WEBINAR: Enhancing Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in the Baltic Sea Region
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WEBINAR: Enhancing Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in the Baltic Sea Region

Join us for an engaging webinar exploring how technology and artificial intelligence can drive social innovation and create positive societal impacts

What to Expect:

Part 1: AI & Social Impact

– Organizational Implementation: Get a glimpse of AI for good strategies, explore impactful AI projects, and access resources tailored for non-profits and social enterprises.

– Co-Creation and Collaboration: Discover the role of co-creation in integrating AI into organizations and society.

Discussion: What problems in your organization or your community can you solve with AI?

 Part 2: Tech & AI Impact Ecosystems

– Compare traditional and emerging tech ecosystems in the EU.

– Examine Europe’s strategic role in tech-driven social innovation.

– Explore opportunities for collaboration in the EU tech ecosystem.

Discussion: What part of the European AI Ecosystem could you play?

Why Attend?

Gain insights, practical knowledge, and inspiration to engage in tech and AI initiatives for societal benefit.

Together, we can foster a collaborative and innovative ecosystem in Europe.

Our speakers: 

Tobias Oertel, Adviser AI & Digitisation, zukunft zwei Innovationsagentur; Berlin.

Marc Sunarjo, Expert Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship, zukunft zwei Innovationsagentur, Berlin.

Register your free spot here: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/webinar-tech-ai-for-impact-resist-tickets-1100934658199?aff=oddtdtcreator

Webinar on inspiring civil society cases from Finland and Estonia, 21 January 2025

Webinar on inspiring civil society cases from Finland and Estonia,
21 January 2025

Join us for an engaging webinar on January 21, 2025, featuring inspiring civil society cases from Finland and Estonia. Discover how these communities are driving impactful change, fostering sustainability, and building stronger collaborations. Gain valuable insights and practical lessons to empower your own initiatives in creating a better future.

The webinar presents two interesting civil society cases related to urban gardening, circular economy and community building.

Our fantastic speakers are:
Tuomas Ilander, Founder of Blokgarden Community Garden
Lauri Mei, Paranduskelder community maker/repair space

Please share below shortly an interesting civil society case from your region/country! The case could be related to any grassroot activities that have made an impact to behaviour of people and local social and ecological sustainable development. Mention the name of the region/city and country in your comment.



WEBINAR What is the role of civil society in making sustainability transition?
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WEBINAR
What is the role of civil society in making sustainability transition?

Local authorities have a crucial role in driving resilience – societal ability to adapt and react – but due to complexity of the challenges, they need to mobilise all levels of society to co-create solutions that enable a needed change in our traditional ways of doing things. Various civil society actors have an important role in helping society to cope with external disturbances.

The first WMT! webinar provides an outlook on different dimensions of transition management and role of civil society actors in eco-social sustainability.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKyiVzOGdCE&ab_channel=DDFoundation

The webinar is part of the We make transition! – project that aims to engage a number of regional and local authorities, civil society and other innovation actors from the Baltic Sea region to learn about transition management and role of various civil society actors in fostering eco-social sustainability. The project will utilise the Transition Arena method as a tool to co-create new solutions with actors representing different levels of society.

PRESENTATION “Sustainability transitions and civil society?“

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CASE STUDIES

Svartlamon
Experimental sustainable housing district

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Rebuilders
Cooperative facilitating transition

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Please note also the following webinar dates during this spring:

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Social Enterprise Series 2022
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Social Enterprise Series 2022

The Social Enterprise Series is a 10-week in-depth learning program designed to educate future global changemakers about the practical components of establishing or growing a thriving social enterprise. It is completely free of charge and invites everyone willing to learn more to join all or selected workshops from 13th April to 15th June online.

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Designated industry experts will walk you through the key components of building an enterprise that has a positive social impact, and citizens residing in Australia can put their new skills to work by crafting a video pitch for the chance to win the Social Enterprise Award: $10,000 to kickstart their project.

The following workshops will take place from 9AM – 11AM EET (4PM – 6PM AEST):

  • The change you seek, April 13th
  • Understanding the issues, April 20th
  • Ideation for impact, April 27th
  • Designing your business, May 4th
  • Building your tribe, May 11th
  • Pitching, May 18th
  • Show me the money, May 25th
  • Legal considerations for social entrepreneurs, June 1st
  • The road is long, June 8th
  • Crowdfunding for social enterprises, June 15th

The Social Enterprise Series is organized by Start Some Good in collaboration with Australian Catholic University. The cost is fully subsidized and open to university students, staff and the broader community. Topics are delivered via livestream to a national audience.

More information about the course available HERE.

