This paper explores the linkages between regional strategies for the social economy and regional development in four EU countries: France, Spain, Sweden and Poland. It provides a comparative perspective of regional strategies for the social economy (Section 1), based on i) the level of...

Mehrere Millionen Menschen weltweit spenden freiwillig ihre Zeit, um andere Menschen in irgendeiner Form zu unterstützen. Eine wichtige Ausdrucksweise dieser Hilfsbereitschaft ist das freiwillige Engagement (Clary et al., 1998, S. 1516). Während einige Nonprofit Organisationen (NPO) Probleme...

The present paper aims to present the picture of the Third Sector in Romania, today and the way it relates to Law 219/2015 on the Social Economy. It was analyzed the current legislative text and the specific laws on establishing and functioning of the key organizations concerned. It has been...

This article contains main trends, assumptions and thesis about the social economy in Poland, which the author agree with. The main goal of it, is to bring together fundamental facts depicting the situation of the social economy in Poland (in theory and in practice) with the conditions that must...