Deadline: 24-Nov-21

The European Commission (EC) is offering Social Economy Missions for Community Resilience to co-fund projects, which will build resilience and increase the capacity of regional or local public administrations, social economy SMEs and civil society to overcome difficulties and crises.

The call will support building local resilience through:
transnational and inter-regional peer-learning and collaboration in the field of social economy,
developing social economy local action plans with the cooperation of social economy stakeholders and
formulating recommendations to be potentially replicable in other parts of Europe.
Objectives
The specific objectives to be achieved through this call for proposals for topic “Social Economy Missions for community resilience” are the following:
Developing transnational and inter-regional collaboration between social economy stakeholders (public and private sector) in the field of Social Economy Missions’ theme;
Boosting peer-learning, sharing and replicating good practices and success stories between social economy stakeholders;
Improving collaboration between existing social economy networks and stakeholders at regional and local level in the identified theme;
Showcasing social economy enterprises and organisations and promoting their role in building resilience in territories;
Developing local action plans with social economy enterprises and stakeholders in the identified theme.
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 2 000 000.
Expected Impact
Expected general impact of the project under this call are the following:
Increasing better, high-quality employment (tackling regional or local unemployment);
Mobilising the regional or local stakeholders towards a new, green, sustainable, inclusive and socially fairer post-COVID-19 recovery;
Supporting the green, social and digital transition at local level;
Supporting resilient and sustainable business models based on social economy;
Boosting the efficient use of resources by moving to a clean, circular economy;
Ensuring more community resilience and better living conditions for the population;
New ecosystem thinking based on active engagement of all actors.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member State (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
non-EU countries:
listed EEA countries and countries associated to the COSME part of the Single Market Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
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