A - DESCRIPTION OF THE GOOD PRACTICE

A1 - Title in original language
III PACTO ANDALUZ POR LA ECONOMÍA SOCIAL

A2 - Title in English
THIRD AGREEMENT FOR THE SOCIAL ECONOMY IN ANDALUSIA

A3 - Location of GP (national)
Spain

A4 - Location of GP (regional)
SEVILLE - ANDALUSIA

A5 - Economic field of activity

A6 - Ultimate purpose of GP
To practically facilitate or enable social enterpreneurship
To improve policy environment for social enterprise
To respond to crisis

A7 - Spatial scale
Regional (large scale)

A8a - Start date
16th December 2011

A8b - Anticipated end date (if applicable)
15th December 2015

A9 - Short description of the GP
The Third Agreement on Social Economy in Andalusia is structured with the aim of promoting economic, social and laboral development, in a more sustainable development framework, through an innovative and entrepreneurial social economy, that generates more and better enterprises and employment of quality, on the basis of the principles of social responsibility, solidarity, participation, democracy and equality. The signing parts, that know in a wide way the specifications that characterize this sector, in the double co-relation that it's set up between its social aims and its necessary objectives and entrepreneurial interests, make the set of actions and objectives of the Third Agreement over the following strategic scopes, on which it has to be laid down and where it has to be promoted a better development of the andalusian social economy: I) Principles and values of the social economy, II) Economical activity and entrepreneurial development, III) Employment of quality and work relationship, IV) Rural and local development, as a tool for the social cohesion, V) Structuring and organization of the andalusian social economy, and last VI) Development, monitoring and review of the Agreement.

A10 - Key words relating to the GP
Social responsibility
Sustainable development
Cooperativism
Social clauses
Entrepreunarial attitude, competitiviness, innovation.

A11 - Objectives of the GP

1. To promote the principles, values and practices of social economy, on the whole andalusian society and in the productive system itself.
2. To create and consolidate more and better sustainable enterprises in the framework of the andalusian social economy.
3. To foster the employment of quality, the improvement of labour conditions and the professional, productivity, and management capacity of the people partners and workers of the social economy.
4. To improve the quality of life and the social and economical cohesion in the local and rural scope.
5. To strengthen and position the social economy as a visible interlocutor in the civil society, promoting and consolidating the entrepreneurial associations and their organizational structures.
6. To build and start the General Commission on Development, Monitoring and Review of the Agreement, to achieve the best level of efficiency and effectiveness in the objectives and actions that it is made up.

A12 - Activities that have taken place

1. Development of programs promoting the entrepreneurial activity.
2. Development of an innovation strategy.
3. Development of training programs.
4. Investment incentives linked to the modernization and creation of projects of social economy.
5. Program for the incorporation of new partners in cooperatives and labour societies, foreseen the creation of 280 jobs.
6. Program to support the innovation and competitiveness of the social economy enterprises.

A13 - Achievements of the GP
The Third Agreement for the Social Economy in Andalusia is an achievement itself, taking into account that is the continuity of the previous two Agreements for the Social Economy in Andalusia. The first and second Agreements signed in the years 2002 and 2006 have established solid basis, with a lot of experience that have allowed reinforcing the effectiveness of the promotion policies and the development of the andalusian social economy. The first Agreement made possible the framework for compromise and visibility of an essential sector in both andalusian economy and society. The Second one, opened the framework for dialogue and gave recognition to the heterogeneity of the activities carried out by the social economy enterprises.

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B - IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

B1 - How has the GP impacted on the following?

B1a - Legal/financial exclusion
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The 2013 budget is a supportive budget, focused in the creation of employment, and hence, sensible to the promotion and strengthening of the social economy. Andalusia bet for years for the social economy since it's a entrepreneurial model that have several benefits, added to its strength as economical activity, with more than 7.000 enterprises, which give employment to more than 60.000 partners and workers.

B1b - Creation or conservation of local employment
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The impact on the employment of the social economy is very positive, inclusive taking into account the serious crisis in which we are immersed. In the past term of office, there have been developed 94 initiatives, actions and programs for the dissemination and promotion of the social economy, and also 62 projects for the promotion of the innovation and the competitiveness of enterprises of social economy have been executed. There have been encouraged 748 entrepreneurial projects with the creation of 800 new jobs, consolidating 15.000 jobs and with investments superior than 80 million Euros.

B1c - Adaptation to new realities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
Precisely, the aim of the Third Agreement of Social Economy in Andalusia pretends the adaptation of the social economy to the new and difficult socio-economic situation. The worldwide crisis suffered by all the economies has its first negative effect on the loss of business and the destruction of jobs, that in a context of intensive growth of the active population is causing a significant increasing of the unemployment rate and the dislocation of business. In this complex situation, the development of Andalusia has to be based more and more in the initiatives of the citizens, supported by public policies, where the social economy can play a strategic role. Indeed, the social economy is a wide sector, adapted to a society in constant productive process, creator and generator of new models and entrepreneurial initiatives, and employment of quality, that changes and fits itself to new processes, that renews its organizational structures, and that is in constant search of the entrepreneurial interrelation that satisfys its own objectives and those of the society as a whole. In that context, the Government of the Junta de Andalucia, Union General of Employers Trade Union (UGT), Worker's Committees Trade Union, (CCOO) and the Confederation of Entities for the Social Economy have participated in order to design a framework of impetus and a greater development of the social economy to contribute in an active way, both to reduce the effects of the actual crisis, as to participate in the new recovery formulas and social and economic development of Andalusia.

B1d - Cross sectoral working
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The intersectoriality exchange is demonstrated just by the signing entities themselves of the Third Agreement of Social Economy, since it has been signed by three different types of entities involved in the social economy: the Public Administration through the Regional Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Science of Andalusisa; two Trade Unions, CCOO and UGT, and the Confederation of Entities for the Social Economy in Andalusia, composed by organization of enterprises of social economy and self-employed persons o Andalusia. Another point that indicates the intersectoriality exchange of the Third Agreement of Social Economy can be found in its objectives II and IV. According to these, they want to create more and better sustainable enterprises in the framework of social economy, focused on activities both of traditional sectors such as construction, transport and tourism, as well as rising sectors such as renewable energies, New technologies, biotechnology, cultural industries, eco-industry, social services, and so on in the local and rural sector.

B1e - Enablement of social enterpreneurship
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The Third Agreement of Social Economy in Andalusia proposes a great variety of actions to encourage and improve the accessibility to the social entrepreneurship:

1. To encouragement and impulse in the contracts with the Public Administration of social clauses that value behaviours in the enterprises linked to the entrepreneur social responsibility and that are related directly to the rights, the equality, the link-up to the territory, the person as a principal element, the involvement of workers, the democracy, the distribution of the wealth, etc.
2. Development of specific programs of dissemination, information, assessment, training, technical assistant, pre-incubation, and incubation for the promotion of the entrepreneurial and business activity in the framework of the social economy.
3. Promotion among the entrepreneurial Andalusian people, the models of social economy enterprises, as a tool of creation of new viable entrepreneurial projects.
4. Development of strategies of cooperation and integration of social economy enterprises in the sector of provision of services to the society in order to favour its position in the productive sector.
5. Elaboration of a catalogue of the public and private services of support, creation and consolidation, specialized in social economy.
6. Diffusion of the existing public and private financial instruments, for the financing of entrepreneurial projects of social economy.
7. Promotion of collaborative agreements with the financial entities for the development of new lines of financing for social economy enterprises.
8. To give an incentive to the productive investments linked to projects of creation and modernization of social economy enterprises.
9. Creation and modernization of new enterprises in consolidated sectors of social economy, as well as in raising and employment generated sectors, linked specially to: rural areas, ecological activities, rural tourism, dependency, rehabilitation and adaptation of housing, sport, and active leisure.
10. To promote the coordination of the "Strategy of Innovation for the Social economy". Promotion and support to I + D + i projects in the framework of the social economy. 
11. Adaptation and update of training itineraries for the entrepreneurial people, focused on the start and consolidation of entrepreneurial projects of social economy. Design of knowledge units on social economy, to incorporate in the formal training andalusian system, as well as, set up of collaborative protocols with the andalusian Universities to define and introduce subjects and activities linked to the collective business venture in the social economy.
12. Promotion of lines of research, studies and publications, and specially incorporation of lines of statistical research differentiated in cooperativism and social economy issues. 
13. Promotion of the use of the New Technologies in the Social Economy.
14. Promotion of the internationalization of the social economy enterprises.

