With around 27 million citizens currently out of work, social innovation – innovative ideas that meet social needs – is essential for meeting the job challenge. For the second consecutive year, the Social Innovation Competition aims to remedy European unemployment by encouraging creative solutions.
Public consultation on the need to have a European mutual society.
Social innovation can stimulate new business models addressing unmet social needs. Today, José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission, has awarded the first Social Innovation prizes for three ground-breaking ideas that seek new ways to create more and better jobs in Europe.
Social innovation can stimulate new business models addressing unmet social needs. Yesterday, José Manuel Durão Barroso awarded the first Social Innovation prizes for three ground-breaking ideas that seek new ways to create more and better jobs in Europe.
European Venture Capital Funds (EuVECA) and European Social Entrepreneurship Funds (EuSEF)
The objective of the activities to be funded by this call for proposals is to contribute to the availability of reliable statistics on social enterprises at national and European levels and to identify countries interested in collecting this information.
On 23/04/2012 DG Enterprise and Industry organised with the Association „Cooperatives Europe”, a large conference on ‘Co-operative contributions to the EU 2020 strategy’ with more than 200 participants.
The aim of this Conference was to gather the main EU policy makers and stakeholders for social business in the EU to take stock of the potential for the development of social business and the barriers to this within the Single Market.
The Commission has presented the European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision. This Code provides recommendations and standards that should foster best practice in the microcredit sector. It is intended to provide guidance for microcredit providers from the point of view of consumers, investors, funders and regulators.
The conference will present the findings of the study "Practices and Policies in the Social Enterprise Sector in Europe", which describes the key features of the social enterprise sector.
This study identifies and examines the supply of services offered by cooperative groups to their craft and small enterprise members, asseses the quality and impact of these services (in terms of member satisfaction). It also identifies good practices and asseses the economic performance of a sample of craft and small enterprises which are members of cooperative groups.
The European Commission will host the 1st ASEM Social Partners Forum (ASEM = Asia-Europe Meeting) on 30 June and 1 July 2008 in Brussels. This Forum, the first event ever of its kind, will bring together some 150 social partner representatives and experts from 43 Asian and European countries.
