Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
Sections
| Section: |
I - Professional consultancies/law firms/self-employed consultants |
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Professional consultancies |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Laurinda Seabra
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| Position: |
Co-founder |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Laurinda Seabra
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| Position: |
Co-founder |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
0 Torre, Odiaxere Lagos, Algarve, Portugal
Lagos, Algarve 8600
PORTUGAL
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| Telephone number: |
(+00351) 911 756 812 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
Empowerment Gateway focus on:
Advocacy
Research
Conceptualisation, Development and Implementation of Community Sustainability Programs
Consulting
Strategic Management Consulting
General Management Consulting
CSR 2.0 (Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility)
SMME (Small, Micro, Medium Enterprises) Development and Support
Transitional Business Consulting
Non-governmental (NGO) Support and Development
Social Enterprise Development and Support
Socially Responsible Business Development and Support
Fourth Sector Organisational Model Development Consulting
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
OUR PURPOSE
The Empowerment Gateway purpose is to conceptualize, design, develop and implement socio-economic development models to reduce the cycle of unemployment and poverty by addressing individual as well as communities needs, one by one, anywhere in the world were we find ourselves.
OUR STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
Promote the benefits of social entrepreneurship through the Internet, campaigns and events
Promote best practices in the business sector with a special focus on social enterprises through training, networks and publications
Promote local communities cohesiveness, empowerment and sustainability
Promote the transition from the traditional businesses model to the social enterprise model
Be a dynamic organisation, challenging the status quo and adopting new ways of doing things
Be an advocate for change and embrace diversity
OUR PHILOSOPHY OF INDEPENDENCE
Empowerment Gateway founders made the policy decision of not aligning themselves to any specific economic, political or religious organisation but to instead align themselves to organisations that meet their vision of creating a better society for all mankind and who share the same values and ethics that they do.
Empowerment Gateway management place independence as the most important policy, as it will enable them to:
Be totally impartial.
Reduce the number of situations which could lead to any conflict of interest.
Be free of any indebtedness
Reduce constraints
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Level of interests represented:
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- sub-national
- national
- European
- global
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
2
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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Community empowerment
knowledge circles
SME development and support
Tourism as an empowerment tool
Transparency and ethics
Ecotourism and Nature tourism development
Fiscal policies and practices in Portugal and its impact on the small business sector
Corruption and tokenism in local governments
Incompetence and maladministration
The freedom of the Internet
Energy, Oil and Gas in Portugal
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Audiovisual and Media
- Budget
- Climate Action
- Communication
- Competition
- Consumer Affairs
- Culture
- Customs
- Development
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Education
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Energy
- Enlargement
- Enterprise
- Environment
- External Relations
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Food Safety
- Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
- General and Institutional Affairs
- Home Affairs
- Humanitarian Aid
- Information Society
- Internal Market
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
- Public Health
- Regional Policy
- Research and Technology
- Sport
- Taxation
- Trade
- Trans-European Networks
- Transport
- Youth
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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Financial Task Force, Ashoka, South Africa Unisa CCC, SANE, SAWEN, SE Alliance, Social Edge, UN Global Compact, UN GRI, Global Company, ETHOS (Brasil), ASMAA
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2011
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07/2011
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Share of turnover related to representing interests to EU institutions on behalf of clients:
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< 50000
€
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Clients with turnover below 50000
€.
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Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
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Procurement:
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0 €
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Grants:
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0 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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