Social Entrepreneurship Network in the Baltic Sea Region
A new platform for social entrepreneurs and training resources has been launched by Enterprise Lithuania – a government SME support agency that is providing assistance to social enterprises as well:
https://socialinisverslas.verslilietuva.lt/businesses/
This handbook is written for, and in a Norwegian local context. It is namely the case that in Norway welfare is in fact created mainly locally in the country’s 426 (current) municipalities. It is therefore more meaningful to talk about the welfare municipalities rather than the welfare state in Norway.
Good collaborative social innovation work is characterized by the fact that people with different resources, experience and knowledge work together. In this handbook, we present key concepts and a model for collaborative social innovation with relevant advice and recommendations on how the model, and the knowledge it is based on, can be used.
A sense of reality and the practical relevance of the work are ensured by the fact that five municipalities with six specific social innovation projects have been linked to the project. In addition, a case from Denmark has been used as a reference model.
You find more information here.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
The project “Empowering Women from Ethnic Minorities through Social Business Enterprises” (EMwoSE) aims to increase the employment of women from ethnic minorities by providing them with the knowledge, practical skills and counseling needed to engage in the world of social business enterprises.
To achieve this ambitious goal, the EMwoSE project team took into account the barriers that a woman potentially faces in difficult circumstances: current employment conditions, skills gaps, psychological and cultural barriers.
The project modules provide both theoretical information and useful links to the required digital tools and videos.
At the end of each module, you will find a short test to test the knowledge gained during the modules, as well as practical advice that will allow you to test the theoretical part of the modules in practice.
Topics covered during the course:
1. The concept of a social business enterprise
2. Starting your own business
3. Marketing and communication
4. Personal business management
5. Financing
6. Networking
7. Sustainability
During the course, tests are performed to consolidate knowledge.
The curriculum is designed in such a way that your practical skills are developed on the basis of the acquired theoretical knowledge: practical examples are analyzed, interesting tasks are performed.
Note. The material was developed during the Erasmus + project “Empowering Women from Ethnic Minorities through Social Enterprise” (EMwoSE), so the course is free but does not have a tutor. Project partner in Lithuania – Public Institution Innovation Office.
The start date, time and intensity of the courses depend on your abilities and needs.
Below is the text in Lithuanian with the link to the training materials:
https://mokymaipro.lt/listings/emwose-socialinis-verslumas
Projekto „Moterų iš etninių mažumų įgalinimas per socialinio verslo įmones“ (EMwoSE) tikslas – padidinti moterų iš etninių mažumų užimtumą, suteikiant joms žinias, praktinius įgūdžius ir konsultacijas, reikalingas norint įsitraukti į socialinio verslo įmonių pasaulį.
Siekdama šio ambicingo tikslo, EMwoSE projekto komanda atsižvelgė į kliūtis, su kuriomis potencialiai susiduria sudėtingomis sąlygomis gyvenanti moteris: dabartinės įsidarbinimo sąlygos, įgūdžių spragos, psichologinės ir kultūrinės kliūtys.
Projekto moduliuose pateikiama tiek teorinė informacija, tiek ir naudingos nuorodos į reikalingas skaitmenines priemones ir vaizdo įrašus.
Kiekvieno modulio pabaigoje rasite trumpą testą, kad galėtumėte pasitikrinti modulių metu įgytas žinias, taip pat praktinius patarimus, kurie leis teorinę modulių dalį išbandyti praktiškai.
Kurso metu nagrinėjamos temos:
1. Socialinio verslo įmonės samprata
2. Nuosavo verslo įkūrimas
3. Marketingas ir komunikacija
4. Asmeninio verslo valdymas
5. Finansavimas
6. Tinklų kūrimas
7. Tvarumas
Kurso metu yra atliekami testai žinioms įtvirtinti.
Mokymosi programa yra sudaryta taip, kad įgyjamų teorinių žinių pagrindu būtų vystomi Jūsų praktiniai gebėjimai: nagrinėjami praktiniai pavyzdžiai, atliekamos įdomios užduotys.
Pastaba. Medžiaga sukurta Erasmus+ projekto „Empowering Women from ethnic minorities through Social Enterprise“ (EMwoSE) metu, todėl kursas yra nemokamas, tačiau neturi kuruojančio lektoriaus. Projekto partneris Lietuvoje – VšĮ Inovacijų biuras.
Kursų pradžios data, užsiėmimų laikas ir intensyvumas priklauso nuo Jūsų galimybių ir poreikių.
