Public policies And Social Enterprises

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This project aims to promote the interregional cooperation among seven public bodies at the regional and the local level, one school of public administration and one public training center coming from different EU-MSs. The overall objective of the project is to enforce the effectiveness of the regional public policies in promoting and supporting social entrepreneurship as an asset for local economic development and territorial competitiveness. The European Parliament, the Commission and the Economic and Social Committee have recognised the specificities of the enterprises of the social economy and their capacity to correct major economic and social imbalances and to help to achieve a number of general interest objectives. Starting from different level of competences and experiences, the partners intend to exchange experiences, methods and tools which have proved successful in strengthening the economic viability and entrepreneurial spirit of the social enterprises. The activities have been organized into 4 working steps which concern: Step 1: the identification, selection and comparison of good practices regarding public policies supporting SEs. Step 2: the deepening of the knowledge of the selected good practices in order to facilitate their transfer into recipients countries Step 3: the transferring of the good practices into the recipients countries, on the basis of local “road maps” defined with the contribution of all partners. Step 4: the developing of joint guidelines for improving the capability of local public authorities in managing public procurement for the provision of services of general interests involving social enterprises. The main outputs of the operation will be a catalogue of the identified and selected good practices on regional public instruments to support social enterprises and joint guidelines on innovative strategies favouring the emergence of new public social partnership/procurement models at the local level. The expected results of the operation refer to an increased capacity of the policy makers in detecting the needs of social enterprises in their territories, thus favouring a local sustainable development. Communication will play a crucial role in supporting the operation all through its implementation. The project outputs and results will be widely circulated and mainstreamed at the local, regional, national and EU level.

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