MedRiSSE

The MedRiSSE projects

Replicable Innovations of SSE in the provision of services and creation of decent jobs in the post covid-19 crisis recovery

Context

MedRiSSE project is a cooperation project that seeks to lay the foundations for replicating innovative models throughout the Mediterranean arc that promote the creation of quality jobs, help create businesses and accelerate public-private processes of municipal service provision, within the framework of the Social and Solidarity Economy. MedRiSSE will demonstrate that co-production of public goods with Social and Solidarity Economy can provide with low-cost, highly effective, and scalable solutions to fight poverty, inequality, social exclusion and environmental unsustainability.

MedRiSSE is a capitalization project funded by the European Union under the European Neighbourhood Instrument for cross-border cooperation in the framework of the Mediterranean Basin Programme 2014-2020 (ENI CBC Med). It involves 8 partner entities and 7 associated entities, from 5 countries (Spain, Italy, Palestine, Jordan and Tunisia) with a total budget of 1.1 million euros (90% programme contribution) and an estimated duration of 24 months, until September 2023.

Objectives

The main goal of the project is to develop a Mediterranean scalability pathway for social innovations that enable the co-production of municipal services with local Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) actors that have emerged from interactions between government and SSE involved in several EU-funded projects. These mentioned projects are MedTOWN, MoreThanAJob, MedUP!, RUWOMED & IESS.

In order to reach this objective, the strategy of the project revolves around widening the SSE and Co-production Community of Practice (WCoP) launched by the MedTOWN project, further involving policy makers, SSE actors, researchers, etc. The WCoP will benefit from social innovations and capacity building resources regarding the role of SSE in the promotion of decent jobs and social inclusion (MoreThanaJob), the promotion of SSE ecosystems (MedUP, IESS, progress) and the empowerment women in cooperatives through fair trade and eco-tourism (RUWOMED). The WCoP will be linked to a new Mediterranean Co-production Lab (LAB) that will help establish conditions for innovation in the delivery of public services through alliances with SSE and help them identify and foster opportunities for collaboration. The lab will develop an evaluation methodology to understand the potential for scalability of the different co-production models or social innovations, which, in turns, will evolve into a Mediterranean Co-production Toolkit for Public Sector Innovation. This Toolkit will help both SSE practitioners and public servants understand and apply innovation in their daily work. Lastly, the project will continue the communication and policy dialogue initiated by the 5 capitalised project under a harmonised approach, to continue advocating for legal and institutional reforms and policy innovations aimed at supporting emerging sectors of SSE, as well as the concepts of “co-production” and “social economy".

Partners

Lead beneficiary - Assembly of Cooperation for Peace - Spain

Partner 1 - An-Najah National University - Palestine
Partner 2 - Oxfam Italia Onlus - Italy
Partner 3 - Agricultural Development Association - Palestine
Partner 4 - The Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development - Jordan
Partner 5 - Tunisian Center For Social Entrepreneurship - Tunisia
Partner 6 - PIN S.c.r.l. Servizi Didattici e Scientifici per l’Università di Firenze - Italy
Partner 7 - iesMed – Innovació i Economia Social en la Mediterrània, SCEL - Spain