How can the different actors involved be brought together and mobilised in a joint to enhance conditions and strengthen women employed in mobile care services?

1. abz*competent and healthy
– in mobile care
Social Innovation in the Metropolitan Regions of Vienna,
Stockholm and Berlin: Insights and Outlook
Daniela Schallert I Executive Manager abz*austria I BerlinI June 2014

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Competent for Women…
Gender Equality on the Labour Market
…through sustainable job and career support of women
Examples for specific tasks:
 Securing the livelihood through new employment
approaches (unemployment)
 Access to management positions for qualified women
(access to promotion)
 Fair payment of women (Gender Pay Gap)
 (Re-)Entry of women and men after (parental) leaves

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…and Business
Sustainable Win-Win-Solutions for companies and women
…through
 creation and maintenance of binding partnerships with
companies
 collaboration on concrete tasks and current challenges
(pain-points)

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Creating Social Innovation
…through bringing together different actors & approaches
 Individuals
 Companies
 Organisations
 Public sector
 Politics
 Science
 Media & the public

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Why abz*competent and healthy?
Our projects are always created out of concrete practical
experiences.
In the field of care:
 Counselling of unemployed women
 Job orientation and clarification of job descriptions, e.g. for
returners
 Supporting and accompanying migrant women trying to
enter the Austrian Labour Market
 Reconciliation of Work.Family.Private Life as core
competence of abz*austria

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Why abz*competent and healthy?
Initial situation of this field:
 Rising demand of staff
 Relatively high flucutiation and drop out rates
 High physical, psychosocial and organisational, structural
burdens
 Low payment
 Little appreciation
 High amount of women

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Project Goals
Support of female nurses by including different
management levels of the organisations through…
 Longterm preservation of motivation and job satisfaction
 Reduction of physical and mental burdens
 Activation and extension of existing competences
 Visibility and appreciation of competences in care
professions
 Improvement of the image of the care professions

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Project Partners
The project is financed by the European Social Fonds and the Federal
Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection of Austria.

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Project Content
Development Workshops
Collective development of the project and products with participants of the first and
second manamgement level of the partner organisations.
Competence Workshops
Implementation of competence workshops for female nurses by active involvement
of existing experiences and knowledge.
Modular qualification for personnel with interface positions
Experiences showed that the lower management level in mobile care holds a key
position when it comes to preserving the employability and motivation of mobile
employees.

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Success Factors & Challenges
 Exchange with
colleagues and other
organisations
 Inclusion of different
staff levels and
professional
backgrounds
 Participation of
organisations
 Time for workshops and
qualification

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Project Products
Computer Tool
in development

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Thank you for your attention!
If you have any questions, concerning the project, please
contact us:
Daniela Schallert abzaustria@abzaustria.at
Executive Manager
Daniela Friedrich daniela.friedrich@abzaustria.at
Project Manager