1) The document discusses the DEDALUS and ARIANNA projects which aim to disseminate knowledge about trade unions and promote transnational cooperation through training, communication, and networking. 2) It outlines the strategic goals of raising awareness, sharing experiences, and involving different stakeholders. 3) The main activities described include national seminars, an international seminar, developing communication strategies and tools like newsletters, websites and social media to share project results.

1. Developing Dynamic Analyses for good
Levels of Union Standards and Articulation
of International And National Networking
Actions - Information Consultation
Participation
DEDALUS and ARIANNA
Pilot Commitee II
Barcelona, May the 6th

3. Strategic meaning of the project
1
• Knowledge dissemination
2
• Awareness raising
3
• Experience and experimental communication
4
• Operational practices
5
• Involvement of different bodies/roles/ rank and
file
6
• Systemic game ambition

4. Main operational guidelines
Training Communication
Knowledge Networking
DEDALUS

5. Structure, main activities, decision making
process, tools and outputs
PROJECT PRESENTATION

6. 18 months of work
• Project
presentation
• Information
Sharing
• Brain storming on
communication
strategy
• Decision making
on
communication
strategy
• Decision making
on training
seminars
PC Barcelona
2
National seminar
National seminar
PC Warsaw
1
• Practical and
operational skills
• Soft skills
• Specific issues
Training seminar
3
4
National seminar
National seminar
National seminar
National seminar
National seminar
1
day
1
day
3
days
1
day
• Evaluation of
training
• Decision making
on final conference
and final
publication
PC London1
day
• Dissemination
• Final
publication
presentation
• Communication
results
presentation
Final
conference
5
6
1
day
To disseminate the contents of the project and to externally
promote trade union action at transnational level
Communication
strategy

7. The project: where are we?
Networking
Analyzing
Building
tools
• Pilot committees
• Coordination
• Joint decision making
• Quantitative
Research
• Qualitative research
• Training needs
• Training modules
• Tools for union action
• Knowledge on EWC
• Newsletter
• Focus group
methodologies
ICARUS
To share
To decide
on
To develop
•Ideas
•Needs
•Experiences
•Icarus’results
•Target groups
•Training seminars
•Communication
strategy
•Final schedule
•Social media strategy
•International and national
training seminars
•Website final publication
•Tools for trade union activity
•Tools for trade union network
•Support tools for training and
communication
DEDALUS
WE
are
HERE

8. A short overview of ICARUS project:
tools, experiences and processes that
can be implemented during Dedalus
THE ICARUS EXPERIENCE

9. ICARUS: an introduction
•To analyse good or bad practices of reciprocal information and cooperation
among workers reps in plants of multinational undertakings, EWCs members, trade
union officers
•To providespecific and tailored education and training for the full and correct
implementation of information and consultation rights
•To establish a coordinated network of trade union reps at different level
Objects
Training
Network
co-ordination
Mapping
Assessment

10. What we did
• Vertical and horizontal
networking
• National and
international networking
Networks
• Preparation of focus
group methodology
• 9 group discussions at
national level
Qualitative Research
• 4 days of
international training
seminars
• 14 sessions of work
Training
• International survey
• 3 different multiple
choice questionnaires
(EWCs members,
employees
representative, Trade
union offices)
• 158 respondents
from 6 countries
Quantitative Research

11. What we gains
1
• Trade union network improved by this experience
2
• Analysis tools
3
• Tools and methodologies to improve the cooperation among
EWC members, employees representative and trade union
4
• Greater awareness in EWC dynamics
5
• The operational structure of the project/work method

12. Operational structure
• Evaluation of
needs
• Information
Sharing
• Creation of tools
• Decision making
• National use of
tools and
methodologies
created during the
pilot committee
(e.g
questionnaires)
• International
seminar
• Evaluation of
the national
actions/
international
seminar
• Preparation of
the next activity
PILOT COMMITTEE PILOT COMMITTEEIMPLEMENTATION
FINAL CONFERENCE
• Newsletter
• Website
• National
conferences
DISSEMINATION
• Tools and
knowledge in
union disposal for
future actions
OUTPUTS

13. www.icaruspartecipation.eu
Multi channel website:
• video; documents; training
materials; on-line surveys;
news; external links
To
collect
of all the contents of the
project
To
support
trade union activity in
MNCs
To
disseminate
the contents of the project
To
strengthen
international trade union networks
through information sharing
multi languages
• Website: ENGL, ITA
• Documents are
translated in 7 languages

14. Tools for EWCs analysis
Final Report
methodologies; research
results; project phases;
description and evaluation
of each tools
Regulation
Information on European
directives and legislation on
EWC
Videos
The Icarus experience, good
practices, evaluation on the
training seminar, video
documentary
News and links
Database, newsletters and
specific website
To
improve
knowledge and to
disseminate
information on EWC
target
EWC members, trade
unionists, students of IR

15. Surveys
To
map
EWC members
To
improve
knowledge on
EWC
To
collect
feedback from
actors
To
strenghen
trade union
networks in MNCs
To
support
unions in the definition
of policies for EWC
Quantitative survey
Large scale questionnaire
implementation during
research activity
Quantitative survey
3 different questionnaires:
- EWC members
- Trade union officers
- Employees representatives
Qualitative survey
Open questionnaires to
collect feedback
Qualitative survey
3 different questionnaires:
- Communication
- Training needs
- Relation among actors

16. Focus GroupFocus group
Methodology definition
Check list of items
To investigate during the
focus group
To
improve
knowledge on
EWC
To
develop
a problem-
solving approach
To
improve
communication
among actors
To
promote
active learning
process
To
activate
decision
making process

