Partas CLG
Budget
€1,491,926
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
1
0.5 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
Mission Statement: Our aim is to build an inclusive and thriving community by being a leading source of excellence in development of local enterprise and of social economy. Objectives:( n)( n)To foster and support entrepreneurship within the community through appropriate business training, mentoring and ongoing support.( n) ( n)To create improved opportunities for sustainable employment within all sectors of the local community through lifelong training, re-training, personal and business development programmes.( n) ( n)To effectively manage, develop and maintain enterprise centres for the community, which offer affordable workspace in support of local enterprise and act as focal points for local community development.( n) ( n)To support the innovative development of the social economy through new approaches to analysing, understanding and developing all aspects of the sector at local, national and European levels.( n) ( n)To encourage inclusivity through continual analysis (...)
EU Legislative Interests
Policies in relation to social inclusion, social enterprise, equality, unemployment, training, innovation, local development. Current projects seeking to identify possible actions and policies in those areas: Erasmus+ in relation to innovation and sharing of expertise in VET as relevant to the above policy areas.
Communication Activities
EQUAL - SONAS Programme – EU funded EQUAL programme dealing with Asylum Seekers with partners from Cork,Dublin, Limerick and Wexford. EQUAL EMERGE – (2005) – Ethnic minority entrepreneurship EQUAL Senior Select Retrain Retain – (2005) – Older age employment WISELINK – Interreg IIIA (2001) - Wales & Ireland Social Economy Link, capacity building programme for community businesses. WINSENT – Interreg 4a (2009) – Wales Ireland Network for Social Entrepreneurship SPIDER - Interreg IVB (2013) Social Innovation through service design. IV4J - Erasmus+ (2016) Innovation in VET for jobs. RISE - Erasmus+ (2017) examination of causes of failure in social enterprise.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
Social Enterprise Republic of Ireland (SERI): https://www.socialenterprise.ie/ The Community Enterprise Association Ireland (CEAI): https://communityenterprise.ie/ The European Social Enterprise Network (EUCLID): https://euclidnetwork.eu/ European Network of Social Integration Enterprises (ENSIE): https://www.ensie.org/ The Wheel (National association of charities, community groups and social enterprises): https://www.wheel.ie/ South Dublin Chamber of Commerce: https://www.sdchamber.ie/ Ireland’s National Hub Network: https://connectedhubs.ie/ European network of innovation for inclusion: https://europeannetforinclusion.accioncontraelhambre.org/
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.