Why empowering female social entrepreneurs is key to economic recovery?
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Why empowering female social entrepreneurs is key to economic recovery?

We highly recommend reading the article below, which is a part of the Davos Agenda.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that no institution or individual alone can address the economic, environmental, social and technological challenges of our complex, interdependent world. The pandemic itself will not transform the world, but it has accelerated systemic changes that were apparent before its inception. The fault lines that emerged in 2020 now appear as critical crossroads in 2021. The time to rebuild trust and to make crucial choices is fast approaching as the need to reset priorities and the urgency to reform systems grow stronger around the world.

The Davos Agenda is a pioneering mobilization of global leaders to shape the principles, policies and partnerships needed in this challenging new context. It is essential for leaders from all walks of life to work together virtually for a more inclusive, cohesive and sustainable future as soon as possible in 2021. To this end, the World Economic Forum has served for more than 50 years as a trusted platform where leaders from business, government, international organizations, civil society and academia convene to address critical issues at the start of each year.”

Why empowering female social entrepreneurs is key to economic recovery?

  • The social entrepreneurship sector has proven itself uniquely capable of empowering women leaders in its field.
  • Female entrepreneurs can add substantially to economic growth and poverty reduction.
  • To shape a sustainable and inclusive recovery from COVID-19, we need to include the voices of female social entrepreneurs.

Whether it has been New Zealand under Jacinda Ardern or Germany under Angela Merkel, studies have shown that female-led countries have performed better in handling the COVID-19 pandemic.

Yet, according to the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report report, it will take 95 years to close the gender gap in political representation. Progress in economic participation and opportunity has regressed, with the deteriorating situation forcing gender parity to a lowly 57.8%, which in terms of time represents a massive 257 years before gender parity can be achieved.

It’s also a well-documented fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has hit women harder. Women have been affected not only because of the disease itself, but because they work in jobs that are less secure. Furthermore, women-owned businesses have particularly suffered – in Canada alone, 40.6% of women-owned businesses have had to lay off their employees. The situation for racialized, indigenous, newcomer, and disabled women is even worse.

2020 has shown us both the disproportionate burden of inequality on girls and women, as well as the exceptional leadership of many incredible women around the world.

Social entrepreneurship empowers women leaders

Women in social entrepreneurship often disrupt many of these patterns of gender inequality. The social entrepreneurship sector has proven itself uniquely capable of empowering women leaders in its field, and of changing the lives and welfare of all women.

Women social entrepreneurs have, time and time again, made a deep impact in their work through a form of impact called “scaling deep” – overhauling unfair and unjust systems, sparking collaborative social movements, and reshaping dominant expectations, norms, and stigmas. Ashoka’s Women’s Initiative for Social Entrepreneurship is currently working to change the innovation ecosystem to better recognize and support scaling deep impact and the women leading it.

Ashoka’s 2018 Global Impact Study found that its female Fellows work within systems and are more likely to spread their idea locally, inspiring replication by other groups or institutions within their country of residency.

Female Fellows were also found to be more collaborative, working closely with other citizen-sector organizations, supporting other women and young people around them, and empowering their own teams. They also reflected a higher tendency to impact behaviours and mindsets: 76% of female Fellows reported influencing societal attitudes and cultural norms as core to their strategy, compared with a lower percentage of males.

The World Bank highlights how through such work and leadership styles, female entrepreneurs can add substantially to economic growth and poverty reduction.

“A man who heads a nonprofit is considered heroic or enlightened, whereas I’ve been patronised numerous times as the charity worker.”

—Kristine Pearson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lifeline Energy

Read the full article here: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/why-empowering-female-social-entrepreneurs-is-key-to-economic-recovery/

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Listen and learn – podcast “Social Economy for the full Inclusion of People with Disabilities”
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Listen and learn – podcast “Social Economy for the full Inclusion of People with Disabilities”

Welcome to “Social Economy Talks”, a new podcast from Social Economy Europe about the most relevant upcoming issues in the social economy sphere. This is yet another chance to learn from the best practitioners and experts on social economy in Europe!

