The Impact of COVID-19 on Work Integration Social Enterprises
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the lives of millions of people around the globe in a very short period of time. The pandemic impacted not only people’s mental and physical health but also on their way of living and working. In order to halt the spread of the virus, diverse governmental measures have been put in place and consequently have led to unprecedented closure of workplaces across Europe and beyond. Reducing economic activity, and in most cases, bringing it to a standstill has led not only to increased unemployment, but has also put many jobs at risk.
In order to visualize the consequences of the pandemic on Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) and to capture the immediate economic as well as social effects of the crisis, European Network of Social Integration Enterprises (ENSIE) launched a survey to collect feedbacks from its Members, WISEs Federations, around Europe. The aim was to investigate to what extend/degree the pandemic affected WISEs and how they reacted to such external ‘shock’. In total, 19 WISEs networks from 17 different European countries participated in the survey and provided valuable insights which are reflected in the report “The Impact of COVID-19 on WISEs“.
Source: http://www.ensie.org/wises-and-covid19
This publication has been prepared within SENBS project No. 2020-1-EE01-KA204-077999. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Do you prefer learning via listening to great podcasts? There are a lot of podcasts to be listened about social entrepreneurship, here’s a few suggestions and links to get you started:
Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs: Sign up for weekly interviews with successful social entrepreneurs and changemakers who are building a better world.
The Social Enterprise Podcast A monthly podcast that explores the challenges of starting, building, and running a social enterprise.
The ChangeMakers PodcastEach week, Andréa Ranae chats with amazing women entrepreneurs and changemakers who are making a difference through their life and work.
The Impact PodcastThe topic of social impact is the focus of The Impact Podcast.
Social Entrepreneur Social Entrepreneur is a podcast for aspiring and early-stage social entrepreneurs, and for those who want to make an impact on the world.
Ruralia Institute in Finland is currently working on a project, which aims to create social enterprise learning materials, guidance and networking. Visenet – Village social enterprise learning material, guidance and networking aims to (amongst others) enhance the ideas and methods to promote and support social entrepreneurship in rural areas by creating an open access digital learning material and opportunities for rural communities and people to foster the knowledge and awareness of the social enterprises. The project ends in June 2021.
Open access learning material
The project outcomes will include Open access learning material, International Network of Rural Social Enterprises and Practical Guidebook of Good Practices for supporting the development of social entrepreneurship (SE) in rural areas. Results of the project will be shared through disseminating outputs in the open access format. All products and materials will be available and accessible online to all who are interested in social entrepreneurship and community development.
The learning material is created in cooperation between strategic partnership of consortium based on the common consistency of good practices and experiences; and is divided to three thematic learning modules based on the practical needs of rural actors aiming to support the development of the rural social enterprises.
The learning modules
The learning modules will be:
1) Community Activation and Participation Methods in Rural Areas
2) Partnerships and Networking of Social Entrepreneurs
3) Social Enterprise Solutions for Sustaining Rural Communities and Measuring Social Impact.
Each module is based on good practices and experiences identified by consortium and will be tested in national pilot groups.
Visenet has a closed Facebook group. The group supports the networking and interaction of rural representatives of the ViSEnet-project. The purpose of this “ViSEnet Community” is to enhance the exchange of information, best practices and knowledge between project partners and as such to support social enterprises in rural areas.
Can you imagine the new opportunities for the social enterprises in the circular economy sector if some other countries would follow the Sweden’s lead to make certain services VAT exempt? Would you stop throwing things away and get them repaired instead, if it were cheaper to do so? This is the qustions being asked and debated in the Sweden at the moment.
As posted by the BBC, the Swedish government likes to think its citizens would, and is putting the idea into practice. The country’s Budget for 2017 will cut the VAT rate charged on minor repairs to things like bicycles, shoes and clothes.
Tax refunds will be offered to people who get their white goods repaired, like washing machines and dishwashers.
The VAT rate will be cut from 25% to 12%, and the tax refund will let people reclaim half the labour cost of a repair to white goods and kitchen stoves.
The idea of encouraging people to be less wasteful in their everyday lives has been promoted by the Swedish Green party, which is a partner in the country’s ruling minority coalition government, along with the Swedish Social Democrats.
