Romania
EU-27 · statistics to 2024–25 · policy framework at end-2025 · policy coded from the 2025 mid-term review report and the documents it cites
63.7composite, 0–100
20 / 45rank · 19 of 27 in EU-27
+1.6change since 2015, time-varying indicators
RomaniaEU-27 average
Dimensions
| Dimension | Score | Rank /45 | EU-27 | EU-27 | Indicators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political | 61.6 | 23 | 71.5 | 71.5 | 7 / 8 |
| Economic | 57.2 | 23 | 62.8 | 62.8 | 13 / 20 |
| Legal | 75.9 | 12 | 63.8 | 63.8 | 7 / 12 |
| Institutional | 49.7 | 33 | 61.9 | 61.9 | 10 / 16 |
| Financial | 74.3 | 15 | 71.0 | 71.0 | 3 / 7 |
| Composite | 63.7 | 20 | 66.2 | 66.2 | 40 / 63 |
Indicators = scored now / in the full SEI matrix. Ties share a rank.
Composite, 2015–2024
RomaniaEU-27 average
Same goalposts every year. Legal and financial scores are held at their single readings, so change comes from governance, social and labour statistics, firm demography and early-stage entrepreneurship.
Social-enterprise policy and legal framework, end-2025
| SE strategy / action plan 1.2.1 National Employment Strategy 2021–2027 action plan (GD 558/2021), Action Direction 2 on social economy; National Strategy on Social Inclusio · source | 2/3 |
| Institutional structure & dialogue 1.2.2 Ministry of Labour, Family, Youth and Social Solidarity; National Commission for Social Economy (established 2024, 8 members); Social Econom · source | 1/2 |
| Social clauses in public procurement 2.3.2 Reserved-contract and social-clause provisions in public procurement legislation (poorly implemented) | 1/2 |
| Official SE definition 3.1 Law 219/2015 (as amended 2022) · source | 1/1 |
| Legal recognition of SEs 3.2.1 Law 219/2015 on the Social Economy, amended by GEO 33/2022 and Law 240/2022; Methodological Norms GD 876/2022 and GD 128/2023 · source | 2/2 |
| SE support ecosystem 4.3.6 Sparse support (training, incubators, coaching) via ESF projects and grant administrators; planned digital platform with virtual incubators · source | 1/2 |
| EU funds mobilised for SE 5.1.1 ESF+ PEO and PoIDS SE start-up calls (€616.3m, 211 projects); Just Transition and ITI Danube Delta calls; ESF+ blended finance; Oct 2025 ESF · source | 2/2 |
| Dedicated national funding 5.2.2 No dedicated national line; ESF/ESF+ calls managed nationally; ESF+-backed guarantee and subsidised-interest scheme via FNGCIMM (€99.41m, la | 1/2 |
Policy composite 70.8 of 100 (mean of the eight codes).
Cite this profile
Social Entrepreneurship Observatory & SENIC. (2026). Romania: SEI 2026 country profile (provisional edition, version 0.9.1). Social Entrepreneurship Index. https://seindex.org/countries/romania/