It will follow a journey of discovery (narrated by team member Nicholas Clark) aimed at elucidating social economy success stories and role regarding the green transition, diversity and migrant entrepreneurship, digitalisation, COVID recovery and in promoting human capital, among many other things. Interviews with important organisations on the ground as well as relevant policy players will give a digestible introduction to the social economy in practice.

Don’t miss all the podcasts on their official website: https://www.socialeconomy.eu.org/podcast/ 

Episode 5 – Social Economy for the full Inclusion of People with Disabilities

Listen here: https://www.socialeconomy.eu.org/podcast/ 

This episode explores the role of the social economy regarding accessibility, inclusion and innovation toward the full inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace.

The best practice guide for the full inclusion of people with disabilities can be found here: Social Economy for the full inclusion of people with disabilities

 

 

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19 EU states signed Toledo Declaration promoting social and solidarity economy
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19 EU states signed Toledo Declaration promoting social and solidarity economy

In December 2020 the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Economy organised a summit in Toledo.

Nineteen EU member states have committed to promoting the social and solidarity economy through, during a summit organised by the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Economy.

The European confederation of industrial and service co-operatives (Cecop) welcomed the Toledo Declaration, as did Social Economy Europe.

The Toledo Declaration urges all EU member states, as well as European and international institutions and organisations, to raise awareness of the social and solidarity economy (SSE); to support ecosystems favourable to it; and to ensure the necessary financial support is in place to make it viable and sustainable.

It also includes recognition of the role of the SSE in the post-Covid-19 recovery, and contribute to its international expansion.

The Toledo Declaration is part of a series of political declarations adopted by EU member states in support of the SSE, which started with the Luxembourg Declaration in 2015. That was followed by the Bratislava Declaration (2016), the Ljubljana Declaration (2017), the Madrid Declaration (2017) and the Paris “Pact for Impact” Manifesto (2019).

Adopted by representatives of governments of France, Italy, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, the Luxembourg Declaration recognised the SSE as a fundamental driver of the European and international political agenda.

Read full article here: https://www.thenews.coop/152135/topic/politics/19-eu-states-back-toledo-declaration-promoting-social-and-solidarity-economy/

And the whole text of the declaration can be found here:

https://www.mites.gob.es/Luxembourgdeclaration/ficheros/2020-12-04_Toledo-Declaration_final_EN.pdf

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37 ICT tools for youth workers, trainers and project managers
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37 ICT tools for youth workers, trainers and project managers

The term of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) generally means all devices, networking components, applications and systems that combined allow people and organisations (i.e., companies, non-profit agencies, governments and institutions) to interact in the digital world.

If you are a trainer, a youth worker, a project manager or only a user interested in ICT tools, let’s check the list that I have prepared for you below. You can also access our Wiki to see the full list at the end of our blog.

Here, I have listed 12 specific areas and you can find brief descriptions of 37 different ICT Tools.

Easy Linking Tools

1-QR Code, abbreviated from Quick Response Code, allows you to create a link between the information that you would like to share to the user with a scanner or a camera. Basically, you can code the URL, free text, phone, SMS or contact details. If you like to share any link to the mobile devices of your team or participants, you can create your QR Code and share it with them. You can try with the QR code on the image above. You can create your own QR Code via https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/

2-QR Code Scanner/Reader; Although some mobile devices have features to read QR Codes by the camera, you may need to download it from Google Play or App Store.

3-Bitly: Some of the links are too long, right? Moreover, sometimes we don’t trust the link and we don’t click. Via Bitly, you can shorten, create and share trusted links according to your work. You can change the link from https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B4h-RTaWq7DkwSxYLOKS8Vllpv7dZqPYla_fxh2UeOM/edit#gid=0. to bit.ly/wiki4ict

Design Tools

4-Canva is a graphic design platform that allows you to create social media graphics, presentations, posters and other visual content. It is available on web and mobile and integrates millions of images, fonts, templates and illustrations. You do not need to download any software, Canva is a browser-based tool and you can reach your designs online.

5- Piktochart is a web-based infographic application which allows you without intensive experience as a graphic designer to easily create infographics and visuals using themed templates. The target group would prefer to see infographics instead of long reports. You can also catch the trend of visualization of information.

