Social Entrepreneurship Network in the Baltic Sea Region
The European Social Innovation Toolkit aims to support social innovators all across Europe to develop their ideas, and contains a set of tools and resources that you can use to transform your social innovation idea into a viable and effective initiative. https://www.kl.nl/en/news/the-european-social-innovation-toolkit-2018/
When running your social enterprise, have you ever wondered if there is a different way of doing organizational tasks and assigning titles than the traditional hierarchical structure with decisions being made mostly top down? Frederick Laloux, the author of reinventing organizations, wondered just that. He had observed different styles of running organizations which he equated…
Take a look at our 10-step framework for starting up a Social Purpose Business. If you’re an aspiring or established entrepreneur with a passion for a social or environmental issue, there are growing opportunities available. Starting up a Social Purpose Business allows you to leverage your entrepreneurial principles to organize, mobilize and manage a for-profit…
The new tool has been published to assist entrepreneurs and organizations to look at business and activities, to design strategies, products and organizations “as a platform.” As a synthesis of different definitions, developers say that platforms are scalable collaboration agreements powered by technologies: it’s not easy to differentiate between a technology, a strategy or an…
Roman Aranin is a social entrepreneur from Kaliningrad (Russia). In the past, a military pilot, then a successful entrepreneur, Roman broke on a paraglider. The result is an almost complete lack of ability to move independently. Even today, after many years of rehabilitation, Roman needs a special assistant to breathe freely. Roman did not give…
Download here paper written by Renate Lukjanska (Rezekne Academy of Technologies), Magda Leszczyna-Rzucidło (Uniwersytet Gdañski) and Julia Kuznecova (Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration) and published in International Business and Global Economy 2017, no. 36, pp. 262–274 (Biznes międzynarodowy w gospodarce globalnej 2017, nr 36, s. 262–274); Edited by the Institute of International Business, University of Gdañsk ISSN…
Read here the newest educational material – “ToolKit: how to promote social economy among young people?” which is the result of the project „SOCIAL BUSINESS FOR INCLUSION” (KA1, Erasmus+), written by Ewa Solarz and Anna Skowera from Fundacja Dobry Rozwój in 2017. This content is delivered to you in the framework of the SEBS2…
The buzz is steadily increasing about tools that measure the impact of social enterprises and standardized metrics for assessing social, economic, and environmental impact. However, there are currently no easily applicable tools for social entrepreneurs to measure their businesses in this way. SAMforSE has been specially created to cover this gap. SAMforSE is a tool…
Recently the European Commission has released a publication about the use of EU-Funds for Social Inclusion, titled “Social Inclusion: Inspiring Trends in European Funded Projects”. The publication summarises the outcomes of a thematic cluster meeting held in Brussels on the 9th October 2017. This content is delivered to you in the framework of the SEBS2 project co-funded by the…
ABSTRACT This paper discusses transformative social innovation, conceptualised as the process through which social innovation contributes to societal transformation. A conceptual heuristic is introduced that proposes five foundational concepts to help distinguish between different pertinent ‘shades’ of change and innovation: 1) social innovation, (2) system innovation, (3) gamechangers, (4) narratives of change and (5) societal…
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