WHAT WE DO
Our mission is to support the development of the social economy in Europe and in the world
OUR ACTIVITIES
GREASE – Green Rural Entrepreneurs in African Social Ecosystem
GREASE - Green Rural Entrepreneurs in African Social Ecosystem project aims at fostering green social entrepreneurship (SE) in rural areas, ensuring women empowerment and sustainable inclusion in the labour market and a fair and sustainable twin transition.
Green PYMES Alliance
The Green PYMES Alliance project will contribute to sustainable growth and job creation in Colombia and Honduras through the green transition and the promotion of the social economy
SEE CHANGE
The Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem (SEE) CHANGE project (2020-2023)
FWC SIEA
Study on the opportunities for impact investing to promote the social and green economy in the southern neighbourhood (2021).
PL4SE
PL4SE – Legal Ecosystems for Social Economy – OECD Peer Learning Partnership (2021)
JoinUP!
Creating an inclusive, more connected and better resourced social entrepreneurship eco-system in Jordan (2019-2021)
SILK project
The SILK project is one of the six Peer Learning Partnerships of the OECD Global Action, funded by the European Union’s Foreign Partnership Instrument.
MED UP!
MedUP! Promoting social entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean region (2018-2022)
TOUCH
TOUCH - Tackling outcome-based finance challenges: a replication model for social economy
RISE
RISE (Engaged Research in the Social Economy) aims to build the skills of social economy organisations (SEOs) to partner in projects with research institutes. This will enable more engaged research (ER), a practice that creates more socially impactful projects through collaboration between researchers and communities.
Youth4Development
Encouraging young people from vocational schools and universities to actively engage in their communities, developing their advocacy skills in a way that reflects and implements New European Bauhaus (NEB) principles, while strengthening their trust in EU values.
Cluster Services
Diesis and its members support the emergence of new local clusters for innovation.
The New European Bauhaus
The NEB is an interdisciplinary initiative to develop urban/rural, economic and social regeneration.
WB SEA
The WB SEA projects aims at creating a favourable environment for incorporating the social economy in youth polices and youth work practices in the WB region.
Social economy enterprises and cultural creative industries (event)
The activities of both social enterprises and creative cultural industries have a multiplier effect, which brings cultural, social and economic benefits for the community.
PESSIS+
PESSIS+ aims to strengthen the capacity of the Federation of European Social Employers, in view of their participation in European Social Dialogue structures.
How social enterprises contribute to sustainable food systems
As a social economy expert, Diesis conducted research into the role of social economy enterprises as a tool in the food system.
BENISI
The BENISI projects aimed to build a Europe-wide network of networks of incubators or social innovation.
The Social Innovation Community (SIC)
SIC is a Horizon 2020-funded projects, run by a consortium of 12 leading social innovation organisations across Europe.
LABOUR-INT 2
The LABOUR INT 2 projects aims to promote employment as a key part of the integration process of third-country nationals.
European Migration Forum
The aim of the Forum is to enhance coordination and cooperation between key players involved in the multilevel European governance of migration.
BEEurope
BEEurope is a system of capacity building tools that gives concrete support to the internationalization of Third Sector and Civil Economy organizations.
FONCOOP
Fon.Coop is the Italian National Interprofessional Joint Fund for Continuing Education in cooperatives.
Agents of Change
Agents of Change empowers cultural and creative professionals to drive sustainable change in response to societal challenges.
ROMANSE
Improving the social inclusion of vulnerable categories of persons in the labour market.
RURAL RiSE
RURAL RiSE is a pioneering European initiative focused on revitalizing rural areas by promoting social entrepreneurship, sustainable skills development, and green job creation, with a special focus on empowering youth and women.
DO Impact
This project aims to design and implement Digital and data-driven programs dedicated to enabling organisations and to SMEs from the PSE.
BLUEDOTS
This project aims to build the capacities of Social Economy SMEs acting in the Blue Economy to apply digital social innovation and principles.
