Social Entrepreneurship Network in the Baltic Sea Region
You all have probably heard of IKEA – a Swedish home furnishings company and world’s largest furniture retailer since 2008. But did you know IKEA backs and boosts social entrepreneurs all over the world? IKEA has long since had the vision to create a better everyday life for as many people as possible. Back in 2012, the company looked…
Ashoka is an international organization that promotes social entrepreneurship by affiliating individual social entrepreneurs into the Ashoka organization. Their stated mission is “to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world’s citizens to think and act as changemakers”. Ashoka identifies and supports the world’s leading social entrepreneurs,…
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…
What is Life Cycle Assessment and How it helped BinFree to discover their contribution to the environment? Life-cycle assessment for glass recyclables and deposit packages to discover our contribution to the environment. 2021 is behind the door and it’s been almost a year since the first pick up that BinFree delivered for deposit packages! With the…
Entrepreneurship Training and Mentoring Circle for Women (ETMCW) is a concept delivered by European Activism Incubator. It is a year-long innovative, flexible training programme directed to Brussels – based women, who wish to launch a social or environmental impact business, a social enterprise or a non-profit project. The training has been designed to support a diverse group…
In times of economic uncertainty, it is easy to think that it is ‘impossible’ for anybody to make money. This is complete nonsense and the exact kind of thinking that new entrepreneurs should steer clear of. It is a poverty-based mindset that looks to respond defensively to conditions instead of looking for profit opportunities in all conditions. To…
As part of the InDigiSE Erasmus+ project we would like to recommend you this hypothesis and theory article exploring the relationship between entrepreneurship education and innovation. ‘How Does the Entrepreneurship Education Influence the Students’ Innovation? Testing on the Multiple Mediation Model’ by Xingjian Wei, Xiaolang Liu and Jian Sha INTRODUCTION: Entrepreneurship education cultivates innovative talents, which are an…
MAMYWENE studio is an organization based in the grounds of the old shipyard in Gdańsk Poland, run by two energetic women. The studio specializes in ecological and participatory activities, creating social commitment projects and interesting workshops. It also helps with employee integration and implementation of the assumptions of corporate social responsibility. MAMYWENE aims at showing…
Although pandemic restrictions leave a footprint on all travel plans, entrepreneurs shape their business concepts and business plans! This is a preparation time for lifetime professional adventures and the programme Erasmus for Youth Entrepreneurs cannot be missed out…! What it is? Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a project initiated by the EU. It aims to…
What challenges of today’s world is the social entrepreneurship education facing? Should its’ content be reshaped and if so – how it should be done to make it effective? As one of our main objectives at the social-impact-oriented Erasmus+ project – IndigiSE is to promote the concept of social entrepreneurship among youth and shape youth entrepreneurial mindset. Thus…
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