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2016 – Ongoing
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Located in Como, Cometa is an organization founded in 2000 as a network of foster families and has now developed into a broad organisation offering support and a wide range of social, health, and education services to children, their natural families, and foster families. Under the umbrella of Cometa Fondazione, two main entities are actively involved in the project and activities with young students. One is “Il Manto Cooperativa Sociale”, which was created in 2005 to respond to the needs of minors in hardship and at risk of marginalization and school dropout through creating a place of welcome and education for children and their families. The other is Cometa Formazione SCS, which was founded in 2003 to give a concrete opportunity to children who dropped out of school without any job prospects. Cometa’s educational offer is conceived as a path that focuses on the enhancement of work and direct experience (“from doing to knowing) and is developed from the perspective of personal and professional orientation and re-motivation.
Since 2016, Tiresia was involved in the impact evaluation of several multi-stakeholders projects promoted by Il Manto and Cometa Formazione; in chronological order:
- The Impact of Cometa Formazione: this is a pilot project for the impact evaluation of the activities of Cometa Formazione;
- T.E.A.C.H. project: the impact evaluation of the collaboration between Il Manto and four primary and lower secondary schools in Como. This project stands out for the use of a counterfactual analysis;
- “W4T” and “La scuola possibile“: this is the impact evaluation of two programs developed by Cometa Formazione;
- “Ad-Hoc“: this project is co-financed by the social enterprise “Con I Bambini” and aims at contrasting educational poverty through the development of an educational community;
- “Tra Palco e Realtà“: this is a project developed with “Teatro Sociale Como” and has the objective to promote the responsibility for the common good through the students’ involvement in the restoration of a theatre’s box and other cultural activities;
- “Hope“: the project aims to increase the social inclusion of young foreign students;
- “Here“: the project wants to contribute to the current and future economic and social challenges, including those caused by the Covid-19 emergency.
In parallel with the project’s evaluation, Tiresia is carrying out with Cometa a capacity building process to develop the right competences for the autonomous management by Cometa of impact management and evaluation process.
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