Educational Materials
This section covers informative and visual materials, that provide educational support for social entrepreneurs. These materials include, but are not limited to books, articles, video materials, infographics and others.
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Manual: How to use the Transition Arena method to enhance cooperation between local authorities, civil society, and business actors? – First draft now available for comments!
The first draft of the manual “How to use the Transition Arena method to enhance cooperation between local authorities, civil society, and business actors?…
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About the We make transition! project
Local and regional authorities have a crucial role in driving resilience – societal ability to adapt and react. Due to the complexity of sustainability…
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BSR vision of sustainable life
How does a sustainable future 2035 look from the perspective of various civil society actors? We make transition! project invited a group of change…
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New educational modules for social entrepreneurs are available
The social economy is a business model that works for the future of Europe. Within the RevitaLESE project, we have developed several educational models…
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SUSTAINABILITY
Handbook on greener habits for young adultsCultivating greener habits always requires initiative – at home, in workplace or leisure time. To foster a sustainable mindset and engage communities more efficiently,…
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GAMIFICATION
Online breakout rooms as a non-formal education tool – project CO-ARTAny type of education nowadays is undergoing major changes, dealing with limited attention spans and the undeniable growth in importance of digital approaches. Nonetheless, the…
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6 Questions To Ask Before You Start A Social Enterprise
Eager to change the world? Here’s what you need to figure out before you can start. Treating diseases, addressing climate change, expanding access to…
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20 Best Social Enterprise Blogs & Websites
The best Social Enterprise blog list curated from thousands of blogs on the web and ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. 1. NextBillion…
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Social innovation VS Social Entrepreneurship
Welcome to the Social Innovation | Social Entrepreneurship section. This section will help you understand the fundamentals of Social Innovation | Social Entrepreneurship. This…
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Mentorship program for Ukrainians in Vilnius
Let’s admit it – the best way to get to know a new city is with the help of a local. After all, if…
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The complete guide to growing and scaling your social enterprise
We’ve learned a few things in helping support over 900 social enterprises around the world scale their operations with the help of our Experteers,…
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The relationship between social entrepreneurship and sustainable development from economic growth perspective: 15 ‘RCEP’ countries
Social entrepreneurship plays a role in sustainable development to value creation, delivering and capturing, in this article, researchers attempted to find the nature of…
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Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Social enterprises combine societal goals with an entrepreneurial spirit. These organisations focus on achieving wider social, environmental or community objectives. The European Commission aims…
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PAPER
Social innovation drivers in social enterprises: systematic reviewBy gathering and organizing dispersed knowledge about the SI process in SEs, this paper can help the social entrepreneurs, policy makers and supporting organisations of…
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BOOK
Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Fundamentals, Concepts, and ToolsSocial entrepreneurship and social innovation both seek to improve the world through social change. Whereas social entrepreneurship revolves around the business side of change,…
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BOOK
Social Innovation: Comparative perspectivesSocial innovation is a topic that is more and more being discussed on both national and European levels (hence, the announcement of this being…
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PAPER
Youth Associations and Entrepreneurship: Insights from Case Studies in PortugalYoung people in western societies currently live in a paradoxical social condition: never has a generation been so qualified, nurturing high aspirations and expectations throughout school,…
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ARTICLE
Upshots of Intrinsic Traits on Social Entrepreneurship Intentions among Young Business GraduatesIn this study they deliberated some personality traits that boost the intentions towards social entrepreneurships. These personality traits were LKM (loving-kindness meditation), compassion, and entrepreneurship…
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RESEARCH
Rise Up: Understanding Youth Social Entrepreneurs and Their EcosystemsIn introducing Youth 2030, the UN strategy for supporting youth to turn their “ideas into action,” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres acknowledged that youth are “a vast source of…
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RESEARCH
The role of social entrepreneurship for youth purpose developmentDespite the burgeoning research on social entrepreneurship in recent years, there is limited research on youths as a context for theorizing. This article examines the influence…
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GUIDEBOOK
Social business roadmapThe Social Business Roadmap has the aim to support young people in creating a social enterprise in 10 simple steps. It is an entrepreneurial…
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ONLINE COURSES
HP Life online skills-training programHP LIFE is a free, skills-training program for entrepreneurs, business owners, and lifelong learners all over the world. These free online training courses are designed to…
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IMPACT MANAGEMENT TOOLBOX
For the organisations working with the youthThis toolbox helps organizations and organizers to plan, implement and communicate the positive changes that they aim to create with their initiative or organisation in the lives…
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VIDEO LECTURES
Successful social entrepreneurship in rural areasWithin the framework of the project “Successful social entrepreneur in rural areas” 30 educational video lectures on various social entrepreneurship topics have been prepared…
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GUIDELINES
Social impact communication in youth organisations and youth social enterprisesWithin the project BALTIC: YOUTH: IMPACT, the Latvian Social Entrepreneurship Association together with the Baltic partners has developed Social Impact Communication Guidelines. The goal…
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EaSI Technical Assistance for social enterprise finance