6-Data Wrapper allows  you to create wonderful beautiful charts, maps, data images and tables. Instead of presenting your data in a Microsoft Excel table, try Data Wrapper.

Editing Tools

7-Unscreen allows you to remove the background of any video – 100% automatically, online and free! You do not need to download any software.

8-RemoveBG works like Unscreen, you can easily remove the background of any image automatically, online and free of charge, without downloading any programme. Professional designers spend at least 5 min to remove the background of images. Below, you can find a sample, it took only 10 seconds!

Online Meeting and Webinar Tools

9-GoToMeeting is an online meeting and web conferencing tool that enables businesses to collaborate with customers, clients or colleagues via the Internet in real-time. You can share your video or screen.

10-Zoom is a tool for video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars. You can have your meeting and create break-out rooms as well.

11-AdobeConnect is a software used to create information and general presentations, online training materials, web conferencing, learning modules, webinars, and user screen sharing. All meeting rooms are organized into ‘pods’,  with each pod performing a specific role (i.e. chat, whiteboard, note etc.).

Online Broadcasting Tools

11-Social Media Platforms allow you and your mobile to broadcast live. Well-known social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Youtube have features for online broadcasting.

12-Be Live is an easy web software for live streaming. You can enrich your online streaming by adding other screens. You can invite up to 10 guests with your permanent link and show up to four people on screen at the same time during your broadcasting.

Interactive Presentation Tools

13-Slido is the ultimate Q&A and polling platform for meetings and events. It offers interactive Q&A, live polls and insights about your audience. You can project the responses live.

14-Mentimeter; you can make your audience feel involved by enabling them to contribute to presentations with their smartphones and show the results live.

15-Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. Unleash the fun in classrooms, offices and living rooms!

Teamwork and Communication Tools

16-Slack is an easy-to-use messaging app for teams that brings all your communication into one place and integrates with your existing tools. I prefer to call Slack – the  Work-Whatsapp. You can create different teams and different channels inside the teams. Also, it is possible to send a direct message and mention the person. You can share the images and other types of documents without losing any quality. When you start using Slack, be sure that you will decrease the number of e-mails you send to your team.

17-Fuze is a cloud communication and contact-centre platform, the all-in-one platform enables a seamless transition between calling, meeting, chatting, and sharing, powered by the industry-leading intelligent cloud architecture. Fuze modernises the communications experience and empowers the digital and distributed workforce to communicate anywhere, anytime, and across any device.

18-Basecamp, lets you break up your work into separate projects. Each project contains everything related to the work at hand; all the people involved, every discussion, every document, file, task, important date, etc.

19-MeisterTask offers large teams a simple, intuitive task management solution that can be customized to suit your specific needs. With features distinctly designed for enterprise use, such as: user roles, project access rights, time tracking, automations and more. Find out how exactly MeisterTask can help you and your team get more done together.

And much more […]

All listed 37 ICT tools can be found HERE. 

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Linking Social Impact with Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competence Building
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Linking Social Impact with Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competence Building

There are different understandings of social impact, which covers “a common good”, “common actions for social good”, “engaging people into social campaigns”, “helping/caring for people”, anything that makes communities prosper. The need of boosting the social impact is explained by the concept of Doughnut Economics, which recognizes the inseparable connection between the economy and environmental and social affairs. The concept has been developed on the understanding, that the economic theories taught at educational institutions exclude the elements of society and nature, which makes them perfect in theory and not meaningful in practice. The Doughnut model demonstrates two circles: the outer circle represents the productive limits of the planet’s generative systems as the limits that the human economy must not exceed. The inner circle represents the social foundation of what a high-performing economy must provide to every human being. [1] A sustainable, safe, and just environment is in the middle. There are different understandings of social impact, which covers “a common good”, “common actions for social good”, “engaging people into social campaigns”, “helping/caring for people”, anything that makes communities prosper. The most important aspect of social impact creation is consulting and working closely with the direct beneficiaries, as often happens that most sincere efforts are being perceived wrongly due to the cultural differences, lack of knowledge, and miscommunication. Local contexts of the beneficiaries, as well as experience of global practices have to be taken into account when fostering social impact.

