Promotion of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in order to have a branch of the economy that brings together private organizations (cooperative enterprises, associations, mutual societies, foundations or NGOs) to seek to reconcile economic activity and social equity; fair trade, solidarity-based savings, social innovations in the field of environmental protection, combating exclusion, health, equal opportunities; providing an answer to many contemporary societal challenges: exclusion, rural exodus, metropolitan overpopulation, emigration, isolation (cf. statutes for full purpose).