Sustainable consumption
One of the six Green ministers is Per Bolund, the deputy finance minister.
He told the BBC that the plans are part of a wider strategy which the government is launching for sustainable consumption.
“The emissions from Sweden affecting the climate are decreasing but emissions from consumption are increasing,” he says.
“We see an interest in more sustainable consumption from the Swedish consumer and this is one way for the government to make it more affordable.”
Swedish taxpayers can already reclaim 50% of the labour cost of paid house work, such as employing a cleaner, from their income tax bills.
So the minister is confident the new plans will work.
“Consumer are quite active in changing both what they buy and how they buy in Sweden, to change the environmental impact, so we see a huge increase in the sale of organic food, and we also see that the interest in the “sharing” economy and the “circular” economy is growing quite rapidly,” he says.
The latest plan is also being promoted as a way to create more jobs for people who do not have high educational qualifications.
“We believe that getting lower costs for labour is a big part in making it more rational to repair rather than just to buy cheap and throw away,” the minister says.
“If we don’t change the economic incentives the change will never come,” he adds.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Deficit ‘wiped out’
The cost to the Swedish government of these tax incentives is not huge.
It will be 270m kronor (£24m) per year for the lower rate of VAT on minor repairs, and 190m kronor (£17m) per year for the tax refunds on the repair of white goods.
Another reason for the Swedish government’s innovation in this area of tax policy is that the economy and government finances are currently very robust.
The economy is expected to grow by about 3.5% this year.
In 2017 the government expects its income from taxes to outstrip its spending by 7.4bn (£667m) Swedish kronor, helping it to cut the national debt.
“The Swedish economy is very strong,” said the finance minister Magdalena Andersson.
“We have the highest growth in our region, unemployment is falling and the large deficit we inherited when we took power has been basically wiped out.”
This paper by OECD https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/industry-and-services/regional-strategies-for-the-social-economy_76995b39-en explores the linkages between regional strategies for the social economy and regional development in four EU countries: France, Spain, Sweden and Poland. It provides a comparative perspective of regional strategies for the social economy (Section 1), based on i) the level of recognition of the social economy itself, ii) multi-level governance arrangements, iii) the regional strategic priority given to the social economy and iv) financial resources available for regional strategies. It gives examples of strategies for the social economy in selected regions in the four countries to document the diversity of practice (Section 2). It outlines conclusions and policy orientations (Section 3) to help reinforce the positive impact of regional strategies for the social economy on regional development.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Baltic Institute for Regional Affairs from Gdynia, Poland encourages you to use the maps created by the Pomorskie Region Regional Center for Social Policy. This planning is a systematized compendium of knowledge about economic entities related to services in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
In response to the dynamic economic situation of the society in the Regional Center for Social Policy region in Gdańsk, I noticed that you create reading tools as well as up-to-date information about economic entities in the voivodship. The main idea behind the creation of maps was to facilitate contact with these entities. We also inform you that we provide you with a map that will be updated regularly. At the moment, it contains locations of nearly 300 points in Pomerania.
Details are in the table below.
ENTITY NUMBER OF ENTITIES
CENTRES FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION 22
SOCIAL INTEGRATION CLUBS 16
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION FACILITIES 2
SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT ENTERPRISE 67
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY WORKSHOPS 49
SOCIAL COOPERATIVES 71
DISABLED WORKERS COOPERATIVES 7
SOCIAL ENTERPRISES 58
This content is shared as a part of the SEBS2 Erasmus+ project activities by Polish partner – BISER www.biser.org.pl actively promoting social economy entities and development in Pomorskie region to the Baltic Sea stakeholders.
Project Social entrepreneurship development in the Baltic Sea region SEBS2 is executed under the Erasmus+ program and co-financed by the European Union.
Responsible for the content solely publisher/presenter; it does not reflect the views of the European Commission or any related financial body. Those institutions do not bear responsibility for the information set out in this website.
Veel mõne aasta eest sarnanes sotsiaalne ettevõtlus enamikus Euroopa riikides ”mustale kastile”. Kui avastati ja mõisteti sotsiaalse ettevõtluse potentsiaali finantsiliselt jätkusuutliku positiivse ühiskondliku muutuse loomisel, hakkasid uurijad ja analüütikud sellele tähelepanu pöörama.
