Social Entrepreneurship Network in the Baltic Sea Region
Social innovation has taken on a whole new meaning after the events of 2020. Coronavirus forced the STEM community to focus on human-centric solutions to help mitigate the pandemic, civil unrest has encouraged governments and enterprise to invest in monitoring technologies such as facial recognition to improve citizen welfare, and AI funding has been booming…
The events of the previous year have amplified the needs for technologies and innovation to focus on the social component of development, namely, the human-centric approach. With the coming of Gen Z into the global market, it is an undeniable reality that this generation will steer the vision of entrepreneurship in the Digital Economy 2.0….
The European Commission (EC) will launch an EU Action Plan for Social Economy in 2021. This initiative seeks to boost the contribution of social economy organisations to a fair and sustainable growth. It will enhance social investment, support social economy actors to start up, scale up, innovate and create jobs. At the moment, the EC…
Through The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast delivered by Grow Ensemble, host Cory Ames and his expert guests shed light on social entrepreneurship, discussing the experience of running, growing, and sustaining successful sustainable businesses, social enterprises, and nonprofits. Episodes explore a range of topics about the missions and causes these businesses have ingrained into their operations, as well as their successes…
If you are not familiar with Pioneers Post yet, we encourage you to check the independent news network for the global impact community. As a journalism platform, it provides insights for pioneers across the impact economy, from social entrepreneurs and impact investors, to changemakers working across business, civil society, philanthropy, government, and public services. Pioneers Post is the specialist news and…
Imagine you had a ‘eureka’ moment – an idea for a new way of doing something that could, in some way, make the world a better place. How would you go about turning that idea into reality? One place you could go, is UpLink, a platform which lets anyone from anywhere in the world submit their ideas…
The Interreg V-A Lithuania – Poland project „Partnership. Entrepreneurship. Action“ has been selected as one of the official European Commission European Social Economy Regions initiative (ESER) 2021 partners. Project partners from Poland represent Warmia and Masuria region. The Project aims to support underserved young entrepreneurs (16 – 29 years) to start, grow and sustain their businesses…
A number of large companies are helping social entrepreneurs and social enterprises around the world. Here is a small overview of some of the most important initiatives. It is obvious that social enterprises can benefit from corporate help and support both of financial support and in support to competence building and business development. But also…
You all have probably heard of IKEA – a Swedish home furnishings company and world’s largest furniture retailer since 2008. But did you know IKEA backs and boosts social entrepreneurs all over the world? IKEA has long since had the vision to create a better everyday life for as many people as possible. Back in 2012, the company looked…
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/
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