Community resilience and social inclusion of people living in rural areas. Development of a win win strategy

摘要

Recent European Social Fund (ESF) co-financed projects demonstrate that social economy offers innovatory alternatives to employment of the ones in need especially vulnerable people. Still, sustainable development of entrepreneurship initiatives or serf-employment needs local support in terms of technical assistance provision, financial support, mutual acceptance, and nondiscrimination.The research hypothesis of the paper is what makes poor community able to face various challenges. The paper overviews case studies of best practices in the field of social economy. The community resilience is analyzed as local focal point in supporting development strategy toward social inclusion through economic opportunities.