To do their part in the fight against COVID-19 the European Commission and the City of Mannheim decided to organize 8 fully digital events with the goal of strengthening networks in the Social Economy, creating exchange and facilitating dialogue between stakeholders and the European Commission. Each roadmap event focuses on a specific topic, with the results contributing to the Social Economy Action Plan and European Green Deal.

To help repair the economic and social damage brought by the coronavirus pandemic, the European Commission proposed a major recovery plan for Europe, leading the way out of the crisis and laying foundations for a modern and more sustainable Europe. The bulk of the proposed recovery measures will be powered by a new temporary recovery instrument Next Generation EU with financial firepower of €750 billion.

The 26th and the 27th of November would have been the dates for the “European Social Economy Summit” and to commemorate this, 2 days event has been organized with over 15 different stakeholder sessions from all over Europe and beyond under the suitable umbrella theme “Recovery strategy for Europe”, with speakers such as EU- COMMISSIONER Nicolas Schmit. The first day will discuss the role of the social economy in building a resilient and sustainable economy; the second day will involve ministers and state secretaries from EU member states, representatives from the Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany and the federal working group for non-governmental social services, as well as a political panel with members of the German Parliament.

On November 26th, the speech of TSI spokesman Mario Calderini as keynote speaker at the seminar organized by DG EMPL of the European Commission, PPMI and Tiresia – Politecnico di Milano, where the results of the “Study on the benefits of using social outcome contracting in the provision of social services and interventions – a cross-country comparative assessment of evolving good practice in cross-sectoral partnerships for public value creation” will be presented, is part of the EU accreditation process that IST is strongly pursuing in these months.

Confirming that Torino Social Impact is establishing itself in Europe as a virtuous model of partnership for the strengthening of the local ecosystem with social impact, in September TSI was among the keynote speakers at the event “New challenges, new innovations, new solidarities – Social Economy in the fight against COVID, in the framework of Road to Mannheim, a milestone towards the construction of the EU Social Economy Action Plan.
It was also selected by the European Commission as organizer of one of the panels of the last conference, scheduled for April 29th on “Partnerships for maximizing social impact”.

For more information and program, visit the page: https://hopin.com/events/recovery-strategy-for-europe