According to a place-based approach, the International Policy Strategy intends to favour the creation of supportive social economy ecosystems by several policy objectives: (i) encouraging – in the diverse contexts – the raising of the collective awareness and territorial common vision about modes of cooperation among relevant stakeholders and therefore creating the pre-conditions to foster the setting of social economy clusters with a public-private partnership perspective (i.e. promotion of the autonomy and parity of social economy organisations that of public authorities in decision-making in the social economy); (ii) formalising the creation of the social economy clusters throughout the collaboration between public authorities and private sphere, including social enterprises, non-profit organisations and business sector; (iii) ensuring the commitment among participant organisations, endowing social economy clusters with economic sustainability and resilience, by promoting capacity building initiatives; (iv) consolidating the state of art by developing participatory projects relevant for the societal progress; (v) innovating the state of art of social economy clusters, stimulating the introduction of new actors and new developmental paradigms, in order to maximise the impact of Social and Solidarity Economy. The current proposal of Strategy is based on four policy areas, such as: (i) joint investments, (ii) social business models, (iii) capacity building, (iv) advocacy and impact. The first policy area regards the implementation of joint investments aimed to put in place local and regional social economy ecosystems as well as the necessity to introduce innovative dynamics to stimulate existing social economy ecosystems and tackling possible involutional drifts. The policy area on social business models refers to the creation of more competitive social economy ecosystems, by promoting the economic efficiency, diversification and risk- sharing, or maximising the social impact. The capacity building and knowledge relates to endow social economy organisations with skills and competences to face challenges and the deep transformations. Finally, advocacy and impact policy area regard to the increase of the bargaining power of social economy organisations with respect of policy authorities, improving their influence and visibility on the public policy cycle.