Social Entrepreneurship Network in the Baltic Sea Region
GeoSilica’s mission is to utilise waste from geothermal production to create a sustainable environment. The company geoSilica Iceland ehf. was founded by Burkni Pálsson, Fida Abu Libdeh, and Agnir ehf., pursuant to their final theses done as a part of their B.Sc. studies in Energy and Environmental Engineering at Keilir Institute of Technology. In the…
Gloucester Services is the first motorway service in England, that donates 3% of the financial turnover to local employment, job training, local communities and social initiatives. The social economic foundation Gloucestershire Gateway Trust, manages the donation. The partnership between Westmorland Family and Gloucestershire Gateway Trust is a good example on how enterprises and non governmental…
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…
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 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…
The largest Russian bank Sberbank has opened the web-portal for entrepreneurs “Delovaja sreda” (Business environment). It consists of a lot of business-related articles, educational materials and reports, both text and video. For social start-ups, it will be useful to go through the describing of the trajectory of setting up the social business. The best experts…
Russian foundation “Our future” has opened the online platform to collect and share the ideas of social business. Any start-up or company can list their information on a project idea, business model, prototypes and results. Portal experts select projects to share best cases, assist networking and community building. Social entrepreneurs may use the portal also as an…
The overview from Gendirector (CEO) magazine covers the general concept of social entrepreneurship in the Russian context. Starting from definitions, the article continues with the examples of business models and ideas for business for Russian startups. Gendirector also discusses how to measure the impact of social investments as well as where to get financing and consulting services for…
We have an idea! –website is an information package about social enterprise for young people as well as fasilitators / teachers. This comprehensive work package includes: A guide to social enterprise, consisting of 12 articles on important themes in social enterprise idea and business planning 6 social enterprise business cases A 3-stage fasilitator’s/teacher’s workbook with…
An article by Małgorzata Kurleto from Jagiellonian University in Poland – “AN APPLICATION OF THE CORPORATE COMPANY MODELS FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE (WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON POLISH CONDITIONS)” This publication is shared to popularize the social entrepreneurship in the Baltic Sea Region as part of the project “Social entrepreneurship development in the Baltic Sea region”, co-financed by…
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