Social economy on the amber trail

The aim of the project is to create and verify a model of a social company. The project is addressed to unemployed women and youth age between 18 and 24 years old from small cities and country side located in the geographical area of the project.

What do we want to achieve?

1. Establish five social companies based on non governmental organizations. Social companies will manage the infrastructure and services of two trails: "Bursztynowy Szlak" and "Zielony Rower - Greenway Karpaty Wschodnie". These companies will use local natural and cultural heritage as a market asset. They will also provide workplace for people threatened with unemployment or social exclusion. Social companies will support and substantiate local development and the improvement of the non governmental companies that found them.  
2. Build and promote model, which will break the barriers that limits the access of some people to labor market. This will be achieved through trainings, consulting and promotion of entrepreneurial attitude. 
3. Develop the market offers of Bursztynowy Szlak" and "Zielony Rower - Greenway Karpaty Wschodnie" trials through cooperation with non governmental organizations, entrepreneurs and local government.
   

What are we going to do?

We have established 5 social companies, which:

• manage the particular tourist trials
  
• offer tourist and recreation services that are environmentally friendly and based on local natural and cultural heritage
  
• mark and restore tourist and recreation infrastructure b
• ring into cultivation public area and protect natural and cultural heritage
  
• organize local parties and other cultural and artistic events
  
• promote and sell local products that characterize the trials

In 2007 we will:

Promote the idea of social companies that break the barriers limiting access to the labor market. This experience will be spread through "Krajowa Sieć Grup Partnerskich", "Lokalne Grupy Działania" and "Loder+" as well as university centers that support local tourism and development. The experience of social companies will be published and  promoted in media.

Partnership

All companies and organizations that operate in the geographical area of the project and are interested in common marketing and sales of products based on local cultural heritage are welcome to cooperation.  Tourist offices that sales Polish offers on the domestic and foreign market and companies and institutions willing to support innovative development of social entrepreneurship may also become a partners of the project.