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Webinar: Social enterprise partnerships with corporates – succesful cases from the UK
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Webinar: Social enterprise partnerships with corporates – succesful cases from the UK

Social Entrepreneurs in Denmark project Rummelig Genstart hosted a webinar Successful English Social Enterprise Partnerships with Corporates Thursday 17 March 2022.

You can see the webinar here

Background for the webinar.
England is one of the countries in the world with the most growing sector for social enterprises. This applies both in relation to political interest and in relation to the activities initiated by various actors to support social enterprises. This includes e.g. social investment, support schemes and accelerator and competency programs. The UK also has one of the world’s strongest advocates and member organizations for social enterprises – Social Enterprise UK, which has done a great job of building partnerships between social enterprises and private enterprises.

At the event there was presentations from inspiring examples of English social enterprises that have formed successful partnerships with traditional private enterprises.

Also Social Enterprise UK’s work to promote partnerships between corporates and social enterprises through their Buy Social Corporate Challenge campaign was presented.

The webinar is useful if you want to have further knowledge on how social enterprises and corporates can build partnerships, that can create large positive impact.
Also the webinar gives you insight in effective social enterprise business models that work really well in terms on creating positive impact.
More information on the three presenters:

Mark Gale, founder and ​Chief Executive of Gloucestershire Gateway Trust
Mark Gale is a former UK Social Entrepreneur of the Year. He has previously advised government on social inclusion, and been a national board member of the housing charity Shelter.
Gloucester Services is pioneering model of social investment, bringing to life the vision of residents of Gloucester housing estate and turning the nearby motorway into an asset through the creation of sustainable jobs and income.
The partnership between the Westmorland Family and the community development charity Gloucestershire Gateway Trust, both of whom have a stake in the business, is a great example that when companies and charities work together, they are able to create greater value than they would be able to create individually.
Gloucester Services has exceeded its charitable goals and created over 400 jobs, employing over 80 people specifically from ‘target’ communities. Making communities more resilient and supporting residents to develop their employability skills and become job ready is a goal for both the charity and the company.
The partnership is also an example of a social enterprise model that creates social value locally on a large scale.
Gloucestershire Gateway Trust: www.gloucestershiregatewaytrust.org.uk
Gloucester Services: www.gloucesterservices.com

Dr. Mick Jackson, Founder and CEO of The WildHearts Group  
Mick Jackson is a serial entrepreneur, author, ex chart-topping rock singer and the founder of The WildHearts Group – a portfolio of companies committed to creating global social change. To date, WildHearts have transformed over 1,500,000 lives globally.
Mick’s work has been recognised globally; he has received numerous honorary doctorates, been EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year and is the second only recipient of the highly prestigious Babson Social Innovation Award from the world’s top school in entrepreneurship.
The WildHearts Group is a portfolio of companies committed to creating global social change.  WildHearts has been recognised as a world leading B2B social enterprise, is Carbon Neutral, a B-Corp and a signatory to the United Nations’ Global Compact. Its activities address over 50% of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and it is recognised as one of the top 100 global businesses addressing the SDGs.
The WildHearts Group delivers office consumables business services, document management and purpose-driven talent development programmes to companies such as Nestlé, SAP, Barclays and Zurich. All its social and environmental initiatives are supported by the profits and activities from WildHearts’ businesses.
Find out more, here: https://www.wildheartsgroup.com

Jennifer Exon, Director of Business and Enterprise at Social Enterprise UK (SEUK)
Jennifer is leading on the SEUK’s corporate market building work which includes the Buy Social Corporate Challenge.  is an ambitious initiative that aims to get a group of high-profile companies to open up their supply chains to social enterprises and jointly buy in for £ 1 billion from social enterprises. Among the participating companies are i.a. SAP, Thomson & Thomson, Deloitte and PWC.an initiative seeing some of the UK’s biggest businesses open up their supply chains to social enterprises.
Jennifer is working to drive forward Social Enterprise UK´s work in building markets for social enterprises, trying to open doors and creating as many opportunities as possible for social enterprises.
Jennifer has spend over seven years at Business in the Community (BiTC) where she was working as their Enterprise and Culture Development Director. She also headed up BiTC’s arc programme which has supported the development and growth of social enterprises in some of the poorest communities in the country.
More about Buy Social Corporate Challenge at: www.socialenterprise.org.uk/corporate-challenge

 

 

WEBINAR Place-based Social Innovation Through Living Labs
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WEBINAR
Place-based Social Innovation Through Living Labs

Within promising community innovation practices targeting successful adoptions within communities, Living Labs are generating more and more buzz and yet there is confusion about what they are; when to use them; and what they can help us achieve.

Take a look at this webinar to gain a clearer understanding of Livings Labs as Myriam Bérubé invites Hugo Steben (Maison de l’innovation sociale) and Jean-François Jasmin (Le Laboratoire en innovation (LLio)) to share their experiences and insights from two Québec-based organizations with an approach that yields a huge potential for transformative change.

