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EU regional and urban development

Social Economy

Context

The sector accounts for 2 million businesses, representing 10% of all European enterprises, and employ over 14 million paid employees (6.5% of the working population in the EU).

Year established: 2018

Mission

The mission of the partnership is to stimulate cross-border operations for mutual and cooperatives to enable them to use the full potential of the internal market in order to expand the activities of social economy, through interregional collaboration activities. The partnership intends to deal with several challenges related to S4 and social economy such as, how to: develop social economy clusters; create European value chains of social economy enterprises belonging to different regions in Europe; improve the cooperation between enterprises and other territorial actors, especially those who have technological and innovative competences.

Objectives

  • To target the existing fragmentation in social economy, implementing interregional social economy financing mechanisms that allow for sharing risks and facilitating access to financing under favorable conditions and exploring shared use of machinery and infrastructures,
  • To provide local actors with the necessary skills to generate and develop collaborative projects based on territorial potential,
  • To share and exchanging best practices and experiences in the field of public policy to support social enterprises,
  • To support joint solutions to challenges hindering the development of social economy, thus promoting new approaches to overcome a fragmented approach to policies supporting social.

Shared smart specialisation areas

Social Economy

Tags

Social Economy

Regions (lead and partner)

  • Leading regions: Navarra (ES)
  • Participating regions: Emilia Romagna (IT), Lapland (FI), Murcia (ES), Orebro Lan (SE), Slovenia (SI), Wallonia (BE)

Organisations involved

  • Foundations from Lapland (FI): Seita Foundation, Meriva Foundation, Eduro, Tornio Foundation, Foundation Oktetti, VATESfoundation
  • Vocational Schools (Lappia Vocational School, REDU Vocational School)
  • S3 Arctic Smart Rural Cluster or Circular Economy Centre Digipolis
  • Entities and oranisations from Emilia Romagna (IT): AICCON, Impronta Etica, ISNET, Focus Lab, Primo Miglio, Fondazione Democentre, Future Education Modena, Reggio Children, Cob Social Innovation, CISE Forlì-Cesena
  • Economy and Economy Business School for European Social (EBSSE)
  • ANEL (ES)
  • REVES Network (European Network of Cities & Regions for the Social Economy)
  • Social Economy Europe
  • EURADA

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Latest news and upcoming events

7/02/2023 1st cross border summit on Social Economyhttps://youtu.be/dsh43F-CsDQ

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