THE SOCIAL ECONOMY IN ROMANIA: OPPORTUNITIES, VULNERABILITIES AND ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS
THE SOCIAL ECONOMY IN ROMANIA: OPPORTUNITIES, VULNERABILITIES AND ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS

Summary/Abstract: his article presents the results of the research activity carried out within the Project entitled “Alternative policies in the social economy”, implemented between 27.04.2018 - 26.11.2019 by Uniunea Generală a Industriașilor din România (UGIR 1903), filiala Dolj / The General Union of Industrialists of Romania (UGIR 1903), Dolj Branch. The project was financed from the Operational Program Administrative Capacity 2014-2020 and had as purpose the elaboration of an alternative public policy proposal in the field of social economy in Romania. We will discuss, for a start, the methodological benchmarks and theoretical premises that guided the investigative approach. We will delimit the sphere of the concept of “social economy”, as it is understood in the scientific literature and in the European and national documents of public policy, after which we will review the most important trends that have characterized the evolution of the third sector at international level in the last ones decades. During the research, study visits were undertaken to the social enterprises in Trieste, Italy, considered a successful model and, at the same time, a concrete example of the functionality and sustainability of the social economy systems. After presenting the Triestian system as a model of good practice, we will operate a retrospective on the emergence and implementation of the social economy in Romania, both under institutional and legal report, in order to be able to make a correct diagnosis on the current state of affairs. Finally, starting with the public policy proposal, we will propose a series of concrete solutions for the consolidation and development of the social economy in Romania.

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