Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Social Innovation in Focus
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Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Social Innovation in Focus

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)  for future social innovators is a tool developed within “Tomorrow’s Land” project and to be used in order to explore the challenges and solution of future and present communities. Joint project of the MOOC is based on learning approach that combines theory, inspiration, practice, self-reflection and discussion with peers. It is designed as…

Practical  manual for starting a new social enterprise by the British Council
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Practical manual for starting a new social enterprise by the British Council

This is a practical ‘how to’ manual for starting a new social enterprise or expand an existing social enterprise. It is designed to be a basic process guide to carrying out a feasibility study of an enterprise idea, and then writing the enterprise plan in order to be able to present it to potential supporters….

“Building Social Business” – Muhammad Yunus
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“Building Social Business” – Muhammad Yunus

What is social business? And how is it different from Social Enterprise? The term “social business” in European literature has no distinction between social enterprise and social business – they use the term interchangeably. For our purposes we have chosen to make a distinction between social enterprise and social business: the business model that Muhammad…

Apie socialinį verslą lietuvoje
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Apie socialinį verslą lietuvoje

Socialiniam verslui būdingas labai platus veiklos spektras. ES valstybėse narėse socialinis verslas dažniausiai veikia trijose srityse: integracijos į darbo rinką, asmeninių paslaugų ir socialiai atskirtų vietovių vystymo bei aplinkosaugos. Atsižvelgiant į socialinės ekonomikos raidos tendencijas ES, socialinio verslo plėtra Lietuvoje taip pat turėtų vykti šiomis kryptimis – skatinant tradicinį privatų verslą įsitraukti sprendžiant socialines problemas…

CoccoBello – Honey from Russian village
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CoccoBello – Honey from Russian village

Cocco Bello produces organic creamed honey in a small village in the Ural mountains (Russia), where locals cultivate bees and hand-pick wild berries. Cocco Bello has won the Social Impact Award (Russia) for the project of revival of the small village and the great advocacy for social entrepreneurship. The project contributes to developing the community Malyi…

Eurocities: The role of cities in promoting social entrepreneurship
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Eurocities: The role of cities in promoting social entrepreneurship

EUROCITIES has prepared a publication on the role of cities in promoting social entrepreneurship. The report has analyzed good practices from 11 cities across the EU, among those Goteborg and Malmö.  The report looks into the tools cities use to promote support the social economy – funding, network of social economy actors, infrastructure and impact…