Too Good To Go app with great social impact!
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Too Good To Go app with great social impact!

From now on, all the hungry, who are not indifferent to the fate of our planet, can fight against wasting and throwing away food – the Too Good To Go application is now available in Warsaw. Its users can save products and dishes from their favorite restaurants, shops or bakeries from throwing away. Surprise packages with a meal that has not been sold on a given day at a very attractive price, you can order over 60 places in Warsaw. Soon Too Good To Go will also start cooperation with Novotel Warszawa Airport hotels or other Accor and Orbis hotels in Poland, as well as with the Polish chain of Etno Café cafés.

 

From planting a carrot to putting it on the table, not only the produce itself is wasted in food production, but also a lot of water, soil and human labor. Food waste is responsible for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, which, as is well known, has a fatal impact on the planet!

 

Among the European Union countries where Too Good To Go operates, Poland ranks third in terms of the amount of food wasted – 9 million tons of food are thrown away annually, or 236 kg per person per year! So there is no better time for the application to enter Poland.

 

Too Good To Go is an application originating in Denmark, thanks to which the food that is not sold on a given day, instead of ending up in the basket, becomes a wonderful meal surprise. Shops and restaurants offer fresh products every day, such as bread, fruit, fresh sandwiches, salads and full meals. Although each enterprise tries to sell all its portions or pieces, it is not always successful. Thus, completely fresh and good food can end up in the basket. Thanks to the Too Good To Go application, users have a chance to save by throwing away wholesome products or meals by buying them at very attractive prices! This small step and a change in human thinking can have a great impact on the planet.

 

Too Good To Go’s global CEO is Mette Lykke, who manages a team of over 300. Its mission is to inspire people to fight food waste and to live a more sustainable lifestyle. She is the founder of Endomondo, the hit app for sports fans with over 30 million users worldwide.

The picture comes from the TooGoodToGo Polish website: https://toogoodtogo.pl/pl  where you can find all the details and link to download the App directly to your mobile.

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.

 

 

 

 

 
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Policy paper: “Co-designing the Action Plan for the Social Economy: for an economy that works for people and the planet.”

Social Economy Europe is a platform representing the voices of  2.8 million social economy enterprises and organisations in Europe. is pleased to present its policy paper Co-designing the Action Plan for the Social Economy: for an economy that works for people and the planet.

This document has been elaborated by SEE in cooperation with its seventeen members -AIM, AMICE, CASES, CEPES, CECOP, CEDAG, CEPES, ConcertES, the EFC, ENSIE, ESS-France, EMN, Eurodiaconia, FEBEA, Forum Terzo Settore, IPSE and REVES- and four external partners: DIESIS, EURICSE, The Wheel and SOGA Europe.

The policy paper aims to feed the debates and consultations that will lead to the release of the European Action Plan for the Social Economy in the fourth trimester of 2021.

The paper actually comes at time in which the European Commission has launched a  roadmap (EU word for short consultation) to collect the inputs and proposals of all social economy networks, stakeholders, public authorities etc. This consultation will be open until the 26 April 2021.

SEE calls on all its members and the wider social economy community to actively participate in this consultation here and shape the future of EU policies for the Social Economy.

With this policy paper, Social Economy Europe pursues three main objectives:

–Mobilise social economy’s potential to contribute to the social, economic and environmental objectives of the EU, as well  to a sustainable recovery by boosting entrepreneurship and the creation of quality jobs. 

–Promote the convergence and coordination of the different public authorities involved in the promotion of the social economy (EU, national, regional and local levels) by defining strategic objectives, key targets, and benchmarks at EU level. 

–Foster a conducive ecosystem for the growth of the social economy in Europe, improving its contribution to key EU objectives and allowing social economy enterprises to take full advantage of the Single Market, EU funds and financial instruments. 

The paper also contains 7 priority areas for EU action (see image above) and 51 concrete proposals, as well as an analysis on the added value of social economy to build back better and contribute to the green and digital transitions and to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights; and a background on the history of EU policies for the social economy since the recognition of cooperatives in the Treaty of Rome (1957) and the 1989 EC Communication on Businesses in the Economie Sociale sector until our days.

SEE President Juan Antonio Pedreño declared: This is the begining of a new era of EU policies for the social economy. This a key year to define the collective future of the social economy and make sure that we build back better. I have no doubt, there is light at the end of the tunnel.  We have new opportunities with the Action Plan, the Next Generation EU and the new MFF. In this context, cooperation and coordination is needed to achieve our common objectives. We are and have always been stronger together. 

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.

EU will present new Social Economy Action Plan by the end of 2021!
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EU will present new Social Economy Action Plan by the end of 2021!

The President of the Commission mandated the Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, Nicolas Schmit, with developing a European Action Plan for Social Economy.

The 2021 Commission Work Programme announced that the publication date for the Action Plan would be the fourth quarter of 2021. It also highlights that the Action Plan will enhance social investment, support social economy acts and social enterprises to start-up, scale-up, innovate and create jobs.

To prepare the Action Plan, citizens and stakeholders were invited (from 1 March until 26 April 2021) to give their views on the so-called roadmap on the Action Plan.

Roadmaps describe the problem to be tackled and objectives to be met, explain why EU action is needed, outline policy options and describe the main features of the consultation strategy. The feedback received can be found at the above link.

The social economy encompasses a variety of businesses, organisations and legal forms, such as non-profit associations, cooperatives, mutual societies, foundations and social enterprises. They share the feature of systematically putting people first, reinvesting most of the profit back into the organisation or a social cause, and having a participatory form of governance.

They play an important role in job creation, work integration and inclusive and sustainable growth. They operate in a large variety of economic sectors, such as social services, health care, social housing, affordable energy to the most vulnerable, recycling, retail, tourism, hospitality.

In view of its potential to address societal challenges and contribute to economic growth, the EU has launched a large number of actions to support the development of social enterprises and the social economy under the 2011 Social Business Initiative (SBI) and the 2016 Start-up and Scale-up initiative,

More recently, a number of Commission initiatives have called on the potential of social economy:

Social economy organisations also contribute to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights.

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.