Reflecting on what the public-social collaboration formulas should be to drive effective public employment policies. This was the starting point of the event organized by the PARTNERS Program of the Esade Center for Public Governance (EsadeGov), together with Intermedia, which took place on Monday, February 5th, at Esade.

Municipalities, companies, and social agents participated in the meeting, which focused on the implementation of public employment policies, with the challenges of territorial coordination as a backdrop. Coordination that "opens a new scenario and makes it more essential than ever to work together," as stated by Laura Peracaula, president of Intermedia, in the opening of the event, accompanied by Mònica Reig, director of the PARTNERS Program and associate director of the Esade Center for Public Governance.

The event featured various discussion spaces, including a round table on "Potentialities around public-social collaboration in the deployment of public employment policies," led by Pepe Menéndez, an educator expert in organizational transformation, and Lourdes Sugranyes, coordinator of economic development policies of the City Council of El Prat de Llobregat. Both speakers defended the need to promote public-social collaboration as, according to Sugranyes, it "can be essential in innovative topics, a point that represents a challenge for the administration." Menéndez, for his part, added that "third sector social entities have the capacity for social transformation and to provide a quick response."

Additionally, the meeting presented three intersectoral collaborative experiences. The first one, the case of Cementos Molins, served to show how the alliance with the third sector can simultaneously address business and social needs. In the second experience of Barcelona Activa and Mercabarna, the importance of co-responsibility in the creation and management of public-social projects was also highlighted. The last experience, presented by Susanna Díaz, Deputy Director General of Active Policies of the SOC, emphasized territorial coordination as a key tool to work more effectively. According to Díaz, to ensure the success of strategies in the territories, "generosity is needed in recognizing that it is joint work, the result of an alliance, and having a good dialogue, creating a network, a framework that is achieved through territorial coordination."

Through this joint initiative of Esade and Intermedia, the need for strategic alliances between the public and social sectors to address the challenges of territorial coordination and promote the improvement of employability with a common goal: to guarantee job opportunities for everyone, was highlighted.

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