New Report Reveals Occupational Profiles for Capacity-Building in WISEs Sector
Within the B-WISE project, the “Report on Occupational Profiles in the WISEs Sector” (Work Integration Social Enterprises) has been published. This comprehensive document analyzes the skills and key roles in the field of social enterprises and the social economy, providing valuable guidance for capacity-building and development. The report, stemming from work carried out during Work Package 3 (WP3), was coordinated by the National Consortium Idee in Rete, one of the Italian partners of the project, under the guidance of Gianfranco Marocchi. The whole report is the result of a constant comparison with the working group of Idee in Rete and Scuola Centrale Formazione that involved the authors Camilla Baldini (Idee in Rete project manager), Claudia Pinessi (Idee in Rete), Laura Minieri (SCF), Rita Festi (SCF) and Bianca Maria Molinari (SCF).
The report aims to:
• identify and analyse the capacity-building needs that emerged from WP1 and WP2
• identify, among the multiplicity of needs identified and re-aggregated into areas of expertise, the priority ones and describe them in detail.
This last description is functional in order to identify, in a subsequent elaboration (T3.2) that will be published soon, an analytical definition of possible learning outcomes for each of these areas; on this basis it will then be possible, in the continuation of the project, to define capacity-building paths.
The report is structured in two sections.
In the first chapter ‘The needs of the WISEs’ some criteria for the identification of expertise are preliminarily identified and a synthetic outline of the needs emerged from the previous WPs are offered.
In the second chapter ‘The capacity building areas some potential areas of expertise are selected and then subjected to a more in-depth analysis.
As part of this analysis, connections between these areas and the ESCO classification system were also identified, both with reference to occupational profiles, where appropriate, and to the ‘skills and competencies’ section.
The areas of expertise identified within the WISE sector are as follows
- Networking and community thinking
- The ‘Capacity of Vision’
- Communicating work integration
- Supporting work 1 – tutoring / mentoring/ informal training
- Supporting work 2 – Skills Validation
- Supporting work 3 – Placement
- Organising production with Workers with Support Needs
The occupational profiles resulting from this report are:
- Network operator
- Social Entrepreneur
- Social economy communicator
- Tutor/mentor/informal trainer of WISEs
- Skills validator
- WISE placement operator
- Expert on organising production with Workers with support needs
