The 2017-2020 Spanish Social Economy Strategy (available in Spanish only - attached)

The Spanish Strategy of the Social Economy 2017-2020, approved by the Council of Ministers on December 29 2017, was published on March 20, 2018, in the Boletín Oficial del Estado – BOE (Official State Gazette). According to the adopted Agreement, the Strategy "responds to the need to take into account and promote the specificities of social economy enterprises and organizations in the single market, as well as to include and support social economy enterprises and organizations through programmes, projects and funds, and in the innovative and sustainable development of an adequate financial ecosystem".

The strategy mentions the discussions spaces generated by the ILO at the highest level in favour of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), in particular through the United Nations Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy and its effort to contribute to the creation of decent work through the SSE. Among the specific measures contained in the Strategy, point 40 of axis seven on page 31300 states: "Promote the participation of Spain in the Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy of the International Labour Organization. The objective is to favour the Spanish presence in the high-level capacity building programme in the field of social and solidarity economy developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO), through its International Training Center."

Consequently, we are going to organize the next Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy in Spain, tentatively in the second part of 2018. More information will be provided in due time.