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REGULATION (EU) No 1296/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 11 December 2013 on a European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (“EaSI”) and amending Decision No 283/2010/EU establishing a European Progress Microfinance Facility for employment and social inclusion

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REGULATION (EU) No 346/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 17 April 2013 on European social entrepreneurship funds

Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions , Brussels, 25.10.2011 , COM(2011) 682 final

Social Business Initiative
Creating a favourable climate for social enterprises, key stakeholders in the social economy and innovation

The single market needs new, inclusive growth, focused on employment for all, underpinning the growing desire of Europeans for their work, consumption, savings and investments to be more closely attuned to and aligned with ‘ethical’ and ‘social’ principles.

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS – COM(2008) 394

EU_malki_predpriatia_BG.pdf (386.93 KB)

Social Enterprise Legislation in Finland

Pekka Pättiniemi
Gdansk, 26th of June 2008.

In this short paper I analyse the content of the Finnish Act on Social Enterprises (1351/2003) its applicability and compare it to some other national European legislation on social enterprises. Finland is one of the Nordic Countries with universal welfare state. The responsibility to take care of those in need is on the public sector. Since the Second World War municipalities and other public sector entities have established over 300 work centres and sheltered workshops to employ disadvantaged persons. There was no real need for social enterprises before the 1990 ́s. when the mass employment and deep economic crises in beginning of 1990 ́s changed the situation idea of self-help work integration enterprises rose among the unemployed and their associations. The economic crises affected heavily also to the work centers for disabled they have to cut their rehabilitation activities to survive, search for new markets for their products and new ways of organizing themselves.

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Source: Pekka Pättiniemi

Decision No. 283/2010/eu of the european parliament and of the council of 25 March 2010 establishing a European Progress Microfinance Facility for employment and social inclusion

P6_TA(2009)0062, Social Economy, European Parliament resolution of 19 February 2009 on Social Economy (2008/2250(INI))

Polish Social Economy Manifesto

Gdańsk Shipyard , 27 June 2008.
The Conference on Social Economy in Gdańsk aims at bringing together Polish and international circles that have a common belief, namely that social economy can offer effective solutions to important social problems. Our meeting in Gdańsk sums up the process, lasting for several recent years, of searching for the best models of activity within the social economy idea. We already met twice, in Kraków and Warsaw, and the present conference is held in the Gdańsk Shipyard – the birthplace of the Solidarity movement of 1980s. It is here where historical processes were initiated that have changed the fate of Europe. It is from here that the idea of solidarity radiated throughout the whole Poland and also to other countries. Our meeting here is based on the belief that the activities undertaken within social economy recall the best tradition of the Solidarity movement, but also that today, after almost twenty years, the idea of social economy can make the tradition alive again. Thus, we believe that social economy can become solidarity economy.