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Question for Discussion
− How to involve different actors (state, local organizations and communities) in
order to shift the focus of the action to the territory?
− How to move from a national strategy and a sum of sectoral interventions to a
territorial (area, place,...) focused intervention?
− How to provide a coherent and well-integrated framework for the plurality of
mechanisms and actors?
− How to rationalise and organise the diversity of local partnerships, preserving
the orientations underlying current multiple structures and to defend the
possibility of everyone participating in the design, planning, implementation
and assessment of social policies?
Report for working group 1: Education
Peter Bischoff
Introduction
The topic of workshop 1 was education/educational opportunities.
Presentations were made by Poland and Portugal.
The Polish contribution consisted of the presentation of the national programme
‘Elicitation and support for Local Self-Government and Non-Governmental Organizations
in the field of equalising educational chances and opportunities for children and youths’
(2006-2008), currently operating within the framework of the ‘National Youth Strategy’ and
particularly focusing on the equalisation of educational opportunities for children and
youths in Poland with a special emphasis on rural regions and districts, and also the nongovernmental
programme ‘Equal Opportunities’ which has been in operation since 2001
and is supported by the Polish-American organisation 'Freedom Foundation’.
The Portuguese presentation introduced three programme elements of the National
Strategy focussing on children and youths in disadvantaged areas (‘Choices Programme’/
‘Cool Generation Project’/ and ‘Critical Urban Areas Initiative’); these projects are
particularly concentrated in regions and districts which have experienced a high level of
immigration from former colonial countries since 1975 and contain a high concentration of
families with a migrational background.
Similarities
The chief similarity between the two national approaches is that the programmes and
programme elements presented are incorporated and anchored in national strategies which
are supported and implemented by actors from a variety of governmental bodies and
institutions, local administrations and independent organisations (NGOs).
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