A new EU Action Plan for the Social Economy – launch event
Channel: Social Europe
Date: 22/12/2021

The European Commission launch event for the new action plan for the social economy took place in-person in Brussels and online on 16 December 2021.

Welcome: (0:00)
Welcome & remarks about the event - Tamsin Rose, moderator

Scene-setter: (1:53) 
Scene-setter by Nicolas Hazard, founder and CEO of INCO and special adviser in charge of the social and solidarity economy at the European Commission

Interview with Commissioner Nicolas Schmit and Commissioner Thierry Breton: (10:23)
Interview on the new EU Action Plan for the social economy. Reaction from Martin Sandbu, FT, and Q&A with the room and online participants

Fireside chat with Professor Muhammad Yunus: (41:18)
Fireside chat with Professor Muhammad Yunus: Building a 3 zero world: The time is now - social entrepreneur, banker, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner

Round table 1 - New Alliances for an Economy that Works for People: (1:09:36)
Speakers:
Marta Lozano Molano, Founding Member of Wazo Cooperative (creating opportunities for rural community in Spanish Extremadura region)
Sofi Fridland, Just Arrived (work integration for migrants, Sweden)
Stefan van Tulder, founder of Talent Data Labs (Netherlands)

Round table 2 - Financing the Scale-Up: (1:36:36)
Speakers:
Victor Iancu, co-founder and president, Cooperativa de Energie (sustainable energy Romania)
Vesna Bajsanski-Agić,  Executive Director at Mozaik Foundation (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Jean Moreau, Co-founder Phenix (zero waste economy, France)
Georg Tschare, CEO Sign Time GmbH (sign language, Austria)

Wrap-up: (2:25:50)
Wrap-up, looking forward & call to support the implementation of the action plan
Speakers:
Patrizia Toia, Co-Chair European Parliament Social Economy Intergroup
David Errard, Adviser, Employment, Social Policy and Health Division, Permanent Representation of France to the EU (French presidency)
Juan Antonio Pedreño, President of Social Economy Europe