Dott. Luciano Bedin

Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)

tel.   0444/376449  fax 0444/378728 e-mail direzione@primavera85.it web www.primavera85.it

SOCIAL COOPERATION IN TIMES OF CRISIS

Financial Issues Primavera 85

The True Story of

an Italian Social Cooperative

Speaker: Luciano Bedin

Dott. Luciano Bedin

Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)

tel.   0444/376449  fax 0444/378728 e-mail direzione@primavera85.it web www.primavera85.it

Primavera 85 runs day centres, school projects, after-school services

and afternoon rehabilitation services that involve about 200 families

every day.

Activities are run by 50

operators assisted

by a large group

of volunteers.

Presentation

Dott. Luciano Bedin

Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)

tel.   0444/376449  fax 0444/378728 e-mail direzione@primavera85.it web www.primavera85.it

Mission: become an asset and a resource for communities with centres.

We mainly deal with:

People with autism

People with mental and physical disabilities

Elderly people with disabilities

Job training and placement

After-school activities

Learning difficulties

The elderly and third-age issues

Running a shop

Dott. Luciano Bedin

Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)

tel.   0444/376449  fax 0444/378728 e-mail direzione@primavera85.it web www.primavera85.it

CLP – Center for job training

This center is dedicated to people with various degree of disabilities.Its aim is to support disabilitated people in the path towards the world of work.

Dott. Luciano Bedin

Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)

tel.   0444/376449  fax 0444/378728 e-mail direzione@primavera85.it web www.primavera85.it

Alternative Jewellery project

Involves people with mild mental and physical disabilities

who do not need to attend a day centre.

AIM: develop manual skills in order to foster their

chances of finding local employment

BY setting up a goldsmith’s workshop where all work is done by hand

Dott. Luciano Bedin

Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)

tel.   0444/376449  fax 0444/378728 e-mail direzione@primavera85.it web www.primavera85.it

GOING FOR GOLD

This workshop uses some of Vicenza’s longest standing

goldsmiths to ensure that decades of experience will not be

lost to the current crisis and to create a link between old and

new generations, resulting in a wide range of people being

able to benefit from the workshop.

Valorise (not compete with) Vicenza’s traditional goldsmith

system

Social inclusion of people in training scheme

Dott. Luciano Bedin

Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)

tel.   0444/376449  fax 0444/378728 e-mail direzione@primavera85.it web www.primavera85.it

How much did it cost?

All of the tools were donated by local goldsmith workshopsand the workshop itself is housed at the job training day centre.

Consequently, in financial terms,

the cooperative did not have to make an investment.

Dott. Luciano Bedin

Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)

tel.   0444/376449  fax 0444/378728 e-mail direzione@primavera85.it web www.primavera85.it

Commercial development

Imperfection is our added value

Unique jewellery displayed during special exhibitions at project-partner jewellers’, interviews on local TV, a website.

MORE THAN 50 JEWELLERS INVOLVED

Dott. Luciano Bedin

Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)

tel.   0444/376449  fax 0444/378728 e-mail direzione@primavera85.it web www.primavera85.it

Local Repercussions

Users: more training/placement opportunities in an environment that leads to proper social inclusion.

Cooperative: chance to offer innovative training schemes and receive income.

Young designers: chance to fulfil projects and learn from skilled craftsmen.

Older goldsmiths: chance to pass on their knowledge.

Redundant workers: chance to work alongside trainees as volunteers.

Vicenza goldsmith industry: chance to safeguard part of its patrimony and knowledge.

Dott. Luciano Bedin

Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)

tel.   0444/376449  fax 0444/378728 e-mail direzione@primavera85.it web www.primavera85.it

Strategic partners

Retired goldsmiths or goldsmiths who have closed down their business

Disability department’s and Vicenza Local Health Authority’s Work Placement Service

Psychiatry department’s Work Placement Service (Vicenza Local Health Authority)

Vicenza Local Health Authority’s Disability department

Veneto Productivity Centre (CPV), Vicenza

Walter Maino’s advertising/photo studio

E-Team communication agency

Ireland’s tinymonkeydesign agency

Vicenza exhibition centre

Young designers

Volunteers

Dozens of jewellers’ throughout the Triveneto area

Dott. Luciano Bedin

Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)

tel.   0444/376449  fax 0444/378728 e-mail direzione@primavera85.it web www.primavera85.it

Thanks to our partners and to a hard-hitting advertising campaign, the initiative has been successful, and allowed us to expose in different goldsmith workshops, as well as in congress and summits.

Dott. Luciano Bedin

Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)

tel.   0444/376449  fax 0444/378728 e-mail direzione@primavera85.it web www.primavera85.it

During one of the last events, we got in touch with Rwanda Jewels workshop.

This initiative is part of the program of scientific and didactic collaboration between IVAV University of Venice (Italy) and KIST, Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Rwanda, and it involves also the cultural collaboration program carried out between the cited IVAV and the Foundation Claudio Buziol. Partner and sponsor of the enterprise is The Soroptimist International.

The result? A successfull joint-venture between plant-fibers productors and our experienced and appreciated unique jewellery, with the aim of helping our partners to manufact objects suitable for european taste.

Dott. Luciano Bedin

Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)

tel.   0444/376449  fax 0444/378728 e-mail direzione@primavera85.it web www.primavera85.it

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

Luciano Bedin

direzione@primavera85.it

www.primavera85.it