School for Social Entrepreneurs Supports individuals to set up new charities, social enterprises and social businesses across the UK. http://www.the-sse.org/

School for Startups - The UK's leading provider of business training for entrepreneurs. Provides accelerated business training that helps entrepreneurs launch more successful startups and run more successful businesses. http://www.schoolforstartups.co.uk/

Action Hampshire helps social entrepreneurs in Hampshire to develop their ideas and businesses by providing information, training, advice and support. We help social entrepreneurs to be the best they can be. http://actionhampshire.org/
The Social Enterprise Mark Social Enterprise Mark CIC is the UK certification authority for social enterprise. The Social Enterprise Mark independently proves when a business or organisation puts profits towards social or environmental good. The Social Enterprise Gold Mark is the route to social enterprise excellence http://www.socialenterprisemark.org.uk/

Social Firms UK is the national membership and support organisation for the development of the Social Firmand Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) sector in the UK. These are employability-focussed social enterprises that believe that everyone has the right to be employed and support those furthest from the labour market. A Social Firm is a market-led social enterprise set up specifically to create good quality jobs for people severely disadvantaged in the labour market. A Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) focuses on improving employment prospects for those furthest from the labour market though a wider range of work-based opportunities. The mission is to support, strengthen and grow the Work Integration Social Enterprise sector so that more people facing the most significant barriers to work can gain employment. http://www.socialfirmsuk.co.uk/about-us

Co-operatives UK is the national body that campaigns for co-operation and works to promote, develop and unite co-operative enterprises. The role it is to promote the co-operative alternative across many sectors of the economy from high street consumer-owned co-operatives to pubs and football clubs, healthcare to agriculture, credit unions to community owned shops. http://www.uk.coop/

Social Enterprise UK is the national body for social enterprise - business with a social or environmental mission. Their mission is to run effective campaigns for its members and to lobby on the sector's behalf, to carry out robust and respected research to help paint a picture of the UK's social enterprise movement, to build networks between social enterprises and to raise the profile of people and social enterprises in the sector. http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/

The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) champions and strengthens volunteering and civil society, with over 11,000 members, from the largest charities to the smallest community organisations in order to help voluntary organisations and volunteers make the biggest difference they can. http://www.ncvo.org.uk/about-us

AGCI - Associazione Generale Cooperative Italiane is a free and independent nonprofit organization. Its institutional purpose is to represent, support, give protection and supervision to the cooperative movement.
www.agci.it

Confcooperative is acknowledged as a primary national association representing, assisting, protecting and auditing the cooperative movement. Over the years Confcooperative has implemented a policy sensitive to the needs and changes of the social, civil and economic world. This has permitted constant increase in membership, so that today the Confederation is the largest part of the Italian cooperative movement. www.confcooperative.it

Confcooperative Unione Regionale del Veneto is the regional branch of Confcooperative in Veneto region.
www.veneto.confcooperative.it

Federsolidarietà is the national federation of social cooperatives belonging to Confcooperative.
www.federsolidarieta.confcooperative.it

Legacoop is a national representative association of cooperative enterprises, which are active in all regions of Italy and in all sectors. Legacoop develops services and projects to give birth and nurture cooperative enterprises and promotes the culture of cooperation and to establish the distinctive values and arguing with their action representing the economic, social and civil life and the ability to meet the needs of people who characterizes cooperative enterprises.
www.legacoop.coop

Legacoop Veneto is the territorial branch of "Legacoop". It promotes the development of cooperation and mutual aid, solidarity and economic relations of the member cooperatives, and the dissemination of the principles and values of the cooperative, including through studies, research and training. www.legacoop.veneto.it

UNCI - National Union of Italian Cooperatives - was born in 1971. It promotes and represents associated cooperatives operating in all sectors of activity.
www.unci.eu

CGM is the biggest network enterprise of social cooperatives in Italy. Its aim is to promote communities' wellbeing trough the development of social cooperatives providing social services and work integration. Its mission is to be the expert system of social entrepreneurship, conducting social cooperatives towards the authentic social enterprise and helping social enterprises to networking in order to help citizens and their communities to reach development and social cohesion objectives.
www.cgm.coop

DROM is a national consortium of social cooperatives. Drom promotes and supports territorial consortia and member cooperatives fostering collaboration at national and European level, with a particular attention to the problems of vulnerable categories. It operates in synergy with Legacoopsociali, the federation representing social cooperatives associated to Legacoop.
www.consorziodrom.org

Forum del Terzo Settore represents more than 100 organisations of second and third level active in Italy in the following areas: voluntary sector, associations, international cooperation, social cooperatives, fair trade and ethical finance.
www.forumterzosettore.it

LAWS    
There are no special laws or legal norms that differentiates social enterprises from private enterprises. Neither there are any tax benefit. There are no special fund allocated for Social Enterprises in Sweden. No financial support from government. No special support scheme for WISES or social enterprises.

