Results and follow up for CSA The stakeholders that signed the CSA and participated in different roles and functions of the CSA in action concluded that piloting phase was an excellent opportunity for all the actors involved. Moreover, the work placement providers underlined the motivation, dedication and enthusiasm shown by the students, to re-state their high potential for future development. The Principals of the schools involved considered the CSA in action as an excellent opportunity for both personal and professional development of the students involved and they expressed their wishes to see it extended and offered to a larger number of pupils. Parents were very pleased of the experience, because they could feel it had a long term impact in the personal and professional development of their children. The coordination partners also underlined the usefulness of such a governance model and piloting experience and the necessity to find a way to make it work within a wider context. One possibility that they have foreseen to make sustainable both the governance model and the piloting phase is to work it through the Widening Participation Academy, at Queen’s University Belfast.
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CSA in Action: Lordelo do Ouro, Portugal
The territory
In Portugal, the piloting phase has been realised in the District of Porto Freguesia 2 (Parish) of Lordelo do Ouro, which has a surface of 3,4 Km and a population of 22.212 inhabitants.4,4% of the population living in Lordelo do Ouro are of foreign origin. The unemployment rate in that area was estimated at 10,4%. Most of the population (77,5%) work in the tertiary sector. People living in Lordelo do Ouro suffer from a territorial stigmatization and consequent discrimination in their life and in the labour market. In the needs analysis it was pointed out by various stakeholders that it is necessary to dismantle both the negative image of the Lordelo do Ouro inhabitants in the whole District of Porto and also the negative self-image of unemployed people.
The beneficiaries
The needs analysis was carried out in a participatory way and the motivated and interested Lordelo do Ouro inhabitants were involved. The conclusions of the needs analysis led the CSA partnership to identify the beneficiaries to the CSA in Action, their needs and their individual plans. There have been seven beneficiaries (four men and three women): One adult woman (47 years old, long term unemployed) who wanted to create her own business (she wanted to create a co-operative association) to support elderly people. The CSA had the role of supporting her in setting this up; articulated with professional training she developed and created the cooperative association.
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