Kõigest mõni kuu enne selle dokumendi valmimist avaldati veebis kaks aruannet. Euroopa Komisjon avaldas oma esimese sotsiaalseid ettevõtteid võrdleva ülevaate 2014. aasta lõpus. Selles põhjalikus uurimuses kirjeldatakse 28 Euroopa Liidu liikmesriigi ja Šveitsi sotsiaalse ettevõtluse peamisi tunnusjooni, kasutades tavapärast definitsiooni ja lähenemisviisi. Antakse ka üldistav ülevaade sotsiaalse ettevõtluse süsteemidest maade kaupa, mainides sealjuures nende arengut piiravaid tegureid.
Lisaks sellele avaldas üks Euroopa Sotsiaalfondi õpivõrgustikest, Sotsiaalse Ettevõtluse Võrgustik (The Social Entrepreneurship Network), 2013-14. aastal uurimuse „Policy meets practice – enabling the growth of social enterprises“ („Poliitika ja praktika puutepunkt: sotsiaalsete ettevõtete kasvu võimaldamisest“). Selles esitatakse mõned näited võtmepoliitikate ning nendega seotud heade praktikate kohta valitud EL liikmesriikides.
Senistes aruannetes on mitmed olulised aspektid siiski katmata jäänud. Seetõttu esitab käesolev aruanne infot nii formaal- kui mitteformaalhariduslike võimaluste kohta seoses sotsiaalse ettevõtlusega Läänemere piirkonna riikides.
Projekt „Sotsiaalse ettevõtluse areng Läänemere regioonis“ viidi läbi programmi Erasmus + toetuse ja Euroopa Liidu kaasfinantseerimise abil.
Trükise sisu eest vastutab ainuüksi väljaandja/esitleja; siin ei esitata Euroopa Komisjoni ega ühegi sellega seotud organisatsiooni vaateid. Need institutsioonid ei kanna vastutust käsiraamatus esitatud teabe eest.
Do you prefer learning via listening to great podcasts? There are a lot of podcasts to be listened about social entrepreneurship, here’s a few suggestions and links to get you started:
Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs: Sign up for weekly interviews with successful social entrepreneurs and changemakers who are building a better world.
The Social Enterprise Podcast A monthly podcast that explores the challenges of starting, building, and running a social enterprise.
The ChangeMakers PodcastEach week, Andréa Ranae chats with amazing women entrepreneurs and changemakers who are making a difference through their life and work.
The Impact PodcastThe topic of social impact is the focus of The Impact Podcast.
Social Entrepreneur Social Entrepreneur is a podcast for aspiring and early-stage social entrepreneurs, and for those who want to make an impact on the world.
Ruralia Institute in Finland is currently working on a project, which aims to create social enterprise learning materials, guidance and networking. Visenet – Village social enterprise learning material, guidance and networking aims to (amongst others) enhance the ideas and methods to promote and support social entrepreneurship in rural areas by creating an open access digital learning material and opportunities for rural communities and people to foster the knowledge and awareness of the social enterprises. The project ends in June 2021.
Open access learning material
The project outcomes will include Open access learning material, International Network of Rural Social Enterprises and Practical Guidebook of Good Practices for supporting the development of social entrepreneurship (SE) in rural areas. Results of the project will be shared through disseminating outputs in the open access format. All products and materials will be available and accessible online to all who are interested in social entrepreneurship and community development.
The learning material is created in cooperation between strategic partnership of consortium based on the common consistency of good practices and experiences; and is divided to three thematic learning modules based on the practical needs of rural actors aiming to support the development of the rural social enterprises.
The learning modules
The learning modules will be:
1) Community Activation and Participation Methods in Rural Areas
2) Partnerships and Networking of Social Entrepreneurs
3) Social Enterprise Solutions for Sustaining Rural Communities and Measuring Social Impact.
Each module is based on good practices and experiences identified by consortium and will be tested in national pilot groups.