Thus, a work integrated social enterprise are legally recognised due to its legal form, as is any other enterprise in Sweden.     

RULES FOR PROCUREMENT and SECURED EMPLOYMENT    
Swedish government changed the regulation to that public procurement could use social clauses in procurement following the Directive no. 2004/17,18/EC. In Swedish law for public procurement (ch1 §9.a LOU) it is stated that “authorities could take environmental and social consideration in public procurement when it may be motivated”. All clauses has to be in porpotion to the procured services or products.
Social clauses may be one of the final requirements for contract – and in some cases be considered to raise the most economic efficient bid. But normally, economic requirement may not be subordinated social or environmental aims.
    
According to LOU 30.3.2007/3481 kap 14§ An authority that procures may reserve the right to participate in a procurement for sheltered workshops or similar units or provide that the contract is conducted within the frame of program for sheltered employment, if the majority of the employees have disabilities thet means that work ability is limited. The governmental owned and nationally spread “sheltered workshop” company SAMHALL is an example. Also almost all municipalities have some kind of work central for sheltered employment.      
Combined with LOU all performers have to relate to the law of competition. It is for example inappropriate to take advantage of a dominant market position (25%) ie too low price settings. The Swedish competition Authority is the supervisory body for public procurement.

The government has also created quasi-markets in which the Government, in their role of service purchaser, open up for both enterprices and NGOs  from to range and provide "consumers" a variety of competing providers. One step in this process is another public procurement law – LOV, Law of freedom of choise (2008:962) This law is obligated to county councils but optional for municipalities. The law conforms to freedom of choices for services related to elderly- disability-, and healthcare. LOV is optional as an alternative to LOU. It gives the individual option to choose performer.

In Sweden, public secured employment (OSA) is delivered by public employers, thus either municipality or governmental bodies. OSA is given to people with a social medicine disability, legitimate interventions due to law (1993:387) Support and services to disabled or people with long term or non working experience due to mental illness. People with OSA may be “placed” at social enterprises but may not be employed by them, keeping the OSA employment. Social enterprises – who is defined as being non public - does not benefit from either of this.     
represent SE    MUNICIPALITIES Municipalities can support work integrated enterprices according to the law of Social servic (SoL). Support may be given this way ie as of facilities without rent and by given a supervisor/instructur. LOU shall be used whenever it concerns a purchase of service.

It is also important to higlight the intentions of empowerment by many of the laws adressed to the target groups of social enterprises and its indirect impact on this matter. 

NUWPC
The National Union of Worker Producers Cooperatives has 251 member cooperatives all over the country. They are united in 16 regional (territorial) unions, which are also NUWPC members.
NUWPC comprises also 30 specialized cooperatives of people with disabilities.
The main aim of NUWPC is to strengthen and develop the Union's system in the spirit of the cooperative principles and values, in the following fields: assistance, consultancy, access to finances, training, representation.
http://www.uniontpk.com/

Samaritans Association mission is to work for complete uniting to the society of children, youths, elderlies and families in risk in Stara Zagora Municipality and to support separate people, groups and communities by realizing of activities and delivering of services, which:

• are based on real necessities;
• co operate and build ability for development of skills for self help in different situations;
• assist the process of integration and encourage self development;
• increased or restored social functions;
• secure help for prevention of different consequences.