Social enterprises contribute to the European policy in the area of employment and social inclusion and are particularly relevant for the implementation of the…
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Unlocking the Social Economy
Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and the World Economic Forum have just published the report “Unlocking the Social Economy – Towards an Inclusive and…
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Campus StarterKit for developing Social entrepreneurship
When combined with the educator’s passion, expertise, and leadership skills, social entrepreneurship has the potential to engage students in any field of study to…
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BOOK REVIEW
Making Change: Youth Social Entrepreneurship as an Approach to Positive Youth and Community DevelopmentEngaging youth as leaders of social change offers the exponential benefits of personal empowerment, community enhancement, and economic transformation. Grounded both in interdisciplinary theory…
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Official Launch of the 2020 World Youth Report: Youth Social Entrepreneurship and the 2030 Agenda
2 Jul 2020 – Briefing by Mr. Elliot Harris, UN Chief Economist and Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development as well as a youth social…
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Social Protection & Cooperatives Spotlight – Mobilizing social and solidarity economy units towards universal social protection
This ILO Spotlight brief is jointly developed by the Social Protection Department and the Cooperatives Unit in the Enterprises Department. It focuses on mobilizing…
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How to participate in the Erasmus+ for Young Entrepreneurs Programme
The European exchange programme for Entrepreneurs Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs helps provide aspiring European entrepreneurs with the skills necessary to start and/or successfully run a…
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Laern more about the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs
Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a cross-border programme facilitating the exchange of entrepreneurial and management experience. The exchange is implemented by a stay of…
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Check the Social Economy Talks podcasts!
“Social Economy Talks” is a Podcast series from Social Economy Europe about the most relevant upcoming issues in the social economy sphere. It will…
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No Green Deal without a Social Deal
We recommend reading the opinion by Norbert KLUGE (Workers – GR II / Germany) (Reference: INT/903-EESC-2020 presenting reflections on the Green Deal and Social Deal in the EU. You…
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the Social Economy Action Plan (SEAP) is now available in 23 EU official languages
The European Commission has today presented an Action Plan to help the European social economy thrive, tapping into its economic and job-creation potential, as…
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EC presented guidelines on Social Economy Action Plan in form of Q&A
Questions and answers: the Social Economy Action Plan What is the social economy? There are 2.8 million social economy entities in Europe that…
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Youth initiative: a framework for youth entrepreneurship
We want to share with you the report written by Rossella Soldi (Progress Consulting S.r.l.) and Simona Cavallini (Fondazione FORMIT). It does not represent the…
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Calling all youth social entrepreneurs!
In 2022 EC adopted the Social Economy Action Plan, which you can read on EC’s website (link below) or find more info on our…
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ARTICLE
Social innovation in the Baltic Sea RegionIt is not a secret that social innovation is on the hype for the last few years and this is going to stay, at least…
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The EU Pact for Skills – Skills partnership for the Proximity & Social Economy ecosystem
Today we recommend another great reading and educational material on the social economy – The EU Pact for Skills – Skills partnership for the Proximity…
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YBI launches Green & Social Entrepreneurship Month
Throughout our global network, we are seeing more and more young entrepreneurs build businesses that deliver profit with purpose. They are the entrepreneurs working…
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BOOK
Social entrepreneurship teaching resources handbookSocial entrepreneurship education has grown dramatically from the first class taught at Harvard University by Dr. Greg Dees in the mid 1990’s and the first European…
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PAPER
Innovative Social Entrepreneurship: Development of Youth Social ActivityThe aim of the work is to study the accelerators of social initiatives as a specific social environment and the practice of experimental testing and development…
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PAPER
Entrepreneurial Literacy and Social Entrepreneurship Intentions among YouthThe youth will be the leaders of the country and the determinants of the continuity of government in the future. Malaysia now has many young…
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PAPER
Mapping social innovation networks: Knowledge intensive social services as systems buildersSocial innovations are often seen as the product of social entrepreneurs. This paper instead asserts that social innovations are also routinized. This is the result…
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Read the article – The European Green Deal and the social market economy
We highly recommend reading the article by Martin Dahl – “The European Green Deal and the social market economy” published here: http://czasopisma.isppan.waw.pl/index.php/sm/article/view/1796 Abstract: The European Green Deal…
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STUDY
Systemic Design Principles in Social Innovation: A Study of Expert Practices and Design RationaleIn recent decades, design has expanded from a practice aimed at designing things to one that helps to address complex societal challenges. In this context,…
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Tackling Green and Social Washing with Ethical Finance
This is the fourth and final episode of the miniseries Finance4Good. In this episode we introduce the ideas of green and social washing from…
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Employment and Social Developments in Europe Quarterly Review looks into factors behind the gender pay gap among young people
The Commission has published the latest edition of the Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) Quarterly Review, with a specific thematic focus on…
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Buying for social impact – Good practice from around the EU
Buying for Social Impact (BSI) is a project commissioned by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) and the European Commission Directorate-General…
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How can social innovation and social entrepreneurship build the resilience of the future workforce?
