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Why education matters for economic development?
Read this great article on the World Bank blog on “Why education matters for economic development” by Harry Anthony Patrinos. This content is delivered to you in the framework of the SEBS2 project co-funded by the Erasmus+, as our aim is to popularize social business and social entrepreneurship in the Baltic Sea Region. http://blogs.worldbank.org/education/why-education-matters-economic-development There…

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#StartingGood Social Enterprise Virtual Summit
Do you need some skills and knowledge to help turn your ideas into reality to take action to create a better word? The #StartingGood Social Enterprise Virtual Summit is a free to access online summit running from 19 -31 March 2018, featuring inspiring changemakers and doers in social innovation who will be sharing their journey,…

Growth for the Common Good? Learnings from social enterprises’ growth process
For those readers interested in research, there’s a new juicy read from Finland. Saila Tykkyläinen’s doctoral theses about social enterprise growth has just been published. The researcher has been following up and analyzing the growth of 7 Finnish social enterprises of different business fields over the period of 5 years. Here’s a short overview on the…

Roman Aranin: wheelchair pilot
Roman Aranin is a social entrepreneur from Kaliningrad (Russia). In the past, a military pilot, then a successful entrepreneur, Roman broke on a paraglider. The result is an almost complete lack of ability to move independently. Even today, after many years of rehabilitation, Roman needs a special assistant to breathe freely. Roman did not give…

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How to be a social entrepreneur?
For all those of you who think about becomming a social entrepreneur , we highly recommend watching a very inspiring speach by Andy Stoll at TEDx UIowa: [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8LVa9pb-n8[/embedyt] Andy Stoll – a Senior Program Officer at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which is one of the largest entrepeneurship & education – support foundations in the world….

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Social business policy in Lithuania
The business environment constitutes one of the essential elements of the country’s competitiveness. The Ministry of the Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania wishes to help business. In Lithuania social business are confused with corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. In fact social business is something different. In Spring 2015, the Ministry of Economy approved the…