User:Borut Osonkar/Social economy in Slovenia

The social economy is a term and concept used to describe economic, entrepreneurial and social practices that are rooted in meeting real social needs, based on a different social organisation and at the same time generating different social practices. The social economy is a combination of market or non-market entrepreneurship, social problem solving and community organisation.

A different social organisation means means the effort of communities and legal entities to jointly define and respond to social problems by providing products or services to satisfy basic and other goods for human life and community functioning. The social economy is based on solidarity, participation, democratic (co-)governance, empowerment, stakeholder networking, entrepreneurship, focus on local communities, meeting real rather than created needs, etc.