Main results:
- Social firms are a new form of real work integration inside the big field of institutions rehabilitation and qualification and sheltered workshops.
- Most of them were active since 10 years and created 5.000 workingplaces.
- Social firms can cover 60% - 80% of all their costs. They need some susidies to compensate
the deficits of the persons with a disability. - Social firms are paing taxes and social assurance to the state-organisations. The amout of this is much bigger than the subsidies, the social firms receive.
- 80% of the social firms have a non-profit status. Their owners are 95 % social organisations (sheltered workshops, organisations in the field of rehabilitation and integration).