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The study on experiences in social enterprises was completed and four possible locations were defined that meet characteristics that encourage the installation of social production parks in those regions.Promoted by the Secretariat of Planning and Policies in Science Technology and Innovation SPyPCTeI in December 2020 Minister Roberto Salvarezza and the Asociacin Civil Construccin Colectiva para el Desarrollo Comunitario ACCC represented by its president Enrique Martnez signed a agreement to carry out a study on the existing experiences in the matter of social enterprises in order to elaborate a planning oriented to the implementation of Social Production Parks PPS.Complying with the planning carried out the study was developed between December 2020 and June 2021 and its main objective was to attend to social and environmental community needs which are not adequately addressed by a production system that is based exclusively on the business concept .The SPyPCTeI led by Diego Hurtado and the ACCC with the team from the Popular Production Institute IPP led by Martnez seek that groups that find it difficult to access decent work can organize themselves in social enterprises whose main purpose is to serve the community demand effectively supported by the state scientific-technical complex to accompany the organization of the processes that give them sustainability.The project seeks that people with disabilities young people looking for their first job those released from the penal system women excluded due to gender issues and other groups with difficulties to enter a labor market designed for profit have in these parks workspaces that provide opportunities for growth and fulfillment which are not exhausted in emergency proposals based exclusively on state subsidies or individual experiences inserted in a capitalist competitive market which have proven to be short-term.The objective of a project such as the creation of parks for social production is to mark the convergence between social needs as the objective of a company and science and technology as the technical basis of this task trying to link knowledge with social interest and moving away on the one hand the view that the most humble sectors have to build their own technology or that science and technology must always be at the service of the most powerful affirmed Martnez.In the first stage of the project four possible localities were defined that meet characteristics that encourage the installation of social production parks in those regions. The current panorama of the work experiences and difficulties of people with disabilities the search for the first youth job and business examples oriented towards the circular economy was also reviewed. The roadmap for the work to be undertaken was also specified to clearly define the characteristics that social enterprises should meet attending to local needs with the active participation of state agencies trained in technology transfer and multidisciplinary science and technology teams.Hurtado commented that the second stage will now begin where it will seek to deepen the evaluation work of the chosen localities investigating the various possibilities of productive activities in the region to establish what type of social or environmental demand could be met by social enterprises starting from a dominant activity Proposal in which you will have the support of a tutor company.He also indicated that another aspect in which progress will be made in the second stage is in the formation of units sponsored by the MINCyT to research develop assist and transfer technology to social enterprises. It is an unusual multidisciplinary work that seeks the interaction of science and technology with the world of production to respond to the challenges of this new type of social productive organization and strengthen its development establishing guidelines that serve as a basis for that the project can be multiplied.This work that the Secretary of Planning and Policies in STI is facing brings challenging ideas to the table that are worth studying. The Social Production Parks will house sectors with difficulties to integrate into traditional capitalism. In addition to including sectors whose results are beneficial to society as a whole for example those that work to improve the environment or the generation of renewable energy. In one of them the recovery of urban waste and the recycling of materials recovered from end to end will have a significant priority reformulating the role of the cartonero and the role of popular workers in the industries that transform what is recovered. In this second stage of the work that we are advancing it is also important for us to dedicate ourselves in a significant way to the first youth work. We believe that if 40 of young people today are unemployed and without serious hope of being able to get a job it is necessary to formulate schemes that even come from science technology and business collaboration to understand how young people are integrated with new functions and useful for society explained Martnez.For this first stage the ACCC-IPP team was led by Enrique Martnez and was made up of Eduardo Blanco Vera Raiter and Pablo Selln. The MINCYT gave impetus to the project through the Secretariat of Planning and Policies in Science Technology and Innovation led by Diego Hurtado and a team made up of Mara Ana Gutirrez and Patricia Esper.