http://www.samaritans.eu/social-portal/en/soc-b

BARDA - The Bulgarian Association of Regional Development Agencies
The objective is to improve Economic Environment in Bulgaria through Measures for Encouragement of Entrepreneurial Initiative and Employment in Acordance with Economic Development Strategies of the Regions. BARDA aims to sustain, enhance and promote a Vaible Network of Sustainable Local Entities that Foster Regional Development in Bulgaria
BARDA is the only decentralised non-governmental umbrella organisation of independent regional development agencies and business centres in Bulgaria; BARDA has a good broad regional recognition and acceptance; BARDA is a reliable project partner for bilateral and multilateral organizations implementing regional development and SME support programs; BARDA is a keen partner for establishing business contact and investment promotion for the national and international private sector; BARDA takes an interest in fostering regional economic enhancement through dialogue and active participation in the public sector, etc.
http://www.barda.bg/en/about.html

http://fr.slideshare.net/bardabg/development-of-social-enterprises-in-bulgaria

Civil society organisation

• Centrocoop Uniunea Naţională a Cooperaţiei de Consum – is the national federation of consumer cooperatives. http://www.centrocoop.com/istoric/evolu538ia_coopera538iei_de_consum_in%20538arile_romane-53-996-ro.html
• FDES - The Social Economy Development Foundation – Their mission is to contribute to the sustainable development of disadvantaged communities in Central and South-East by supporting social enterprises in the region, in the wider context of social economy. http://www.fdes.ro/en/
• FDSC - Fundatia pentru Dezvoltarea Societatii Civile - The Civil Society Development Foundation (CSDF) is an independent, non–governmental organisation, established in 1994, following an initiative of the European Commission. CSDF is an "organisation for organisations", sharing the belief that the very development of non–governmental organisations is an indicator of the progress of communities and citizens. CSDF's growth has been certainly connected to the changing needs of the Romanian non–governmental organisations (NGOs): in the first half of the 1990s, we catered to the immediate need for funding of the emerging national NGO sector, through grant programs, while later on we gradually added new programs and services designed to meet specific needs identified in every development stage of the non–governmental sector. http://www.fdsc.ro
• IES - Institutul de Economie Sociala (Institute of Social Economy) - FDSC initiated this institute as a strategic approach aimed at: development of independent NGOs and increase their impact in communities, developing relationships among NGOs and other forms of social economy in Romania (cooperatives, sheltered workshops, mutuality, socio-economic organizations with rural etc). Its goal is to participate actively in the development and strengthening of the social economy in Romania. http://www.ies.org.ro/
• RSBDC - Romanian Social Business Development Consortium - The goal of the Romanian Social Business Development Consortium is to help organizations and individuals establish and scale social enterprises that create jobs and revenue, with a minimum impact on the environment. http://www.fdes.ro/en/the-romanian-social-business-development-consortium/
• UCECOM - National Union of Handicraft and Production Co-operatives was founded in 1951, being reorganized in 2006 (on the basis of the Law no. 1/2005 concerning the organization and functioning of the handicraft co-operatives), having permanently, since the foundation until now, the role of a representing organization of the handicraft co-operatives, at national and international level. It has 526 co-operative entities associated directly or indirectly" (co-operative societies, county unions and handicraft co-operative societies associations), totalizing a number of about 19,000 shareholders and, in their great majority, employees of those organizations. http://www.ucecom.ro/engleza/engleza.htm

Organisation interested developing social entrepreneurship projects

• FRDS - Romanian Social Development Fund - The Romanian Social Development Fund (RSDF), supported by the Romanian Government, has been assisting poor rural communities involved in social, economic and infrastructure projects. The two main working aims of the projects are: the establishment of public-private initiative groups using the bottom-up approach, and the development of the social capital. RSDF mission: Supporting the sustainable development of poor communities and other vulnerable groups in Romania, by promoting and assisting the identified local initiatives which are achieved, for the common benefit, by participatory involvement of the community. https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/socialinnovationeurope/directory/organisation/romanian-social-development-fund-frds
• PACT Foundation - It contributes to community sustainable development both by encouraging, sustaining and promoting local and regional initiatives, partnerships and social responsibility among people, companies, authorities and public institutions. It works with people living in rural areas and small towns from Southern Romania in order to create structures of civil society. It creates the premises for social and economic welfare in its target communities by encouraging the citizens to develop entrepreneurial abilities and by supporting their initiatives of social entrepreneurship. http://fundatiapact.ro/en/despre-pact/viziune-misiune-directii-strategice/

In Östergötland there are no range of education specific for, or directed to social enterprises, to work integrated social enterprises or towards cooperatives as a business alternative.