SEA4NEB

About the project

Social Economy Actors (SEAs), including Social Economy Enterprises (SEEs) and public bodies supporting the social economy, play a crucial role in the New European Bauhaus (NEB) Initiative. Their inclusive, green and place-based approach makes them particularly well suited to regenerating abandoned or underused spaces while strengthening local communities. SEEs have demonstrated strong resilience and capacity to support recovery from economic crises, especially when operating within enabling ecosystems supported by public authorities.

The project promotes social economy models as key contributors to the New European Bauhaus and explores how they can foster spatial and sectoral clusters through ecological cultural cooperation and territorial development in partnership with local authorities. It focuses on good practices of “SE NEB” territories—areas regenerated according to NEB principles (beautiful, sustainable, together) through strong collaboration between SEAs and local authorities.

These good practices will collaborate transnationally, coordinated by DIESIS Network, to enhance peer learning, support replication, develop local action plans, and formulate policy recommendations to strengthen and promote the role of the social economy within the NEB at EU level.