NATIONAL PROJECT INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ECONOMY I. 6/2018 – 12/2023 was implemented by the Implementing Agency of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic within the framework of the Operational Programme Human Resources in the programming period 2014 -2020. The aim of the project was to create and pilot verify the functioning of the system of support for the development of the social economy in the Slovak Republic based on Act No. 112/2018 Coll. on social economy and social enterprises and on amendments and supplements to certain acts. The national project was implemented through the main activity – Support for cooperation and partnership of entities at the regional level, namely the establishment and pilot verification of the functioning of the Central Coordination Unit of the Social Economy (IMPLEA), the establishment of regional centres (RC SE) and pilot verification of their functioning, and dissemination and media campaign. Over the 5 years of implementation of the national project, the following activities were carried out: Over the five years of their active activity, the center employees have had a total of more than 18,000 individual meetings with potential social entrepreneurs, held 370 group lectures, provided 7,550 online consultations and 690 networking meetings with institutions relevant to supporting the development of the social economy.
