Introduction
Info and documentation about the ongoing work of the GECES Working group on social economy clusters and other forms of collaboration
Traditional Clusters are groups of specialised enterprises, often SME's, and other related supporting actors in a location that cooperate closely.
Together, SME's can be more innovative, create more jobs, and register more international trademarks and patents than alone.
The working group developed on the basis of their activities the concept Clusters of social and ecological innovation.
These can be defined as:
Groups of social economy enterprises and other related supporting actors that cooperate in a particular location to improve the role of social economy enterprises in economic development and increase the social and ecologic impact of its members by enhancing their cooperation, pooling resources and innovation capacity.
Output of the GECES working group
Here you find the most report of the GECES Working Group on Clusters of Social and Ecological Innovation (Due for December 2020).
Next to the report, you will also find an overview of cases that were collected across Europe.
The report is still under construction. A first draft will be shared will be shared with GECES members. A final version with thematic approaches will be finished by December 2020 and presented during the Mannheim Summit.
Cases
1 | Base 202 | Italy | |
2 | DFBA Community Enterprises CLG | Ireland | |
3 | Impact City / The Hague | The Netherlands | |
4 | Grennessminde | Denmark | |
5 | Vierwerk / 4Werk | Belgium | |
6 | The Partnership for social innovation in Örebro County | Sweden | |
7 | Le Cluster ESS Grande Région | Luxembourg | |
8 | Elephant path | United Kingdom | |
9 | Pfefferwerk Foundation& Pfefferberg | Germany | |
10 | Grupo Empresarial de Cooperativas de Enseñanza en la Región de Murcia | Spain | |
11 | The Rediscovery Centre - The Irish National Centre for the Circular Economy | Ireland | |
12 | Lapland - Artic Social Economy Cluster | Finland | |
13 | Atelier El Costurerico (Proyecto Abraham IKEAMurcia) | Spain | |
14 | Rummelig imidt / Labour inclusion in the Region | Denmark | |
15 | Figeacteurs - PTCE | France | |
16 | KaléidosCOOP | France | |
17 | Comptoir des ressources creatives | Belgium | |
18 | Grappes d’entreprises Wallonie | Belgium | SAW-B |
19 | Coopolis, Ateneu (athenaeum) Cooperatiu de Barcelona | Spain | |
20 | Asociacion proyecto Lazaro | Spain | |
21 | ANE (Navarra Social Economy Cluster) | Spain | www.anel.es (2) |
22 | Cluster for Eco-Social Innovation and Development CEDRA Split & CEDRA HR | Croatia | |
23 | GOEL - Cooperative Group | Italy | |
24 | Andalusian Association of Social Economy Education Centres | Spain | |
25 | Berziklatu | Spain | |
26 | ecoBI - Italy | Italy | |
27 | Mondragon | Spain | |
28 | CLADE Group | Spain | |
29 | Initiatives et cité | France | |
30 | Navarre Social Innovation Unit | Spain | |
| 31 | Torino Social Impact | Italy | https://www.torinosocialimpact.it/ |
| 32 | Teple Misto | Ukraine | https://www.warm.if.ua/en |
| 33 | Impact Noord | The Netherlands | https://impactnoord.nl/ |
Thematic approaches
Social Economy clusters often cooperate around a shared thematic area. See the current areas, join the area of your interest or propose your own.
(under development)
- Public Procurement
- Skills
- Local Investments and local development
- Joint Investment schemes
- Inclusive Employment
- Quality assessments and labels
- Corporate environmental policy and projects
Cluster policies and initiatives
- Smart Guide on Cluster policy: https://www.clustercollaboration.eu/news/smart-guide-cluster-policy-published
- Cluster Observatory: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/industry/policy/cluster/observatory_en
- Overview of Cluster support programs in EU and beyond; https://www.clustercollaboration.eu/news/report-cluster-programmes-europe-and-beyond
- Cluster Conference 2019 (incl. workshop on social impact and shared value within clusters): https://www.eucluster2019.eu/en
- Partnership on smart specialisation - Social Economy: 6 regional clusters on industrial modernisation: https://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/social-economy
- A practical and hands-on guide for local economic development focussing on retail sector: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/d606c517-4445-11e8-a9f4-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
- Related working group activities: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/content/workshop-revitalising-and-modernising-small-retail-sector_en