The Role of Social Economy in Three Social Investment Policy Fields.

The main aim of this Report is to give an overview of the role Social Economy organizations in supporting, reinforcing, implementing, social innovations initiatives (projects, programs, pilot, etc.) at the local and /or regional level (micro and meso) in the context of welfare reforms aimed to implement the “social investment approach”. More specifically, this report investigates the role of social economy in three main social investment policy fields: a) support for early childhood development, b) support for parents’ labour market participation, c) policy measures to address social and labour market exclusion. We consider the ten European countries that are in the InnoSI project. For each country and policy field, we analyze and discuss the main strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of both Social Economy and Social Innovation.