With digitalization, globalization and an aging population the landscape of work is rapidly changing. Projections show that in the next 10 years in the…
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Unlocking Canadian Social Innovation
Please, find below the link to useful material on Social Innovation policies and practices in Canada prepared by the Centre for Social Innovation. The…
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Podcast on Impact Measurement, Citizen Participation and Governance
Welcome to Episode three of Social EcPodcast Miniseries – Finance 4 Good! In this episode we build upon the previous two episodes, in which…
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Youth Upskilling and Experience Through Social Innovation
Watch this lively conversation with Estefania Fernandez, a serial educational entrepreneur, youth leader and polyglot originally from Spain. After relocating to Berlin, Estefania created…
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DALBA – Beer that means more
Meet DALBA, social enterprise which is a part of NESs’t Fund network which is investing in entrepreneurial solutions that lift people out of poverty. In…
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Nordic Social Entrepreneurship 3.0
Nordic Social Entrepreneurship 3.0 (NSE 3.0) is a new, free online educational program that aims to upgrade adult professionals and improve their ability to…
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Youth Building Skills and Gaining Opportunities Through Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation
“Nearly 90% of young people today live in low and middle-income countries. Around 200 million adolescent people are not in education programs and 13%…
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Young People and Social Innovation in Europe
By Ljupka Janevska. “Social innovation is the process of developing creative ideas that will eventually ‘’grow’’ into practical solutions, which will improve the overall…
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eBOOK
Envisioning the Future of Learning for Creativity, Innovation and EntrepreneurshipFor two years consortium of Erasmus+ VISION project have been working on useful outcomes, and the project concluded in the last December. Proudly they are presenting an outcome…
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The State of Social Enterprise in Europe 2020-2021
The European Social Entrepreneurship Monitor is the only internationally recognized survey on social entrepreneurship that helps bring the needs and aspirations of companies…
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“Empowering self-employability potentials through start-ups and SMEs”
Development of the Innovation Management and Utilization in New Entrepreneurs and Adult Education Ecosystem and Methodological Framework (eBook) is part of the project results…
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Personal Strength and Weakness Assessment Checklist
The Personal Strength and Weakness Assessment Checklist will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses by asking you to rate yourself in several areas that are…
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Good Practices on Workplace Innovation for (SMEs) Small and medium-sized enterprises
The Online Manual of Good Practices on Workplace Innovation is a useful tool for those SMEs that need practical advice on possible innovation actions to implement…
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“Manual on social entrepreneurship”
This manual contains the results of the comparative study in Europe on success stories of Social Entreprises with a significant social impact on the…
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European social entrepreneur and ESE – Operational course for social innovation
The European Social Entrepreneur -ESE project coordinated by CO-LABORY During its implementation, project’s participants produced a high-quality materials and provided the best possible education…
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SE4Y – SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR YOUTH
The project will bring together 6 partners from different countries wishing to promote SE, self employment through raising awareness on social issues, strengthening young…
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11 Strategies For Activating People As Contributors In Creating Social Impact – The Unlonely Planet 2022 Study
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABOUT ASHOKA Ashoka identifies and supports the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, learns from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilizes a global…
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THE RURAL SOCIAL ENTERPRISE GUIDEBOOK OF GOOD PRACTICE: Experience from Estonia, Finland, Germany, Romania and Scotland
THE FOLLOWING GUIDEBOOK MATERIAL WILL HELP AND SUPPORT YOU IN CREATING AND DEVELOPING COMMUNITY-BASED SOCIAL ENTERPRISES: to estimate the benefits and challenges of community-based…
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WEBINAR
Place-based Social Innovation Through Living LabsWithin promising community innovation practices targeting successful adoptions within communities, Living Labs are generating more and more buzz and yet there is confusion about…
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Learn more about the latest #socialeconomy developments in Spain!
