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European Social Economy Awards 2025

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13 October 2025

European Social Economy Awards 2025

Financing the ecosystem

Partnerships

Regenerative Green Transition

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As part of Social Economy Europe’s 2025 European Summit in Murcia, a gala ceremony on Wednesday 17 September took place during which the winners of the 2025 edition of the Social Economy Awards were announced.

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Editorial team: Social Economy Europe

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Geographical descriptors

Albania

Armenia

Austria

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

EU-27

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Kosovo

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

North Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Türkiye

Ukraine

Other

Organisation Type

Academic / Research and VET Institutions

Business Support Organisation

Company with 250 or more employees

Cluster Organisations

Consumer Organisations

Cultural and Heritage Organisations

Destination Management & Marketing Organisations

EU Institutions

Financial Institutions and Investors

Industry Associations and Chambers of Commerce

International Organisations

Local Authorities

Media / Journalist Organisations

National authorities

Networks and Federations / Confederations

NGOs / Non-profits

Notified Bodies

Regional Authorities

SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)

Social Economy Entity

Trade Unions

Other

  • Thematic area

    • Financing the ecosystem

    • Partnerships

    • Regenerative Green Transition

    • Skills

    • Transformative Digital Transition

    • Urban and Rural Wellbeing

    • Working conditions and governance

  • Interlinkages with other sectors

    • Proximity and social economy

    • Agri-food

    • Construction

    • Cultural and creative industries

    • Digital

    • Electronics

    • Energy intensive industries

    • Energy-renewables

    • Health

    • Mobility, transport, automotive

    • Retail

    • Textile

    • Tourism

    • Aerospace and defence

  • Action areas and keywords

    • 15-minute city

    • Access to Finance

    • Access to technology

    • Addressing capacity and skills gap

    • Advancing gender equality and safety at work

    • Blue Economy

    • Boosting digital skills by - and in the social economy

    • Buy social

    • Certification, labelling and self-regulation

    • Circular Economy

    • Clusters (including Cluster of social and ecological innovation)

    • Corporate social responsibility (CSR)

    • Creating financial incentives and supportive regulation for green and circular social economy business models

    • Data Maturity and data driven business models

    • Data sharing, Data management & Code of Conduct

    • Digital Platforms

    • Digital social innovation

    • Economic democracy

    • Education

    • Future workplaces

    • Greening infrastructures and business operations

    • Housing

    • ICP rights & workers involvement

    • Industrial relation and social dialogue

    • Innovation

    • Innovation as enabler for green transition and business development in the social economy

    • Internationalisation

    • Local employment

    • Local Green Deals, green business communities and citizens’ initiatives

    • Local Markets

    • Micro mobility

    • New business models

    • New business models – the platform economy

    • New European Bauhaus

    • Other action area

    • Public and private tech partnerships and support

    • Reinforcing Business to Business collaboration for greener and circular value chains

    • Responsible (Public) Procurement

    • Smart mobility

    • Social Finance

    • Socially oriented territorial regeneration

    • Strategy for Data

    • Supporting Digital Social Innovation & Tech for Good entrepreneurship

    • Sustainable Finance

    • Tech for Good

  • Ecosystem focus

    • Social economy

  • Scope of activity

    • International

    • Local/neighbourhood

    • National

    • Regional

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Since 2021, the Social Economy Awards have recognised remarkable social economy initiatives, giving them visibility to key SE actors and institutional representatives. This was the 3rd edition of the awards which recognise outstanding social economy initiatives that embody the values of people over profit, democratic governance, and the reinvesting of profits to pursue social objectives.

For the 2025 awards, SEE received 140 nominations from social economy initiatives in 35 European countries. The awards were divided across five categories, many of which were and represent the full scope of areas in which the social economy supports EU priorities. This includes education, local governance, housing, energy and integration.

Winners were decided by balanced pre-selection and final juries of social economy experts, researchers, and representatives of EU Institutions who were tasked with selecting three finalists for each category.

Thank you to all the organisations and entities who submitted their initiatives for the 2025 awards, as well as to the ceremony’s co-organisers and sponsors including CEPES, the City of Murcia, the Region of Murcia, the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Economy, Ucomur, and ENSIE.

Thank you also to our Masters of Ceremony, Chris Gordon and Azucena Martin, our musical entertainers, El Sótano del Doctor, and everyone who attended the gala event in-person and online!

Meet the finalists here

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