It doesn't exist incurable conflict between ethics, knowledge and production of wealth.

It is the conviction that moves partnership ELIOS (IT-S2-MDL-379 - the communitarian initiative Equal, II phase) in its plan on the topic of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Action 2 - Elios  

The project represents an innovative attempt to conjugate the acquisitions of greater relief in the within of the CSR (corporate social responsibility) with heuristic and reflection aspects, than is ethics of labour and business. From the realization of this asset two strategic results are achieved. In the first place a wider and shared articulation of the concept of enterprise responsibility; in the second place the increasing of such concept and the organizational, formative and operative aspects in favour of the social enterprise.

The auspice of the participation is to start a profitable exchange of experiences between ambles separates traditionally: the profit field will have to appropriate the “social worries” typical  of not profit one; on the other hand, the not profit filed will have to integrate in the managing skills the specific connotations of the profit one.

Beginning from a careful examination of the literature and best practices in matter, the partners want to reach a wide and shared concept of enterprise responsibility, that it knows to conjugate competitiveness and social engagement.

The plan previews:

• the elaboration of a model of management of the CSR, that is worth for every small and medium companies, is of the field profit is of that one not profit;
• the definition of the professional profiles and the iter formative of figures that in the several organizations are called to an effective engagement with regard to the stakeholders;
• the experimentation, with the methodologies and the instruments for the formation at a distance, of a formative, an userfriendly prototype for small and medium enterprises.

The participation is meant to diffuse provisory results of the research among companies and to guarantee their concrete involvement in the experimentation.

Among previewed activities in the communication plan:

• conventions
• seminaries
• workshop
• a paper and telematic review (Elios - revue) on the topics of social State, responsibility, knowledge society, sustainable development, certification, permanent formation, etc.

Action 3 - Elitra

The Elitra plan places itself in the Communitarian Initiative EQUAL Action 3 - II phase. Elitra is the fruit of the collaboration of six partnership that have worked in the Communitarian Initiative EQUAL Action 2 - II phase.

The PS are:

• Elios (IT-S2-MDL-379, Eko group);
• Store (IT-S2-MDL-304, Consorzio Solaris);
• Impresa e economia sociale (IT-S2-MDL-079, Oesse);
• P.A.O.L.A. (IT-G2-CAL-101, Consorzio Quality in training);
• EDS (IT-G2-LAZ-002, EFET);
• Il gusto dei luoghi (IT-G2-PUG-016, Consorzio Tecfor).

It is a matter of PS pertaining to the Entrepreneurship - Social economy Field, that have the follow objectives:

• to read over again with the help of the social responsibility concept, the integration and the possible development of systems composed of various social actors (public-private, profit-not profit);
• to reach to a new definition of social responsibility able to communicate with all fields (private, public and enterprise);
• to validate the survey-certification instruments elaborated in Action 2;
• to elaborate promotional strategies for several actors involved, based on the social responsibility;
• to diffuse a concept of social responsibility that promotes  a redefinition of social actors identities.

   Elios Project.doc

   Sintesi del progetto Elitra.doc