• The total investment is 24,457,130 euros, of which 18,461,571.04 euros correspond to ESF aid approved by CEPES for projects to be executed between September 2020 and August 2023.
• Corresponding to the calls for aid published by CEPES in June 2020, which will materialize in 14 Autonomous Communities and from which 19,632 people will benefit and the competitiveness of 2,035 companies will be improved.
• The complete resolutions and the information regarding these calls and the POISES are available on the CEPES website.
Madrid, March 29, 2021.- The Board of Directors of the Spanish Business Confederation of the Social Economy (CEPES) has approved 99 projects worth 18,461,571.04 euros of ESF aid , as Intermediate Body of the 'Operational Program of Social Inclusion and Social Economy 'of the European Social Fund (ESF) 2014-2020.
These projects will foreseeably enable the creation of 3,329 jobs and 1,154 new Social Economy companies , as well as the improvement of the competitiveness of 2,035 companies .
In total, they will benefit 19,632 people , of which 40% will be women, 20% from vulnerable social groups - that is, 3,750 people, especially people with disabilities - and 43% will be unemployed.
The aid will materialize in 14 Autonomous Communities (Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Community of Madrid, Extremadura, Galicia, Balearic Islands; Canary Islands; La Rioja, Navarra, Basque Country and Murcia Region), being 72 of the regional projects (they are located in an Autonomous Community) and 17 multiregional (they finance actions in various autonomous communities of the national territory).
The approval of these grants responds to the publication by CEPES last July of two calls for grants for Social Economy entities and companies.
The 57 projects approved in the framework of the first call (Call for POISES objective 8.3), with an endowment of € 12,074,653.58 ESF aid , will go to entrepreneurship in the Social Economy and to the strengthening and consolidation of companies of this model business.
For their part, the 42 projects of Call 9.5 of the POISES, with an amount of € 6,386,917.46 of ESF aid , are intended to maintain the employment of people belonging to vulnerable social groups , especially people with disabilities and in a situation or risk of social exclusion, through the business formulas of the Social Economy that facilitate the labor insertion of these groups , specifically, special employment centers, insertion companies and social initiative cooperatives.
This double call takes place after the Administrative Unit of the European Social Fund (UAFSE) recognized CEPES in 2016 as an Intermediate Organization of the European Social Fund for the Operational Program of Social Inclusion and Social Economy (POISES).
The complete resolutions and the information related to this call and the POISES are available on the CEPES website http://fse.cepes.es .
WHAT IS POISES?
The Operational Program for Social Inclusion and Social Economy for the 2014-2020 period , co-financed by the ESF (hereinafter POISES), is one of the instruments that the Spanish State has designedlde; ed to contribute to the achievement of the objectives set by the Europe 2020 Strategy, especially those related to inclusive growth.
The POISES establishes that “The promotion of inclusive growth involves, among other elements, by reinforcing the fight against poverty, social exclusion and discrimination, by guaranteeing equal opportunities in access to the labor market and by taking advantage of the potential of the social economy for economic recovery ” , thus placing the promotion of the social economy as one of the fundamental axes of the operational program.
The Operational Program for Social Inclusion and Social Economy (POISES) has the strategic objectives of promoting social inclusion by fostering inclusive labor markets and developing comprehensive intervention strategies and taking advantage of the potential of the social economy to create stable and quality employment in the territory.
The POISES target audience is the population at risk of exclusion and the people and entities linked to the social economy sector.