Visenet has a closed Facebook group. The group supports the networking and interaction of rural representatives of the ViSEnet-project. The purpose of this “ViSEnet Community” is to enhance the exchange of information, best practices and knowledge between project partners and as such to support social enterprises in rural areas.
Can you imagine the new opportunities for the social enterprises in the circular economy sector if some other countries would follow the Sweden’s lead to make certain services VAT exempt? Would you stop throwing things away and get them repaired instead, if it were cheaper to do so? This is the qustions being asked and debated in the Sweden at the moment.
As posted by the BBC, the Swedish government likes to think its citizens would, and is putting the idea into practice. The country’s Budget for 2017 will cut the VAT rate charged on minor repairs to things like bicycles, shoes and clothes.
Tax refunds will be offered to people who get their white goods repaired, like washing machines and dishwashers.
The VAT rate will be cut from 25% to 12%, and the tax refund will let people reclaim half the labour cost of a repair to white goods and kitchen stoves.
The idea of encouraging people to be less wasteful in their everyday lives has been promoted by the Swedish Green party, which is a partner in the country’s ruling minority coalition government, along with the Swedish Social Democrats.
Sustainable consumption
One of the six Green ministers is Per Bolund, the deputy finance minister.
He told the BBC that the plans are part of a wider strategy which the government is launching for sustainable consumption.
“The emissions from Sweden affecting the climate are decreasing but emissions from consumption are increasing,” he says.
“We see an interest in more sustainable consumption from the Swedish consumer and this is one way for the government to make it more affordable.”
Swedish taxpayers can already reclaim 50% of the labour cost of paid house work, such as employing a cleaner, from their income tax bills.
So the minister is confident the new plans will work.
“Consumer are quite active in changing both what they buy and how they buy in Sweden, to change the environmental impact, so we see a huge increase in the sale of organic food, and we also see that the interest in the “sharing” economy and the “circular” economy is growing quite rapidly,” he says.
The latest plan is also being promoted as a way to create more jobs for people who do not have high educational qualifications.
“We believe that getting lower costs for labour is a big part in making it more rational to repair rather than just to buy cheap and throw away,” the minister says.
“If we don’t change the economic incentives the change will never come,” he adds.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Deficit ‘wiped out’
The cost to the Swedish government of these tax incentives is not huge.
It will be 270m kronor (£24m) per year for the lower rate of VAT on minor repairs, and 190m kronor (£17m) per year for the tax refunds on the repair of white goods.
Another reason for the Swedish government’s innovation in this area of tax policy is that the economy and government finances are currently very robust.
The economy is expected to grow by about 3.5% this year.
In 2017 the government expects its income from taxes to outstrip its spending by 7.4bn (£667m) Swedish kronor, helping it to cut the national debt.
“The Swedish economy is very strong,” said the finance minister Magdalena Andersson.
“We have the highest growth in our region, unemployment is falling and the large deficit we inherited when we took power has been basically wiped out.”
This paper by OECD https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/industry-and-services/regional-strategies-for-the-social-economy_76995b39-en explores the linkages between regional strategies for the social economy and regional development in four EU countries: France, Spain, Sweden and Poland. It provides a comparative perspective of regional strategies for the social economy (Section 1), based on i) the level of recognition of the social economy itself, ii) multi-level governance arrangements, iii) the regional strategic priority given to the social economy and iv) financial resources available for regional strategies. It gives examples of strategies for the social economy in selected regions in the four countries to document the diversity of practice (Section 2). It outlines conclusions and policy orientations (Section 3) to help reinforce the positive impact of regional strategies for the social economy on regional development.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Baltic Institute for Regional Affairs from Gdynia, Poland encourages you to use the maps created by the Pomorskie Region Regional Center for Social Policy. This planning is a systematized compendium of knowledge about economic entities related to services in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
In response to the dynamic economic situation of the society in the Regional Center for Social Policy region in Gdańsk, I noticed that you create reading tools as well as up-to-date information about economic entities in the voivodship. The main idea behind the creation of maps was to facilitate contact with these entities. We also inform you that we provide you with a map that will be updated regularly. At the moment, it contains locations of nearly 300 points in Pomerania.
Details are in the table below.