Public procurement affects a large number of people, whether they are users of public services, workers involved in production and delivery, or staff of the buying organisation. Public authorities can engage in Socially Responsible Public Procurement (SRPP) by buying ethical products and services, and by using public tenders to create socially just societies. Social entrepreneurship is one of the opportunities to engage in SRPP implementation.
The European Commission intends to facilitate the uptake of socially-responsible criteria in public procurement and to promote their use across the EU. But first, two main questions need to be answered: what SRPP really is and what are its known applications?
Socially Responsible Public Procurement (SRPP) is a set of social considerations in public contracts to achieve positive social outcomes. SRPP is determined by the public sector and aims to address the impact on society of the goods, works and services and works purchased it.
Buying for Social Impact (BSI) supported by the European Commission has prepared the materials explaining the meaning and the role of SRPP in detail. Download a full compilation of the main things you need to know about Socially Responsible Public Procurement:
Buying for social impact. Good practice from around the EU
The source for more materials of the “Buying for Social Impact” project: https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/public-procurement/support-tools-public-buyers/social-procurement_en
This publication has been prepared within SENBS project No. 2020- 1-EE01-KA204-077999. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
The Campus Starter Kit is designed to help higher education leaders build hubs of social innovation by tapping into the creativity and ingenuity of the campus community.
While every campus is unique in its institutional identity and culture, educational vision, and student body, we hope to provide broadly applicable resources to help foster awareness and support for social entrepreneurship and changemaking.
We offer the Starter Kit in conjunction with the following tools, which are available on the Ashoka U website at ashokau.org:
• Making the Case for Social Entrepreneurship Presentation: customizable presentation for staff or faculty to engage their institution on the concept of social entrepreneurship.
• Social Entrepreneurship 101 Presentation: customizable presentation for use in class or at events raising awareness around social entrepreneurship on campus and in the community.
• Social Entrepreneurship Education Resource Handbook: resource guide and directory for social entrepreneurship in higher education including a comprehensive listing of social entrepreneurship programs, initiatives, competitions, conferences, and more.
• Teaching Resource Guide: guidebook for teaching courses on social entrepreneurship with sample syllabi.
As you make use of the Campus Starter Kit, please feel free to customize and re-design these tools to maximize results.
Our goal at the Sullivan Foundation and Ashoka U is to grow social entrepreneurship and changemaking throughout the campus culture, transforming the educational experience into a world-changing experience.
Full document is available HERE.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
The online collaborative whiteboard platform to bring teams together, anytime, anywhere.
For a while, we’ve been hearing that remote work and therefore remote jobs are the trend of the future. However, in 2020 there are enough people working across different offices, satellite hubs, coworking spaces, cafes, home offices, and backyard sheds on a given day that it’s clear: “remote work” describes the way so many of us are already working every day.
Even if you’re physically located in the same office, you may send your coworker an instant message instead of walking over to their desk. Update a project’s status in a spreadsheet. Give feedback in a comment. Put your ideas on a virtual sticky note. You’re practicing “remote collaboration.”
Despite this growing trend, many still view being part of a successful remote or distribute teams as having a Herculean challenge. At Miro, we disagree. We believe employees don’t need to be in the same location to produce their best work together, and we live our truth every day with our own internationally distributed teams. Like it or not, virtual work is here to stay—which is why we’re sharing our secret sauce so you can help your remote teams thrive, just like ours.
Mori information is available HERE.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
The Fair Earth Foundation is the UK registered charity, working to inspire individuals to take action and make the world a better, fairer place. The main aim is to alleviate poverty around the world. As the charity is not considered as the best option to do so, instead, the mission of Fair Earth Foundation is to empower disadvantaged people, providing the tools to enable them to stand on their own two feet and facilitate their own journey to becoming financially independent.
In 2021, the foundation is offering a number of volunteer, internship, activity package, and educational skills course programmes for young people from around the world! The offerings are available in 5 key programme areas: Sustainable Living, Creative: Film and Photography, Ecotourism, Enterprise and Conservation. A core focus throughout these programmes is to encourage people to be Global Citizens and take responsibility for their impact on environment, nature and society; both on local and global scales.
Sustainable Living
Projects Include: Fair Earth Foundation’s own experimental organic farm & network, ethical living conversations blog, natural product packs and knowledge library.
Creative: Film and Photography
Projects Include: The London Eco Film Festival, own Tenerife Programmes, Roger’s Kitchen, International Film Projects, Photo Library and Story Booklets.
