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B - IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

B1 - How has the GP impacted on the following?

B1a - Legal/financial exclusion
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The achievements that have been obtained practically without budget, through the successful collaboration between the participants, which have put at the disposal the resources that they have: voluntary of participation, view of different approaches, buildings and staff for the development of the pilot project, and the identification of beneficiaries for the implementation of the training paths, etc. Please insert comments that can act as learning points for other regions

B1b - Creation or conservation of local employment
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The selection of participants guaranteed that at least 50% of beneficiaries were ready and found support to start their initiatives of self-employment.

B1c - Adaptation to new realities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The adaptation of the project to the new social reality is absolute; taking into account the first activity of the project, that has been a study of the social needs and a mapping of social services in the province of Seville. Moreover the action of the stakeholders has been important, which have contributed with their knowledge and points of view. Based on this study and exchange, a few beneficiaries have been identified. In the case of Spain, the economic crisis requires answers towards self-employment and entrepreneurship.

B1d - Cross sectoral working
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
Public, private sector, and social enterprises who committed through the signature of a memorandum of understanding.

B1e - Enablement of social enterpreneurship
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
For the 10 beneficiaries that have been identified

B1f - Amenities for local people
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
Training activity on the development of competences, new technologies and business planning

B1g - Educational opportunities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The pilot Project in Seville consisted in a training activity with three blocks: training on competences, new technologies and business planning. The main objective of this training activity is to give the opportunity and thrust to the beneficiaries, to create their own self-employment project.

B1h - Crisis response
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
In a small scale, the Project fights against the crisis, if the beneficiaries, at the end of the Project get their own self-employment project

B1i - Local financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Neutral impacts
Any other comments?
The ways of financing at a local level of the social enterprises, have to be targeted through the stipulation of social clauses in contracts, the staff involved in the way of getting funds and getting credits through the corporative social responsibility. In any case, the idea of luck of funds has been a common denominator in the project.

B1j - Local policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
We underline the following taking into account that the participants are encouraged to create their own business within the framework of social economy. The Statute of Autonomy whose article 172.2 establishes, as a main issue for public policies, the Cooperatives and other entities of social economy, the Law 14/2011, of Andalusia Cooperatives Societies, Decree 85/2003, which establishes Programmes for Labour Integration of the Regional Government of Andalusia, Decree 175/2006, which approves the Andalusia Plan for the Promotion and Consolidation of the Self-Employed worker.

B1k - National financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
National Plan of Actions for the Social Inclusion in Spain (2008-2010), that sets a series of actions in favour of the social integration and insertion. The law 4/1997 that regulates the labour societies, in its article 19 sets some tax benefits for these societies.

B1l - National policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Positive impacts
Any other comments?