Project: PROSECO - Procurement for (a) social economy - Implementation of social procurement for a sustainable transition

Funded by: European Union, Interreg Europe Program

Grant Agreement: 03C0982, PROSECO

Period: 36 months (01 May 2025 - 30 April 2028)

Total budget: 1,932,878.00 EUR

Coordinator: Province of Flemish Brabant

Partners:

• KMOP – POLICY CENTER ASBL, Belgium
• Central Greece Region, Greece
• BSC, Business Support Centre, Ltd,Kranj, Slovenia
• City of Lund, Sweden
• Oliveira de Azeméis Municipality, Portugal
• City of Turin, Italy
• Turin Association for Finance andSocial Innovation, Italy
• Alaturi de Voi Romania Foundation, Romania
• Ministry of Labour, Health, Social,Family Affairs and Integration of the Freeand Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany
• Amsterdam Municipality, Netherlands

Participating countries: Belgium, Greece, Slovenia, Sweden, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Germany, Netherlands.

About the project:

Social procurement is crucial for promoting social inclusion and employment for people with a distance to the labour market. This project aims to enhance the capacity of local, provincial and regional authorities, and the social economy in social procurement practices. Not only public authorities can buy in social responsible ways, also for-profi t enterprises (the regular economy) more and more take social aspects into account (due to the Corporate Social Responsibility Directive). The primary goal of the project is job creation for people with significant distance to the labour market using social clauses in public and private procurement as a key tool.

Project objectives: 

• Helping public authorities include social enterprises in procurement and promote inclusive hiring.

• Enabling social enterprises to win more and bigger contracts.

• Encouraging private companies to buy from social enterprises and hire marginalized workers.

• Exploring innovative tools like social outcome contracts and community wealth building