Cooperativa Arca was set up in 1983 and has always been involved in the management of social, health and educational services.
The society, based in Florence, is the second largest cooperativa of Tuscany and operates almost in all the towns of the Province. Nowadays ARCA has more than one hundred educators and social assistants whoes work with disabled people of various age group.
It is represented in nearly all social service areas: 
- child care nursery management 
- social and recreational centers for disabled people
- home care service for elderly people
- educational assistance for disabled at schools and home 
- family houses/day cares for children, disabled, and psychiatric patients
- RSA for frail elderly.
The organisation considers particularly important lifelong training of its operators, hence they are particularly interested in learning best practices for strengthening of the professional skills of the operators and enrichment of their professional knowledge in an international context, as well as sharing the Italian experience, where the integration of disabled people starts from early childhood.
In the project they propose guided visits for the coordinators of the nurseries with disabled children and for some coordinators of the centers for disabled people.