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This interview was taken on the premises of FEDERALCOOP, located at 39-41 Sfântul Lazăr Str., in Iaşi. Mr. Eugen Curelaru is President of FEDERAL-COOP Iaşi. FEDERALCOOP is a second degree consumer cooperative whose members are natural and legal persons from Iaşi district. The topics covered by the interview include: the FEDERALCOOP history and key moments during its development, its employee profile, the co-op’s future plans and 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives.
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This article aims to offer a model of good practice that People Development Foundation, Cluj branch, implements in the social economy domain, for the benefit of young people with disabilities or those from marginalized social groups. The idea to develop the concept of social economy started from a personal experience of the organization and the need found in society. One of the most pressing problems of the last years which addressed our organization is the increased risk of dropout among students. The number of these children has gradually increased, and at the present moment, the children became young adults affected by the inability to integrate on the labor market. Based on examples from our partners abroad and with the help received from our local and national partners, our organization is implementing an integrated program of intervention (social - educational - professional) in a protected workshop which has as main activity the pro-duction of PVC double glazing carpentry.
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The Master Program of Social Economy is a highly applied and inter-disci-plinary program addressed to those higher education graduates showing interest in social economy, an area of expertise that is new in Romania and that opens up alternative opportunities for helping decision-makers formu-late occupational policies targeting the groups at risk of exclusion from the labor market. The goal of the master program is to develop specialists skilled in creating innovative employment opportunities, particularly for eco¬nomically and socially marginalized people, and to encourage the graduates’ initiative to set up new forms of social economy enterprises as solutions to the integration of vulnerable groups on the labor market. The Social Economy Master Program is the guarantee of a new graduate education specialization – social economy specialist – obtained through an education process conducted at high professional standards and in compliance with the European quality criteria and performance. The information below reflects my experience as a master student of this program.
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The present interview focuses on the vocational training and professional insertion of people with disabilities and on the efforts to change the attitude of the general public towards this vulnerable group. The interview covers the activities carried out by the REVIS Center in Hârlău which was set up in Romania on the basis of a Swiss social economy model. Ms. Carmen Grigo-raş, President of SPEhRO Association in Romania, provides an overview of the main similarities and differences between the Swiss and the Romanian models, with reference to the key social economy stakeholders. The inter-view reflects the developmental journey taken by the center’s benefi¬ciaries. Their social and labor insertion is ensured through a pre-vocational sponsor¬ship project, a novelty in Romania.
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This interview was taken at the Conference on Social economy – innovative model for promoting the active inclusion of disadvantaged groups organized during 12-14 October 2012 in Bucharest and attended by initiators and promoters of social economy activities in Romania and other European states. Mr. Wilhelm Schuster is a member of BIOCOOP and works in Moşna commune, Sibiu district. He owns an organic farm where he works together with his family and trades regional organic produce. His experience in the business is extensive due to his frequent participation in farmers’ meetings and exchanges of know-how organized in Europe and in the US. In the interview below, Mr. Schuster made a brief presentation of the BIOCOOP commercial cooperative and highlighted the following issues: why he set up the cooperative, what were his main achievements, what kind of chal¬lenges he came across in this business, and how to promote coope-ratives in general. Mr. Schuster believes BIOCOOP can be seen as a best practice of the Romanian social economy and urges consumers to have confidence in the regional organic products they buy.
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The Master Program of Social Economy is a highly applied and inter-disci-plinary program addressed to those higher education graduates showing interest in social economy, an area of expertise that is new in Romania and that opens up alternative opportunities for helping decision-makers formu-late occupational policies targeting the groups at risk of exclusion from the labor market. The goal of the master program is to develop specialists skilled in creating innovative employment opportunities, particularly for eco¬nomically and socially marginalized people, and to encourage the graduates’ initiative to set up new forms of social economy enterprises as solutions to the integration of vulnerable groups on the labor market. The Social Economy Master Program is the guarantee of a new graduate education specialization – social economy specialist – obtained through an education process conducted at high professional standards and in compliance with the European quality criteria and performance. The information below reflects my experience as a master student of this program.
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The article reviews the main European documents on social economy that promote an inclusive economic environment. These regulatory documents have been adopted over the last ten years and formulated from the standpoint of the strategic directions for action that Member States can implement at national level. The article also looks at the public policies adopted in Romania starting 2002, including the legislative initiatives related to social entrepreneurs and social economy (2011). The legal review here focuses on identifying the definitions of social economy and on highlight-ing the main regulations fostering this field.
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The article tackles population ageing, a demographic phenomenon registering a rapid growth over the last decades in the modern world, including Romania, viewed here from the perspective of the efforts undertaken by countries to find solutions to curb its negative impact on social life. Conceptually, these solutions can be defined by the active ageing phrase and are operationally integrated in the social economy system, representing the focus of the present article which also includes the views of renowned scientific authorities. The world economic crisis and massive layoffs called for an evaluation of the efficiency of those active measures advocating for the professional insertion of the elderly. We recall here the decision taken by the European Union leadership to declare 2012 as “The European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations”. The interest in the field of social economy has increased due both to “acknowledging the limits of traditional public and private sectors in responding to today’s labour market challenges, and to the quality and quantity of the collective interest services” (European Parliament, Report on social economy”, 2009, p. 15). In light of this, understanding and capitalizing on the potential of social economy is essential and one of the solutions which appears to be most frequently mentioned. The article also covers the trends in population ageing and social implications, as well as various European and global initiatives whose results support the conclusion that de¬veloping social economy represents, indeed, one of the main solutions, so far under-exploited, to the ageing challenge, providing substance to the concept of active ageing.
