GALILEO PROGETTI Nonprofit Ltd. was established in 2009, based in Budapest. Galileo's mission is to improve the inclusion policies and the development of the social economy and the third sector in Hungary. To achieve this goal, it constantly collaborates with public and private bodies in the territory, with relevant public institutions. Through its activities, Galileo Progetti aims to develop the social sector and Lifelong Learning model, focusing on the education to the European citizenship, on social and work inclusion, equal opportunity. Galileo organizes mobility and good practices exchanges, mutual learning, and strategic partnership projects, and thanks to the activities of these years by now it has a very well established an informal network of partnership at local level with public and private organizations, such as training institutions, schools, universities, NGOs, VET providers, special needs schools, associations, social enterprises etc., aiming to develop the cooperation at regional level. The management is guided by the belief that good practices exchange can increase the local development and the competences of the local organizations, such as sharing and adapting well-functioning training and working processes in the social sector can have a significant impact on the professional performance, on the competitiveness of the local participants. Galileo target group are mostly vulnerable groups, with attention to the fight against discrimination and the inclusion in the workplace and in the society of the disadvantaged people, particularly disabled people, people belonging to minorities and in situation of economic distress and at risk of social exclusion. From 2016, Galileo is a member of the European Umbrella Organization ENSIE – European Network for Social Integration Enterprises. Thanks to the collaboration with ENSIE, Galileo Progetti works for the development of the social economy in Hungary and the strategies of disadvantaged people's work insertion. Galileo collaborates and has collaborated in the past with the Municipality of Budapest and the Hungarian Ministry of Human Capacities, ELTE University, to bring to the attention of decision-makers the most relevant international experiences at EU level.

GALILEO started in 2019 to be involved in project connecting the non-formal and informal education and the green economy and agriculture, with the transversal aim of the work and social inclusion pf disadvantaged people.

In 2020, Galileo enlarged and strength its network at Hungarian level, building new cooperation with the Hungarian Agricultural Information Technology Cluster. Together, the 2 organizations are working for improves the connection between agriculture social economy. They organized the Webinar „The role of social economy in agriculture, a tool for work and social inclusion.” In Nov. 2020, with the participation of Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture and other organization actives in the field of social agriculture.

The Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) can have a role to play in the protection of biodiversity as some of them are engaged into social agriculture. Those WISEs have a double goal, first, as WISEs, they are working on the integration of the most disadvantaged people, and have a social impact. Second, they are organic farms working at a small scale, trying to respect the cycle of plants, to not use chemicals, to work with local varieties and to distribute their production in directly to consumer, they have a positive impact on the preservation of the biodiversity. Therefore, WISEs are a good example of enterprises working towards the protection of the biodiversity while ensuring “social justice, fairness and inclusiveness in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights” as the European Commission Communication on “EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030” called for. As such, their example should be showcased and spread over Europe as part of the solution. >> Website

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