Centro cooperativo di attività sociali - Zadružni

Zadružni center za socialno dejavnost – Centro cooperativo di attività sociali (in english translation: Cooperative Center for Social Activities - CCSA) has been active in the field of education since its founding in 1987. The organization became a social cooperative of educators in 2004. Since 1990, it has provided support to the Municipality of Trieste for social and educational support services for the inclusion of minors with special needs in regular school and extracurricular activities; first, it provided the service autonomously, and in the recent period in a coordinated manner and in connection with some other social cooperatives in Trieste. The specific competence of CCSA is that its operators are all bilingual (with knowledge of both Slovene and Italian language) and are therefore qualified for the needs of the Slovenian national community in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region and for the entire regional population, regardless of language, also with immigrant population; the latter is intensified by working closely with the Združenje slovenski dijaški dom Trst  (Association of the Slovene Boarding School Trieste). 

Since 2012, the cooperative has had a Development Department with a project office, which has initiated a series of new activities and has planned and implemented some international and cross-border projects.

The Development Department Project Office of the CCSA has highly qualified staff with in-depth comprehension of the efficiency and effectiveness of managing  EU-funded projects. The personnel is qualified with competencies in vocational and technical training and in the evaluation of European transnational projects of mobility, either on the orders of the Slovenian National Agency of the LLP Program - Leonardo da Vinci (2013), then Erasmus + CMEPIUS (2014) and the Italian National Agencies Erasmus + ISFOL in 2015 and 2016. The Cooperative Center initiated an Erasmus + mobility project within the Erasmus + program “Per un orientamento transnazionale”, which it subsequently implemented for a national consortium, joined by the Združenje slovenski dijaški dom Trst  (Association of the Slovene Boarding School Trieste), from Trieste and the KRUT society from Trieste. The project was approved under the 2015 Call for Proposals and funded by Contract no. 2015-1-IT02KA104-014166 contracted with the Italian National Agency of the Erasmus+ + INDIRE Program. The partners in the project, as host institutions and organizers of study visits, were Slovenia's essential institutions: the Andragogical Center of the Republic of Slovenia and the Employment Service of Slovenia - Euroguidance Slovenia.

CCSA is active in the field of career counseling through the Erasmus + Strategic Partnership project with the Guidance for Lifelong Learning in Minority Languages Context project, with participation of minority linguistic communities in different EU cross-border areas. The cooperative further cooperates with schools and providers of vocational and technical education services: in the preparation of European Development Plans, which are based on the planning of student or school staff mobility and in the preparation and implementation of mobility projects applying for annual calls for Erasmus + applications.

There are a total of 31 subsidiaries and paid staff. The CCSA is a member of the Social cooperative AdFormandum, which has 10 employees and as a school from the field of vocational education has one seat based in Trieste and one in Gorizia (IT). In Gorizia, there are 56 students attending lessons (4 classes). In Trieste, there are two sections (Italian and Slovene) and seven classes, where lessons are taught based on the dual system and there are in total 81 students attending.