Social Entrepreneurship Network in the Baltic Sea Region
This ILO Spotlight brief is jointly developed by the Social Protection Department and the Cooperatives Unit in the Enterprises Department. It focuses on mobilizing social and solidarity economy units towards universal social protection. The brief builds on the related section of the Office Report on “Decent Work and the social and solidarity economy” prepared for…
The EYE programme has reached out to Ukrainian intermediary organisations and entrepreneurs to support them in this crisis. Immediate emergency measures were taken and implemented by the entire network to support the functioning of the organisations and match Ukrainian entrepreneurs with their hosts outside of Ukraine and allow them to continue realising their ambitions to start and grow their companies. In addition, Ukrainian entrepreneurs who are already…
We recommend the latest article “Potential of social economy for a more democratic, just and fair future” by Sara Bombardieri, the expert at Policy & Projects dpt. at @SocialEcoEU https://eyes-on-europe.eu/wp-content/uploads/Eyes-on-Europe-n36_web_compressed.pdf This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the…
The European exchange programme for Entrepreneurs Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs helps provide aspiring European entrepreneurs with the skills necessary to start and/or successfully run a small business in Europe. New entrepreneurs gather and exchange knowledge and business ideas with an experienced entrepreneur, with whom they stay and collaborate for a period of 1 to 6 months….
Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a cross-border programme facilitating the exchange of entrepreneurial and management experience. The exchange is implemented by a stay of a newly established or potential entrepreneur with a well-experienced entrepreneur running a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) in another country. Since its launch in 2009, the scheme’s number of applications from…
“Social Economy Talks” is a Podcast series from Social Economy Europe about the most relevant upcoming issues in the social economy sphere. It will follow a journey of discovery (narrated by team member Nicholas Clark) aimed at elucidating social economy success stories and roles regarding the green transition, diversity and migrant entrepreneurship, digitalisation, COVID recovery…
We recommend reading the opinion by Norbert KLUGE (Workers – GR II / Germany) (Reference: INT/903-EESC-2020 presenting reflections on the Green Deal and Social Deal in the EU. You can read it here and find the main arguments below: EESC-2020-01591-00-00-AC-TRA-EN The EESC considers that : There will be no “Green Deal” without an integrated “Social Deal”. There are several…
European Social Economy website posted interesting relation from the meeting held on 13th May – The energy of social economy pioneers in Central & Eastern Europe. On 13 May 2022, Social Economy Europe participated, alongside with FEBEA, the European Commission (DG EMPL), the OECD, Community Finance Ireland and many other key stakeholders, in the Conference Enterprising for…
Questions and answers: the Social Economy Action Plan What is the social economy? There are 2.8 million social economy entities in Europe that employ 13.6 million people and which offer solutions to key challenges in our societies. Social economy organisations are entities which put social and environmental purposes before profit (“people and planet first”)….
We want to share with you the report written by Rossella Soldi (Progress Consulting S.r.l.) and Simona Cavallini (Fondazione FORMIT). It does not represent the official views of the Committee of the Regions. Read the whole document here: https://cor.europa.eu/en/engage/studies/Documents/Youth_initiative/youth-initiative.pdf More information on the European Union and the Committee of the Regions is available online at http://www.europa.eu…
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