The Transnational Cooperation Agreement offered the interesting opportunity, at the meeting that was held in Bratislava, to learn about a significant number of innovative experiences in social and educational actions.
Indeed,  the study visits on the agenda represented an opportunity to exchange experiences both on theoretical and methodological approaches and on organizational structures. The Slovak reality presents all the problems of a social system moving away from a markedly centralized and bureaucratic services management towards an approach that is more closely related to personal initiative and problem solving. Specifically, it was possible to discuss with Services managed by Non-Governmental Organizations, that were created –for the most part – by young graduates in pedagogical or social disciplines, who were able both to plan and to benefit from EU funding and particularly to set up new forms of collaboration with the public sector.  This is true both for the management of socio-educational services for childhood and adolescence, especially as regards difficulties in early childhood (abandonment, abuse) and difficulties in the integration and socialisation of youth in overcrowded districts with little to offer, and in the management of services related to people with serious difficulties (homeless and addicts). It must be noted that in Bratislava the number of people in social distress is constantly increasing. 
The presence of such “young” services, built however on “strong” professional skills and motivated to represent a point of reference for the citizens, is a model to be reckoned for reflexions, also in view of the creation of the enterprises in the context of “Female job”. 

The best practice drawn from French Guyana project
In the definition of the schedule with project partners of transnational project “Way to society”, meetings and study visits consisted in:

• The presentation of individual National projects during a conference that the French partner organised to illustrate the actions targeting the homeless implemented in French Guyana
• Visits to public organisations assisting abused women
• Visits to State and Regional Early Childhood Centres
• The presentation by the French partner of the draft plan for the Observatory for Severe Exclusion
• A dialogue with institutional bodies on the issues of professional training, social exclusion and child-care for women’s reconciliation

What emerged from this dialogue was a fundamental difference in the approach of the various Governments with respect to all the common areas of interest of the three projects:
the system of French Guyana is particularly centred on the role of the State and generally of public institutions, unlike Italy, where child-care and actions to combat severe exclusion are managed both by public and private entities.
Slovakia presents yet another scenario, where the only strong role is played by NGO’s.