ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnerships


Building a Network to Boost Social Secure Europe -
BOSS
Tīkla veidošana, lai veicinātu sociālo drošību Eiropā - BOSS
Līgums Nr. 2020-1-LV01-KA204-077474
01/09/2020 - 30/06/2022 - 30/06/2023
Project Summary
BOSS project will be implemented over a 34-month period by ten
non-governmental organisations from European countries. The planned
funding of the Erasmus+ program is 115970 EUR.
BACKGROUND
Civil society organizations from BOSS partner countries have
established a quality framework for fighting against poverty and
social exclusion, are the most familiar with the needs of their
target groups and have an understanding of gender equality issues.
However, the influence of these organizations regarding the
promotion of social security across Europe is insufficient due to
the lack of a strengthened cooperation network. The poverty
reduction target through the social inclusion policies of the
European Strategy 2020 and the national reform programs has not been
achieved. The leading staff from the BOSS organizations have the
need for the new knowledge and understanding in the field of social
inclusion related to the new targets set in the European Union,
which are reflected in the Annual Convention "Social Europe post
2020", European Pillar of Social Rights, Agenda 2030, Gender
Equality Strategy 2020-2025, Nordic and national programs.
Partners have set the following OBJECTIVES:
1) to establish a cooperation network of European organizations for
the promotion of social security and to strategically strengthen the
capacity of this Network;
2) to promote the BOSS partners', stakeholders', the
non-governmental sector's and the general public's understanding of
the BOSS network's tasks by ensuring the availability of relevant
information;
3) to increase the knowledge of BOSS partner organizations'
employees and volunteer leaders about the social inclusion
strategies;
4) to ensure the exchange of experience for the BOSS partner
organizations' employees and volunteers on the possibilities of
implementing social rights and gender equality.
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Project partners
● Latvia
EAPN-Latvia, Association |
● Estonia
Eesti People to People |
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Sweden
B-Creative Association |
● Poland
Stowarzyszenie Vesuvio |
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Norway
Velferdsalliansen EAPN Norway |
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Denmark
Interfolk - Institute for civil Society |
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France
Mitra France |
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Italy
Coordinamento Toscano Marginalita |
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Cyprus
Socialist Women's Movement |
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Romania
Novapolis Association - Center for Analysis and
Development Initiatives |
● Greece
Hellenic Antipoverty Network |
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Project team
Latvia

● Laila Balga, Project Coordinator
info eapn.lv |

● Inguna Lapsina, Financial Manager
info eapn.lv |

● Maris Kalejs, IT Manager
sanne sanne.lv |

● Aigars Sveicers, NGO expert
asveicers gmail.com |

● Marite Rozentale, NGO expert
maritero inbox.lv |

● Gunta Kelle, NGO expert
gunta imka.lv |

● Ineta Ielite, NGO expert
inete.ielite bernuforums.lv |

● Dace Paegle, NGO expert
dace bernuforums.lv |

● Natalya Novikova, NGO expert
novikova kompit.lv |

● Raja Eriksone, NGO expert
biedriba.rasa inbox.lv |

● Dzintra Ziemele, NGO expert
dzintraziemele inbox.lv |

● Elina Alere-Fogele, NGO expert
elina.alere.fogele eapn.lv |

● Diana Jasinska, NGO expert
dianaja inbox.lv |
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Poland

● Alina Maria Stadnik,
Project Manager
vesuvio7 wp.pl |

● Wlodzimierz Andrzej Stadnik,
Project Manager
vesuvio7 wp.pl |
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Sweden

● Ingmarie Rohdin,
Project Manager
ingmarierohdin b-creative.link |

● Åsa Hedlin Olsson,
Researcher/Administrator
hedlinolsson gmail.com |

● Cristina Boldrini Tisci,
Responsible for marketing and networking
ingmarierohdin b-creative.link |
Cyprus

● Eleni N. Karaoli,
Project Manager
eleninkaraoli hotmail.com |

● Roulla Mavronikola,
Project Manager
roulla.mavronikola gmail.com |

● Sylia Kirmitsi,
Project Manager
skyrmitsi gmail.com |
Estonia

● Ruta Pels, Project Manager
ruta.pels mail.ru |

● Leonid Smulskiy, Publicity Manager
leonid.smulskiy mail.ru |
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Norway