ENTITY NUMBER OF ENTITIES
CENTRES FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION 22
SOCIAL INTEGRATION CLUBS 16
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION FACILITIES 2
SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT ENTERPRISE 67
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY WORKSHOPS 49
SOCIAL COOPERATIVES 71
DISABLED WORKERS COOPERATIVES 7
SOCIAL ENTERPRISES 58
This content is shared as a part of the SEBS2 Erasmus+ project activities by Polish partner – BISER www.biser.org.pl actively promoting social economy entities and development in Pomorskie region to the Baltic Sea stakeholders.
Project Social entrepreneurship development in the Baltic Sea region SEBS2 is executed under the Erasmus+ program and co-financed by the European Union.
Responsible for the content solely publisher/presenter; it does not reflect the views of the European Commission or any related financial body. Those institutions do not bear responsibility for the information set out in this website.
Veel mõne aasta eest sarnanes sotsiaalne ettevõtlus enamikus Euroopa riikides ”mustale kastile”. Kui avastati ja mõisteti sotsiaalse ettevõtluse potentsiaali finantsiliselt jätkusuutliku positiivse ühiskondliku muutuse loomisel, hakkasid uurijad ja analüütikud sellele tähelepanu pöörama.
Kõigest mõni kuu enne selle dokumendi valmimist avaldati veebis kaks aruannet. Euroopa Komisjon avaldas oma esimese sotsiaalseid ettevõtteid võrdleva ülevaate 2014. aasta lõpus. Selles põhjalikus uurimuses kirjeldatakse 28 Euroopa Liidu liikmesriigi ja Šveitsi sotsiaalse ettevõtluse peamisi tunnusjooni, kasutades tavapärast definitsiooni ja lähenemisviisi. Antakse ka üldistav ülevaade sotsiaalse ettevõtluse süsteemidest maade kaupa, mainides sealjuures nende arengut piiravaid tegureid.
Lisaks sellele avaldas üks Euroopa Sotsiaalfondi õpivõrgustikest, Sotsiaalse Ettevõtluse Võrgustik (The Social Entrepreneurship Network), 2013-14. aastal uurimuse „Policy meets practice – enabling the growth of social enterprises“ („Poliitika ja praktika puutepunkt: sotsiaalsete ettevõtete kasvu võimaldamisest“). Selles esitatakse mõned näited võtmepoliitikate ning nendega seotud heade praktikate kohta valitud EL liikmesriikides.
Senistes aruannetes on mitmed olulised aspektid siiski katmata jäänud. Seetõttu esitab käesolev aruanne infot nii formaal- kui mitteformaalhariduslike võimaluste kohta seoses sotsiaalse ettevõtlusega Läänemere piirkonna riikides.
Projekt „Sotsiaalse ettevõtluse areng Läänemere regioonis“ viidi läbi programmi Erasmus + toetuse ja Euroopa Liidu kaasfinantseerimise abil.
Trükise sisu eest vastutab ainuüksi väljaandja/esitleja; siin ei esitata Euroopa Komisjoni ega ühegi sellega seotud organisatsiooni vaateid. Need institutsioonid ei kanna vastutust käsiraamatus esitatud teabe eest.
Do you prefer learning via listening to great podcasts? There are a lot of podcasts to be listened about social entrepreneurship, here’s a few suggestions and links to get you started:
Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs: Sign up for weekly interviews with successful social entrepreneurs and changemakers who are building a better world.
The Social Enterprise Podcast A monthly podcast that explores the challenges of starting, building, and running a social enterprise.
The ChangeMakers PodcastEach week, Andréa Ranae chats with amazing women entrepreneurs and changemakers who are making a difference through their life and work.
The Impact PodcastThe topic of social impact is the focus of The Impact Podcast.
Social Entrepreneur Social Entrepreneur is a podcast for aspiring and early-stage social entrepreneurs, and for those who want to make an impact on the world.
Ruralia Institute in Finland is currently working on a project, which aims to create social enterprise learning materials, guidance and networking. Visenet – Village social enterprise learning material, guidance and networking aims to (amongst others) enhance the ideas and methods to promote and support social entrepreneurship in rural areas by creating an open access digital learning material and opportunities for rural communities and people to foster the knowledge and awareness of the social enterprises. The project ends in June 2021.
