Title: CALA (Center for Self-Employed Workers) - Action 3

EU funds for the project: 43,505 € (50 %) - Equal Phase II

Period: 18 months (July 2004 - December 2005)

Contact: Employment, Professional Training and Economic Development Division

Description: action 3 (Mainstreaming) of the CALA project had the dual objective of providing support to people from disadvantaged groups in taking up self-employment opportunities and operating in tertiary and services sector, where recruitment and human resources management methods are dominated by professional collaboration. The general objective of Action 3 was to introduce the best practices experimented in the previous action to this system. Various seminars were organized as part of the project, which fostered dialogue with institutions, whilst a net economy portal was also set up, realized through the joint action of Milanese administrations (the City of Milan headed the project), which proved to be an important meeting point for workers in the sector. In this way, a circuit of services and information for atypical workers was realized. The City of Torino actively contributed to the mainstreaming and dissemination of best practices, and created the information tool given the name "informatipico".