This project develops opportunities for employability inclusion through the involvement of beneficiaries in activities that can both benefit the community and the local area and alleviate their personal hardship through the new professional and personal growth opportunities arising from ECO-CHEF. with this project we wanted to reach: 1. disadvantaged people in an innovative training course making them protagonists of a real cultural revolution in the food sector through training and an innovative recognition expendable on the labor market. 2. acquire skills in the agribusiness sector, learn about the territory and sustainable processes to enhance the value of local products. For those involved, it represents a concrete opportunity to get out of hardship. In addition, the 0 km supply chain enhances local production by generating new jobs and strengthens the link with the territory and its inhabitants, offering customers greater guarantees of product quality and transparency of the production chain. 3. decrease social isolation, increase the sense of confidence in oneself and one's skills, increase the desire for continuing education, and reintegrate into social environments.
The project idea was born in already inclusive and sustainability contexts. The social enterprise Luoghi Comuni has fostered the development of a solid territorial network in Villa Angaran San Giuseppe by contributing to the integration of fragile people in situations of family distress, disability or poverty. At the Villa, employment programs aimed at the same recipients of this project have already been activated over the years, involved in the various activities of bar and restaurant, hosting and agricultural activities. The continuation of these training and exchange programs is therefore a necessity and an opportunity for real development. Also eunipartner, in the Blagoevgrad district, deals with the inclusion of the most fragile individuals and is contributing to the creation of a territorial network among actors who share the same socio-environmental objectives. In particular, the NGO has activated several projects directed at learning job skills and getting recipients into the world of work.