European Community of Practice

It is a resource that provides guidance and practical support for those wishing to mainstream and transfer products of social innovation.

Why calculate the costs and benefits?

As a complement to the protocol for the identification of good practices, this tool gives practical guidance on how to transfer a selected best practice into an area needing improvement.

The atached document has a good theory based context, but most important, has an Anex with the step-by-step transfer process.

Beware! Here we assemble the best practices and instruments springing from all the management instruments the Equal programme has come up with in the last seven years. You could think it is all about the past, about a European objective you can forget about now. That would be a pity. Actually, we are selecting the very best tools you can use IN FUTURE. They are concrete, practical, handy, you name it. Explore, discover. And you will be using them. Temptation will be too strong. Promise.

Mainstreaming is about incorporating into general policy and practices those strategies or solutions developed through EQUAL or other ESF funded projects to tackle unemployment and social exclusion at local, regional, national or European level.