AGRICULTURE AS AN ACTOR OF SOCIAL INCLUSION – Social agriculture represents an approach that combines agricultural activities with social goals. This concept includes the use of agricultural resources to create social benefits. The goal is not only food production, but also the provision of services, the creation of new jobs, educational activities and various types of therapies for people with specific needs. Systematic attention to the development of the social economy in rural areas and in the agro-production sector generates breakthroughs in the areas of policy development creating suitable conditions for social agriculture, social agriculture as a space for the introduction of innovations and as part of the organizational landscape of the social economy and the social system in Slovakia.

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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.

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SOCIAL ASPECTS IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT is procurement that takes into account one or more social aspects – e.g. employment opportunities, e.g. support for youth employment, support for job opportunities for long-term unemployed and older people, job opportunities for people from disadvantaged groups, support for job opportunities for people with disabilities, up to criteria of environmental sustainability, ethical trading in order to pursue environmental and social goals. The legal basis for public procurement rules in the Slovak Republic is the law that represents the transposition of EU directives in the field of public procurement, which allows the application of social aspects provided that they are related to the subject matter of the contract or to the performance of the contract, if they are part of the contractual terms and conditions and are proportionate to the requirements for the subject matter of the contract, compliance with the principle of the best quality-price ratio and equal access for economic operators.

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TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE IN SLOVAKIA – a key publication from the implementation of the national project National Project Institute of Social Economy 6/2018 – 12/2023. This national project financed by EU funds in the 2014-2020 programming period marked a key period for the restart of social entrepreneurship in the Slovak Republic, primarily thanks to the approval of a separate law on social economy. On March 13, 2018, the long-awaited Act No. 112/2018 Coll. on social economy and social enterprises was approved, which created the conditions for the development of social economy and social entrepreneurship in Slovakia, named the ways of achieving socially positive social impact and the functioning of entities within the social economy (the latest amendment to the law entered into force on January 1, 2023). The publication responds to the discourse on the social economy conducted at the European level, and the term „social economy“ has appeared more and more frequently in the public policies of the European Union in the millennium period, which define the social economy as one of the tools for mitigating social inequalities, unemployment and problems of social exclusion, or as a way of functioning of the European social model.

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