Social Entrepreneurship Network in the Baltic Sea Region
– Public sector as as one of the main clients for social enterprises? Does it mean less sustainability and more dependence? – Not really, as private companies too participate in tenders. Concerning procurement, public sector is just a market like any other, and social enterprises should explore it. – In addition, procurement should be an…
In the Baltic Sea Region, the promoters of social enterprise sector definitely need to be more ambitious. Where to get inspiration from? The UK, for example. The campaign or actually a set of related campaigns launched by Social Enterprise UK called Buy Social is already well known. It includes: Social Saturday in every September aimed…
European Commission has just announced interesting call for proposals that focuses on the issue that is also critical in Baltic Sea Region: youth unemployment. The novel aspect – at least for three Baltic countries – is the focus on legal form of cooperative. The call for proposals requires the solutions to enable young people to create…
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…
As you probably know founder of Toms Shoe – Blake Mykoskie, sold half of it’s company to Bain Capital earlier this year. Eventually he invested some of that money into a new Social Entrepreneurship Fund in order to continue his mission – alleviate poverty and encourage social innovations.
For the 4th time already an annual summer camp on social entrepreneurship took place in Antaliepte – a small Lithuanian town nearby Latvian border in August 22-23.
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