摘要：The social economy is an alternative business model, which focuses strictly on maximizing profit, but also has a social component, the labor market integration of persons belonging to vulnerable groups. The theme of this study is to identify the identity profile of social economy organizations in Timisoara, the field size, target groups benefiting from the services, processes and organizational structure, economic performance indicators (economic purpose) social performance indicators (social purpose), partnerships with business, government, community and educational environment. The research is exploratory, empirical and descriptive, the research instrument used was a standardized questionnaire (adapted from -Survey of Social Enterprises in Alberta and British Columbia CANADA, 2010) BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (Romanian BALTA). Among the main results we include poor self-identification in the self-perception of credit mutual aid unions with social economy, these ones tending to maximize the economic and financial dimension of their work to the detriment of social organizations like bank financial loan
关键词：social economy entities; lifelong learning; community-university partnership; social entrepreneurship; disadvantaged groups; social inclusion
