Social Economy Missions for community resilience

Topic description

Scope:

The general objective of the topic “Social Economy Missions for community resilience” is to co-fund projects, which will build resilience and increase the capacity of regional or local public administrations, social economy SMEs and civil society to overcome difficulties and crises. The call will support building local resilience through: a) transnational and inter-regional peer-learning and collaboration in the field of social economy, b) developing social economy local action plans with the cooperation of social economy stakeholders and c) formulating recommendations to be potentially replicable in other parts of Europe.

The specific objectives to be achieved through this call for proposals for topic “Social Economy Missions for community resilience” are the following:

• Developing transnational and inter-regional collaboration between social economy stakeholders (public and private sector) in the field of Social Economy Missions’ theme;
• Boosting peer-learning, sharing and replicating good practices and success stories between social economy stakeholders;
• Improving collaboration between existing social economy networks and stakeholders at regional and local level in the identified theme;
• Showcasing social economy enterprises and organisations and promoting their role in building resilience in territories;
• Developing local action plans with social economy enterprises and stakeholders in the identified theme.

Expected general impact of the project under this call are the following:

• Increasing better, high-quality employment (tackling regional or local unemployment);
• Mobilising the regional or local stakeholders towards a new, green, sustainable, inclusive and socially fairer post-COVID-19 recovery;
• Supporting the green, social and digital transition at local level;
• Supporting resilient and sustainable business models based on social economy;
• Boosting the efficient use of resources by moving to a clean, circular economy;
• Ensuring more community resilience and better living conditions for the population;
• New ecosystem thinking based on active engagement of all actors.

Indicators for expected impact under the topic “Social Economy Missions for community resilience” are the following:

• Number of local or regional administrations committed to improving business environment for sustainable business models based on social economy;
• Increased number of local economic operators and in particular social economy enterprises and organisations who have better awareness of sustainability and existing support for their transition;
• Increased number of local economic operators and in particular social economy enterprises and organisations who have better awareness of education and training relevant for their growth;
• Number of key recommendations that could be replicable in other regions and local communities across Europe.