The project focuses on the identification and understandable documentation of skills and competences of a specific target group: the emerging group of specialists in the field of analyzing non-financial and diversity informations (NFI) of undertakings. Directive 2014/95/EU on disclosure of non-financial and diversity information (NFI) will apply to large public-interest entities with more than 500 employees, i.e. approx. 6 000 large companies and groups across the EU. After Implementation of Directive 2014/95/EU the demand for specialists in the field of NFI-Analysis will increase significantly - especially with regard information relating to environmental, social and employee-related matters and respect for human rights, in order to evaluate and compare the reports of 6.000 large companies in a right manner. In the wake of this development there will be a great deal of challenges for workers representatives and trade unions. Especially they have to decide, how to evaluate NFI within CRS reports. So far no specific training for NFI-Analysts exists neither on european nor on national level. The project will cover these questions. The target group consists from experts in european and national social partner organisations and their affiliated training agencies and research institutions.In the course of the project 7 project partners from 6 countries will• compile methods of evaluation/analysis in order to cover the demand of trade unions/workers representatives/NGOs to achieve EU-wide standards of NFI-Analysis.• identify necessary competences in order to develop and to promote the mentioned methods of NFI-Analysis;• develope, test and implement a Curricula for an european training course together with a manual for trainers;• instruct teachers and advisors as NFI-Analysts with the mentioned competences;• develope a practical and innovative toolkit for NFI Analysts;• create a database/portal for NFI-analyses in order to facilitate performing the task as analyst and to provide opportunities for comparing NFI-Reports in different countries and/or sectors.At the end of the project• a first group of NFI-Analysts will be trained, • a set of indicators as tools for the individual analyse of NFI will be identified and tested,• through that, trade union training providers will be enabled to actively contribute to further education of NFI analysts,• basics are set for a network of persons and organisations dealing with NFI-Analyses.
Since 2017 Directive 2014/95/EU has made it obligatory for certain public-interest entities to disclose non-financial and diversity information. This includes information on matters that have an impact on environmental, social and employee-related, human rights, corruption and bribery issues. At the time of the application for the project it was clear that the reports resulting from this obligation would be a new source of information, which could potentially be useful for workers’ representatives and trade unions to engage in or deepen social dialogue. Yet there did not exist any knowledge, systematic approaches or trainings on how to analyse non-financial information reports from their perspective, neither on a national nor on a European level. “CENOFIA – Curriculum for the Further Education of European Non-financial Information Analysts” therefore set out to identify and document skills and competences needed to analyse non-financial and diversity information of undertakings. Based on this, the project partners developed analysis tools and a curriculum with corresponding teaching materials and made them available through an Online Learning and Transparency Platform under www.non-financial-information.eu. This platform combines all aforementioned outputs with additional media in an interactive format to support learning and teaching activities. Furthermore, it provides a database with meta data and links to existing analyses and other sources of information, which can be used to share information and supports trainers and analysts. All outputs are published as Open Educational Resources (OER) and can be downloaded in a separate section of the platform. The curriculum and all corresponding materials follow a modular design, thus allowing adjustment for different target groups, depth of analysis and skill levels. All intellectual outputs were developed in joint efforts by the seven, respectively six organisations or institutes with links to national social partners from Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and Spain. Project partners organised, coordinated and carried out the work on a continuous basis through web- and telecommunications as well as in seven transnational project meetings. In order to refine project results beyond the scope of directly involved project staff and to take into account as many as possible different perspectives and national specificities, the partners tested the curriculum in two Joint Staff Trainings with participants from the six partner countries. At the same time, the participants from these trainings became the first non-financial information analysts and started to carry out analyses, give trainings on the subject matter or use the newly acquired knowledge and skills in their professional context. Towards the end of the project, results were shared and discussed with national and European audiences in seven multiplier events. In follow-up activities it is planned to adapt project results and the OER to country specific requirements.