● Honoratte BNN Muhanzi,
Project Manager
honoratte.muhanzi
velferdsalliansen.no |

● Aaste Solheim Hagerup,
Administrator
aaste.solheim.hagerup
velferdsalliansen.no |

● Felipe Garcia, NGO expert
felipe.garcia velferdsalliansen.no |
Denmark

● Hans Jorgen Vodsgaard,
Project Manager
hjv interfolk.dk
(01/09/2020-03/05/2021) |

● Ole Meldgaard,
Project Manager
olemeldgaard1 gmail.com
(01/09/2020-03/05/2021) |
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France

● Pavel Smulski, Project Manager
Paul_smulski hotmail.com |

● Karina Tronche, Project Manager
karina.tronche gmail.com |
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Romania

● Aurica-Iris Alexe,
Project Manager
eapnromania gmail.com |

● Florentina Buruiana, Financial Manager
eapnromania gmail.com |

● Narcisa Alexe, Technical Expert
eapnromania gmail.com |
Italy

● Jacopo Lascialfari, Project Manager
lascialfarij gmail.com |

● Silvia Raimondi, Project Manager
silviaraimondi2 gmail.com |

● Giulia Morigoni, NGO expert
giulia.morigoni gmail.com
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Greece

● Evita Paraskevopoulou, Project Manager, eapngr gmail.com |

● Panagiota Arvaniti, Financial Manager, eapngr gmail.com |

● Adamantia Baboula, Communication Officer, eapngr gmail.com |

● Spyridon Psychas, NGO expert
eapngr@gmail.com |
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Target group - NGO participants
The BOSS network will involve a direct target group - at least 62
employees (project managers, experts, board members, etc., 50% of
all - women), and also an indirect target group - at least 20
participants from Cypriot NGOs.

Photo from the Coordinamento Toscano Marginalita archive
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Summary of the planned ACTIVITIES:
1) four Transnational Project Meetings (Project Opening Conference
and a Workshop in Cyprus, two BOSS Capacity Building in Italy and
Sweden, one Evaluation Meeting in Estonia);
2) six short-term joint staff training events (two seminars on
awareness and strategies for social inclusion in France and Latvia;
four exchange of experience events in ensuring social rights in
Norway, Poland, Greece and Romania).
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Project calendar and main activities
1. October 2020, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Transnational Projects Meeting: Erasmus+ Project Opening Conference.
2. January 2021, Florence, Italy.
Transnational Projects Meeting: BOSS Capacity Building.
3. February 2021, Nice, France.
Short-term joint staff training events: Training on awareness and
strategies for social inclusion.
4. March 2021, Bromolla, Sweden.
Transnational Projects Meeting: BOSS Capacity Building.
5. April 2021, Riga, Latvia.
Short-term joint staff training events: Training on awareness and
strategies for social inclusion.
6. May 2021, Oslo, Norway.
Short-term joint staff training events: Exchange of experience in
ensuring social rights in Norway.
7. August 2021, Rzeszow, Poland.
Short-term joint staff training events: Exchange of experience in
ensuring social rights in Poland.
8. November 2021, Athens, Greece.
Short-term joint staff training events: Exchange of experience in
ensuring social rights in Greece.
9. March 2022, Bucharest, Romania.
Short-term joint staff training events: Exchange of experience in
ensuring social rights in Romania.
10. May 2022, Tallinn, Estonia.
Transnational Projects Meeting: BOSS Evaluation Meeting.
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Planned methodology
This project will be coordinated by EAPN-Latvia, by attracting at
least three administrative employees and the appropriate material
and technical resources, by summarizing the results of the project
activities and partners' proposals and by ensuring publicity and the
dissemination of the project results. The partners plan to organize
the activities in all countries (one event in each country) by
attracting administrative staff, lecturers, consultants and
moderators, as well as by providing the material and technical
resources, ensuring publicity and the dissemination of results. All
partners will ensure the planned number of participants for the
events and will organize the target group surveys. For all
activities the partners intend to provide handouts with the relevant
content.
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Project implementation

