The document outlines a two-year EU co-financed project aimed at promoting social enterprises across multiple countries with a total budget of €514,000. It details the collaboration between various ministries, organizations, and networks to identify best practices, support policy planning, and build capacity within the social economy. Key challenges include developing effective partnerships, improving representativeness, and creating a robust financial ecosystem for social enterprises.

1. MINISTRY OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT
Project co-financed by European Union within European Social Fund

2.  Duration: 2 years (Feb 2013-Jan 2015)
 Dual partnership in each country: MA + SE federal and/or support body
 Lead partner: Polish Ministry of Infrastructure and Development
 Total budget: € 514 000 (20% co-financing)
General information

3. Partners
Core members Associate members
PL Ministry of Regional Development (LEADER)
FISE – Fundacja Inicjatyw Społeczno-Ekonomicznych
Ministry of Labour
BE ESF Agentschap
SE ESF Rådet
Coompanion Sweden
Tillväxtverket
CZ Ministry of Labour & Social Affairs P3, People, Planet, Profit
IT AG Lavoro, Trentino
ESF Lombardia Consorzio Light
EL ESF Greece POKOISPE
CY ESF Cyprus
UK ESF England & Gibraltar
The Scottish Government Social Firms Scotland
FI Ministry of Employment and the Economy Tampere Region Cooperative Centre
EU DIESIS
REVES – European Networks of Cities & Regions for the
Social Economy

4. • It identifies and examines a selection of good practices from around
Europe to gain a deep understanding of the elements of a
comprehensive support environment for the creation and growth of social
enterprises.
• It drafts detailed recommendations to help ESF MAs to support the
development of SE in OPs and new programmes.
Main tasks of the Network

5. Main features

6. Clusters
Support
infrastructures
Financial
eco-system
Identity of social
economy
Growth & development
Public sector capacity:
strategic partnership
and governance model
-
- The working group for systemic
solutions in the field of social
economy (Poland).
- Low Moss public social
partnership (Scotland).
- Intervento 18 – public programs
supporting work integration
(Trento province).
-The ESF response to Social Value
Act and Steps to Success (UK)
-Guiding principles on social clauses
in public procurement (BE)
- Consortia supporting growth of the
social entreprises (IT)
- Macken – social franchising model-
(SE)
ESFund /TISE – pilot
programme (PL)
- Global grants (CZ)
– REVES financial programme
– Gothenburg Initiative (SE)
_ Social Impact bonds (UK)
-Andalusian School of Social Economy
(ES)
-Enterprising together and Enterprrise
Finland
-Social enterprise academy (Scotland)

7. MAIN CHALLENGES:
•To develop partnership for policy planning (depending on specific thematic
areas, e.g. public procurement, PSP, work integration, etc.)
•To build capacity of both sides to make them equal partners (most
desirable situation)
•To build a visible representativeness of the SE sector (to increase the
capability of social enterprise support bodies)
•Interministerial co-ordination to overcome silo problem and re-design the
services
Public sector capacity: strategic
partnership and governance model

8. Growth and development of
social enterprises
Growth factors:
•Opening new markets for social enterprises through public procurement and
/or partnership.
•Supporting and assisting internal collaboration in the social entrepreneurship
sector (the internal and external role of the consortia).
•Replication of successful models of social enterprises (i.e. replication of social
innovations).

9. Financial eco-system
MAIN CHALLENGES:
•Combination of different tools (grants, loans, guarantee funds, etc.)
•Combination of different sources (public/private, ESF/ERDF)
•Different funds for different needs

10. What next?
Support infrastructures
Financial
eco-system
Identity of social
economy
Growth & development
Public sector capacity:
strategic partnership and
governance model
FINAL CONFERENCE
IN BRUSSELS
FINAL CONFERENCE
IN BRUSSELS

11. • A practical tool (horizontal mainstreaming)- based on summary
reports from the peer review meetings and good practices
described and investigated by the peers (+ clickable matrix on
the webpage).
• A policy paper (vertical mainstreaming) – the sets of policy
implications for the ESF operational programmes.
• www.socialeconomy.pl
Expected products of the network

12. • a key element for the development of SEs
• an endogenous factor
• closely related to the legal-organisational form of SEs
• facilitates and spreads social innovation
• capacity building at different levels (institutions, academy,
practitioners, advisors)
SE networking

13. Project co-financed by European Union within European Social Fund
Thank you for the attention!
Dorotea Daniele
DIESIS
European Research and Development
Service for the Co-operatives and the Social
Economy
www.diesis.coop
Dorotea.daniele@diesis.coop