WHAT WE DO
Our mission is to support the development of the social economy in Europe and in the world
OUR ACTIVITIES
SEE CHANGE
The Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem (SEE) CHANGE project (2020-2023)
JoinUP!
Creating an inclusive, more connected and better resourced social entrepreneurship eco-system in Jordan (2019-2021)
SILK project
The SILK project is one of the six Peer Learning Partnerships of the OECD Global Action, funded by the European Union’s Foreign Partnership Instrument.
MED UP!
MedUP! Promoting social entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean region (2018-2022)
WB SEA
The WB SEA projects aims at creating a favourable environment for incorporating the social economy in youth polices and youth work practices in the WB region.
Social economy enterprises and cultural creative industries (event)
The activities of both social enterprises and creative cultural industries have a multiplier effect, which brings cultural, social and economic benefits for the community.
PESSIS+
PESSIS+ aims to strengthen the capacity of the Federation of European Social Employers, in view of their participation in European Social Dialogue structures.
How social enterprises contribute to sustainable food systems
As a social economy expert, DIESIS conducted research into the role of social economy enterprises as a tool in the food system to create, develop and diffuse ideas and solutions which move towards sustainability
BENISI
The BENISI projects aimed to build a Europe-wide network of networks of incubators or social innovation.
The Social Innovation Community (SIC)
SIC is a Horizon 2020-funded projects, run by a consortium of 12 leading social innovation organisations across Europe.
LABOUR-INT 2
The LABOUR INT 2 projects aims to promote employment as a key part of the integration process of third-country nationals.
European Migration Forum
The aim of the Forum is to enhance coordination and cooperation between key players involved in the multilevel European governance of migration.
BEEurope
BEEurope is a system of capacity building tools launched in 2017 to give concrete support to the internationalization of Third Sector and Civil Economy organizations, improve their capacity to access EU funds and participate in international social innovation projects.
FONCOOP
Fon.Coop is the Italian National Interprofessional Joint Fund for Continuing Education in cooperatives.
Y-SEH
Y-SEH offers 60 young people the opportunity to develop their entrepreneurial skills, to understand the role of social entrepreneurship and its benefits both for personal and social development.
IN-Create
The purpose of the projects is to address the basic need and challenge of promoting the successful integration of TCNs within the EU.
VR Theatre
VR Theatre aims to provide adult professionals in CCIs with innovative and creative tools to engage a wider public in their activities, targeting the 65+ population band which is at risk of being or feeling excluded.
RIDE
The RIDE projects aims at including migrant and refugee women into the digital labour market giving them the possibility to re-skilling or upskilling in the digital sector.
Set The Tone
The Set The Tone projects aims to impact on Social Economy Enterprises employers and employees’ mind-set and daily behaviors practiced at the workplaces.
SEEDING
SEEDING aims to be the first projects addressing Social Economy Enterprises and digital transformations.
ZELDA – Training for Interculturality
The main objectives are to foster intercultural competences in different target groups by disseminating the Margalit Cohen-Emerique innovative intercultural approach.
NEW TALENTS 4EU
The NewTalents4EU project aimed to demonstrate that refugees workforce should be considered as a valuable resource of the European labour market in order to strengthen the European economy.
CASYE
The goal of CASYE is to support youth entrepreneurship in the creative sector through the development and piloting a social economy model.
SELC
SELC wishes to improve the guidance for adults with entrepreneurial initiatives.
ICT4TCN
The projects aims to use the existing IT skills and competences of third country nationals to meet the actual needs of the ICT industry in terms of specialised human resources.
BREAKBACK
The aims of BB is to assess how trade unions respond to the processes of individualisation in the society.
CEASE
The CEASE project aimed to create an additional front line in the battle against intimate violence, integrating the companies as new actor, with an important capacity to multiply the effects of the actions, thanks to their significant leadership in our society and their large mobilization capacity.
In4BTE
Information, consultation and participation rights as a factor of success for the business transfer to employees in SMES (2019-2021)
C2E
Care2Enterpreneurship (C2E) was an Erasmus + project that aimed at promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people in the care sector.
R2G – RIGHTS TO GROW
The Rights To Grow (R2G) project aimed at mapping governance models of Social Enterprises across Europe, identifying and analysing good practices and drafting policy recommendations.
EMEN
The EMEN project focused on sharing approaches and lessons learnt on migrant entrepreneurship across and among several categories of stakeholders.
T4F
T4F -Training for Sustainable Food System Development, aimed to develop a professional training based on the development of “green skills” in the food sector, in order to increase the number of jobs linked with an ecological, sustainable and inclusive transition.
Get-Up
The GETUP project aimed to address the stereotyping of educational and career choices and to promote gender equality in education, training, career guidance and at the workplace.
EIforPHS
The ElforPHS aimed to enable company-level social partners and actors in PHS to familiarise themselves with EU laws and policies in the area of information, consultation and participation (ICP) on employees’ rights.
Take Part
A journey around Europe to exchange and create a new training model to foster employees’ participation and company welfare (2019-2022)
Scer
The SCEr project aimed to provide a contribution in terms of knowledge and awareness on European Cooperative Societies within the European Union.
MESMER
MESMER aims at developing a research activity in order to explore the diversified reality of social businesses and social economy under different angles.
Eu3leader
Eu3leader was an Erasmus+ project that aimed to strengthen leadership and entrepreneurial capacities so that third sector organisations are better able to drive positive change in tomorrow’s Europe.
Promyse
The PROMYSE project aimed to promote social entrepreneurship in the health/social care sectors as an alternative pathway to youth self-sustainability
COST Action: Rural NEET Youth Network
COST Action: Rural NEET Youth Network: Modeling the risks underlying rural NEETs social exclusion
Social Economy Presidency Conference
“Social Economy as a key player in providing effective answers to current societal challenges in the EU and the world”. Slovak 2016.
WINS
The WINS projects, co-funded by the DG Employment of the European Commission, aims at promoting Workers’ Involvement in Social Economy Enterprises.
MEDICI
MEDICI is a two year European projects aiming to develop and disseminate the existing best practices of integrating vulnerable and disadvantaged groups into Digital Society.
MAX
MAX is an AMIF funded projects which aim is to change public attitudes towards migrants. The goal is to improve the public image of migrants in Europe.
Buying for Social Impact (BSI)
Buying for Social Impact (BSI) was a project commissioned by DG GROW and EASME to promote the use of social considerations in public procurement procedures.
Film-Set
The objective of the FILM-SET project was to promote a thematic tourist route focusing on European cinema.
Seninter
The SENINTER project has defined a new tourism product adapted to seniors travelling with their grandchildren during the low and medium season in Europe.
Union Migrant Network
UnionMigrantNet is an International network of contact points that provides info and assistance to migrants and would-be migrants.
European Migration Forum
The aim of the Forum is to enhance coordination and cooperation between key players involved in the multilevel European governance of migration.