The concept of the “social economy” has gained attention and momentum in recent years although the degree of recognition varies largely from one Member…
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Third Sector and Social Economy – what is the difference?
Two terms that can often be encountered in the context of social entrepreneurship and social innovation are “third sector” and “social economy”. However, they are significantly less self-explanatory…
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The Social Economy, the Future of Europe The Social Economy, the Future of Europe – report from the meeting during the Frensh Presidency of the Council of EU
The social and solidarity economy (SSE) is one of the pillars on which the European Union intends to build its resilience, an objective affirmed…
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Model and invitation to Impact Procurement in Lithuania
Impact Procurement: New Opportunities for Social Businesses and NGOs to Develop Quality Public Services and Collaborate with Municipalities A procurement model where the ordering…
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Get to know asperIT Foundation from Poland, who joined the NEEST portfolio in 2021!
NEEST provides a portfolio with tailored financial support, business mentoring and strategic networking over a five-year period. NESsT offers investment packages up to $150,000 in…
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Social Entrepreneurship – new book on social entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship – A Practice-Based Approach to Social Innovation is a new textbook with a practice-based approach to social innovation by J. Howard Kucher…
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6 Lessons for a More Human-Centered Leadership Practice
It is no secret that human-centered design thinking is an approach to problem-solving that is perfectly suited for social economy organizations, social innovators and changemakers tackling…
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DIY Toolkit: practical tools to trigger and support social innovation
DIY stands for “Development, Impact and You” and the DIY Toolkit is a digital platform with a collection of practical social innovation tools for social innovators,…
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A guide to starting a social business
After many online expert meetings, research among social entrepreneurs and research of good practices from the world of social entrepreneurship, we present you the…
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Leadership programme for girls
Future Heroes is a growth mindset-driven leadership & entrepreneurship program for girls aged 13 -17 to unlock their potential and create positive impact in…
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The Social Procurement Manual
This manual is a practical guide to integrating social businesses into corporate value chains created by Yunus Social Business as a part of research series “Business as Usual”. …
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DESIGN THINKING FIELDGUIDE FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISES AND INNOVATION
This field guide has been developed in response to the specific needs of Social Enterprises and other stakeholders within the social economy. Design Thinking has…
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An introduction to corporate-readiness
Corporate-Ready: How Corporations and Social Enterprises do Business Together to Drive Impact is a new report from Acumen on business partnerships between social enterprises and corporates.…
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The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good
B corporation does not really fulfill all of the criteria set by the EU on social enterprise, nevertheless, it provides viable and substantial solutions…
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#MySocialRights video competition for youth!
Full info: https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=89&furtherNews=yes&newsId=10066#navItem-1 Are you interested in social rights in Europe? Looking for an opportunity to shine a light on social issues that matter to…
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SE Impact Tool to assess impact measurement, planning, and implementation.
SE Impact Tool This tool is developed for helping social entrepreneurs and people working in the SE field to assess their perceptions of SE…
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Guidelines for Social Hackathon events
Hackathons originated in the IT sector and refer to events designed to bring teams together for 48 hours of intensive development in competition to…
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Social Entrepreneurship Innovation Camp Methodology Handbook
Social Entrepreneurship Innovation Camp Methodology Handbook (2021) Social Entrepreneurship Innovation Camp Methodology Handbook is an outline of the guidelines for organizing innovation camps or…
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Research paper / Social entrepreneurship education: changemaker training at the university
Social entrepreneurship education: changemaker training at the university. A study has been made to to contribute to the body of scientific knowledge about teaching and…
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Social Economy for the full inclusion of people with disabilities BEST PRACTICE GUIDE
Social Economy for the Full Inclusion of People with Disabilities: How and Why – An Introduction to Our Best Practice Guide Actions speak louder…
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Social Entrepreneurship – Manual and Curriculum
Some time ago EU funded project partners led by the NGO from the Republic of North Macedonia – Center for Intercultural Dialogue, amongst other…
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Do you know the OECD tool “SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP SELF-ASSESMENT?
The ‘Better Entrepreneurship Policy Tool’ was developed by the OECD (Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities – CFE) and the European Commission (DG…
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Social Entrepreneurship through Passion – a Trainers Guide
Social Entrepreneurship through Passion – Programme and Trainers Guide – is a new m developed to respond to the needs facing social, economic and learning…
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Building better lives – pack to deliver activities on social enterprise.
Students as agents of change The pack contains six principal lesson plans as well as suggestions for activities in the classroom and community. The…
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From Tczew with Love
“Szafa serc”/Wardrobe of Hearts/ Charity Shop is a new social initiative based in Tczew, Poland, which started its’ activity in June this year. Recently…