Ecotourism
Projects Include: Educational, Activity, Sport, Nature Guide Tourism, British Expedition Society, Earth Day Festival, Whale Watching Consortium and Tourism Websites.
Enterprise
Projects Include: Teide Challenge Fundraiser, Entrepreneurship Internships, True Fair Trading and Adoption Packs.
Conservation
Projects Include: Art and Nature Programme, Global Citizenship, Cetacean (Photo ID, Land Based, Acoustics) and Plastic Research, Citizen Science/Outreach, the Atlantic Ocean Cetacean Network and our own Scientific Student Journal.
You can check out about offered programmes and funding opportunities in more detail here: https://www.fairearthfoundation.org/2021-programmes.htm
or
by contacting:
Eve Pilmore, Project Manager: eve@fairearthfoundation.org
Megan McFarlane, Project Assistant: globalcitizenship@fairearthfoundation.org
Pricing: https://www.fairearthfoundation.org/extra-information.html
The Fair Earth Foundation ‘Family’
The Institute of Entrepreneurship Development presents the handbook created for trainers regarding the training courses in Social Economy and Entrepreneurship.
The educational material was created in the framework of the European project ERASMUS+ entitled “Open Mind – gamified platform and open online course in Social Entrepreneurship for female learners and students from diverse fields of study”.
Open Mind project focus on the lack of entrepreneurship skills, especially seeing the differences in skills between genders, attempting to boost entrepreneurship and creativity through an innovative gamified social entrepreneurship course.
The training material which developed for social entrepreneurship, concerns a lot of individuals across Europe, trying to map the skills that are needed to start a business as well as it pursues to enhance employment in this sector.
This special educational material has created with the participation of all partners of the project, however, especially iED edited the graphic design of the handbook.
You can watch the entire educational material completely free of charge HERE.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
The EIB Institute is hosting a series of five webinars on “Raising venture capital with impact” with Wladimir Nikoluk from ImmerLearn . This series will explore how entrepreneurs can successfully use impact measurement to raise funding from existing and emerging venture capital funds.
Session 1: Raising venture capital with impact – An introduction
General introduction to trends and players in the impact venture capital investing field, including (i) the sources of demand for impactful products, (ii) the surge in talent to found impactful companies, (iii) the emergence of impact ‘verticals’ in existing VC funds, (iv) the emergence of new impact VC funds, and (v) the growing consensus around and maturity of impact measurement standards.
When: February 18, 2021 from 17:00 to 18:00 (CET)
Register here
Session 2: The discovery of impact – how traditional VC firms came to care
Deep-dive into traditional VC funds that are now building ‘impact’ verticals. In recent years, funds that were traditionally not known for impact focus have come to create capital pockets to focus on areas like climate, clean tech, food, health, and education. This session explores what drives those funds to establish new verticals, how they distinguish between impact and non-impact startups, how their impact investment performed over time and what their (dis)advantages are relative to traditional verticals.
When: March 4, 2021 from 17:00 to 18:00 (CET)
Register here
Session 3: VC 2.0 – how a new generation of VCs is challenging the status quo
Deep-dive into ‘pure-impact’ VC funds that have emerged in the last couple of years. This session explores why they are focusing exclusively on impact, how they assess startups’ impact, how they see their performance relative to traditional VC firms, what they see as the biggest impact trends and what the best-practices are for startups to manage both profit and impact at the same time.
When: March 18, 2021 from 17:00 to 18:00 (CET)
Register here
Session 4: Measuring what matters – how to create genuine impact and monetise it
Deep-dive into impact management standards that have recently emerged, such as the Impact Management Project (IMP), lifecycle analysis (LCA), and the impact multiple of money (IMM). With the knowledge of the previous sessions, this session explores how entrepreneurs should measure and communicate the impact of their products and services and how to balance credible impact management with the need to run a successful business.
When: March 31, 2021 from 17:00 to 18:00 (CET)
Register here
Session 5: Strategic and tactical lessons for building your impact management system
Concluding session that walks entrepreneurs through the practical steps of building their own impact measurement and management systems, paying attention to how they can use their data strategically to meet demands from their investors, customers, and employees. The session presents practical examples of best-in-class impact management systems of selected companies and points to resources that entrepreneurs can use today to enhance their own.
When: April 15, 2021 from 17:00 to 18:00 (CET)
Register here
More about the EIB Institute initiatives can be found here: https://institute.eib.org/whatwedo/
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
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