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SOCIAL ECONOMY IN CROATIA – FROM IMPORTATION TO IMPORTANT

In this paper we want to present up to date level of social economy development in Croatia. Situation is seminally for scientific research, because new rise of social economy in Croatia started in 2013 when the Ministry of Labour and Pension Fund initiated work on first Strategy on Social Entrepreneurship 2014 – 2020. We will try to reach an answer about connection in this advancement with practically parallel successful negotiation process with EU and entering in Union as 28th members’ state. We want to explore level and shape of influence through this process, especially when we consider the fact that social Economy in Croatia was imported in mid 2000s through the work and education of foundations or supporting institutions mostly USA based and style. All of that was happening without annotation by responsible departments and regulatory bodies, but now state is presenting itself as vital and notable actor in the field. Additionally, there are big expectations from investments through new rounds of EU funds and even some local actors were announcing financial supports. As a first goal of our paper we will analyse the scope, implications and real manifestation of this new wave of supporting. Second goal is to present actual size and capacity of social economy actors.

Croatian Strategy on Social Entrepreneurship; iPRESENT project; social actors; social economy

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