European Network of Social Integration Enterprises: ENSIE is launching its WISE Manager Award

With the “ENSI WISE Manager Award”, the European Network of Social Integration Enterprises (ENSIE) aims to celebrate and recognize managerial innovative practices in WISE (Work Integration Social Enterprise). Following its “Workers’ messages campaign”, ENSIE would like to highlight innovative work methodologies, for example managerial, logistical and human resources, and their effects on workers. Those success stories should be easily replicated in other WISEs and in other countries.

The applicants must submit short videos, pictures or any other visual communication tool describing their enterprise and explaining why they are innovatives, the impact of their practice on workers and the transferability potential.

Who can apply

Any WISE manager, whether an ENSIE member or not.

ENSIE considers as WISE any enterprise whose identifying principles are:

  • The social and professional integration of individuals who due to their exclusion and their relegation to a marginal role in society have fallen victim to increasing social and professional handicaps.
  • Enterprises at the core of the economic system, frequently one of the major factors in the phenomenon of exclusion.
  • Enterprises with a strong pedagogical dimension. The WISEs initiate training and educational programs designed on the basis of existing potential of the target group and develop this individual potential (at professional level and in its participation in society within the enterprise).

ENSIE considers as a manager any person who is in charge of managing a WISE, a branch or a WISE department.

Application process

Applicants must submit a short video, 2 minn maximum (mp4 or avi), pictures or any other visual communication tools in which they must present their enterprise and highlight the following points:

  • What innovative practices do you implement?
  • What is the measured impact?
  • What is its potential of transferability?

They should also send the application form and the consent form duly completed.

Applications must be submitted before 30 October 2019 at 5 pm via email or WeTransfer (if there is a video) to: pauline.bonino@ensie.org

Selection criteria

A jury of experts will select the winner of the competition based on the following criteria:

  • Innovation factor
  • Impact on the workers
  • Transferability

Prizes

The results will be proclaimed on 15 November during the ENSIE transnational public event in Budapest and the three finalists will be invited to make a presentation.

The three finalists will have their travel paid to Budapest (HU) where the winner will be proclaimed.

ENSIE will inform the three finalists on 5 November October.

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