B1f - Amenities for local people
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The IV strategic scope inside the Third Agreement for the Social Economy is configurated as an strategic line with direct impacts on the population, because it promotes the local and rural development, as an instrument for the social cohesion and for the improvement of the quality of life. The planning actions are focused on the support to entrepreneurial activities, linked to the natural, rural and ecologic areas, the dependency, rehabilitation and housing adaptation, sport, active leisure, prioritizing the use of renewable energies and biofuels in the social economy enterprises. Also, the agricultural cooperatives and agroindustrial as a motor to the rural development are enhanced, supporting the concentration of enterprises, and the reorientation to the production of biomass.

B1g - Educational opportunities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The third Agreement for the Social Economy sets up some measures to improve the educational opportunities in the framework of the social economy, since the education is a key factor, not only for the increasing of the number of entrepreneurs in this sector of the economy, but for the enterprise management itself.
Thus, among the strategic lines for the improvement of the educational measures are the following:

• Adaptation and update of training itineraries, for the social economy entrepreneur.
• Programs for the promotion of the business venture culture in the formal educational centres and at the different levels of the educational system.
• Collaboration agreements with the andalusian Universities to define and introduce subjects and activities linked to the collective business venture in the social economy.
• Development of cross-wise modules contents about self-employment, cooperativism and labour societies, in order to incorporate them to the vocational training programs.
• Vocational training programs for the incorporation of management staff, in social economy enterprises, enabling them to exercise leadership and good governance in the social economy entities in Andalusia.
• Training programs on internationalization issues, for the social economy enterprises in Andalusia, focused both to the management staff, as to the staff itself.
• Continuous training programs for partners and workers of social economy, about the use of tools and services based on TICs and innovation.

B1h - Crisis response
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
Traditionally, the social economy enterprises have characterized themselves for better adapting to crisis environments, being weaker the destruction of employment related to the conventional enterprises, adapting wages and working hours to the new situation and acting as refuge of part of the employment that is destroyed in the rest of enterprises.
In Andalusia, through the Third Agreement of Social Economy, it is decided to reinforce these entrepreneurship formulas, that through its strategic areas will contribute to soften the effects of the crisis, and to go out of it more reinforced, with more participated, democratic and fair values and principles.

B1i - Local financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?
At a local level, the financial forms of the social enterprises have to be targeted through the stipulation of social clauses in the contracts, to staff dedicated to the study of the forms of fundraising and to obtain credits through the corporate social responsibility. Also, the Third Agreement of Social Economy collects some specific actions on this matter:

• Dissemination of the financial instruments, public and private, focused on financing social economy enterprises projects.
• Promotion of collaborative agreements with financial entities, for the development of new lines of financing for social economy enterprises.

B1j - Local policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The article 172.2 of the Statute of Autonomy of Andalusia sets up as one of the principal points of the social politics, the cooperatives and other entities of social economy. The Law 14/2011 of Cooperative Societies in Andalusia; the Decree 85/2003 sets up programs of labour integration of the Government of Andalusia; the Decree 175/2006 that approves the Andalusian Plan for the promotion and consolidation of the self-employed.

• At an European level, the Resolution of the European Parliament on Social Economy of 19th February 2009 sets up that the promotion of the social economy, should be an objective of the states that integrate the European Union. Also, The European Strategy 2020 pursues an intelligent economy, sustainable and comprehensive and sets up priorities that reinforce each other and offers a picture of the European social economy marketplace for the century XXI. It sets up, specially for the Spanish state, the promotion of the entrepreneurial initiatives of social economy, to achieve the consecution of the objective of full employment, that marks the strategic mentioned.
• At a national level, in order to comply the article 129.2 of the Spanish Constitution (..."the Public Authorities will promote effectively the several forms of participation in the enterprises and will promote, through an adequate legislation, the cooperative societies") , and related to the recommendations of the Resolution of the European Parliament, it was approved in March 2011 the Law of Social Economy. On the other hand, the Law 4/1997, of 24th March, of Labour Societies, regulates a mercantile form of social economy in order to facilitate the access of the workers to the property of the means of production, and with the aim to develop new instruments of creation of enterprises and employment.
• At a regional level, it was approved the Law 14/2011, of 23rd December, of Cooperative Societies of Andalusia, complys the article 58.1.4º of the Statute of Autonomy of Andalusia that determines as an exclusive competence "the promotion, ordination and organization of the cooperatives and social economy entities, and that must be object of preference action of the public politics, as provided in article 172.2".

More concretely, the Decree 149/2012, of 5th June, gives the competence of social economy to the Regional Ministry of Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment of Andalusia, specifically to the General Directorate of Social Economy which is in charge of the planning, promotion and development of the Andalusian Social Economy, in the framework of its economic and social values and principles, as well as, the development of programs of dissemination and promotion, innovation, competitiveness, training and vocational training, and promotion of the representative structures of the sector, driving specially the creation of new enterprises, the technology modernization and the management of structures and organizations.
While the strategic document that marks the action of the Junta de Andalucía in the Social economy scope has been previously agreed with the social entities and the trade unions more representative of the sector, and through the wide experience acquired with the first and second Agreements, currently is in force the III Agreement for Social Economy, subscribed in Málaga, the 16th December 2011.
For the execution of much actions set up in the Third Agreement, it is dictated the Order of 29th June 2009, of the Regional Ministry of Innovation, Science and Enterprise, that approved the basis of a Program to Support the Social Economy.

B1k - National financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The National Action Plan for the Social Inclusion of Spain 2008-2010, sets up a series of actions in favor of the integration and social insertion. The Law 4/1997 that regulates the labour societies in its article 19 sets up fiscal benefits for the societies. Triodos Bank. Products for social enterprises:

• Mortgage loans.
• Personal loans, advance grant, contract or agreements.
• Credit loan with mortgage guarantee or of free disposition
• Discount lines of invoices, agreements, etc. with public administrations.
• Guarantee.

B1l - National policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
In the educational scope, the Spanish Organic Education Law of 2006 takes into their aims and objectives the training of the entrepreneur spirit, understood as a basic competence, together with the personal initiative and creativity, that the students have to develop along all the educational process. The General Directorate of the Small and Medium Enterprises supports the training action with the elaboration of didactic materials for the basic education and high school, and with studies and initiatives, aimed at the University be a promoter of the entrepreneurial concerns and formative of our youth. The Organic Law of the Qualifications and Vocational Training proposes the incorporation the training actions that enable the performance of entrepreneurial activities and on their own, with reference to all the enterprises, especially to the social economy enterprises, what supposes an important institutional and formative support to the social entrepreneurship. The Law 5/2011 on Social Economy that sets up a common legal framework to the whole of entities that form the social economy. The Law 44/2007 that regulates the regimen of social economy enterprises has the objective to regulate the legal framework of the insertion companies and to set up a framework that promotes the labour insertion of people in a situation of social exclusion through these type of enterprises.

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C - PARTNERSHIPS & GOVERNANCE

C1 - Is the governance of this GP fully inclusive?
Beneficiaries are highly involved in governance
Comments and learning points
The 3rd Agreement on Social Economy is a political paper signed and agreed for all the stakeholders involved, as the Regional Minister of Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment of Andalusia, the Confederation of Entities for the Social Economy of Andalusia CEPES (the most representative body about the social economy in Andalusia), and the most important trade unions of the region (Comisiones Obreras CCOO (Workers Commissions) and Unión General de Trabajadores UGT (General Workers Union)).
For this reason this document could be considered as a participative good practice, because all the signed stakeholders have had the commitment to promote the economic, social and labour development of Andalusia. They have boosted values on participation, democracy, sustainability and gender equality through the promotion of an integrated social economy that generates enterprises and quality jobs, innovative, competitive and enterprising, committed to local and rural development and social cohesion.

C2 - How influential has this GP been on local or national decision makers?
High degree of influence achieved
Comments and learning points
Bearing in mind that the Regional Government of Andalusia signed this 3rd Agreement, the andalusian regional public administration itself assumes as a priority the implementation of public policies addressed to the achievement of the objectives and actions established in the signed document.

C3 - How much partnership work has been involved?
A great deal of cross sectoral partnership working
Comments and learning points
Previous to the signature of the third Agreement, and as in other ones, it was realized a consensus phase. In this sense, a technical team was created, and it met regularly, with two objectives: To be responsible for collecting the proposals of the different parties, and to develop the appropriate discussion paper until the agreement was reached.
After the signature, it has been established an operational protocol of the General Commission of the Development, Monitoring and Evaluation of the 3rd Agreement. This protocol foresees 3 meetings per year to make decisions on its implementation, financing, monitoring, evaluation and dissemination.

