PROGRAMME

8.30 Registration and coffee

9.00-9.15 Opening session

Michael Smyth, EESC Vice President

9.15-10.15 An action plan for Social Economy Enterprises (SEEs)EESC preliminary views

Presentation: Oliver Röpke, President of the Permanent Study Group on Social Economy Enterprises, and Ariane Rodert, member of the Permanent Study Group on Social Economy Enterprises

General debate

10.15-11.00 Three social entrepreneurs

Mr Bashkim Fazliu, Okus Doma, CroatiaMs Anna Fiscale, Progetto Quid, ItalyMr Paolo Ferraresi, RREUSE, Belgium

11.00-13.00 Workshops

Workshop 1 – SEEs as a driver for an inclusive society

This workshop will address the question of employment, migration and integration. It will show among others how social economy enterprises can contribute to job creation, how they can help refugees and contribute to their integration in the labour

market. In other words, it will try to show how social economy enterprises can contribute to a more sustainable society.

Workshop 2 – A financial ecosystem for economic growth and progress-oriented SEEs

This workshop will address the aspects of financing and of innovation and will focus on the contribution SEEs can give to economy, society, and well-being more generally.

Workshop 3 – SEEs as a driver for a sustainable world

This workshop will concentrate on the aspects of the green economy and of the commons and show how ecological aspects of social economy enterprises can contribute to a more sustainable environment and, in a broader perspective, to sustainable development.

13.00-14.00 Buffet lunch

14.00-16.00 Closing session – SEEs as a catalyser for the systemic change, what is needed for 2017?

Conclusions of the workshops by the three rapporteurs

Interventions of: Mr Branislav Ondruš, State Secretary for Labour, Social Affairs and Family of

the Slovak Republic Mr Christian Cardona, Minister for the Economy, Investment and Small Business

of Malta Mr Slawomir Tokarski, Director, DG GROW, European Commission Mr Jens Nilsson, MEP, Co-President of the Social Economy Intergroup (video

message) - Ms Blerta Hoti, political advisor for Jens Nilsson on Social Economy

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