Themes: Social economy

Projet

Digital skills and social inclusion: EUnited We Code

Eunited We Code is a European project co-funded by the Erasmus+ program aiming to foster the innovative pedagogy developed by the social enterprise Simplon.co. This methodology facilitates the integration of vulnerable populations in the tech sector through digital skills learning. The partnership includes five organisations and will build a European network of social coding schools.  
Publication

The outermost regions: challenges and prospects

The construction of Europe begins in 1957, with the signature of the Treaty of Rome. The initial aim is, then, to build a Union equipped with institutions and common values, with the objective of economic and social prosperity for all its members and partners. In the course of its evolution, in particular through the signature of treaties and the adhesion of new States, the European Community has met political, economic, social and cultural changes.
Evénement

Starting a european dialogue on the platform economy

The Sharers & Workers network will host an international event on social innovation in the digital economy.
Projet

Improvement of home care and assistance: AT HOME

atHOME aims to develop innovative interprofessional experiences and approaches around maintaining the older people at home. This European project is led by a consortium of 7 partners from France, Belgium, Portugal and Spain.
Projet

I SAID: self-determination and intellectual disabilities

As part of the promotion of the health of people with intellectual disabilities (ID), the I SAID project will be carried out for four years (Oct. 2016 – Oct. 2020). It aims to foster the self-determination of people with intellectual disabilities and to improve their support. The project is a cross-border collaboration between Hauts-de-France and Wallonia regions.
 
Presse

Reform of the banking system – horizon magazine

We need to return to a diverse, small-scale banking system in order to reduce the risk of another financial crisis, according to Professor Eckhard Hein. He was interviewed by the European Commission’s magazine dedicated to research and innovation: Horizon.

 
Actualité

GECES calls on President Juncker to develop an EU Action Plan for social economy and social enterprises

On behalf of all GECES members, Denis Stokkink, GECES Rapporteur Général, and Hugues Sibille, President of Crédit Coopératif Foundation and Avise, firmly ask to Jean-Claude Juncker to incorporate into the European Commission 2017 Work Programme an EU Action Plan on social economy and social enterprises.
Actualité

Social and conventional businesses : a meeting to break the glass ceiling

The vertical segregation of the labour market is overall the same for conventional enterprises and social ones. This is the observation that representatives of the two kinds of organisations discussed on 3 March 2016 on the occasion of the closing conference of the Gender Balance Power Map project. Objective: exchange each others’ best practices to break the glass ceiling!
Evénement

Personal household services: impact measure of public policies

The European project IMPact* will hold its final conference on 13 April 2016 in Brussels. It will address the issues met by public authorities in Europe to improve assessment and monitoring of employment and budgetary effects of States’ support to the formal provision of Personal and Household Services (PHS) and offer tools to address them.

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