Open access learning material
The project outcomes will include Open access learning material, International Network of Rural Social Enterprises and Practical Guidebook of Good Practices for supporting the development of social entrepreneurship (SE) in rural areas. Results of the project will be shared through disseminating outputs in the open access format. All products and materials will be available and accessible online to all who are interested in social entrepreneurship and community development.
The learning material is created in cooperation between strategic partnership of consortium based on the common consistency of good practices and experiences; and is divided to three thematic learning modules based on the practical needs of rural actors aiming to support the development of the rural social enterprises.
The learning modules
The learning modules will be:
1) Community Activation and Participation Methods in Rural Areas
2) Partnerships and Networking of Social Entrepreneurs
3) Social Enterprise Solutions for Sustaining Rural Communities and Measuring Social Impact.
Each module is based on good practices and experiences identified by consortium and will be tested in national pilot groups.
Visenet has a closed Facebook group. The group supports the networking and interaction of rural representatives of the ViSEnet-project. The purpose of this “ViSEnet Community” is to enhance the exchange of information, best practices and knowledge between project partners and as such to support social enterprises in rural areas.
Can you imagine the new opportunities for the social enterprises in the circular economy sector if some other countries would follow the Sweden’s lead to make certain services VAT exempt? Would you stop throwing things away and get them repaired instead, if it were cheaper to do so? This is the qustions being asked and debated in the Sweden at the moment.
As posted by the BBC, the Swedish government likes to think its citizens would, and is putting the idea into practice. The country’s Budget for 2017 will cut the VAT rate charged on minor repairs to things like bicycles, shoes and clothes.
Tax refunds will be offered to people who get their white goods repaired, like washing machines and dishwashers.
The VAT rate will be cut from 25% to 12%, and the tax refund will let people reclaim half the labour cost of a repair to white goods and kitchen stoves.
The idea of encouraging people to be less wasteful in their everyday lives has been promoted by the Swedish Green party, which is a partner in the country’s ruling minority coalition government, along with the Swedish Social Democrats.
Sustainable consumption
One of the six Green ministers is Per Bolund, the deputy finance minister.
He told the BBC that the plans are part of a wider strategy which the government is launching for sustainable consumption.
“The emissions from Sweden affecting the climate are decreasing but emissions from consumption are increasing,” he says.
“We see an interest in more sustainable consumption from the Swedish consumer and this is one way for the government to make it more affordable.”
Swedish taxpayers can already reclaim 50% of the labour cost of paid house work, such as employing a cleaner, from their income tax bills.
So the minister is confident the new plans will work.
“Consumer are quite active in changing both what they buy and how they buy in Sweden, to change the environmental impact, so we see a huge increase in the sale of organic food, and we also see that the interest in the “sharing” economy and the “circular” economy is growing quite rapidly,” he says.
The latest plan is also being promoted as a way to create more jobs for people who do not have high educational qualifications.
“We believe that getting lower costs for labour is a big part in making it more rational to repair rather than just to buy cheap and throw away,” the minister says.
“If we don’t change the economic incentives the change will never come,” he adds.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Deficit ‘wiped out’
The cost to the Swedish government of these tax incentives is not huge.
It will be 270m kronor (£24m) per year for the lower rate of VAT on minor repairs, and 190m kronor (£17m) per year for the tax refunds on the repair of white goods.
Another reason for the Swedish government’s innovation in this area of tax policy is that the economy and government finances are currently very robust.
The economy is expected to grow by about 3.5% this year.
In 2017 the government expects its income from taxes to outstrip its spending by 7.4bn (£667m) Swedish kronor, helping it to cut the national debt.
“The Swedish economy is very strong,” said the finance minister Magdalena Andersson.
“We have the highest growth in our region, unemployment is falling and the large deficit we inherited when we took power has been basically wiped out.”
