EU thematic activities

2 : Business Creation and Social Economy

The "Entrepreneurship for All" actvities aim at removing the key barriers or obstacles that prevent disadvantaged groups and deprived areas from being able to set up viable businesses and promoting the social economy as a tool for labour market integration and for developing new systems for meeting social needs.

Policy briefs

Updated versions and new policy briefs 2007
	Inclusive Entrepreneurship: culture and conditions - 2007
	Inclusive Entrepreneurship: integrated business support - 2007 Strategies for getting out into hard-to-reach communities (outreach) - 2008 Incubators without walls - 2008 'Braided' support systems and One-stop shops - 2008
	Inclusive Entrepreneurship: appropriate business finance - 2007
	Inclusive Entrepreneurship: consolidation and growth - 2007 Opening up larger markets to all - 2008 Building competitive local supply chains - 2008
	Handling exclusion through social firms - 2007
	Value for money from social firms - 2007
Older versions 2004
	Hard-to-reach but not excluded - EQUAL provides business support to hard-to-reach people
	Better business = inclusive support - EQUAL develops high quality support systems for all
	Management skills for Social Enterprises
	Financial ladders out of social exclusion. EQUAL supports micro-finance

Background documents

Business Creation
	Entrepreneurship as a response to restructuring - 2007
	Business creation - Round two DP analysis - 2006
	Business creation - Round two DP analysis - summary - 2006
	Comments on the Consultation document for a Community Support Programme for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Competitiveness 2006-2010
	Analysis of business creation DPs (first round)
	Analysis of business creation and social economy Transnational Cooperation Agreements (first round)
	Success stories of National Thematic Networks in Business creation
	Success stories of National Thematic Networks in Business creation - summary
Social Economy
	The restructuring dimension of EQUAL activity in the social economy - 2007
	Social Economy - Round two DP analysis - 2006
	Social Economy - Round two DP analysis - summary - 2006
	Management skills for social enterprises
	Public-private social partnership and public procurement
	Social franchising: strengthening the social economy
	Indicators - how to measure social added value
	Analysis of social economy DPs (first round)
	Contributions from the Entrepreneurship for All ETG to the Green Paper
	The social economy - building jobs, services and inclusion
	National social economy networks - successfully creating systemic change
	National social economy networks - successfully creating systemic change - summary

Activities & Events

Policy Forum: Putting the Heart into the Lisbon Process – Strategies for Inclusive Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise, Hanover - June 2007

Pre-announcement,

Before the conference,

First outcomes

Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Breaking the Barriers, Copenhagen - March 2007

Programme -

Slide show

Social enterprises: equal work and business opportunities, Helsinki - February 2007

Learning seminar

How can Social Economy contribute to Local Developpment, Tivoli - December 2006

Social economy event

Asking the right questions - "Everybody's Business", Örebro - November 2006

European Week of Regions and Cities: Workshop on "Innovative approaches for opening up entrepreneurship to all" - October 2006

Report,

Slideshow presentations

Social economy event

Social Economy - a Model for Inclusion, Entrepreneurship and Local Development, Warsaw - May 2006

Building the tools for opening up entrepreneurship to all - Amsterdam - March 2006

Programme and preparatory documents

First outcomes

Document: the results of the conference

Launching event for the EQUAL National Thematic Network on Social Economy in Germany - December 2005

EU colloquium on social enterprise and public procurement - October 2005

Social economy event

Sparking a chain reaction - Le Mat Seminar on social franchising - September 2005

"Support services for all" and "Access to finance for all" Workshops, Brussels - June 2004

Outcomes,

Reports: Support systems,

Outreach,

Sustainability,

Microcredit,

Finance

Social Economy Conference, Antwerpen - May 2004

Business Creation and Social Economy Working groups, Brussels - October 2003,

Outcomes, Reports:

Culture,

Finance,

Services,

Quality and support structures,

Qualification

Business Creation Seminar, London - June 2003

First meeting of the Liaison Group, Berlin - January 2003

On the ground: practical examples

	PL - Nowa Huta steels itself for change - 2007
	FR - Entrepreneurial couples - 2007
	ES - Cooperative entrepreneurship as a response to restructuring - 2007
	FR - Really making money - 2007
	DE - Social firms build on winning ideas - 2007
	NL - Changing attitudes to business on Boulevard South - 2007
	PL - Weaving the web - EQUAL lays the foundations for a national social economy platform - 2007
	UKgb - GB national network puts policy impact first - 2007
	ES - Promoting social enterprises in emerging environmental markets - 2007
	BEfr - Combining Creativity and Entrepreneurism: Made In Mons - 2007
	UKgb - Breaking the psychological barriers to self-employment - 2007
	PT - Building entrepreneurial capacity in deprived urban communities - 2007
	PL - A framework for social economy growth, Tu Jest Praca, Poland - 2007
	BEnl - Mutual benefit from neighbourhood services - 2007
	SE - Three-way local agreements to create an inclusive labour market - 2007
	NL - Art for everyone as a way into work - 2007
	FR - Sustaining micro-enterprises by innovative services - 2007
	FI - Integration firms beat the labour shortage - 2007
	UKgb - Sharing the Caring Model - 2007
	IE - Helping ethnic minority entrepreneurs to emerge in Ireland - 2006
	ES - Responding to industrial restructuring by opening up entrepreneurship to young people and women - 2006
	UKgb - Creating employment through franchising - 2006
	UKgb - EQUAL approaches to entrepreneurship in the UK - 2006
	SE - Down, but definitely not out - 2005
	DE - Breaking with tradition - 2005
	ES - A regional partnership for inclusive entrepreneurship - 2005
	AT - Going to work on waste - 2005
	ES - The rigth type of money - 2005
	FR - Migrating out of the informal economy - 2005
	DE - Passport to Enterprise - 2005
	IT - Chambers take social enterprise on board - 2005
	DE - Fit for cooperation - 2005
	UKgb - Helping women gain ground in business - 2005
	UKgb - Mainstream support for minority entrepreneurs - 2005
	ES - Building businesses in remote rural areas - 2005
	NL - From disadvantaged to self employed - 2005
	PT - Creating local companies with a global focus - 2005
	EL - Using sport to build business - 2005
	EL - Healthy food for healthy business - 2005
	EL - Co-ops for the mentally ill - Greece breaks new legal ground - 2005
	DE - An elderly care system fit for the future - 2005
	BEnl - Taking the risk out of taking a risk - 2005
	UKgb - Here to stay - social enterprise in the East Midlands of England - 2005
	FR - Cooperating their way into new jobs - 2005
	FI - A smashing idea - with benefits all round - 2005
	IT - Milan - a complex solution to a complex problem - 2005
	ES - Equalising labour markets in Southern Spain through self employment - 2005
	DE - 3 S Qualifizierung Altenhilfe - 2004
	UKgb - Accelerating Women's Enterprise - 2004
	FR - Association pour le Droit à l'Initiative Economique - 2004
	UKgb - Building on community strenghths to make business - 2004
	UKgb - Cyfenter - 2004
	DE - Deutsches Mikrofinanz Institut (DMI) - 2004
	BEnl - Diane - 2004
	SE - Empowerment for the Future (EFF) - 2004
	DE - Exzept - 2004
	ES - Red accent, Garapen - 2004
	DE - Innova - 2004
	ES - Pioneros, Junta Andalucia - 2004
	UKgb - Business Mentoring: An Equal Partnership, Princes Trust - 2004
	IT - Quasar - 2004
	UKgb - Reflex - 2004
	ES - Sant Cosme Innova - 2004
	UKgb - Strategic Framework for Women's Enterprise - 2004
	DE - Verbund - 2004

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