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D - PR & TRANSFERABILITY

D1 - Please describe how the GP communicated its experience and success to the public
The signing of the 3rd Agreement for the Social Economy was held in a public act which called the main media of Andalusia. It has also disseminated through the websites of the signatories, like the Regional Minister of Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment. This document is known for all the companies of the social economy in Andalusia.

D2 - Please describe how the GP communicated with local or national decision makers?
It is a regional initiative, thus it hasn't reached other public administrations.

D3 - Are there any elements of this project that you think would transfer particularly well to other contexts?
The 3rd Agreement for the Social Economy supposes the union of intentions of all the stakeholders on Social Economy to achieve common goals. This aspect makes this experience transferable to other settings, with a political framework as the political end is pursued. In this sense, it has a high financial implication of public funds to develop the actions foreseen on it.

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E - RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABILITY

E1a - Total annual income of GP 2011/12
20M euros

E1b - How is this made up?
The funding sources of the 3rd Agreement on Social Economy is 100% from the public sector, particularly from the National Government, European Funds and the own Regional Government of Andalusia.

E1c - Details of human resources
The human resources involved in the development of the Agreement, are the ones from the General Directorate of Social Economy of the Regional Ministry of Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment, as well as the other participating bodies

E1d - Details of technology
Any technological requirement was needed

E1e - Details of financial investment for start-up/early stage
Any financial investment was needed to formalize the Agreement.

E1f - Details of external support
It was not needed

E2 - If public funding were withdrawn, could the GP continue to exist?
It would be very difficult that this GP could exist without public funding, because the Third Agreement for the Social Economy itself does not generate incomes.

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F - EXECUTIVE BODY AND CONTACT INFORMATION

F1 - Who set up the GP?
Partnership (please give details)

F2 - Who runs the GP?
Partnership (please give details)

F3 - Short description/comments
The Regional Minister of Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment (as public administration), the trade unions (UGT Andalucía y CCOO Andalucía), and the Confederation of Social Economy Entities of Andalusia.

F4 - Contact 
Lola López Cabrera
Dirección General de Economía Social Consejería de Economía, Innovación, Ciencia y Empleo
Calle Albert Einstein, nº4
Sevilla
Telephone 954995180
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G - SUPPORTING INFORMATION

G1 - Photos (between 1 & 3)

G2 - E documents
http://juntadeandalucia.es/organismos/economiainnovacioncienciayempleo/areas/emprendedores-cooperativas/politicas.html
http://www.cepes-andalucia.es/fileadmin/media/docs/Convenios/20111216%20III%20PACTO%20ANDALUZ%20POR%20LA%20ECONOMIA%20SOCIAL.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjvfz1ZdSpA
http://www.economiasocial.tv/ver_video.php?id=8e413744eee30f5872eb&categoria=42&pag=4

G3 - Any other useful information

 

A DESCRIPTION OF THE GOOD PRACTICE

A1 - Title in original language
Creación de cooperativa para la gestión de instalaciones deportivas de titularidad pública

A2 - Title in English
Creation of a cooperative for the management of public sport facilities

A3 - Location of GP (national)
Spain

A4 - Location of GP (regional)
Andalusia

A5 - Economic field of activity
R Arts, entertainment and recreation

A6 - Ultimate purpose of GP
To create or conserve employment
To provide amenities for local people
To respond to crisis

A7 - Spatial scale
Local

A8a - Start date
February 2011

A8b - Anticipated end date (if applicable)
Ongoing

A9 - Short description of the GP
Private running of public sport facilities fallen into disuse where sport activities are carried out 13 hours a day six days per week.

A10 - Key words relating to the GP
sport
rural employment
cooperation
disability
welfare

A11 - Objectives of the GP
To re-use the sport facilities while creating employment , favouring the practice of sport in the municipality and the use of renewable energies.

A12 - Activities that have taken place
Creation of the cooperative by 4 partners under 30 y.o., creating 9 new working posts, offering a wide range of sport and leisure activities in a wide schedule, with work-life balance measures supporting social integration and disability. It generates synergies of entrepreneurial cooperation and boosting healthy values in the local population.

A13 - Achievements of the GP
Exploitation of pre-existing facilities for the use of the overall population; energy efficiency and stable jobs for youth and persons with difficulties to access the job market.

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B - IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

B1 - How has the GP impacted on the following?

B1a - Legal/financial exclusion
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The City Council has contributed to the project with disused sport facilities. That would have meant the major investment, so it made an agreement. The maintenance of the facilities are too expensive for the public trasury and the private management is required. Had not opted the Municipality for this agreement, the facilities would have remained disused.

B1b - Creation or conservation of local employment
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
Creation of local employment for four unemployed partners under 30 y.o. All of them hold an university degree. It has been possible the creation of 5 extra jobs for 3 women (out of which 2 over 45) and two men under 30. Although this figur of employment may be considered meaningless, it is important taking into account the total population in Gerena: 7,200 inhabitants.

B1c - Adaptation to new realities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The cooperative satisfies the population's demand of sport activities, educates in values the youth and enables de access to sport to handicapped persons.

B1d - Cross sectoral working
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
There are synergies between public and private sector. On the one hand, the municipality and associations of disabled people are involved; on the the other, the private companies. A series of sectors come together in the project: education, sport, disability, physiotherapy, chiropody, restoration and tourism

B1e - Enablement of social enterpreneurship
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

B1f - Amenities for local people
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
New servicies for the community have been offered and the initial offer has been enriched thanks to the collaboration with educational centres, associations of disabled people (deaf, deaf-blind, autist, impaired people).

B1g - Educational opportunities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
Competitions of handball, swimming, soccer by the local teams do take places in the facilities and the centre collaborates with local schools and highschools. Likewise, life-saving courses for instructors are organised. The activities carried out reinforce values such as co-education, accesibility, social integration, sport, healthy habits, etc.

B1h - Crisis response
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
Stability in employment. Cooperation with other local companies. Involvement in activities with a high local social impact (sponsoring, donations, promotion of values, etc.)

B1i - Local financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
There was a necessary local view of making the most of pre-existing resources. The Municipality had facilities that were expected to be run and thought on social entrepreneurs.

B1j - Local policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The municipality had capacity and resources to advise the social entrepreneurs.

B1k - National financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Impacts not known
Any other comments?

B1l - National policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Impacts not known
Any other comments?

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C - PARTNERSHIPS & GOVERNANCE

C1 - Is the governance of this GP fully inclusive?
Beneficiaries are highly involved in governance
Comments and learning points
Three of the partners are working full time in the project, while one is doing it part-time. There is a great involvement of the city council, sport associations, associations of diabled persons, educational centres and other private companies.

C2 - How influential has this GP been on local or national decision makers?
Reasonable degree of influence achieved
Comments and learning points
It proved the possibilities and feasibility of this kind of initiatives and the good results in the cooperation between public and private actors.

C3 - How much partnership work has been involved?
A great deal of cross sectoral partnership working
Comments and learning points
Apart from the cooperation between public and private entities referred above, other associations and stakeholders participate in the project.

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D - PR & TRANSFERABILITY

D1 - Please describe how the GP communicated its experience and success to the public
The initiative has been spread to the general public not only in the municipality, but also in the county. The company has been presented to several contests where it has been awarded.

D2 - Please describe how the GP communicated with local or national decision makers?

D3 - Are there any elements of this project that you think would transfer particularly well to other contexts?
The transfer of management of public spaces to private companies. The management in public hands would show a deficit, while a private company in the sector would find serious barriers to the initial investment if the facilities were not created beforehand. Moreover, the use of renewable energies constitute an example of energy efficiency. The use of solar panels and biomass is basic for the sustainability of the activity, since the maintenance of the swimming-pool requires a very high expense of electricity.

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E - RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABILITY

E1a - Total annual income of GP 2011/12
115,000 (2011); 130.000 (2012)

E1b - How is this made up?
Direct incomes from the activity and the amount given by the Municipality for the administrative management of the space.

E1c - Details of human resources
4 partners who are workers and 5 hired employees.

E1d - Details of technology
Climatisation machines, boilers, and production of energy (biomass and solar panels)

E1e - Details of financial investment for start-up/early stage
Great importance of public funds at the beginning of the business.

E1f - Details of external support
Municipality of Gerena (promotion); Nusavia (training of instructors); CVADE (advise and mentoring); FAECTA (advice).

E2 - If public funding were withdrawn, could the GP continue to exist?
Yes

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F - EXECUTIVE BODY AND CONTACT INFORMATION

F1 - Who set up the GP?
State - local

F2 - Who runs the GP?
Individual or group of individuals

F3 - Short description/comments
Aquasport, Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza; Municipality of Gerena; Associations (AGEDIS, APASCIDE); Primary School Fernando Feliù; Secondary School Gerena; several private companies.

