We are happy to announce that the Awards Ceremony will take place at the Albert Borschette Congress Centre in Brussels on 8 November.
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs launched the European Social Economy Regions Pilot (ESER) in February 2018 to raise visibility and awareness about the social economy at regional and local level.
Business Planet goes to Katowice, Poland to visit a social enterprise whose goal is to give work to paralysed people.
Workshops will be organised in 15 EU countries to promote social considerations in public procurement procedures for social economy enterprises
The European Commission's social business initiative (SBI), launched in 2011, set up a consultative multi-stakeholder group on social entrepreneurship to examine the progress of the measures envisaged in this Communication.
The social economy sector in Europe needs a targeted awareness-raising campaign and support. There are plenty of social economy stakeholders and social innovators active at regional and local level. Yet, targeted collaboration is lacking and their voice is not well heard.
The overall objective of this call is to support the creation, the improvement and the wider distribution of support schemes for migrant entrepreneurs.
The European Commission Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Directorate General is launching a European Social Economy Regions 2018 pilot aiming at building effective networks of the social economy and social innovation stakeholders and raising awareness about the social economy at regional and local level. The pilot will bring together regional and local stakeholders, social economy enterprises, social innovators and policy-makers in order to promote added value and benefits of the social economy on the ground. Any public regional entity with links to social economy is invited to submit a proposal for organising a local event in close collaboration with regional stakeholders.
Finding new solutions to the needs of society is often seen as a challenge for governments and NGOs, but entrepreneurs can also play their part. Business Planet looks at the European Social Innovation Competition, which seeks to tap into the talent and energy of business innovators to solve a range of social issues.
The first cities to take part in this new initiative to stimulate economic growth and social welfare through digital transformation have been selected.
As part of European Industry Week, the WATIFY campaign and its Europe-wide network of stakeholders will hold the European Technology Transformation Week between 19 and 23 February 2018.
The European Commission, the European Economic and Social Committee, the City of Gothenburg and Region Västra Götaland are pleased to announce that a side event to the Social Summit will take place in Gothenburg on 16 November 2017 to discuss the role of social economy in the future of work.
Equality through digital innovation. Today, 3 projects from the UK, Netherlands and Slovenia were awarded for their efforts towards this aim.
AfB collects used IT equipment from its partners and offers them data deletion services. 70% of the equipment collected is refurbished and resold through AfB shops to individuals or SMEs. The remaining 30% is dismantled, and the components are sorted and re-used. AfB also has a social philosophy.
In this episode of Business Planet, Serge Rombi reports from the Swedish city of Gothenburg where the Entrepreneurial West Hisingen project is helping turn a local district into a hub of opportunity.
On 28 February in Athens, the European Commission officially launched the 2017 edition of the European Social Innovation Competition aiming to ‘reboot’ equality by inspiring Europeans to provide fresh and energetic approaches to technologies, digital inclusion, connectivity and skills development.
New year, new European Social Innovation Competition!
Business Planet looks at the social and solidarity economy (SSE). Cooperatives employ about 4.5 million people. To better understand why an increasing number of entrepreneurs are using the SSE model, the crew look at a cooperative in the Paris region that is social, while also being competitive, robust and resilient.
The objectives of this pilot project are to identify and link-up with collaborative economy platforms, exchange experience with all relevant stakeholders and help European SMEs and social enterprises with high-growth potential and other relevant actors to use the possibilities of the shared economy.
