Social Entrepreneurship Network in the Baltic Sea Region
Every year, over 250 000 public authorities in the EU spend around 14% of GDP on the purchase of services, works and supplies. In many sectors such as energy, transport, waste management, social protection and the provision of health or education services, public authorities are the principal buyers. (Source) How can the social enterprises…
– Public sector as as one of the main clients for social enterprises? Does it mean less sustainability and more dependence? – Not really, as private companies too participate in tenders. Concerning procurement, public sector is just a market like any other, and social enterprises should explore it. – In addition, procurement should be an…
In March 2016 The Social Economy Supporting Center of Wester Subregion of Silesia Voivodeship (south of Poland) lead by Association CRIS opened a contest for grants dedicated to creating new working places for representatives of excluded i social enterprises. One of the initiatives that was approved in the 1 round of evaluation is an idea…
Development of the social economy is was and still is one of the priorities in public policies in Poland, especially in term of the fight against social exclusion. It is seen in strategic documents accepted on national, regional and also local levels but most of all in the significant amount of money available from the…
The Portuguese social enterprise Oil2Wax is working with recycling in new ways to make people “love their waste”. The company has developed a powder based on natural ingredients that can be used to make candels out of used cooking oil. Oil2Wax sell packages of powder and other ingredients, that you need to make candles. The…
In the Baltic Sea Region, the promoters of social enterprise sector definitely need to be more ambitious. Where to get inspiration from? The UK, for example. The campaign or actually a set of related campaigns launched by Social Enterprise UK called Buy Social is already well known. It includes: Social Saturday in every September aimed…
The Social Economy Supporting Center of Wester Subregion of Silesia Voivodeship (south of Poland) lead by Association CRIS in a partnership with Municipality of The City Zory, The City Jastrzebie Zdrój and The Administrative District of Wodzisław will support 6 local initatives starting their adventure with social entrepreneurship. In March 2016 The Social Economy Supporting…
European Commission has just announced interesting call for proposals that focuses on the issue that is also critical in Baltic Sea Region: youth unemployment. The novel aspect – at least for three Baltic countries – is the focus on legal form of cooperative. The call for proposals requires the solutions to enable young people to create…
To be a social entrepreneur, you have to care. Victoria Park Academy celebrates displays of empathy and compassion.Victoria Park Academy embraces diversity to create a learning environment that is caring, inclusive and enriching for all. Victoria Park Academy is not your average primary school. In 2007, the school was failing and in the bottom one…
Over the last years several new initiatives and funding opportunities have been established including new models, platforms aimed at increasing the availability of capital for social enterprises in Sweden. Mikrofund West is one of the initiatives, a funding organization owned by civil society organizations focusing mainly on cooperatives and social enterprises. The fund can be…
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