F4 - Contact 
Francisco José Marín Pérez
Aquasport, Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza
C/ Ferrocarril, 2 (Gerena), Sevilla
Spain
Telephone 955782398 / 658876809
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Website under construction
Any other contact people
Antonio Jesús Marín Pérez

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G - SUPPORTING INFORMATION

G1 - Photos (between 1 & 3)


Human resources: partners an hired workers.



Three of the partners. Picture by the national newspaper El País.


Aquasport and disability. Disabled person exercices thanks to his hydraulic chair.

G2 - E documents
Aquasport El País: article published by El País, presenting this cooperative as a good practice to overcome the crisis.
The Guardian cites several Spanish good practices to overcome the crisis and Aquasport is one of them.
News published by the Municipality where several recognitions to the project are mentioned.

G3 - Any other useful information

 

A - DESCRIPTION OF THE GOOD PRACTICE

A1 - Title in original language
Convenio de colaboración para ampliación de mercados

A2 - Title in English
Cooperation agreement to expand markets

A3 - Location of GP (national)
Spain

A4 - Location of GP (regional)
Andalusia

A5 - Economic field of activity
P Education

A6 - Ultimate purpose of GP
To address legal or financial exclusion
To enable adaptation to new realities
To improve social cohesion/inclusion

A7 - Spatial scale
Regional (large scale)

A8a - Start date
September 2012

A8b - Anticipated end date (if applicable)
Ongoing

A9 - Short description of the GP
The good practice consists on the alliance between Suplá y Suara that commit to set up a temporary consortium in case they are awarded a significant tender in Andalusia. It has been also a way to give room to social enterprises to this market. Otherwise, they would not be able to compete with national big companies.

A10 - Key words relating to the GP
cooperative
temporary consortium
alliance
expansion
insertion enterprise

A11 - Objectives of the GP
To increase the market from a social perspective, giving priority to persons over the economic aspects.

A12 - Activities that have taken place
Previous and ongoing market research. A memorandum of understanding between the two entities has been signed and a good number of institutional contacts made to let know the initiative.

A13 - Achievements of the GP
Memorandum of understanding and possibilities to access to new market segments.

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B - IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

B1 - How has the GP impacted on the following?

B1a - Legal/financial exclusion
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The big tenders impose conditions that escape the possibilities of the insertion enterprises. The fact that this kind of enterprise signs an agreement with a more competitive and less restricted one makes it overcome the exclusion.

B1b - Creation or conservation of local employment
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?
It is in a rather initial phase. Nevertheless, it can be advanced that 100% of employments would be local.

B1c - Adaptation to new realities
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The initiative responds to adaptation to reality. The tenders are monipolised by non-social companies. Thanks to this type of actions the social companies would access to competition.

B1d - Cross sectoral working
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

B1e - Enablement of social enterpreneurship
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

B1f - Amenities for local people
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
Management of kindergarten with all services included.

B1g - Educational opportunities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
Suplá counts on its own educational model. Its pedagogy boost interaction among school, teachers and family.

B1h - Crisis response
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
It is a reaction agains the harsh circumstances stemmed from the crisis.

B1i - Local financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The partner Suara will back financially the operation.

B1j - Local policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Impacts not known
Any other comments?

B1k - National financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Impacts not known
Any other comments?

B1l - National policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Impacts not known
Any other comments?

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C - PARTNERSHIPS & GOVERNANCE

C1 - Is the governance of this GP fully inclusive?
Project is entirely/almost entirely governed by beneficiaries
Comments and learning points
There are two participating companies that take into account the persons over the benefits.

C2 - How influential has this GP been on local or national decision makers?
Not known
Comments and learning points

C3 - How much partnership work has been involved?
A great deal of partnership working within sector only
Comments and learning points
It is the result after 6 months holding meetings for both companies to know each other.

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D - PR & TRANSFERABILITY

D1 - Please describe how the GP communicated its experience and success to the public

D2 - Please describe how the GP communicated with local or national decision makers?

D3 - Are there any elements of this project that you think would transfer particularly well to other contexts?
The initiative is liable to be transferred to other sectors and regions very easily.

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E - RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABILITY

E1a - Total annual income of GP 2011/12

E1b - How is this made up?

E1c - Details of human resources

E1d - Details of technology

E1e - Details of financial investment for start-up/early stage

E1f - Details of external support

E2 - If public funding were withdrawn, could the GP continue to exist?

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F - EXECUTIVE BODY AND CONTACT INFORMATION

F1 - Who set up the GP?
Individual or group of individuals

F2 - Who runs the GP?
Partnership (please give details)

F3 - Short description/comments
0

F4 - Contact
Rafael Corpas Reina
Suplá Empresa de Inserción S.L.
Calle Don Lopes de Sosa, nº 20.
Córdoba
Telephone (+34)957761269
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
www.suplasl.es
Any other contact people
José Manuel González Aranda

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G - SUPPORTING INFORMATION

G1 - Photos (between 1 & 3)
Logo Suplá
Logo Cooperative Suara

G2 - E documents

G3 - Any other useful information

 

...to promote disadvantaged people's inclusion path's"-CO.RE

A - DESCRIPTION OF THE GOOD PRACTICE

A1 - Title in original language
"Responsabilidad compartida para promover itinerarios de inclusión para personas desfavorecidas" - CO.RE

A2 - Title in English
"Community-shared responsibility to promote disadvantaged people's inclusion path's"-CO.RE

A3 - Location of GP (national)
Spain

A4 - Location of GP (regional)
Andalusia-Seville Region where GP is located

A5 - Economic field of activity
Q Human health and social work activities

A6 - Ultimate purpose of GP
To practically facilitate or enable social enterpreneurship Please choose up to three
To improve social cohesion/inclusion
To improve policy environment for social enterprise

A7 - Spatial scale
International

A8a - Start date
01.02.2012 Enter month and year

A8b - Anticipated end date (if applicable)
31/07/2013; collaboration is expected to be replicated beyond that date Enter month and year, or "ongoing"

A9 - Short description of the GP
The CORE Project tackles the issues, common to all territories involved, of youth unemployment and social exclusion of specific target groups, and proposes an innovative governance model for social inclusion policies based on participatory processes which mobilise local economic, social and political resources. The proposed local partnership model builds upon the notion of local actors/stakeholders' responsibility and accountability. Its focus is on local development and employment policies and it is aimed at creating a shared model for a community-shared agreement. Although the experience stems from a European project, the methodology and the way in which it has been put into practice in Andalusia deserves to be highlighted.

1. a map of stakeholders has been prepared and there has been cross-sectoral meetings to identify the needs within the social economy sector.
2. once the needs have been identified, the results have been contrasted with the social entrepreneurs' own view and it has been confirmed that there is a lack in training.
3. A memorandum of understanding has been signed by public and private actors in order to commit to cooperation in this field.
4. the scope of the experience was limited to insertion companies ( as far as the piloting is concerned), with whom a training/educational path was built up with the intervention of the public administration (co-ordinating different pre-existing programmes) and private companies.
5. The training path was connected to the acquisition of competences as well as entrepreneurship in a time of crisis.

As a result, the insertion companies are improving their own aims, not only seeking the labour insertion of workers, but also their possibilities to run their own businesses.

A10 - Key words relating to the GP
Social entrepreneurship
Coordination
Self-employment
Social insertion
Training

A11 - Objectives of the GP

1. Reinforce awareness of social corporative responsibility.
2. To propose effective solutions to identified socio-economic problems
3. Generation of results that can be measured in terms of integration of vulnerable groups.

A12 - Activities that have taken place

1. Study about the local needs and mapping of social services in the province of Seville
2. Communication activities: mobilization of stakeholders through the celebration of local focus groups for the detection of social needs.
3. Local agreements in a double way:
   1. through the celebration of round tables with all the stakeholders indentified. This process concludes in the signing of a "memorandum of understanding", between all of them.
   2. Assistant to the International Seminaries in Porto (Portugal) and Sevilla (Spain) (it will take place at first of March). Implementation of the local shared agreement through the implementation of the personalized itineraries materialized in a training program.

A13 - Achievements of the GP

1. Successful coordination between the public administrations, private sector, social stakeholders and social enterprises.
2. As a result of this successful coordination has been signed, the "memorandum of understanding" between all the social stakeholders involved, implemented trough a pilot project, based on a training activity, composed by three main blocks: competences, new technologies and business plan, that give the beneficiaries availability to start a self-employment project.

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B - IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

B1 - How has the GP impacted on the following?