This paper by OECD https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/industry-and-services/regional-strategies-for-the-social-economy_76995b39-en explores the linkages between regional strategies for the social economy and regional development in four EU countries: France, Spain, Sweden and Poland. It provides a comparative perspective of regional strategies for the social economy (Section 1), based on i) the level of recognition of the social economy itself, ii) multi-level governance arrangements, iii) the regional strategic priority given to the social economy and iv) financial resources available for regional strategies. It gives examples of strategies for the social economy in selected regions in the four countries to document the diversity of practice (Section 2). It outlines conclusions and policy orientations (Section 3) to help reinforce the positive impact of regional strategies for the social economy on regional development.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Baltic Institute for Regional Affairs from Gdynia, Poland encourages you to use the maps created by the Pomorskie Region Regional Center for Social Policy. This planning is a systematized compendium of knowledge about economic entities related to services in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
In response to the dynamic economic situation of the society in the Regional Center for Social Policy region in Gdańsk, I noticed that you create reading tools as well as up-to-date information about economic entities in the voivodship. The main idea behind the creation of maps was to facilitate contact with these entities. We also inform you that we provide you with a map that will be updated regularly. At the moment, it contains locations of nearly 300 points in Pomerania.
Details are in the table below.
ENTITY NUMBER OF ENTITIES
CENTRES FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION 22
SOCIAL INTEGRATION CLUBS 16
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION FACILITIES 2
SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT ENTERPRISE 67
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY WORKSHOPS 49
SOCIAL COOPERATIVES 71
DISABLED WORKERS COOPERATIVES 7
SOCIAL ENTERPRISES 58
This content is shared as a part of the SEBS2 Erasmus+ project activities by Polish partner – BISER www.biser.org.pl actively promoting social economy entities and development in Pomorskie region to the Baltic Sea stakeholders.
Project Social entrepreneurship development in the Baltic Sea region SEBS2 is executed under the Erasmus+ program and co-financed by the European Union.
Responsible for the content solely publisher/presenter; it does not reflect the views of the European Commission or any related financial body. Those institutions do not bear responsibility for the information set out in this website.
Veel mõne aasta eest sarnanes sotsiaalne ettevõtlus enamikus Euroopa riikides ”mustale kastile”. Kui avastati ja mõisteti sotsiaalse ettevõtluse potentsiaali finantsiliselt jätkusuutliku positiivse ühiskondliku muutuse loomisel, hakkasid uurijad ja analüütikud sellele tähelepanu pöörama.
Kõigest mõni kuu enne selle dokumendi valmimist avaldati veebis kaks aruannet. Euroopa Komisjon avaldas oma esimese sotsiaalseid ettevõtteid võrdleva ülevaate 2014. aasta lõpus. Selles põhjalikus uurimuses kirjeldatakse 28 Euroopa Liidu liikmesriigi ja Šveitsi sotsiaalse ettevõtluse peamisi tunnusjooni, kasutades tavapärast definitsiooni ja lähenemisviisi. Antakse ka üldistav ülevaade sotsiaalse ettevõtluse süsteemidest maade kaupa, mainides sealjuures nende arengut piiravaid tegureid.
Lisaks sellele avaldas üks Euroopa Sotsiaalfondi õpivõrgustikest, Sotsiaalse Ettevõtluse Võrgustik (The Social Entrepreneurship Network), 2013-14. aastal uurimuse „Policy meets practice – enabling the growth of social enterprises“ („Poliitika ja praktika puutepunkt: sotsiaalsete ettevõtete kasvu võimaldamisest“). Selles esitatakse mõned näited võtmepoliitikate ning nendega seotud heade praktikate kohta valitud EL liikmesriikides.
Senistes aruannetes on mitmed olulised aspektid siiski katmata jäänud. Seetõttu esitab käesolev aruanne infot nii formaal- kui mitteformaalhariduslike võimaluste kohta seoses sotsiaalse ettevõtlusega Läänemere piirkonna riikides.
Projekt „Sotsiaalse ettevõtluse areng Läänemere regioonis“ viidi läbi programmi Erasmus + toetuse ja Euroopa Liidu kaasfinantseerimise abil.
Trükise sisu eest vastutab ainuüksi väljaandja/esitleja; siin ei esitata Euroopa Komisjoni ega ühegi sellega seotud organisatsiooni vaateid. Need institutsioonid ei kanna vastutust käsiraamatus esitatud teabe eest.