The most important aspect of social impact creation is consulting and working closely with the direct beneficiaries, as often happens that most sincere efforts are being perceived wrongly due to the cultural differences, lack of knowledge and miscommunication. Local contexts of the beneficiaries and experience of global practices have to be taken into account when fostering social impact, incl. best practices in social work, education, sustainable business and public services. At this point creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship (CIE) skills are required to direct efforts towards social impact.

Within the VISION project, more than 120 international experts were asked to reflect on the future of CIE teaching and learning. Transversal skills and the Growth Mindset was the focus of discussions, considering CIE skills as keys to foster positive social impact. However, often CIE, is not perceived and communicated right. Creativity is often associated exclusively with arts and artists; entrepreneurship – with business; innovation – with start-ups and tech-intensive industries. Still, society and even educators lack the understanding of a wider meaning of CIE. According to the experts, creativity can be applied in a wide range of life situations and can be defined as the ability to find several solutions to a problem, using a simple process of ideation, accepting the different perspectives, combining ideas, and putting them into practice. Innovation is strongly connected to transdisciplinarity and involvement of a variety or settings and stakeholders into the collaborative social design. Entrepreneurship skills enable strategic vision and the ability to find and put the right resources together to turn ideas into products, services, activities, etc. Lately, it has become clear that entrepreneurship education should not be about the theories of business management, but rather encompass practice-based and problem-focused activities, that develop an entrepreneurial mindset for further business-specific skills acquirement.

Modern CIE teaching requires an innovative learning ecosystem and methods, that are different from classroom-based lectures. The most innovative education providers look completely different: the spaces are open, promote peer-learning and less formal interaction between students and teachers. The learning spaces can be literally located anywhere – in a company, NGO, community or elderly centre, etc. It broadens the horizons of learners as diverse stakeholders are involved in learning, as well as develops flexibility and adaptability in learners and facilitators. The last two aspects are crucial, as future professionals will have to switch professions and work dynamics several times during a lifetime. Therefore, education needs to be focused on the teaching of critical thinking, the ability to identify the right information, analyze it and synthesize it instead of memorizing of specific knowledge that is several years might be outdated.

Future CIE teaching will focus on personality development (not specific professional knowledge only). Personal skills will include leadership and empathy towards the topics of research, which will be linked to real problems and focused on practical solutions. Multidisciplinary student teamwork, SDG-orientation, cross-sectoral support, incubation, acceleration and hackathon programmes, community-focus, experience exchange will be the future of higher education. CIE teaching will be characterized by transdisciplinarity and cross-sectoral collaboration. Triple Helix model will be in place when responding to the needs of future impact makers: civic partnerships, industry, researchers, policymakers, and communities. The change will be reflected in designing new university programmes, capacity building projects for public authorities, and new talent acquisition programmes for businesses.

Higher educational institutions are not the only learning trend-setters anymore. The global, national, and local networks of experts and supporters are built around the world to support social impact education. Entrepreneurship skills development for the youth is promoted through specialized programmes for pupils’ learning enterprises development in the school environment (e.g. Junior Achievement Programmes). For business-oriented people, entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship infrastructures are developed with various business hubs (e.g. Impact Hub), coworking spaces, (Social) Hackathons, Business Incubators, and Accelerators, Innovation Labs (within or outside the academia), etc. In these settings, networking with professionals and experts is of special significance for finding the right knowledge and development opportunities. Local Ambassador’s approach, mentoring and coaching programmes will become even more popular in the coming decades for learning in terms of social impact delivery. Also, social impact creation will be highly dependent on social entrepreneurship and social innovation support programmes, as already practices by Ashoka, Social Impact Award, Acumen, Changemakers Academy, and many more. Fellowships, mentoring, coaching, continuous training, peer learning, and learners’ pairing with practicing entrepreneurs are the methods applied within social impact education.

