About the We make transition! project
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 About the We make transition! project

Local and regional authorities have a crucial role in driving resilience – societal ability to adapt and react. Due to the complexity of sustainability challenges, there is a need to mobilise all levels of society to create and implement solutions that enable systemic changes in our unsustainable practices. Civil society actors – associations, social entrepreneurs,…

BSR vision of sustainable life
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BSR vision of sustainable life

We How does sustainable future 2035 look like from the point of view of various civil society actors? We make transition! project invited a group of change agents from BSR countries to co-create an inspiring sustainability vision and recommendations on empowering the cooperation between local authorities and civil society actors to enhance ecological and social…

New educational modules for social entrepreneurs are available
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New educational modules for social entrepreneurs are available

The social economy is a business model that works for the future of Europe. Within the RevitaLESE project, we have developed several educational models to strengthen European social enterprises, offer inspiration to the next generation of social entrepreneurs and educate about the necessary steps needed to ensure a more sustainable society.  Closing the RevitaLese project (https://revitalese.eu/), we would like…

The complete guide to growing and scaling your social enterprise
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The complete guide to growing and scaling your social enterprise

We’ve learned a few things in helping support over 900 social enterprises around the world scale their operations with the help of our Experteers, Capacity Building Programs, research, and educational programming. Our work has touched early stage, award-winning enterprises long before they reached international acclaim, including groups like Inyenyeri, Sistema B, M-KOPA, Ubongo and BEMPU….

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
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Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Social enterprises combine societal goals with an entrepreneurial spirit. These organisations focus on achieving wider social, environmental or community objectives. The European Commission aims to create a favourable financial, administrative and legal environment for these enterprises so that they can operate on an equal footing with other types of enterprises in the same sector. The…

EaSI Technical Assistance for social enterprise finance
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EaSI Technical Assistance for social enterprise finance

Social enterprises contribute to the European policy in the area of employment and social inclusion and are particularly relevant for the implementation of the rights and principles expressed in the European Pillar for Social Rights. The European Commission recognised the potential of social enterprises for innovation and their positive impact on the economy and society at large…

Official Launch of the 2020 World Youth Report: Youth Social Entrepreneurship and the 2030 Agenda
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Official Launch of the 2020 World Youth Report: Youth Social Entrepreneurship and the 2030 Agenda

2 Jul 2020 – Briefing by Mr. Elliot Harris, UN Chief Economist and Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development as well as a youth social entrepreneur, on the 2020 World Youth Report: Youth Social Entrepreneurship and the 2030 Agenda. The 2020 edition of the World Youth Report focuses on youth social entrepreneurship with a view to…

YBI launches Green & Social Entrepreneurship Month
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YBI launches Green & Social Entrepreneurship Month

Throughout our global network, we are seeing more and more young entrepreneurs build businesses that deliver profit with purpose. They are the entrepreneurs working to solve some of the greatest environmental and social challenges of our time and will play a vital role in creating a more equitable and sustainable world for us all. It…

Optimy: ALL-IN-ONE SOCIAL IMPACT PLATFORM
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Optimy: ALL-IN-ONE SOCIAL IMPACT PLATFORM

Empower your impact A simple, flexible and customizable social impact platform. Designed to help you save time, be more efficient and drastically improve your social impact projects. Thanks to more than 10 years of research and developments based on the needs of our users, we have developed the CSR platform Optimy to improve your social…