● 29.06.2023. BOSS Evaluation
Meeting

● 13.05.2023. BOSS Capacity Building

● 30.04.2023. Conference of NGO
project managers and board members: BOSS implementation in new
conditions

● 24.03.2023. Exchange of
experience in ensuring social rights in Romania

● 19.01.2023. BOSS management
meeting

● 03.11.2022. BOSS management
meeting

● 16.09.2022. Exchange of
experience in ensuring social rights in Poland
● 06.07.2022. BOSS management meeting
On July 6, 2022 EAPN-Latvia organized an administrative webinar for
project partners.
Project managers from Greece, Italy, Romania and Sweden took part in
it.
Latvia was represented by Laila Balga and Aigars Sveicers, members
of the Board of EAPN-Latvia.

● 24.03.2022. Training on
awareness and strategies for social inclusion, France

● 07.03.2022. BOSS management meeting

● 20.01.2022. Exchange of
experience in ensuring social rights in Greece

● 14.01.2022. BOSS management
meeting

● 07.12.2021. BOSS management
meeting

● 26.11.2021. Transnational
Project Meeting: BOSS Capacity Building, Florence, Italy

● 07.10.2021. Exchange
of experience in ensuring social rights in Norway

● 15.09.2021.
Transnational Project Meeting: BOSS Capacity Building, Bromolla,
Sweden

● 09.09.2021. BOSS
management meeting

● 19.08.2021. Training on
awareness and strategies for social inclusion - Latvia

● 12.08.2021. Planning
webinar for autumn 2021

● 06.07.2021.
Discussion about the result dissemination and publicity

● 15.06.2021. Discussion
about planning events

● 25.05.2021. Transnational Projects Meeting: Erasmus+ Project Opening
Conference

● 23.04.2021. Partners
Online Meeting

● 22.03.2021. Partners
Online Meeting

● 10.03.2021. Partners
Online Meeting

● 25.02.2021. Partners
Online Meeting

● 18.02.2021. Partners
Online Meeting

● 11.02.2021.
Partners Online Meeting
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Planned RESULTS
1) a cooperation network of ten European NGOs will be established in
order to promote social security in Europe;
2) previous experiences and recommendations for increasing the
capacity of the BOSS Network will be summarized;
3) the understanding of the BOSS Network's objectives will be
promoted for ten project partners and at least 2000 stakeholders;
4) 18 NGO employees will have the increased awareness and knowledge
of social inclusion, social rights and gender equality;
5) 44 NGO employees will have increased knowledge and improved
practical experience on the implementation of the basic principles
of the European Pillar of Social Rights.
Impact
BOSS project will influence the social security policy at both
national and European level and direct it towards reducing poverty
and social exclusion through the establishment of a European
cooperation network of NGOs, the growth of partners and staff from
these NGOs, and through raising the stakeholders' awareness of the
BOSS Network's objectives.
Long-term benefits
1. The availability of the partners' informative summaries on social
security in European countries.
2. Improved knowledge of the ten partner organizations' employees on
social inclusion and the implementation of the basic principles of
the European Pillar of Social Rights;
3. Improved motivation of the BOSS Network's members and
opportunities to develop new adult education projects in the field
of social inclusion and gender equality.
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The project produces the following results:
●
Erasmus+ BOSS_Partner Proposals Summary (.pdf) >>
●
Erasmus+ BOSS_Resolution of the partners Tallinn 28.06.2023 (.pdf)
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1) a cooperation network (BOSS) of ten European NGOs established -
from Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Norway, France,
Italy, Greece and Cyprus - whose responsibilities are related to the
areas of social inclusion and social rights in order to promote
social security in Europe;
2) previous experiences and recommendations of ten partner
organizations summarized for increasing the capacity of the BOSS
network;
3) the understanding of the BOSS network's objectives promoted for
ten project partners (206 project participants) and disseminated to
at least 2000 stakeholders;
4) 50 NGO employees (staff, board members and volunteers) of the
BOSS network have increased awareness and knowledge of social
inclusion, social rights and gender equality;
5) 77 NGO employees (staff, board members and volunteers) of the
BOSS network have increased knowledge and improved practical
experience on the implementation of the basic principles of the
European Pillar of Social Rights.
In total, 333 participants were involved in the BOSS project
activities, including 75% women.
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Results achieved / Project progress
●
Draft Report (2020-1-LV01-KA204-077474) 2023-8-1 10_17_24 (.pdf) >>
● 07.12.2021.
Erasmus Plus BOSS EAPN-Latvia Interim Report (.pdf) >>
● 24.08.2021.
Erasmus+ BOSS EAPN-Latvia Interim Report (.pdf) >>
● 17.05.2021.
Erasmus+ BOSS EAPN-Latvia Interim Report (.pdf) >>
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Publication events
Latvia
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Reporting Boss Dissemination Action List CY SGK
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Reporting Boss Dissemination Action List GR Hellenic Antipoverty
Network (.pdf) >>
● 15.10.2021.
Reporting Boss Dissemination Action List RO NOVAPOLIS (.pdf) >>
● 15.08.2021.
Reporting Boss Dissemination Action List RO NOVAPOLIS ASSOCIATION
(.pdf) >>