Service design, design thinking, intergenerational learning, Theory of Change, peer leadership, mentorship, coaching, fellowship, and other methods and frameworks demonstrate the potential to enhance community leadership and serve governors and citizen groups. Such needs-based and human-centric designs allow supporting collaboration for civic participation, participatory budgeting and crowdfunding. Building community-run spaces (community gardens, cultural centres, etc.) could provide more opportunities for designing creative, needs-based initiatives together with governors, NGOs, entrepreneurs.

Upgraded CIE teaching and learning without any doubts will support the formation of the new society and serve new market needs. New professions are expected to become demanded in terms of social impact. For instance, community builders are expected to become significant actors in the job market, as demand for community-based activities will only increase. Encompassed under the terms of community organisation, community work, activism, and community development, community builders will be responsible for gathering stakeholders and organising neighbourhood events, festivals, community spaces, interest clubs, focusing on the areas of social inequalities, injustice, and disintegration, as large industrial neighbourhoods, tiny villages, etc. Another socially-oriented future career path that will support social impact design is social impact auditor. As social impact measurement will be of the same importance as an economic measurement for organisations in the future, auditors will assist companies and organisations in social impact delivery.

Generally speaking, education in the 21st century has to be adjusted to the dynamics of the changing job market. Specific knowledge delivered today might not be useful tomorrow, therefore abilities to be flexible, adjust, innovate, be creative, entrepreneurially minded, empathic have to be trained in a systemic manner. With sustainability in mind, social impact making is going to be the new “black”, if communities are well prepared for future VISIONs.

[1] The Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries (2017) by Kate Raworth, source: https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2017/05/03/why-a-just-and-sustainable-economy-looks-like-a-doughnut/?utm_source=YTW&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20170505

Acknowledgment

logoFurther research in the area is a part of EU Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance VISION project EAC/A03/2018, application: 612537-EPP-1-2019-1-SI-EPPKA2-KA. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

“Unravel Tomorrow” MOOC Available for Social Entrepreneurs and Innovators
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“Unravel Tomorrow” MOOC Available for Social Entrepreneurs and Innovators

The “Unravel Tomorrow Learning Journey” offers learning resources to support educators, empowering new social entrepreneurs and social innovators to think about and learn from the experiences of changemakers, strengthen skills and develop ideas to take action. This digital course invites Learners to investigate new perspectives, think about what is emerging, be inspired by and learn from the pioneers to imagine and unravel a flourishing and inclusive tomorrow. The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) follows six modules each gathering a set of related ideas, challenges, and dreams collected from social innovation pioneers’ experiences:

  • Systemic sustainability: what is systemic sustainability and what kind of skills refer to it?
  • Parallel Perspectives: how to perceive parallel perspectives and how to support communities?
  • Community Power. When community power is revealed and what social capital is?
  • Simple Joys. What simple joys really mean and what do these bring to us?
  • Digital Darwinism. What Digital Darwinism is and how it goes together with Sustainable Development Goals?
  • Treasured trash. What makes trash a treasure and what are the best cases to follow?

At the end of the course assessment test and certificate is provided, so do not miss the opportunity to challenge yourself!

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Thinking of starting a NEW social community project or an enterprise – visit our FREE online course and explore the “Unravel Tomorrow” regions to investigate new perspectives, think about what is emerging, be inspired by and learn from inspiring pioneers and their social actions. Packed with Videos, blogs, research, case studies and resources and challenges to help you learn new skills.

For educators:

Are you helping aspiring social entrepreneurs? Why not add our resources to your social enterprise training? The Unravel Tomorrow Learning Journey is a framework and learning resources to support educators empowering new social entrepreneurs in a collaborative economic environment. Download our Journal to investigate perspectives of tomorrow and meet our fantastic case studies in the Gallery:

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Learning journey has been produced within the “Unravel Tomorrow” project with the financial support of Erasmus+ programme. The project is based on previous cooperation and constitutes the continuation of the “Tomorrow’s Land” project. More about “Tomorrow’s Land” can be found on http://www.tomorrowsland.eu/.

 

Made in Social Europe Exhibition 2020
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Made in Social Europe Exhibition 2020

Social Platform is delighted to welcome you to our new Made in Social Europe Exhibition 2020 – a collection of 19 inspiring practices from civil society organisations who are a part of Social Platform’s European member networks.