SPACES2NEB
The project aims to identify existing and missing skills among social entrepreneurs working in the regeneration of spaces, with a particular focus on the environment and sustainability.
EUROPEAN DÉCLIC TOUR
This initiative aims at co-creating collective projects by young people in the social economy to respond to social, economic and/or environmental issues.
WeBuySocialEU: Training and Awareness-raising Activities in Socially Responsible Procurement
The Training and Awareness-raising Activities in Socially Responsible Public Procurement is an EU-wide initiative on how to use public procurement to achieve social goals.
SEDLEX
The SEDLEX project explores how social economy organisations use social dialogue to drive their value-based business models.
Planning Solidarity Economy Districts for Social, Economic, and Environmental Sustainability
Planning Seeds aims to create a shared European methodological framework and a Handbook for the creation and management of Solidarity Economy Districts, involving young adults (18 - 30) with fewer opportunities and the elderly population (65+) in their development and promotion.
SP SOCEC HOUSING
Develop knowledge exchange and skills for the implementation of new social economy solutions to the social and environmental aspects of the housing energy crisis.
BFSE-B2B
BUYSOCIAL develops a model of training and B2B events, with the aim of improving the competitiveness and commercial capacity of the social enterprises.
D&I@JOBS
The D&I@JOBS project aims to gather and exchange job carving/crafting knowledge and practices as a work (re)integration approach, to support the inclusion of vulnerable groups.
PEACE’22
The project aims at empowering Lithuanian and European organisations working with migrants to build their capacity to promote social inclusion and integration in the labour market.
SEA
The SEA project aims at increasing the knowledge and skills of adult educators and practitioners in the field of migrants inclusion on Social Entrepreneurship (SE).
DIGITS
The project aims to improve the digital inclusion of third-country national (TCN) women through practical tools and tailored educational interventions that will contribute to a better quality of life for them.
SETS
The SETS project (Social Economy Transition Skills) aims to develop, test and disseminate programmes and training modules on suitable skills development to foster the Green and Digital transition of Social Economy Organisations (SEOs).
TEAMWORK 2
The TEAMWORK 2 project aims to address sexual harassment at the workplace, which is a widespread and underreported form of gender-based violence across the EU.
MESMER+
The MESMER+ project aims to establish an up-to-date in-depth mapping of activity and representation of social economy players.
baSE
The baSE project is a Blueprint Alliances selected by the EU Commission through the Erasmus+ Programme.
SEA4NEB
The SEA4NEB project aims to promote social economy models to contribute to the New European Bauhaus.
VET4FOOD
The VET4FOOD project aims to foster professional development of teachers and to improve the quality and efficiency of initial vocational and educational training to meet the needs of the food industry.
WE Green
The WE Green project addresses the need for transforming the EU economy into a green one and developing new skills.
DSEtools
DSEtools aims at creating more learning opportunities and upskilling for workers of the SSE in the process of Digital transformation.
Digital Story Doing for Local Tourism
Storydoers project aims to support the digital storydoing of local tourism businesses.
EYSET
EYSET aims to empower youth workers organizations through social entrepreneurship in tourism.
Coop4In
The project aims to create a cooperative business model including people with disabilities, and elaborating policy recommendations.
Y-SEH
Y-SEH offers 60 young people the opportunity to develop their entrepreneurial skills, to understand the role of social entrepreneurship.
IN-Create
The purpose of the projects is to address the basic need and challenge of promoting the successful integration of TCNs within the EU.
VR Theatre
VR Theatre aims to provide adult professionals in CCIs with innovative and creative tools to engage a wider public in their activities.
GRAINS
A project funded by the to empower social economy SMEs in agrifood through comprehensive training on sustainable practices and environmental responsibility.
BC4ESE
The project aims to meet the needs of organisations from the western Balkan region that are working with young people.
