RESEARCH, INNOVATION & PARTNERSHIPS

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The BJC has a strong belief in the need to remain innovative and to try new ideas to address identified issues arising from the experience of clients.  The BJC aims to identify and bridge gaps in services and labour market supports for disadvantaged job seekers.  Over the years the BJC has made applications to EU funds in order to access the financial resources to test new ideas and ways of working.  The EU work is developed in partnership with organisations in other European Countries.

The involvement of staff in EU projects is a vaulable experience.  There is a high degree of transfer of learning from the projects and many relationships have been developed and sustained through the work of these Partnerships.  One of the main sources of EU funding is the Leonardo da Vinci Programme, managed in Ireland by Léargas.  It must be acknowledged that over the years the Leargas staff have provided constructive and indispensable support to enable the BJC to develop the expertise to manage EU programmes.

One of the hardest tasks to achieve is the "mainstreaming of good practice developed in the EU programmes into our day to day work.  In this regard the BJC has made determined efforts to ensure the lessons and work of the EU Projects improved the delivery of services and the way we work with clients.  For example the psychometric web tools developed in the EGUIDE and INFORM Projects are now used daily by staff in the BJC,  Ballyfermot Partnership/LESN, and in Belfast, Spain, Germany and Slovenia.  The inter-agency process,  profiling tool and website developed as part of the Equal Youth Process  is now part of the way agencies work together in Ballymun.  The support of the FAS Social Inclusion Unit must be acknowledged in this.  The BJC is also working with FAS to transfer lessons of the Equal Youth Project to Limerick as well as the EGUIDE and INFORM guidance tools.  These are only some of the examples of the successful transfer of the lessons from the EU partnerships the BJC has developed over the last number of years.

 

Click here to look at some of the EU Projects co-ordinated by the BJC in the last five years.

Click here to look at some of the EU Projects where the BJC acted as a partner in the last five years.



       



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