In November 2017, European Union leaders proclaimed the European Pillar of Social Rights and stressed their united political commitment to achieve a socially and economically fair and just Europe.

This exhibition shows how social projects, by putting people first, give life to the principles of the Social Pillar and have a positive impact on their lives. 

The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is creating in its path a whole new set of social inequalities and exclusions. All of the projects in this exhibition are working hard to prevent those who are already in the most vulnerable situations falling further into crisis.

Social Platform unites networks of civil society organisations working for social justice and participatory democracy in Europe. Together, our members represent tens of thousands of local and national NGOs. They work directly with people in a vulnerable situation whose voices are rarely heard by EU leaders.

We advocate for social policies which benefit all people across Europe equally. We do so by promoting equality, diversity, democracy and human dignity.

With this exhibition, we want to bring the EU closer to its citizens and contribute towards a debate on the future of Europe at the local, regional and national level. 

 

Made in Social Europe *New Exhibition*

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Step 1: A Short Guide to the Social Pillar

The European Pillar of Social Rights (the Social Pillar) is an initiative launched by the European

Step 1: A Short Guide to the Social Pillar

The European Pillar of Social Rights (the Social Pillar) is an initiative launched by the European Commission in 2017. The Social Pillar delivers new and improves existing social rights for EU citizens, and serves as the EU’s compass to achieve better working and living conditions in Europe.

It consists of 20 principles to support fair and well-functioning labour markets and welfare systems, divided into three chapters:

  • Equal opportunities and access to the labour market
  • Fair working conditions
  • Social protection and inclusion

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The 19 inspiring practices in our exhibition interact with a number of the 20 principles of the Social Pillar. Most importantly, all of the projects you’re about to view are working hard to achieve a socially just and equal society for all.

Click through to the next part of our exhibition: the inspiring practices!

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Guide to Social Entrepreneurship and Cultural Events – Youth in Focus
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Guide to Social Entrepreneurship and Cultural Events – Youth in Focus

The project “Prosoa Rural – Promoting Social Awareness in Rural Area” aims to develop materials that support educators in rural training centers so that they can transmit these values to young people. The materials prepared are based on a methodology focused on the promotion of active participation and social entrepreneurship linked to the conservation of Cultural Heritage and Traditions at local, regional, national and European level.

The project partners have developed training module that aims to promote the initiative and social entrepreneurship of young people based on Cultural Heritage and Traditions Through this module, young people can be trained in and develop entrepreneurial skills, with the aim that they can be people with a greater social initiative, capable of generating activities and / or businesses related to Cultural Heritage, and their conservation. In addition to generating greater high-quality skills for young people, it contributes to a greater possibility of initiatives arising in rural environments that conserve the cultural heritage of small rural municipalities.

The main objectives of this training module:

  • Raise social awareness among young people in rural areas.
  • Improve the entrepreneurship skills of young people.
  • Promote social entrepreneurship among young people in rural areas.
  • Create a greater commitment and awareness about the necessity of conserving the Cultural Heritage and the Traditions.

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Reporting Innovation: Act to Inspire & Inspire to Act 2020
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Reporting Innovation: Act to Inspire & Inspire to Act 2020

Over the past two years, Axfoundation has created alliances and collaborations with some 225 partners including private sector as the main driver, contributing to positive development in society by exploring new solutions. By using business as an accelerator to drive long-term change, Axfoundation has tackled sustainability challenges related to the things we buy, the food we eat, the resources we use, and the people we meet. In The Progress Report 2020, experts have shared an extract of successful results – but also examples of times when things didn’t go quite as planned.

 The report reflects inspiring projects and initiatives supported by Axfoundation in 4 main areas:

  • Future food: Swedish legume mince, perennial grains, green fish, intensive animal farming;
  • Circular economy: recycling polyester, chemical recycling of plastics, circular flows of materials;
  • Sustainable production and consumption: consumer behavior in online food retail, sustainable rice production, ethical trading, training in rights and responsibilities;
  • Inclusive societies: Yrkesdörren, ÖppnaDörren.

Read full collection here.

Source: https://www.axfoundation.se/en/news/acttoinspire2020

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