This report is based on the need for technical assistance from outside resources to draw up a document that systematises and structures in a coherent way the Social Economy sector’s requests, suggestions and needs in Spain’s different Autonomous Communities.

This report provides a tool that indicates the lines of action of successive legal instruments formalised in the framework of the SPERT SE and CE, within Investment 6 of Component 23, entitled "Integral Plan to Promote the Social Economy for the Generation of an Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Fabric". This contributes to objective number 349 of the Annex to the Proposal for a Council Implementing Decision [COM(2021) 322 final].

This report focuses on the following:

•  Liaise with the relevant representatives and agents specialising in the social economy. The purpose of this liaison is to identify requests, suggestions and needs in this field throughout the national territory.
• The system is designed to organise and categorise relevant information from the data and information generated in the previous performance.
• It concludes with the main contributions, which range from communication and contact with the relevant parties in the sector to the formulation of a proposal for action lines. After the appropriate fieldwork, these are considered to serve as support for the design of successive legal instruments to implement the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.

These actions are carried out through two types of sources: personal and documentary.

1.  The documentary sources have been used for this project: the European Social Economy Action Plan, the United Nations Agenda 2030, and the Spanish Government's Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
2. The enterprises consulted included both CEPES partners (AEDIS, CAE, CEM, etc.) and external bodies (Community of Madrid; Directorate General for the Self-Employed, Social Economy and CSR of the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy; PP; PSOE; Unidas Podemos; Social Economy Europe, etc.).

In view of the above, this report identifies the needs of the social economy sector and its proposals in the following areas:

• Institutional participation.
• Proposals of a normative and public policy advocacy nature.
• Statistical sources.
• International level of the European Union.
• Emerging and technology-based economic sectors.
• NextGenerationEU Funds - Social Economy SPERT
• Social Economy Visibility.
• To encourage young people to be more involved in the Social Economy.
• Strengthen the social economy activity across the country.