When thinking about internationalising social enterprise, it doesn’t get much more international than the Social Enterprise World Forum. This year over 1300 delegates from over 70 different countries gathered in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. It was the first time the forum had been held in a low-income country, and it gave a very[…]

International Social Enterprise Day and the informative campaign #WhoKnew already from 2016 has been informing about the social entrepreneurship and has spread interesting and useful facts about this form of business worldwide. The goal of the campaign is to inform and educate about how social businesses work and what kind of challenges they are trying to[…]

On 8th of November a Social Business Conference, “Internationalising Trading for Social Enterprise Sustainability and Education” (InTSEnSE) was held in Vilnius city municipality, Lithuania. The international InTSEnSE conference was a great success since 95 participants from 11 countries (Pakistan, Latvia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania) attended the conference. In order to[…]

A CONFERENCE which aims to help social enterprises tap into new markets across the globe is to be held at Wrexham Glyndwr University. The free conference will be looking at how social enterprises can access the growing opportunities both in the UK and internationally. Social enterprises can operate as commercial enterprises – but they focus[…]

We are happy to announce that we could win the Social innovation Lab as one of our presenters at our dissemination event on the 18th of November 2019. The Social Innovation Lab will be represented by Corinna Kämpfe. The idea behind the Social Innovation Lab was born in and around Grünhof. Grünhof is an incubator and[…]

On September 27th, 2019, prof. Dimitra Papadimitriou traveled to the city of Karditsa, Central Greece, to present the project’s outcomes and held meetings with the CEO (Mr. Bellas) and staff of ANKASA on how to bring the outcomes of InTSEnSE closer to Greek Social Enterprises (SEs). ANKASA is supporting a network of 14 different Social[…]

On 4-6th of October an International Community Forum “Telšiai-2019” was held in Telšiai, Lithuania. On the second day of the forum, Innovation Office project coordinator Milda Koženiauskaitė participated as a speaker with a report “Socialinis verslumas vetoes bendruomenėse: iššūkiai ir galimybės” (eng. “Social business in local communities: challenges and opportunities”). Firstly, it was important to[…]

During September Ministry of Welfare of the Republic of Latvia in cooperation with the Social Entrepreneurship Association of Latvia organized discussions in 5 different cities of Latvia with the title: ”You and social entrepreneurship-is it necessary”. Discussions took place in Liepaja, Valmiera, Daugavpils, Jelgava and started at the beginning of September and were finalized with[…]

During the first day of work of the XVII workshop on social enterprise, “Identity and value: beyond the impact”, organized by Iris Network, questions are raised about the relationship between volunteering and social enterprise. The meeting, curated by Marco Musella, president of the Network, attended by Guido Memo, director Not for Profit; Marco Gargiulo, president[…]