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This report discusses the following topics: basics of the vocational training system in Poland; causes of change in the development of vocational schools; formal and legal aspects of the school cooperation with the environment; modernization of vocational schools based on the development programs; combining the flexibility of employment with the Teacher Card.

Celem badań jest odpowiedź na pytanie o to, jakie są efekty dotychczasowej realizacji warsztatów typu medialab z inicjatywy Fundacji Ortus w Polsce oraz jakie są uwarunkowania ich dalszego rozwoju w kierunku budowy stałej instytucji. Podjęta analiza została ukierunkowana na osiągnięcie następujących celów teoretycznych i praktycznych: identyfikacja cech wizerunku warsztatów medialab organizowanych przez Fundację Ortus; określenie zakresu upowszechniania w Polsce koncepcji nowych instytucji kultury poprzez warsztaty medialab; określenie opinii i postaw wobec inicjatyw medialab ich uczestników i nie-uczestników; identyfikacja zakresu wykorzystania technik i form działań poznanych na warsztatach medialab przez ich uczestników; oszacowanie trwałości zawiązanych między uczestnikami warsztatów więzi i zakresu współpracy przez wspólnych przedsięwzięciach; identyfikacja dotychczasowych i potencjalnych korzyści i barier w realizacji inicjatyw medialab; ustalenie czynników wspierających i hamujących przyszłą działalność instytucji medialab w stałej lokalizacji; określenie cech potencjalnej roli instytucji medialab w regionalnej polityce kulturalnej i polityce innowacji; wskazanie potencjalnych rozwiązań na rzecz budowy polskiego modelu instytucji medialab.

Local and global dependencies and interactions between individuals, groups and institutions are becoming increasingly opaque and risky. This is due to increased importance of highly complex abstract systems created and supported in order to maintain of transport, communications, finance, energy, media, security infrastructure, as well as social and cultural institutions. These systems require the knowledge and skills of experts. Professionals that not only satisfy identified needs, but also create new thereby contribute the development of cultural narcissism phenomenon. The aim of the book is to discuss relations of experts and mass narcissism, on the background of shaping the knowledge societies and knowledge-based economies, and moreover their transformations towards the societies and economies based on creativity and wisdom. Undertaken analysis is contribute to sociology of expertise and intervention by indicating four selected contemporary issues: dilemmas of the knowledge society development; selection between trust substitutes and its reconstruction methods; transformations of social stratification; and the choice of pathways to socio-economic development.

This report discusses the following topics: definitions and functions outplacement; the importance of human work; the impact of unemployment on active job search; activity of employers and employees to prevent layoffs; support for laid-off workers and employees staying in the enterprise; outplacement in the local labor market policy; benefits and barriers to the use of outplacement from the perspective of firms.

This report discusses the following topics: the concept and essence of outplacement; outline of the history of outplacement; outplacement in the context of other derecruitment processes; outplacement under conditions of increased risk and flexibility of the organization, outplacement as a tool of corporate social responsibility and social economy; the practice of using outplacement in Poland; benefits and barriers to the use of outplacement from the perspective of firms.

This report was made on the initiative of the Foundation Supporting Disabled Mathematicians and IT professionals in the project "Centre for Education and Vocational Activation of Persons with Disabilities - Branches Bydgoszcz and Lodz." It is the result of research on disability phenomenon and people with disabilities social category. It contains information about operations of more than 30 employment agencies specialized in helping people with disabilities into the labor market. First chapter of expertise relates to methods for defining the prevalence of disability and in the second - it was the issue of capacity building for non-disabled employment services. Third chapter of the report provides information on the methodology of research, and the fourth presents the results of an empirical analysis of the collected material in relation to the offer of employment agencies and their clients. Theme of the fifth chapter of the work is the condition of the disabled employment agency run by NGOs. Theme of the next chapter is the external environment of employment agencies. Last part of the report focuses on solving a recommendation supporting development dilemmas faced by agencies employment.

The aim of this paper is to present the theoretical basis of public diplomacy and the characteristics of methods and areas of cross-border cooperation conducted by local governments in Podlaskie Voivodship. Report, in particular, draws attention to the civic and local government dimension of Polish foreign policy. Undertaken analysis was targeted to recognition of existing practices in this area, as well as to identify conclusions and recommendations for further development of decentralized foreign policy.
This report first discusses the basic theoretical concepts related to citizenship and local government cross-border cooperation. Attention was drawn to priorities of Polish decentralized foreign policy and sectoral diversification of cross-border cooperation actors in the Podlaskie Voivodship. Next the existing and planned cross-border cooperation initiatives present in the public programs and strategies of local governments and districts were discussed. Later in the report an attempt to summarize the areas and methods of cooperation were undertaken as well as some main conclusions and recommendations were pointed out.

The main purpose of the study, the results of which are presented in this publication were to identify barriers and potential of development of outplacement tools: diagnostic, training and consulting services among the companies of Podlasie region. In the first stage, the analysis of existing data from desk research was carried out. Then quantitative research (CATI) was performed and as a complement, qualitative research was conducted by using focus group interviews (FGI), and in-depth interviews (IDI). The CATI surveys among business leaders included 200 people, as in the studies, which was conducted among employees of the organizations that included 200 interviews. In addition, a 6 FGI among representatives of businesses and people working as psychologists, counselors and coaches, as well as employees of companies were conducted. 6 in-depth interviews (IDI) were carried out with representatives of labour market institutions and entrepreneurs.

The aim of the project is to provide a thorough and practical knowledge on the attitudes of the inhabitants of Bialystok within tolerance. Taken diagnosis allows the formation of social policy in dealing with intolerance, as well as to enable the government matching of appropriate instruments of social policy to specific target groups. On the basis of the study - groups with a higher degree of intolerance are indicated.

The purpose of diagnosis was: conduct studies that provide full and accurate knowledge of the cultural needs of the residents of Podlasie Voivodship; identify the main barriers to participation in high culture; quantitative and qualitative definition of cultural institutions image, including the Drama Theatre, and the evaluation of their artistic activity; measure the region's cultural capital by an index of cultural institutions use by residents of Podlasie Voivodship.