GENERAL OBJECTIVE

The contemporary state is built based on Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, constitutionally recognized. It is essential to address the issue of social protection, in order to understand the dynamics of the social legal system. But on a multiple context of Social Rights, Social Security assumes prominence and importance. This course aims to be a tool in the education of the student, allowing the comprehensive and systematic knowledge of the Social Security System. The approach is performed either in a contextualized perspective - through the thematic of Social Rights and Social Public Policy - whether on an internal perspective - through the comprehensive analysis of the Social Security System. However, in order to understand the overall functioning of the social system, it is essential also to address the issue through the prism of the relationship of the Social Security System with other social actors, mainly with the social economy organizations. That may help to demonstrate how the public intervention is also built upon cooperation and partnerships.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

1.     Understand that social dynamic is anchored in public policy which acts in various fields and based on interdisciplinarity;

2.     Recognize the relationship between the type of social protection provided and the type of State;

3.     Contextualize the social security system as a result of the existence of social rights representing a humanist vision on social organization;

4.     Acquire a comprehensive and integrated view of the complex and multifaceted Portuguese Social Security System, based on the architecture conferred by the Framework on Social Security;

5.     Grasp the rules and the general operation of the various systems that compose the Social Security System;

6.     Recognize the existence of the social economy sector and its relationship with the social protection system. But also the need of it to promote social innovation.

I: Contextualize Social Law through Public Social Policies

1.    Social Rights: what and what for?

2.    Public Social Policies as a mean to materialize social rights

II: The Portuguese Social Security System

1.               Social Security and Social Security System

2.               From the Constitution to the Legal Framework

3.               Introducing Contributory System: the Code on Contributory Regimes

4.               Introducing the Non Contributory System: Social Citizenship Protection System

5.               Brief notes on the Complementary System

6.               The financing problems of Social Security System

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III:  Social Economy as Public Social Policy Agent

1.     Social Economy: concepts

2.     Identifying Social Economy organizations

2.1.           Social Economy as partner of public sector n the social security system

2.2.           Social Economy as social innovation agent