk of social exclusion;
• Module 1: Introduction to agile business model design methodologies;
• Module 2: Business Strategy and Marketing Plan;
• Module 3: Personnel Management;
• Module 4: Public Procurement;
• Module 5: Finance.

For each module there is a questionnaire designed to check what has been learned.