B1a - Legal/financial exclusion
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The achievements that have been obtained practically without budget, through the successful collaboration between the participants, which have put at the disposal the resources that they have: voluntary of participation, view of different approaches, buildings and staff for the development of the pilot project, and the identification of beneficiaries for the implementation of the training paths, etc. Please insert comments that can act as learning points for other regions

B1b - Creation or conservation of local employment
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The selection of participants guaranteed that at least 50% of beneficiaries were ready and found support to start their initiatives of self-employment.

B1c - Adaptation to new realities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The adaptation of the project to the new social reality is absolute; taking into account the first activity of the project, that has been a study of the social needs and a mapping of social services in the province of Seville. Moreover the action of the stakeholders has been important, which have contributed with their knowledge and points of view. Based on this study and exchange, a few beneficiaries have been identified. In the case of Spain, the economic crisis requires answers towards self-employment and entrepreneurship.

B1d - Cross sectoral working
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
Public, private sector, and social enterprises who committed through the signature of a memorandum of understanding.

B1e - Enablement of social enterpreneurship
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
For the 10 beneficiaries that have been identified

B1f - Amenities for local people
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
Training activity on the development of competences, new technologies and business planning

B1g - Educational opportunities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The pilot Project in Seville consisted in a training activity with three blocks: training on competences, new technologies and business planning. The main objective of this training activity is to give the opportunity and thrust to the beneficiaries, to create their own self-employment project.

B1h - Crisis response
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
In a small scale, the Project fights against the crisis, if the beneficiaries, at the end of the Project get their own self-employment project

B1i - Local financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?
The ways of financing at a local level of the social enterprises, have to be targeted through the stipulation of social clauses in contracts, the staff involved in the way of getting funds and getting credits through the corporative social responsibility. In any case, the idea of luck of funds has been a common denominator in the project.

B1j - Local policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
We underline the following taking into account that the participants are encouraged to create their own business within the framework of social economy. The Statute of Autonomy whose article 172.2 establishes, as a main issue for public policies, the Cooperatives and other entities of social economy, the Law 14/2011, of Andalusia Cooperatives Societies, Decree 85/2003, which establishes Programmes for Labour Integration of the Regional Government of Andalusia, Decree 175/2006, which approves the Andalusia Plan for the Promotion and Consolidation of the Self-Employed worker.

B1k - National financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
National Plan of Actions for the Social Inclusion in Spain (2008-2010), that sets a series of actions in favour of the social integration and insertion. The law 4/1997 that regulates the labour societies, in its article 19 sets some tax benefits for these societies.

B1l - National policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?

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C - PARTNERSHIPS & GOVERNANCE

C1 - Is the governance of this GP fully inclusive?
Beneficiaries are highly involved in governance
Comments and learning points
The identification of needs is made through focus groups were public sector, companies and workers take the floor. The training path stems from consensus and it is adapted to the beneficiaries' real needs and possibilities. Please insert comments that can act as learning points for other regions

C2 - How influential has this GP been on local or national decision makers?
Reasonable degree of influence achieved
Comments and learning points
Without reaching high-rank decision-makers, the experience proved the need of co-ordinating initiatives that are already available.

C3 - How much partnership work has been involved?
A great deal of cross sectoral partnership working
Comments and learning points
The partnership was established by a local memorandum of understanding.

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D - PR & TRANSFERABILITY

D1 - Please describe how the GP communicated its experience and success to the public
The project counts on its own website with different sections: activities, events, resources, forum, etc. Nevertheless, it is conceived as a tool in the context of the international project. No local dissemination has been forseen by now. Please insert comments that can act as learning points for other regions

D2 - Please describe how the GP communicated with local or national decision makers?
Local focus groups have been organised. A network of social agents has been set up thanks to the memorandum.

D3 - Are there any elements of this project that you think would transfer particularly well to other contexts?
The good coordination among public, private and not-for-profit entities; the memorandum of understanding and a concrete activity to carry out by all of them together.

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E - RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABILITY

E1a - Total annual income of GP 2011/12
16,927.40 € in two years. It must be cleared up that this budget was to be spent mainly in international meetings and travels. However, no budget was attached to activities carried out in Seville, which is the good practice hereby presented.

E1b - How is this made up?
13,541.92 € from the European Globalisation Social Adjustment Fund and 3,885.48 € cofinancing.

E1c - Details of human resources
It varied depending on the part of the process, but results can be very effective despite a short number of human resources implied.

E1d - Details of technology
No

E1e - Details of financial investment for start-up/early stage
The entire budget can be considered as the financial investment for start-up

E1f - Details of external support

E2 - If public funding were withdrawn, could the GP continue to exist?
The European project gave the opportunity to experience a participatory process and debate in a European forum some details, but the activities implemented in Seville would have needed no budget.

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F - EXECUTIVE BODY AND CONTACT INFORMATION

F1 - Who set up the GP?
Partnership (please give details) ASSDA, Taller ACSA, ONECO, SAE, AESIM, AISOL, Plandem

F2 - Who runs the GP?
Partnership (please give details) ASSDA, Taller ACSA, ONECO

F3 - Short description/comments
A public administration (ASSDA), a private company (ONECO) and a non-for-profit organisation make up the partnership. Any further information (up to 100 words)

F4 - Contact
Paula Ramírez de Cartagena / Raúl Algarín
Agencia de Servicios Sociales y Dependencia de Andalucía
C/ Cueva del Gato, 3. portal 1. Local 2. 41020- Sevilla.
Spain
Telephone (+34) 954712590
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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www.juntadeandalucia.es/agenciadeserviciossocialesydependencia

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G - SUPPORTING INFORMATION

G1 - Photos (between 1 & 3)
Workshop on November, 6th 2012 in which the training path was agreed, calendar established and the draft of memorandum was read for signature. Details of photo 1
Details of photo 2
Details of photo 3

G2 - E documents
Details of document 1
Details of document 2
Details of document 3

G3 - Any other useful information

 

A - DESCRIPTION OF THE GOOD PRACTICE

A1 - Title in original language
Campamentos de verano: empresas sociales en red

A2 - Title in English
Summer camps: networking in social enterprises

A3 - Location of GP (national)
Spain

A4 - Location of GP (regional)
Andalusia

A5 - Economic field of activity
P Education

A6 - Ultimate purpose of GP
To improve social cohesion/inclusion
To provide amenities for local people
To address legal or financial exclusion

A7 - Spatial scale
Regional (small scale)

A8a - Start date
July 2012

A8b - Anticipated end date (if applicable)
September 2012

A9 - Short description of the GP
Cooperation among entities and social insertion enterprises in order to organize summer camps for social groups at risk of exclusion.

A10 - Key words relating to the GP
business cooperation
groups at risk of exclusion
social economy
work insertion
social insertion

A11 - Objectives of the GP
business cooperation to reach a broader number of social groups

A12 - Activities that have taken place
Business alliances to offer a joint educative and housing offer in children' summer camps.

A13 - Achievements of the GP
The GP managed to create a new cooperation field for social insertion companies.

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B - IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

B1 - How has the GP impacted on the following?

B1a - Legal/financial exclusion
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The alliance meant that companies from different sectors joined to respond to educative, housing and nourrishment needs, sharing coordination with very good results.

B1b - Creation or conservation of local employment
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The initiative helped the conservation of employment in both companies and contributed to the local economy in the provisioning required by the camp and the educative actions.

B1c - Adaptation to new realities
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The camps constitute a psyco-social and educational service for children in contexts of exclusion in ordert o facilitate their social integration and environmental education.

B1d - Cross sectoral working
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The cross sectoral work was needed in the organisation

B1e - Enablement of social enterpreneurship
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
It built up a new parameter of social intervention for social enterprises.

B1f - Amenities for local people
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The Municipality gave sport facilities and the pool, so the local context and the local tourism also got positive inputs.

B1g - Educational opportunities
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
While learning on nature and enjoying activities outdoor, the participants know a different reality which favours a biiger educational opportunities in the future and the incorporation to traditional trades.

B1h - Crisis response
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
It was prooved that cooperation between companies is essential for social entrepreneurship to comprehend a demand which can not be responded when working alone.

B1i - Local financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Impacts not known
Any other comments?

B1j - Local policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
This platform is part of the network of good practices of the social businessmen' association in the province.

B1k - National financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Impacts not known
Any other comments?

B1l - National policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

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C - PARTNERSHIPS & GOVERNANCE

C1 - Is the governance of this GP fully inclusive?
Beneficiaries are highly involved in governance
Comments and learning points

C2 - How influential has this GP been on local or national decision makers?
High degree of influence achieved
Comments and learning points
The project was supported by the city council, which contracted the two summer camps, and local entities that collaborated with premises and disemination.

