A comprehensive report examining national policy frameworks, regional and local policy instruments, as well as barriers and enabling factors influencing social economy development in rural areas.

SECON aspires to identify and disseminate good practices from the social economy ecosystem of partners’ regions, which are of potential interest to other regions. The main goal is to bolster the support of the social economy, by transferring or adapting their tangible or measurable results in other partners’ regions.

SECON aims to host 7 regional stakeholder group meeting (per country) to amplify the engagement of all interested participants.

SECON will host one interregional workshop in Bulgaria on improving visibility and awareness of social economy enterprises to individual and institutional consumers.

Two thematic seminars will be organised. The first seminar in Romania aims to foster a favourable enabling environment and non-financial support for the development of the regional social economy sector (in Romania) and the second in Belgium to improve the financial and taxation regional framework for social economy enterprises.

We will organise two study visits (in Spain and Poland) to enable stakeholders to gain firsthand experience and insights on social economy ecosystem by visiting relevant institutions, or initiatives in different regions.

The project will facilitate collaborative assessments of policy instruments to identify areas of improvement and enhance the effectiveness of existing policies.