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Local action plans for green transition published: Focus on circular economy and community energy initiatives
Local action plans for green transition published: Focus on circular economy and community energy initiatives In the end of August 2023 RESPONDET partner regions and cities finalised their local action plans for green transition. Focus areas of the plans are the social economy-based circular economy and/or community energy initiatives. The plans were conceived on the…
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Social Economy as a partner for the design and implementation of Local/Regional Action Plans for Green Transition
“Social economy as a partner for the design and implementation of local action plans for green transition: Best practices, opportunities and challenges” RESPONDET Final Webinar 14 September, 9.30 am-1 pm (CET) During more than a year, regions and cities from four EU Member States have been working on ways to improve the capacity…
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COMPETENCE BUILDING IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMY: A PATHWAY TO TRANSITION
Holding adequate skills, including the ability to adapt them to the context, are essential elements for dealing with, preventing and also directing changes in the transition phases. This is even more true for social economy operators and structures, which by their very nature are involved in complex creative processes that are never the same. However,…
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European Commission issues proposal for a Council Recommendation on developing social economy framework conditions
On 13 June 2023 the European Commission issued its proposal for a Council Recommendation on developing social economy framework conditions. This Recommendation, once adopted, is a political act of primary importance, as it has to be agreed by all Member States which, by this act, commit themselves to pursue the objectives identified in the document.…
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2021: A YEAR OF ACTION FOR SOCIAL ECONOMY – STATEMENTS BY REPRESENTATIVES OF EUROPEAN CITIES AND REGIONS
[:en] Despite all challenges and uncertainty at the beginning of this new year: local/regional governments and social economy enterprises won’t give up their vision of and initiatives for positive change and European solidarity. Here you are with a series of new year messages in which REVES Board members share their belief in the power of…
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THE SWEDISH ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL AUTHORITIES PROMOTES COOPERATION WITH THE SOCIAL ECONOMY
[:en] In the framework of a skills development project for Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) Anders Bro, Region Örebro County, has been commissioned to write a handbook with the aim of promoting municipalities and regions’ cooperation with social enterprises in Sweden. The handbook is intended to clarify the added value of municipalities…
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New European Commission will launch Action Plan for the Social Economy
[:en]A new European Commission took office on 1 December 2019. In front of the European Parliament, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had pledged to set the fight against climate change and a Green Deal for Europe at the very top of the EU policy agenda next other principles/elements such as the support for « an economy…
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INTEGRAL ECOLOGY FOR CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN BRESCIA (IT)
[:en] Integral ecology for children’s rights is a project of experimentation and implementation of complex policies to address the issue of child educational poverty, starting from the pre-conditions that determine it. The complexity (in the literal sense) of these policies does not only refer to the type of interventions needed, but also to those who…
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No one is left behind – a video about Region Örebro County support to social enterprises
[:en] Region Örebro County, member of the REVES board, is partner in the RaiSE-project on enhancing competitiveness of social enterprises. They were approached by the programme office of Interreg Europe to be the subject of a web-documentary on successful initiatives within Interreg Europe. Here is the video produced by Interreg Europe showing the concrete results of a particularly interesting…
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CAPACITY – Almost there!
[:en]Almost at the end of the experience of the CAPACITY project in Messina. The results are there: a district of barracks transformed into a compound of sustainable buildings and a new approach to social housing based on the ownership of the house and not on life-long assistance A virtuous example of using public funding as…
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