C3 - How much partnership work has been involved?
Not known
Comments and learning points

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D - PR & TRANSFERABILITY

D1 - Please describe how the GP communicated its experience and success to the public
Seminars of business cooperation has been organised and both entities have spread the initiative through their webs.

D2 - Please describe how the GP communicated with local or national decision makers?
During the seminars of the Programme of Support to Insertion Enterprises.

D3 - Are there any elements of this project that you think would transfer particularly well to other contexts?
The entire activity can be transferred.

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E - RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABILITY

E1a - Total annual income of GP 2011/12
15.000 €

E1b - How is this made up?
100% came from the municipality.

E1c - Details of human resources
10 persons (workers + volunteers) One director and one coordinator in each company.

E1d - Details of technology
None.

E1e - Details of financial investment for start-up/early stage

E1f - Details of external support
Local civil servants.

E2 - If public funding were withdrawn, could the GP continue to exist?

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F - EXECUTIVE BODY AND CONTACT INFORMATION

F1 - Who set up the GP? Partnership (please give details)
insertion enterprises

F2 - Who runs the GP? Partnership (please give details)
El Rural Services + Arte de mis Manos

F3 - Short description/comments
0

F4 - Contact
Alejo Parejo Molina /Mariló Cejudo
Empresa de Inserción Arte de Mis Manos / Empresa Rural Services
C/ Sánchez Rivas 36, Alozaina (Málaga); C/ Corregidor Francisco de Molina 1, Alozaina (Málaga)
Spain
Telephone (+34) 952480228
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
www.artedemismanos.com  ; www.ruralservices.es
Any other contact people
Alejo Guerrero Reyes

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G - SUPPORTING INFORMATION

G1 - Photos (between 1 & 3)
Educational activities
Visit to museum

G2 - E documents

G3 - Any other useful information

 

A - DESCRIPTION OF THE GOOD PRACTICE

A1 - Title in original language
Escuela de Economía Social

A2 - Title in English
School of Social Economy

A3 - Location of GP (national)
Spain

A4 - Location of GP (regional)
Sevilla

A5 - Economic field of activity
N Administrative and support service activities

A6 - Ultimate purpose of GP
To improve policy environment for social enterprise
To provide educational opportunities
To enable cross sectoral working

A7 - Spatial scale
Regional (large scale)

A8a - Start date
October 2002

A8b - Anticipated end date (if applicable)
Ongoing (no end foreseen)

A9 - Short description of the GP
Created jointly by the Confederation of entities for the social economy in Andalusia and the Andalusian Confederation of Work Cooperatives, it is an entity in charge of the training and research on social economy as well as of its development. The II Pact for the Social Economy meant its consolidation as permanent training centre. It favours the exchange and cooperation among social entities and enterprises and it has become a natural link to foreign social companies. Its activities comprehends the areas of

1. projects and consultancy in social economy;
2. international cooperation to promote social economy in other territories and transfer of experiences namely in Latin America and other Spanish regions such as Cantabria; and
3. research and innovation (coaching, teaching resources). It is a reference in promotion and disemination of the values implied in the social economy and it publishes a periodical sustainability report. Moreover, it counts on a training itinerary focus on acquisition of new competences that may strength the commitment and impact of social economy. The School is set up in a building that belongs to the cultural heritage. The building was restored by the trainees of a couple of schools, which meant a previous training and experience for them, having an impact on the local development in Osuna, the municipality where this good practice is located.

It could be said that the School innovates because it does not simply stick to training and lessons:

• it supports the cooperation among social economy companies;
• it makes innovative learning resources in new fields (i.e. culture and creation-based industries in Andalusia)
• it has been one of the members of the consortium for the development of the project "Emprende + Innova"

A10 - Key words relating to the GP
training
co-operation
cross-sectoral communication and coordination
inclusive entrepreneurship
transference of experiences

A11 - Objectives of the GP
It aims at evaluating the social economy in the region, detecting its needs and intervening in concrete areas through projects, promotion and training. It serves as a "gatherer" of different actors, boosting the inter-sectorial work.

A12 - Activities that have taken place
training, cooperation to development, disemination activities (including CSR)

A13 - Achievements of the GP
direct impact on 6,864 persons (2010-2011) with a great multiplying effect. (extensive information in Spanish: http://escueladeeconomiasocial.es/sites/default/files/Memoria%20Sostenibilidad%202010-2011.pdf

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B - IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

B1 - How has the GP impacted on the following?

B1a - Legal/financial exclusion
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

B1b - Creation or conservation of local employment
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
Whenever the school celebrates an external contract, it takes into account the local scope and favours social enterprises. Throughout the last decade, the School has trained 5,000 people in a way very connected to entrepreneurship and social economy. 1,900 out of them has been focussed on entrepreneurial competences for women, youth leadership and community entrepreneurship in Latin America.

B1c - Adaptation to new realities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The School is a dynamic reference of adaptation to social and economic changes. Consacrated to training in the beginning, it has included CSR, research and consultancy among its services.

B1d - Cross sectoral working
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The School is conceived as a meeting space to boost cross-sectoral work. The organisation of the Iberoamerican Forum of Social Economy is an example. This video shows information on the Forum: http://www.economiasocial.tv/ver_video.php?id=37cd65d4df09ffac1049
Apart from the training as a main activity, the School facilitates the creation ot cross-sectoral networks, namely the Network of Cooperatives of Credit. One more indicator of the financial approach might be the inclusion of the debate axis "Financial answers" during the Iberoamerican Forum of Social Economy.

B1e - Enablement of social enterpreneurship
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
Since 2010, the School organises programms of social entrepreneurship, with special focus on socially deprived areas in the region. The School is a companion to social entrepreneurs.

B1f - Amenities for local people
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

B1g - Educational opportunities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
It is its main aim.

B1h - Crisis response
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
Taking into account the current economic context, the School has organised seminars and experts' fora on how to address the economic situation from the social economy perspective.

B1i - Local financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Impacts not known
Any other comments?

B1j - Local policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
As said before, it has been raised to a policy category from the signature of the II Andalusian Pact on Social Economy.

B1k - National financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Impacts not known
Any other comments?

B1l - National policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Impacts not known
Any other comments?

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C - PARTNERSHIPS & GOVERNANCE

C1 - Is the governance of this GP fully inclusive?
Beneficiaries are highly involved in governance
Comments and learning points

C2 - How influential has this GP been on local or national decision makers?
Not known
Comments and learning points

C3 - How much partnership work has been involved?
A great deal of cross sectoral partnership working
Comments and learning points

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D - PR & TRANSFERABILITY

D1 - Please describe how the GP communicated its experience and success to the public
The website is the most frequent communication tool. Moreover, the School counts on a reserved space in the on-line magazine ES-informa ( http://www.esinforma.es ) and welcomes any kind of invitation to masters, workshops, study visits, etc. For example, "Master in supportive economy", "Master in Territorial Employment Policies", Seminar "Equality and Opportunities" organised by the University of Huelva, Seminar "Icaro Think Tank", and so on. A compilation of videos taken during our activities serves us for dissemination purposes.

D2 - Please describe how the GP communicated with local or national decision makers?
Taking into account that CAPES and FAECTA are the organisations boosting the project, the communication /lobby with local and national decisión-makers is theirs. However, in local terms, the School is committed with Osuna. The City Major chairs the most important events organised by the School and an agreement has been signed so that certain spaces of the School could be used for the celebration of events, seminars and exhibitions organisez by either the Municipality or the local associations.

D3 - Are there any elements of this project that you think would transfer particularly well to other contexts?
Anything could be transferred and adapted to different realities by just shaping its scope to the context, especially the different training programmes.

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E - RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABILITY

E1a - Total annual income of GP 2011/12
1,826,598.50 € (2011 budget)

E1b - How is this made up?
76% public funds
23% incomes from activities
1% financial return

E1c - Details of human resources
9 workers (4 out of them, women)

E1d - Details of technology
It counts on an e-learning platform. Every classroom is adaptedfor the use of new technologies (computers, wifi, filming, video-conferences, etc.) Workers use Skype for communication and a environmental policy has been applied in all administrative documents, already digitalised and paper-free. The initiative interacts in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter and counts on a stream-based channel: Economía Social TV ( www.economiasocial.tv )

E1e - Details of financial investment for start-up/early stage

E1f - Details of external support

E2 - If public funding were withdrawn, could the GP continue to exist?
Public funding does not mean in the case of this good practice that it is recipient of a global amount coming directly from the public budget, but simply that the organisation is quite active in attracting public funds. In case this contribution would be eventually shortened, the School, which is not over-dimensioned at all (only 9 workers) could fix less ambitious objectives and reduce its cooperation activities while keeping its main training activity.