● 16.09.2022. Erasmus+ 35th
anniversary festival in Riga, Latvia


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14.10.2021. The European
Union Erasmus+ Days in Latvia
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https://www.facebook.com/BOSS-Project-104015468503584
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https://epale.ec.europa.eu/lv
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https://www.facebook.com/laila.balga/
France
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https://www.facebook.com/mitrafr
Poland
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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067123778616
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https://www.facebook.com/BOSS-Project-104015468503584
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https://www.facebook.com/rops.rzeszow/
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https://www.facebook.com/people/Warsztat-Terapii-Zaj...
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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057305956091
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https://www.facebook.com/ZAZRadosc/
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https://www.facebook.com/Stowarzyszenie-Vesuvio-101078061535872
Romania
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https://novapolis.ro/boss-project-for-a-better-cooperation-and-understanding-of-social-inclusion/
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https://novapolis.ro/en/boss/
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https://novapolis.ro/en/awareness-raising-activities-and-inclusion-strategies-carried-out-within-the-boss-project/
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https://novapolis.ro/en/boss-conference-social-inclusion-strategies-benefits-and-difficulties/
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https://novapolis.ro/boss/
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https://novapolis.ro/2259/
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https://novapolis.ro/conefrinta-boss-strategii-de-incluziune-sociala-beneficii-si-dificultati/
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https://novapolis.ro/activitati-de-constientizare-si-strategii-de-incluziune-derulate-in-cadrul-proiectului-boss/
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https://www.facebook.com/NovapolisRomania
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https://www.novapolis.ro/boss-project-for-a-better-cooperation-and-understanding-of-social-inclusion/
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https://facebook.com/Renasis-1460293404205763/
Sweden
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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067123778616
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https://b-creative.link/projekt
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https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12526882/
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BOSS Project Dissemination action list, Sweden, B-creative
association (.pdf) >>
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https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12526882/
● B-Creative Association (Sweden) presentation (.pdf) >>
Greece
●
www.antipoverty.org.gr | twitter:
@eapn_greece
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https://www.facebook.com/Ελληνικό-Δίκτυο-για-την-Καταπολέμηση-της-ΦτώχειαςGreek-Antipoverty-Network-350381698385017
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWk9OebCm6nXU_wpTGeL5-g
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/greek-antipoverty-network-b59950216/
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https://www.facebook.com/350381698385017/posts/4895750803848061/
Estonia
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https://www.facebook.com/Eesti-People-to-People-1040259346025140
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http://www.ptpest.ee/enidp.html
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http://www.ptpest.ee/820202.html
Norway
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07.10.2021.
Norway Brochure (.pdf) >>
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07.10.2021.
Velferdsalliansen EAPN Norway Activities (.pdf) >>
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07.10.2021.
Velferdsalliansen EAPN Norway Presentation (.pdf) >>
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BOSS - Building a Network to Boost Social Secure Europe - 2023 -
Velferdsalliansen EAPN Norway
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https://velferdsalliansen.no/boss-prosjektet/
Cyprus
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https://www.facebook.com/sosialistikiginekiakinisi
Italy
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https://www.coordinamentotoscanomarginalita.it/european-projects/
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