Partners: CIVITAS FOUNDATION for Civil Society – Cluj-Napoca Branch, Danis Foundation for Management Development – Romania, Center for Not-for-Profit Law – Romania, Consorzio Materahub Industrie Culturali e creative – Italy, Synthesis Center for Research and Education Limited – Cyprus and Diesis Coop – Belgium
Period of implementation: December 2019 – December 2021
Through the “Social entrepreneurship in local communities” project, we support entrepreneurs with innovative ideas who want to develop businesses with social impact in their communities. The project will organize business incubation programs for 60 entrepreneurs from Romania, Italy, and Cyprus in order to improve their entrepreneurial skills. In this way, we will develop learning tools to be promoted in the four partner countries and at the European level.
We want to develop business incubation models for social entrepreneurship, which will then become functional at the national level in Romania, Italy, and Cyprus. After conducting research on entrepreneurial development, the project generates an integrated business incubation model dedicated to entrepreneurs from all over Europe.
The incubation programs will thus be based on a research that will be conducted from January 2020 on, in the 3 project countries. The research will focus on the following topics:
• the real image and the main characteristics of social entrepreneurship
• the profile of social entrepreneurs
• opportunities for financing, incubating and boosting social business
• platforms for developing business ideas with social impact
• public policy recommendations
The programs will thus become innovative learning tools for the partner organizations, as well as for the 60 persons with social entrepreneurial background from Romania, Italy, and Cyprus, selected in the project. Through the two transnational training to be organized, we will transfer knowledge, methods, and tools that will contribute to the development of local communities in these countries and will subsequently generate jobs.
The project will also establish an online platform that will grant visibility to social business ideas, endorsement of the best concepts and the chance of them being financed by the local communities.
In December 2019, representatives of the partner organizations participated in the first transnational project management and implementation meeting, held in Cluj-Napoca.