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F - EXECUTIVE BODY AND CONTACT INFORMATION

F1 - Who set up the GP? Partnership (please give details)

F2 - Who runs the GP? Partnership (please give details)

F3 - Short description/comments
0

F4 - Contact
PEDRO CAMPANO DEL RIO
Fundación ESCUELA ANDALUZA DE ECONOMIA SOCIAL
PZ DE LA MERCED S/N
OSUNA- SEVILLA
Telephone 954812115
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
http://escueladeeconomiasocial.es/

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G - SUPPORTING INFORMATION

G1 - Photos (between 1 & 3)



More pictures can be seen here:
http://escueladeeconomiasocial.es/contenido/sala-regina-de-lamo-sala-1
http://escueladeeconomiasocial.es/contenido/sala-joaquin-abreu-sala-4
http://escueladeeconomiasocial.es/contenido/residencia

G2 - E documents

G3 - Any other useful information
The School belongs to the European Pole of Foundations and the Association of Andalusian Foundations; it takes part to their executive commitees. Moreover, it has sign the Charter of Diversity and the Global Compact. Its labour has been awarded American organisations (Conacoop, Cohdese, Alhcomujer, Coacehl) as well as Spanish ones (Prize Ones 2012 to Cooperation and Solidarity)

 

A - DESCRIPTION OF THE GOOD PRACTICE

A1 - Title in original language
SCA Sierra de las Nieves- Grupo Aloreña

A2 - Title in English
Cooperative Sierra de las Nieves- Aloreña Group

A3 - Location of GP (national)
Spain

A4 - Location of GP (regional)
Andalusia

A5 - Economic field of activity
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing

A6 - Ultimate purpose of GP
To create or conserve employment
To improve social cohesion/inclusion
To respond to crisis

A7 - Spatial scale
International

A8a - Start date
November 2012

A8b - Anticipated end date (if applicable)
Ongoing, no end expected

A9 - Short description of the GP
The group is a conglomerate of X cooperatives aiming at achieving the best offer of exclusive products.

A10 - Key words relating to the GP
Exclusiveness
Internationalisation
Tradition
Innovation
Social

A11 - Objectives of the GP
Improvement of the socio-economic conditions of the inland municipalities in the province of Málaga through a conglomerate of olive cooperatives under the guarantee of origin and quality.

A12 - Activities that have taken place
Concentration of offer, new trade channels, analysis of former and current international markets for the product, internationalisation. Application to obtain the guarantee of origin and quality.

A13 - Achievements of the GP

1. Socially speaking, the project meant a transition from a situation of rivalry among local enterprises to cooperation;
2. Gathering all former investments has enabled the optimisation of facilities and procedures;
3. The diversification of the industrial activity has been submmitted to study.

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B - IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

B1 - How has the GP impacted on the following?

B1a - Legal/financial exclusion
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The project resulted appealing for the financial institutions; cooperatives of credit showed interest in participating in the future of the company.

B1b - Creation or conservation of local employment
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
Increased number of agricultural employment and consolidation of agro-industrial employment. Important impact on the socio economic activity in all municipalities involved.

B1c - Adaptation to new realities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
In the last 20-30 years "individualism" seemed to be sustainable from the social and economic perspective. The economic crisis this image vanished and society realises that cooperation for the maintenance of the standard of living and the sustainability of inland communities is a must. The activities are to be based on the traditional know-how, getting profit of endogenous natural resources and setting the products in a global market at a competitive price and the best quality.

B1d - Cross sectoral working
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

B1e - Enablement of social enterpreneurship
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The fact that a joint action had been undertaken enabled social entrepreneurs to better work. It is necessary the education for the sustainability of small communities and innovation-limited communities so that their capacities be profitable and fruitful. Initiatives such as the one presented here mean a turning point in the way the economic activity in these municipalities is understood.

B1f - Amenities for local people
Positive impacts
Any other comments?

B1g - Educational opportunities
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
A moderate social impact on society of cooperative work is been currently observed, since it relates to other aspects of daily life. It has getting a big echo among local population and it is serving to prove the model of the social economy as a necessary alternative.

B1h - Crisis response
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
Great flexibility, certain economic independency from financial institutions since it has its ouwn funding channels; very small profit margin and maximum adjustment of production costs. The cooperatives integrating the group have managed to avoid the decrease in sales and the price reduction.

B1i - Local financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

B1j - Local policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
Massive local support to an initiative that may mean the viability of agro-industrial engine in the territory after the local economy had been exclusively supported on building construction and services in the last three decades.

B1k - National financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?
Except for the credit cooperative "CAJAMAR", the treatment of the cooperative by the financial institutions has been the same as for any other company. Cajamar has offered a special treatment to the cooperatives involved by making available online banking with certain advantages that enabled the entities to save money.

B1l - National policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

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C - PARTNERSHIPS & GOVERNANCE

C1 - Is the governance of this GP fully inclusive?
Beneficiaries are somewhat involved in governance
Comments and learning points
Cooperatives in the project: Manzanilla Aloreña, SCA de Álora; Sagrado Corazón, SCA de Casarabolena; Purísima Santiago, SCA de Alozaina; Tolox Agrícola, SCA de Tolox; El Molino de Guaro, SCA de Guaro.

C2 - How influential has this GP been on local or national decision makers?
No influence achieved
Comments and learning points
Although their interest has been awakened.

C3 - How much partnership work has been involved?
A little cross sectoral partnership working
Comments and learning points

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D - PR & TRANSFERABILITY

D1 - Please describe how the GP communicated its experience and success to the public
The overall ppulation in the municipalities, the current and potential clients and the competition know the social project, its aims and philosophy.

D2 - Please describe how the GP communicated with local or national decision makers?
It has been spread officialy through different public meetings. It has obtained the institutional support as a relevant element for the suitable development of the project, from a local initiative to internationalisation. It is likely to be replicated in both aspects:

1. concentration of cooperatives;
2. guarantee of origin and quality.

D3 - Are there any elements of this project that you think would transfer particularly well to other contexts?
It can be replicated in any context where a genuine product exists. Capital is not a priority.

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E - RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABILITY

E1a - Total annual income of GP 2011/12
No cost specified.

E1b - How is this made up?
100% of funds coming from the cooperative activity.

E1c - Details of human resources
25 industrial workers, 5 managers. (this is the staff in the first level cooperatives; for the 2nd level one, there are no employees yet)

E1d - Details of technology

E1e - Details of financial investment for start-up/early stage
There was no needto count on extra funds to start up the second level cooperative; the union of industrial and commercial synergies was enough.

E1f - Details of external support
CADE Guaro (Andalucía Emprende, Fundación Pública Andaluza), which provided with free business asessment.

E2 - If public funding were withdrawn, could the GP continue to exist?
Yes

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F - EXECUTIVE BODY AND CONTACT INFORMATION

F1 - Who set up the GP?
State - wider region

F2 - Who runs the GP?
State - wider region

F3 - Short description/comments
It is a agricultural cooperative that will turn into the dynamic centre of the inland municipalities in the province of Malaga (Sierra de las Nieves y Valle del Guadalhorce).

F4 - Contact
Miguel Ángel Ruiz Bellido
CADE Guaro
Avda. de Andalucía, nº 71. Málaga
Spain
Telephone (+34) 951505076
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Any other contact people
Daniel Arias Meneses

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G - SUPPORTING INFORMATION

G1 - Photos (between 1 & 3)

G2 - E documents

G3 - Any other useful information

 

A - DESCRIPTION OF THE GOOD PRACTICE

A1 - Title in original language
Hospital de referencia La Equina SLL

A2 - Title in English
Reference Hospital "La Equina".

A3 - Location of GP (national)
Spain

A4 - Location of GP (regional)
Andalusia

A5 - Economic field of activity
M Professional, scientific and technical activities

A6 - Ultimate purpose of GP
To create or conserve employment
To enable adaptation to new realities

A7 - Spatial scale
International

A8a - Start date
July 2002

A8b - Anticipated end date (if applicable)
Ongoing

A9 - Short description of the GP
Horse hospital whose team is made up of specialists in the fields of orthopaedics, chirurgy, anesthesiologym and internal medicine which renders services such as gammagraphies, assisted reproductive programmes, mother-cells research on response to desease and research and cooperation with national and international excel groups.

A10 - Key words relating to the GP
innovation
research
commitment
versatility
adaptation to market

A11 - Objectives of the GP
competitiveness

A12 - Activities that have taken place
R+D in mother cells/ design of a fidelisation system. It has been a very positive experience. After analysing a fall in the demand by 2006, this two activities where undertaken:

1. the set-up of a R+D department through the project ESTEM based on research with mother cells;
2. The establishment of the agreed fee "Equina" through which the client would have access to certain free services in the hospital by paying a yearly fee.