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The present interview focuses on the vocational training and professional insertion of people with disabilities and on the efforts to change the attitude of the general public towards this vulnerable group. The interview covers the activities carried out by the REVIS Center in Hârlău which was set up in Romania on the basis of a Swiss social economy model. Ms. Carmen Grigo-raş, President of SPEhRO Association in Romania, provides an overview of the main similarities and differences between the Swiss and the Romanian models, with reference to the key social economy stakeholders. The inter-view reflects the developmental journey taken by the center’s benefi¬ciaries. Their social and labor insertion is ensured through a pre-vocational sponsor¬ship project, a novelty in Romania.
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The interview presents the social economy activities carried out by the Atelierul de pânza and Recicleta projects, two initiatives implemented by ViitorPlus Association. Issues such as heavy traffic and pollution or the low level of waste management are what determined the creation of the two projects which focus on sustainable development, as well as on the professional integration of people with disabilities. Ms. Teia Gavrilescu believes that social economy activities in Romania are held back by the regulatory framework, while communication among stakeholders, as potential partners, is cumbersome because of the differing views about the concept of social economy.
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Social dialogue is a component of economic and social life, which consists of discussions and agreements between social partners – trade unions and employers, and governmental factors, which aims to harmonize the interests of employers with those of employees, to ensure a climate of peace and Stability Guarantee social. This article describes the main features of social dialogue and its procedures. An important part is ascribed to the legal framework at European and national level, highlighting the main advantages of the new law on social dialogue, introduced in 2011.
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The social teaching of the Catholic Church is a continuous process, but it began to crystallize more than one hundred and twenty years ago, in 1891, when Rerum novarum, the first major social encyclical, was issued. For the educated reader, this encyclical is well-known. What is perhaps less underscored is the role and life of its author: Pope Leo XIII, who did nothing more than to interpret, brilliantly, a fundamental, elementary truth of the Gospel. The entire social teaching is about the relationship between man and God, the supreme authority. Everything else is a history of mankind where the primary role, in chronological and axiological order, is played by family, by man in relation to the State. The principle of subsidiarity is the cornerstone of social teaching and its keystone over which the road into today’s turbulent history continued.
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The social teaching of the Catholic Church is a continuous process, but it began to crystallize more than one hundred and twenty years ago, in 1891, when Rerum novarum, the first major social encyclical, was issued. For the educated reader, this encyclical is well-known. What is perhaps less underscored is the role and life of its author: Pope Leo XIII, who did nothing more than to interpret, brilliantly, a fundamental, elementary truth of the Gospel. The entire social teaching is about the relationship between man and God, the supreme authority. Everything else is a history of mankind where the primary role, in chronological and axiological order, is played by family, by man in relation to the State. The principle of subsidiarity is the cornerstone of social teaching and its keystone over which the road into today’s turbulent history continued.
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Social economy has provided us with many solutions for people in need. One such solution or answer to these needs is the social store. The term social store is less known than the terms second hand store or economat-type store used in the past few years. By providing flexibility in its range of goods and services, the social store can play an active role in the community, enabling its customers, people in need or regular people, to interact and get to know each other better, and thus facilitating possible future donations or other types of support.
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This interview was taken at the Conference on Social economy – innovative model for promoting the active inclusion of disadvantaged groups organized during 12-14 October 2012 in Bucharest and attended by initiators and promoters of social economy activities in Romania and other European states. Mr. Wilhelm Schuster is a member of BIOCOOP and works in Moşna commune, Sibiu district. He owns an organic farm where he works together with his family and trades regional organic produce. His experience in the business is extensive due to his frequent participation in farmers’ meetings and exchanges of know-how organized in Europe and in the US. In the interview below, Mr. Schuster made a brief presentation of the BIOCOOP commercial cooperative and highlighted the following issues: why he set up the cooperative, what were his main achievements, what kind of chal¬lenges he came across in this business, and how to promote coope-ratives in general. Mr. Schuster believes BIOCOOP can be seen as a best practice of the Romanian social economy and urges consumers to have confidence in the regional organic products they buy.
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This paper deals with the scientific links between the Islamic east and the European west in the mediaeval period. These links, which were particularly intensive and productive in the 10th and 11th centuries, made it possible for a range of classical works from the culture of ancient Greece, which had been translated into Arabic on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, to reach the European west. We have first-hand evidence of this in two important Arab-Spanish biographhical works, Tarih-ul-‘attiba’ by Ibn Gulgul (Cordoba, 332/944. – 384/994.), and Tabaqat-ul-umam by Ibn Said al-Andalusi (Almeria, 420/1029. – Toleddo, 462-1070). Further research into early biographical literature in Arabic would strengthen belief in east-west scientific dialogue in the mediaeval period, which to some extent at least made possible the later emergence of the Renaissance.
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