Social Entrepreneurship Network in the Baltic Sea Region
Prospecting the future’ is a new rapport from from Social Enterprise UK and the Access Foundation that shows that social enterprises in the UK, businesses with a social or environmental mission, are increasingly in need of working capital to finance their operations and deliver contracts. The report also revealed that larger amounts of finance were…
Social entrepreneurs, private businesses, public officials and NGO representatives are gathering for the annual Social Enterprise Summit in Vilnius on April 13-14. The Summit is being organised and supported by the Ministry of Economy, the British Council, NGO Bee Hive and NGO Geri norai.
All of us wish to feel a sense of purpose in our careers and make a meaningful contribution to society, but it can be hard to know where to start. Social entrepreneurs offer a fascinating model. They combine compassion and business acumen to scale solutions that are needed now more than ever.
EU Ministers for Employment, Social Policy Issues, Equal Opportunities and Health met in Brussels on 7 December 2015 for the last Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs (EPSCO) Council. Among other things, at the meeting The Council adopted conclusions on the promotion of the social economy, as a key driver of economic and social development in…
The European Social Enterprise Law Association (ESELA) is a new European social enterprise legal network recently launched in Madrid, as a result of a European Commission sponsored study into the state of social enterprise across Europe. The new network consists of law firms, legal experts and academics specialising in all aspects of the law as it…
In November 2015, for the seventh year in a row, Riga has host the annual Social Entrepreneurship Forum, gathering social entrepreneurs, decision makers and change makers from Latvia and the Baltic region. The long term tradition is one the best examples, how to keep social entrepreneurship topic important for stakeholders, society, policy makers. The Forum’s first day…
The European Commission has just published the policy brief “How Can Policy Makers Improve Their Country’s Support To Social Enterprises?”. The policy brief is based on the preliminary results of the EFESEIIS research project (Enabling the Flourishing and Evolution of Social Entrepreneurship for Innovative and Inclusive Societies) The document has the main aim of providing…
Advocacy of social enterprise sector means influencing decisions that shape the “ecosystem” where social enterprises operate in, e.g. improving legislation, developing support mechanisms, increasing available resources and improving its image among consumers. Most of the members of Social Entrepreneurship Support Network of the Baltic Sea Region are advocates of social enterprises in their respective countries….
Our project partner from Denmark – Sociale Entreprenorer Danmark (SED)- every month collects and publishes a unique newsletter on happenings in the sector. Here is the link to the latest edition (don’t be afraid of google translating it from Danish, well worth the efforts): http://www.xn--sociale-entreprenrer-rcc.dk/nr-44-november-2015.html SED is mainly run by voluntary work. History Social Entrepreneurs in Denmark…
There was an interesting article in Pioneer Post on social entrepreneurship: There needs to be a shift in thinking around social entrepreneurship terminology argues Pamela Hartigan, the director of the Skoll Centre at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. After emphasising that the comments she was about to make strictly reflected her perspective (as opposed to…
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