The partnerships aims to raise the profile of the social economy through a collective promotional campaign and promote uptake of new promotional tools and methodologies at Scottish and GB levels. Proposed activities under this theme include:

 Thematic activity

·        A series of 5 policy briefing papers on the mainstreaming themes.(From September 07)

·        3 Study visits to social economy organisations to allow organisations to talk directly to policy makers, peers and practitioners about their EQUAL experience and encourage adoption of good practice (August – November 07)

A high profile parliamentary reception targeted at MSPs and other policy makers (January 08)

Commission follow up report on “perceptions of social economy baseline study” (October 07) More

Assisting individual SEO’s in raising the profile of the Social Economy by running a “Raising the profile” competition for Social Enterprises and  delivering 5 marketing training sessions

Achieving local policy impact via Local Social Economy Partnerships (LSEPs) by advertising and managing a programme which supports LSEPs to organise “Meet the buyer” and social enterprise Trade Fair events locally or regionally and producing an evaluation report showcasing good practice (May-November 07)

Joint working with UK Social Enterprise Coalition and other Theme D DPs at GB level (ongoing)

Mainstream www.socialeconomyscotland.info (October 07)

Final dissemination event (February 08)