A13 - Achievements of the GP
Stability in the company

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B - IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

B1 - How has the GP impacted on the following?

B1a - Legal/financial exclusion
Positive impacts
Any other comments?

B1b - Creation or conservation of local employment
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
Thanks to this strategy, the company managed to keep the employment since 2009.

B1c - Adaptation to new realities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
It is the only Spanish horse hospital that adapted to the new reality.

B1d - Cross sectoral working
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?

B1e - Enablement of social enterpreneurship
Impacts not known
Any other comments?

B1f - Amenities for local people
Positive impacts
Any other comments?

B1g - Educational opportunities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?

B1h - Crisis response
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?

B1i - Local financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

B1j - Local policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

B1k - National financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

B1l - National policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

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C - PARTNERSHIPS & GOVERNANCE

C1 - Is the governance of this GP fully inclusive?
Beneficiaries have a little involvement in governance
Comments and learning points
La Equina is a worker-own private limited company. If we consider workers as "beneficiaries", it is clear that they have a great participation. However, the beneficiaries of the services rendered, that is, the owners of the horses, have no involvement in governance.

C2 - How influential has this GP been on local or national decision makers?
Reasonable degree of influence achieved
Comments and learning points
The Regional Ministry of Economy paid a visit to the hospital in 2012 and presented the results of the project ESTEM before regional and national media.

C3 - How much partnership work has been involved?
A little cross sectoral partnership working
Comments and learning points

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D - PR & TRANSFERABILITY

D1 - Please describe how the GP communicated its experience and success to the public
Media and social networks have been enough to widespread this good practice in a quite effective way.

D2 - Please describe how the GP communicated with local or national decision makers?
Institutions are invited to visit the facilities and the managers visit the institutions to let them know the project. Moreover, TV and other media are used for disemination.

D3 - Are there any elements of this project that you think would transfer particularly well to other contexts?
The project can be perfectly replicated following the same scheme: SE that diversifies its activities through R+D in veterinary science, research that may be extrapolated to human medicine.

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E - RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABILITY

E1a - Total annual income of GP 2011/12
350.000 €

E1b - How is this made up?
Own funds: 275.000 € ; incentives: 75.000 €.

E1c - Details of human resources
A high level of technical and scientific skill in the field of veterinary is required. Creativity to design the research protocol is basic. There is only one executive director in the company.

E1d - Details of technology
High level of technology required.

E1e - Details of financial investment for start-up/early stage
It was obtained from partners in the beginning. Social capital: 455.000 €. Long-term loan: 350.000 €.

E1f - Details of external support
None

E2 - If public funding were withdrawn, could the GP continue to exist?
Yes.

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F - EXECUTIVE BODY AND CONTACT INFORMATION

F1 - Who set up the GP?
Individual or group of individuals

F2 - Who runs the GP?
Individual or group of individuals

F3 - Short description/comments
Veterinarian hospital specialised in horses.

F4 - Contact 
Miguel Antonio Valdés Vázquez
Hospital de Referencia La Equina SLL
Camino de Martagina, Km. 1. Apartado 110. Manilva. Málaga.
Spain
Telephone (+34) 952893305
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
www.laequina.com
Any other contact people

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G - SUPPORTING INFORMATION

G1 - Photos (between 1 & 3)


Picture 1


Picture 2

G2 - E documents
http://www.ecuestreonline.com/ecuestre-352-ya-a-la-venta/

G3 - Any other useful information

 

A - DESCRIPTION OF THE GOOD PRACTICE

A1 - Title in original language
Integración social y crowdfunding

A2 - Title in English
Crowdfunding and social integration

A3 - Location of GP (national)
Spain

A4 - Location of GP (regional)
Andalucía

A5 - Economic field of activity
G Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles

A6 - Ultimate purpose of GP
To practically facilitate or enable social enterpreneurship
To respond to crisis
To practically facilitate or enable social enterpreneurship

A7 - Spatial scale
Regional (small scale)

A8a - Start date
October 2012

A8b - Anticipated end date (if applicable)
January 2013

A9 - Short description of the GP
Beginning of a new line of business in an insertion enterprise through a social crowdfunding platform.

A10 - Key words relating to the GP
Innovation
private and business cooperation
social economy
incorporation to workforce
handicraft in rural environment

A11 - Objectives of the GP
Private and business cooperation for a broader social and work insertion of groups at risk of exclusion

A12 - Activities that have taken place
Crowdfunding campaign to revitalise one specific handicraft trade in an insertion enterprise and thereby create synergies for an online strategy.

A13 - Achievements of the GP
New business line of handicraft trade, private cooperation network and on line strategy for social innovation.

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B - IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

B1 - How has the GP impacted on the following?

B1a - Legal/financial exclusion
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
the crowdfunding as a method against financial exclusion. This good practice is about a rural area with insertion project based on handicraft that seeks to combine social aspects with technology in order to improve the area.

B1b - Creation or conservation of local employment
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
For the campaign, 6 persons have been involved; and x jobs are to be created after this new businness line is established. Out of the company, the campaign itself has multiplied the visits to the area.

B1c - Adaptation to new realities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?

B1d - Cross sectoral working
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?

B1e - Enablement of social enterpreneurship
Positive impacts
Any other comments?

B1f - Amenities for local people
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
There are undoubdted synergies within the area, since the dehydrator will need local agricultural products.

B1g - Educational opportunities
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The making of the dehydrator will require the acquisition of new skills oriented to a high-scale farming market.

B1h - Crisis response
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
Through innovation, fundrising and business diversification.

B1i - Local financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Impacts not known
Any other comments?

B1j - Local policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
This platform is part of a series of a network of good practices by the insertion businessmen's association in the province.

B1k - National financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Impacts not known
Any other comments?

B1l - National policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
Success case cited all over the country

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C - PARTNERSHIPS & GOVERNANCE

C1 - Is the governance of this GP fully inclusive?
Beneficiaries are highly involved in governance
Comments and learning points
Beneficiaries control funding and the project gives them feedback.

C2 - How influential has this GP been on local or national decision makers?
Reasonable degree of influence achieved
Comments and learning points
It has been supported at local level and recentry supported at national level.

C3 - How much partnership work has been involved?
Some partnership working within sector only
Comments and learning points

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D - PR & TRANSFERABILITY

D1 - Please describe how the GP communicated its experience and success to the public
The initiative has been diseminated through its own website, blog and Facebook. Moreover, spots for radio, TV, fundraisers and social consultancies have been made.

D2 - Please describe how the GP communicated with local or national decision makers?
At local and regional level, the organisers had the opportunity to communicate with local and regional decision makers through seminars of support to insertion enterprises. Likewise, its website was diseminated, having a great impact and changing the perception on social crowdfunding.

D3 - Are there any elements of this project that you think would transfer particularly well to other contexts?
All four aspects intertwinned in this good practice may be transferred:

1. the model of insertion company as a way to respond the crisis;
2. the social innovation based on handicraft in a rural area;
3. the use of a crowdfunding platform;
4. the collaborative disemination in network.

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E - RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABILITY

E1a - Total annual income of GP 2011/12
8.000,00 €

E1b - How is this made up?
Crodwfunding and incomes from the sale of fruits.

E1c - Details of human resources

E1d - Details of technology
Necessary equipment to record the videos for the campaign.

E1e - Details of financial investment for start-up/early stage
None

E1f - Details of external support
None

E2 - If public funding were withdrawn, could the GP continue to exist?
There was no public funding.

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F - EXECUTIVE BODY AND CONTACT INFORMATION

F1 - Who set up the GP?
Not-for-profit organisation

F2 - Who runs the GP?
Commercial business

F3 - Short description/comments
Insertion enterprise promoted by one NGO that seeks social insertion through employment for persons at risk of exclusion.

F4 - Contact
Mariló Cejudo Cera
Arte de mis manos
C/ Sánchez Rivas 36, Alozaina. Málaga.
Spain
Telephone 952480228
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
http://goteo.org/project/artedemismanos ; http://www.artedemismanos.com
Any other contact people
Alejo Guerrero Reyes

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G - SUPPORTING INFORMATION

G1 - Photos (between 1 & 3)

Design of the dehydrator prototype


Design of the dehydrator prototype


Presentation of the project in the Seminar of Business Intercooperation.

G2 - E documents
http://goteo.org/project/artedemismanos
http://www.artedemismanos.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edq-a1B06wo

G3 - Any other useful information