This support structure of Social Economy focuses firstly on providing support to the unemployed people to enter on the labour market by developing entrepreneurial activity in the social economy, and secondly on providing support to members of existing social cooperatives to retain their jobs and further develop their activities

The “Centre for Support and Certification of Social Enterprises” aims to provide a certification mark to social enterprises for making them recognisable by the general public.

Social cooperative of the Dodekanissa Islands’ is a social Co‐ operative with Limited liability (Koi.S.P.E.), which is located on Leros Island and it is the first cooperative with this particular legal framework has established in Greece. Leros is a small island in the south‐eastern part of the Aegean Sea, the economic life of which has been, for decades, closely linked with the existence of the large public mental health hospital. The hospital remains, even today, the largest employer on the island. At the same time the differentiation of the islandʹs economy is confronted with its geographical isolation and with serious difficulties in any attempts for integration into the national and international markets of both products and services.

The activity area of KoinSEp ""GI THESSALIS"" is the marketing of quality fruit and vegetable products & aromatic plants that are cultivated exclusively by its members, which will be certified and will have been produced with environmentally friendly procedures. ""GI THESSALIS"" aims at the social and professional integration of vulnerable population groups from the Kallikratikos Municipalities of Larissa and Kileler.

Syn-Eirmos NGO of Social Solidarity was founded in 2005 and is active in the fields of social solidarity, social economy, welfare and wellbeing of adults and children. In particular, the organization aims to support the activities of local communities, local governments, cooperation initiatives, collective social actors and volunteers.