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Hugo and Jean-Francois additional audience questions

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Background information

Today, communities are facing an array of complex social and environmental challenges. The programs we have created to address these challenges have been unable to impact in a significant way. New solutions are required. The results that are urgently needed cannot and will not be found by simply making incremental changes to our current approaches. The breakthroughs that community changemakers seek require new approaches. Social innovation has become imperative to effectively address our society’s most significant issues.

Unfortunately, inventions are many, but innovations that are successfully adopted are few, and breakthrough innovations are disruptive in nature, sometimes leading to actions meant to solve old problems ending up generating new ones.

Thus, community innovation requires not only an appreciation of the issue one is hoping to address but also a deep understanding of the unique characteristics of the community. The place and the people within it, where the innovation will be implemented.

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WEBINAR / Fashion’s huge waste problem – and what we can do about it
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WEBINAR / Fashion’s huge waste problem – and what we can do about it

Every week at Welcome Change, Ashoka talks to the world’s social entrepreneurs about what works, and what’s next. Here they present a conversation with Ashoka Fellow Jessica Schreiber, co-founder of FABSCRAP.

The fashion industry (and what we all buy as consumers) is responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions. That’s far more than air travel, for example. We tap Jessica Schreiber on the problem and how the industry is responding to shore up waste, in partnership with social entrepreneurs and changemakers. With sorting locations in NY, LA, and a new one opening in Philadelphia this fall, Jessica’s FABSCRAP works with 525 companies and 6,000 volunteers to shift industry norms and customer mindsets, and reminds us: “There are so many ways to reuse, recycle, redistribute, re-create, and repair items that we shouldn’t ignore or discard anything.”

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WEBINAR Competition in the Baltics – what to know in 2021? Before setting your business
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WEBINAR
Competition in the Baltics – what to know in 2021? Before setting your business

WEBINAR | Competition in the Baltics – what to know in 2021? Before setting your business

Agenda:

  • Recent trends and development in: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
  • Platform markets in the Baltics
  • Limiting the trade in the Baltics: pricing
  • Trade in the Baltics: distribution and tipical risks, opportunities?

WEBINAR moderated by Triinu Järviste, senior associate / TGS Baltic, Estonia

Speakers: Triinu Järviste, senior associate / TGS Baltic, Estonia Katri Paas-Mohando, senior associate / TGS Baltic, Estonia Dr. Lauras Butkevicius, partner, Head of EU, Competition & Regulatory specialisation group / TGS Baltic, Lithuania Māra Stabulniece-Veldruma, senior associate, Co-head of Competition practice group / TGS Baltic, Latvia Vladlena Rudusāne-Simiča, associate / TGS Baltic, Latvia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTD02OAocDM

Conversation: An equitable economy starts with powerful workers
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Conversation: An equitable economy starts with powerful workers

Every week at Welcome Change, Ashoka talks to the world’s social entrepreneurs about what works, and what’s next. Here they present a conversation with Ashoka Fellow Michelle Miller, co-founder of Coworker.org (a platform that helps workers build collective power to transform their jobs and workplaces). She shared her vision for creating a 21st century labor movement, and why worker voice is a pillar of democracy.

Browse upcoming (and past) topics here. If you would like to take part and listen to the conversation live on Zoom platform, sign up for their newsletter.

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Social Enterprises and the Future of Public Services – An Interview with Scott Darraugh, CEO of Social adVentures
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Social Enterprises and the Future of Public Services – An Interview with Scott Darraugh, CEO of Social adVentures

The Social Enterprise UK invites us to a great webinar to be carried out next week, on July 15th 12:00 (London), where Scott Darraugh, CEO of Social adVentures, will be talking about transforming the delivery of care services.

In Salford, Greater Manchester, one social enterprise is radically changing how a community can address health inequalities through redefining what is possible when it comes to the delivery of care. How? Through genuinely placing communities at the heart of their work, thinking outside the box, setting up businesses to create a sustainable source of income and genuine employee ownership.

Social adVentures is set up with the mission of enabling people to live healthy lives, running a range of health and care services complemented by a variety of different social enterprises. It’s innovative, dynamic and owned by both staff and the communities it serves, offering a blueprint as to what the future of public services could look like.

In this webinar with Chief Executive Scott Darraugh, we will hear more about their story, their incredible work over the pandemic (including transforming a café into a social supermarket tackling food poverty) and what the future has in store for social enterprises working in health and social care.

Social enterprises like Social adVentures are changing how we view public services and will be vital if we’re to reduce the inequalities of health, wealth and opportunity which characterise COVID Britain.

Do join us on the 15th for what promises to be an insightful and inspiring interview!

Registration site: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fe5xgUIhQGCjR2-u26DFLA

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