RIDE
The RIDE projects aims at including migrant and refugee women into the digital labour market giving them the possibility to re-skilling or upskilling in the digital sector.
PROTECT
The PROTECT project aims at contributing towards a more equal and fairer workplace experience in Europe, especially for women.
Set The Tone
The Set The Tone projects aims to impact on Social Economy Enterprises employers and employees’ mind-set and daily behaviors practiced at the workplaces.
SEEDING
SEEDING aims to be the first projects addressing Social Economy Enterprises and digital transformations.
NEW TALENTS 4EU
The NT4EU project aimed to demonstrate that refugees workforce should be considered as a valuable resource of the European labour market.
CASYE
The goal of CASYE is to support youth entrepreneurship in the creative sector through the development and piloting a social economy model.
BREAKBACK
The aims of BB is to assess how trade unions respond to the processes of individualisation in the society.
CEASE
The CEASE project aimed to create an additional front line in the battle against intimate violence, integrating the companies as new actor.
In4BTE
Information, consultation and participation rights as a factor of success for the business transfer to employees in SMES (2019-2021)
R2G – RIGHTS TO GROW
The Rights To Grow (R2G) project aimed at mapping governance models of Social Enterprises across Europe, identifying and analysing good practices and drafting policy recommendations.
EMEN
The EMEN project focused on sharing approaches and lessons learnt on migrant entrepreneurship across and among several categories of stakeholders.
T4F
T4F aimed to develop a professional training based on the development of “green skills” in the food sector.
Get-Up
The GETUP project aimed to address the stereotyping of educational and career choices and to promote gender equality in education, training, career guidance at the workplace.
EIforPHS
The ElforPHS aimed to enable stakeholders in PHS to familiarise themselves with EU laws and policies in the area of ICP on employees’ rights.
Scer
The SCEr project aimed to provide a contribution in terms of knowledge and awareness on European Cooperative Societies within the European Union.
MESMER
MESMER aims at developing a research activity in order to explore the diversified reality of social businesses and social economy under different angles.
Social Keys for Social Entrepreneurship
The project aimed to develop and test common curricula and vocational courses to create qualifications in the social entrepreneurship sector.
Eu3leader
Eu3leader aimed to strengthen leadership and entrepreneurial capacities so that third sector organisations can drive positive change in Europe.
COST Action: Rural NEET Youth Network
COST Action: Rural NEET Youth Network: Modeling the risks underlying rural NEETs social exclusion
Social Economy Presidency Conference
“Social Economy as a key player in providing effective answers to current societal challenges in the EU and the world”. Slovak 2016.
WINS
The WINS projects, co-funded by the DG Employment of the European Commission, aims at promoting Workers’ Involvement in Social Economy Enterprises.
MEDICI
MEDICI is a two year European projects aiming to develop and disseminate the existing best practices of integrating vulnerable and disadvantaged groups into Digital Society.
MAX
MAX is an AMIF funded projects which aim is to change public attitudes towards migrants. The goal is to improve the public image of migrants in Europe.
Buying for Social Impact (BSI)
Buying for Social Impact (BSI) was a project commissioned by DG GROW and EASME to promote the use of social considerations in public procurement procedures.
ProEFP4
ProEFP4 aimed to explore how employee participation and collective bargaining support each other.
Film-Set
The objective of the FILM-SET project was to promote a thematic tourist route focusing on European cinema.
Seninter
The SENINTER project has defined a new tourism product adapted to seniors travelling with their grandchildren during the low and medium season in Europe.
European Social Fund Technical Assistance
Between 2015-2019 the Social Economy Thematic Network acted in the framework of ESF transnational cooperation activities.
Union Migrant Network
UnionMigrantNet is an International network of contact points that provides info and assistance to migrants and would-be migrants.
European Migration Forum
The aim of the Forum is to enhance coordination and cooperation between key players involved in the multilevel European governance of migration.