17. Newsletter
50 publications
3 items
MNCs, EWCs and TFAs
European legislation
Human rights all over
the world
Languages
Italian
3 lines of Abstract
in English
External links
To collect further
information on the
issues
Multichannel
dissemination
Email
Website
Facebook
To
collect news on EWC
To
support
the EWC
members activity
To
disseminate good practices
To
promote
European trade
union action
To
promote
labour start
campaigns

18. International training sessions
Issues
EWC in a historical perspective; the role
of EWC members; MNCs; negotiation
TFAs; multi-cultural dimension; best
practices
Ispra (Italy)
2.5 days of class work,
splitted into sessions
Interactive method
EWC meeting simulation
Debate, exchange and
teamwork.
To
provide
effective and practical
information tools
To re-
use
the session in the
national context
To
improve
soft and hard skills
of EWC members
To
share
Good union practices
at transnational level

19. Target, tools, channel to communicate and
to disseminate the contents of the project
… multiplication of information and
sensitiveness as learning process
COMMUNICATION STRATEGY

20. Mediactivism
Multilanguage
Monthly
publishing
schedule
Social Media
Strategy
Website
Smart and
interactive
Different type of
publications
Multichannel
Network and
community
Multilevel
COMMUNICATION
STRATEGY
Shifting stress from ‘information’ to ‘narrative’

21. A multilevel target for communication
Social
network
usersTrade
union’s rank
and fileTrade
union
officersEWC
Members

22. Multichannel tools for communication
• Deepening
contents
• Tools
• Links
• Network
• Procedures
ICARUS WEBSITE • The core of our
communication
strategy
• Dynamic
structure
• Multilanguage
• Contents in
different
format (video,
photos, article)
DEDALUS WEBSITE
SOCIAL NETWORK
NEWSLETTER
TRADE UNION NETWORKS
ALLIANCES

23. INTERNATIONAL
UNIONISM
EWC
Web site general structure
1. Labyrinth library: to organize existing
materials in different languages about
training and dissemination of EWC work.
2. Arianna’s Threads: short stories of EWC
members who tell their experiences in
EWC but in a narrative way.
3. Dedalus’ Maps. These are longer
stories about ‘epic’ moments in the life of
a EWC.
To collect and to
disseminate all
the materials
developed
during the
project
DEDALUS TOOLS
AND MATERIALS
News, documents and items to disseminate
trade union international dimension

24. Five examples of Arianna’s Threads
The number shouldn’t be too high and the concepts should be very clear.
Nor technical, neither philosophical approach, but narrative, storytelling,
emotional and socializing one.
The best anecdote you never
experienced in a EWC?
Purple
Thread
Who important it is to have an
intercultural approach in EWCs?
Worse enterprise practices in
being ‘helpful’ to EWC work
What do you discovered about
Europe in your EWC experience
What do you think is the real
potential of EWCs?
Blue
Thread
Green
Thread
Red
Thread
Orange
Thread
Perhaps starting from a general approach of storytelling based on
Good and bad practices inputs and debate

25. Storytelling

26. Social media strategy
Goals definition
Qualitative goals
Quantitative goals
Tobuild a trade
unionist
community
Internal Training
Political meetings
Mediactivism

27. Publishing plan
Editing team
composition
• Pils
• Deep
information
• News
• Campaigns
• Plan of
translation
• Contents
• Dissemination
strategy
Monthly planning
Publication plan/final
report
Repartition of the work among partners

28. • Human dimension in EWCs: faces and anecdotes from
EWCs members
• News from European institutions and trade union
federations
• News on human rights violation
• National reportage
• Positional paper on EWCs, MNCs and trade unionism
• Trade union network analysis in some MNCs from
Montenegro and Serbia
• IR in Europe (www.workerparticipation.eu)
• Labourstart campaigns (www.labourstart.org)
• Dissemination of Dedalus tools
• Cooperation with bloggers (e.g Annotazione.de)
What else?What else?
Categories

29. Guidelines; objectives, items, know how
TRAINING

30. Guidelines
Objectives
Items
Know how

31. Objectives
Participants will have the possibility to:
on EWC issues not frequently included in training activities
- Hard skills
- Soft skills
Get knowledge
on strategies and tools for raising awareness and disseminate
knowledge and information in their organizations and networks
Reflect
techniques of participative and cooperative decision making
methods
Experience

32. Items
1
• Methods for specific and innovative
information on EWCs
2
• Specific issue concerning EWCs and
MNCs for trade union action
3
• Problem-solving
4
• Active learning methodology
5
• Techniques to support decision making
process and teamwork

33. Know how
to talk and to present the training contents to others
To disseminate:
techniques and methods experienced
To use:
the known contents into their own trade union activity
To bring:
how to introduce new tools and approaches to their
activity
To plan:
practices and techniques
To experience:

34. National seminars
Participants description:
name, role, sector, previous
experience
Training sessions description:
issues, modalities, sum up of
the debate
Photos:
to use for our web site and for
the final report for the
Commission
•date and
location
•contents
•target group
Flexible structure on
Seminar report
One day training for each organization involved

35. International seminar
• Budget
• Bargaining
• MNCs structures and cultures
• Confidentiality
EWC and MNCs Issues
• Networking
• Procedures (i.e. Info&Cons)
• Offensive … taking the
initiative
Innovation in Trade union
action in MNCs and EWCs
• The use
• The potential
• The strategy
• The plan
Communication:
• The planning of the strategy
• The meeting with the
management
Simulation activity
• To use them in the seminar
• To experience, understand,
debate the potential
• To plan the possible
application in the Trade
union activity
Techniques
Is that what
we want?